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by biorach 4y ago
Right. It's a very complex system with complex trade offs. But, and this is crucial, not so complicated that the issues cannot be understood by an adult with high school education. As it is, there is very poor understanding among adult
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by biorach 4y ago
I think you've completely missed the point.
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by biorach 4y ago
that study doesn't show that "organic farming and permaculture nearly always yields higher per acre output" It's about cultivating vegetables in a specific, labour intestine, urban environment, and is partly speculative.
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by biorach 4y ago
> Modern synthetic pesticides are far, far from great but they're still better than their natural counterparts. Far too much generalisation there. There are thousands of synthetic pesticides, and dozens (hundreds?) of "natural&
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by biorach 4y ago
Sure, whatever. Organic farming isn't perfect and isn't a panacea, and I've zero interest in defending it, or in attacking high-chemical factory farming for that matter. We need to gain a better understanding of our food prod
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by biorach 4y ago
Note that as far as I'm aware Rotenone is not on the list of EU approved substances for organic farming. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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by biorach 4y ago
Their concerns were never public welfare. They are companies. Their concerns are profit and market share. I think what you are saying is that they have turned to predatory behaviour in order to grow profits and protect market share. Your po
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by biorach 4y ago
> Everything I've read on organic farming and permaculture nearly always yields higher per acre output You'd really need to cite some sources on that
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by biorach 4y ago
what your saying is true of most highly-inflected languages
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by biorach 4y ago
No, the main goal of the pesticides industry is to supply chemicals that kill of various pests (insects, fungi etc) that would otherwise destroy a significant proportion of the harvest. Without these pesticides food would be significantly m
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by biorach 4y ago
Organic farming exists. Consumers can move past herbicides and pesticides by paying more (sometimes much more) for their food, and cooking more from scratch. Of course this is easy for wealthy first-world dwellers. Less so for low income fa
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by biorach 4y ago
> Doing this too much ok, so you're talking about overdoing it. It's still a good approach when done right.
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by biorach 4y ago
Read the article. The advantages of the high power density are negated by the inefficiencies of the heat cycle, construction costs etc. Yes, it makes sense to focus some R&D on nuclear. However after seven decades, it would seem that an
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by biorach 4y ago
On fertile land there is still limited grass growth beneath and between solar arrays - more than enough for e.g. sheep to graze.
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by biorach 4y ago
I'm a regular Economist reader and I really don't recall them cheerleading any tech bubbles. Got some examples?
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by biorach 4y ago
Yes, it was very much open speculation. It was widely believed at the time that Sterling had been pegged at an unsustainably high value. Based on this belief Soros and the other speculators put large amounts of money on Sterling depreciatin
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by biorach 4y ago
I don't think calling out the argument as in bad faith is justified or particularly helpful. This was an interesting discussion - allegations of bad faith ruin the discussion and make you look like you are unable to tolerate different
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by biorach 4y ago
Six. whole. days. away. Agh!
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by biorach 4y ago
well stop bloody venting on me. jerk
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by biorach 4y ago
> and someone else always jumps on with why overcomplicated cloud shit should be the solution to everything. I didn't say anything like that. the opposite in fact. Next time try reading and understanding a comment before going off l
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by biorach 4y ago
> God I am sick of these apologetics every time someone expresses skepticism That's a highly obnoxious response to a measured and reasonable comment.
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by biorach 4y ago
> The purpose of a union is to create a labor cartel No, that is not the "purpose of a union" Some unions, especially in the USA, have functioned in such a way, but this is far from universal.
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by biorach 4y ago
People still do deploy production ready systems using RoR, Django/Python or whatever "sweet spot" framework you want to mention. Some run quite successful businesses. You can't generalise from your experience over the la
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by biorach 4y ago
Peter Norvig's 27 line spell checker https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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by biorach 5y ago
> What makes me angry about all this Go-bashing It's just a language! Take it easy. The guy is not "heaping on invectives" - he's not criticizing you or someone you care about. He's pointing out some flaws in a l
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by biorach 5y ago
It's sarcasm, dumb humor - not trying to be inflammatory, or provocative - i.e. not shitposting. And let's face it, Portland kinda takes itself too seriously.
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by biorach 5y ago
If it makes someone rich at a high cost to others without adding any value whatsoever then it is useless. In light of the massive energy consumption it may be worse than useless.
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by biorach 5y ago
Zadie Smith lived in New York from the late 2000's to 2020.
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by biorach 5y ago
> Sorry but a “framework” used by one project (especially not broken out into a separate subproject) is not a framework. That’s just infra code. Infra code that over time, as your app grows, takes on more and more of the features of a fr
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by biorach 5y ago
I've been through much the several journey several times, each separated by enough time that I have forgotten all the little details. I eventually found out about LineageOS for MicroG [1] which is a variant of LOS with MicroG bundled w

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