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Industrial Maps(industryabout.com)
8 points by chicob 6y ago|0 comments
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by chicob 6y ago
Google stories is a dad trying yet again to look hip. We're not the ones who are old. Google is.
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Ask HN: Personal privacy vs. other people's smartphones
2 points by chicob 6y ago|0 comments
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by chicob 7y ago
I fail to see an argument here. So the author thinks that PGP is not good. Then the author argues against encrypted email? I'm not sure whether to tag this under 'non sequitur' or ' throwing the baby out with the bathwat
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by chicob 7y ago
Non-American here. I have never witnessed the dynamics of reparation policies. The closest thing we have in Portugal, if it could be so called, is the Jewish Law of Return, a bureaucratic shortcut for granting Portuguese nationality to desc
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by chicob 7y ago
That's funny. My first thought was that the narrative being fed here was "men are victims of the patriarchy", and my second thought that maybe The Times would now on be considered "a platform for the man's rights mo
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by chicob 7y ago
The VW guy was talking about the handing over of sensor data to Google in the context of "how much Android" is acceptable, since apparently in his opinion opening up for the MIB is as far as he'd go. The square brackets are A
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by chicob 7y ago
for fighting fungal infections Duh I meant fighting insects. B. thuringiensis has nothing to do with fungi.
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by chicob 7y ago
"But you also have to open up all the car's sensor data [to Google], and when I say all, it really is all sensor data" This is revealing. I'm glad my tractor GPS/guiding system does not run Android.
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by chicob 7y ago
>No. That's bullshit and actively harming the legitimacy Greens have. Bullshit is the word. Some examples: - Farmer #1 uses a plethora of organic pesticides on every crop. Can label produce as Certified Organic. - Farmer #2 uses no
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by chicob 7y ago
Organic farming is primarily about producing organically (i.e. without synthetic means), rather than producing sustainably.
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by chicob 7y ago
So do farmers engaged in Integrated Farming: only as a last resort, and if the economical threshold has been reached. The difference is that there are no restrictions regarding the use of 1) synthetic pesticides 2) man-made fertilizers, 3)
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by chicob 7y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean increasing yield is not increasing profit for regular agricultural practice. Fringe agriculture like hydroponics becomes cost effective when having no other means of production rises produce prices just enou
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by chicob 7y ago
For each crop, to maximize yield is to maximize profit. In fact, those are usually the same thing. Unless some requirement must be met, like moisture, protein or sugar content (i.e. corn or barley), in which case a given yield can mean diff
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by chicob 7y ago
"In the case of the Portuguese wineries, both already had good reputations for quality. All they wanted to do was to keep giving consumers great wine at a good price, without degrading their soil. They hadn’t increased the cost of mak
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by chicob 7y ago
I agree, but I should say that the main concern is not what is better for the environment, but what is certifiably non-synthetic. A secular kosher, is how I'd put it.
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by chicob 7y ago
This article seems to conflate organic farming with sustainability . Organic farming resorts only to non-synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Unless these are provably bad, in which case some synthetic substances are allowed. It feels a
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by chicob 7y ago
"Ethan didn’t think much of the liberals’ point of view. But he didn’t think much of his neighbors’ unbounded optimism either." Feels good to read this. As a liberal-leaning farmer, I feel myself in between two worlds: many farm
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by chicob 7y ago
Putting P-T into context, the conditions involved in synthesizing some forms of lanthanum decahydride are enough to create diamonds.[1] The cubic phase of LaH10 is synthesized around 170 GPa and 1000 K.[2] The SC properties arise ~10 centig
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by chicob 7y ago
So now the only way out of a clearly anti-democratic move to silence a semi-democratic parliament, put in place by a Prime-Minister that was not directly elected, is by having a non-elected head of state putting a stop to it. Good heavens.
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by chicob 7y ago
A relative once had to send an invoice to several people. He got he invoice by email, printed it, scanned it, and then attached the thing in a new email. The weird part is that he's been using computers for years, even before the Inter
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by chicob 7y ago
Can't read the article properly, for some reason, but I can comment on this: 1. Smaller containers have some advantages, which is correct measurement, washing and disposal. I still use 200 l barrels of herbicide, because I require more
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by chicob 7y ago
In Portuguese, "libra" is the word for the British Pound Sterling (GBP). I wonder how it is being branded here and whether there will be some kind of confusion, or mandatory differentiation.
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by chicob 7y ago
In Portugal, after harvest in the Winter, we cure olives in water and salt, sometimes some herbs. This produces a fermentation that allows for preserving olives for a whole year. Around Easter they'll be good. But before this, one need
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by chicob 7y ago
I spent some good times exploring deterministic chaos. Mathematica had sound outputs for the logistic map. I remember one could distinctly hear the octaves progression, then noise, then a fifth. I remember making a video overlapping the sou
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by chicob 7y ago
A "vector pointing at Alpha Centauri" is an incomplete definition, since a vector has a magnitude and direction. Also, Alpha Centauri has a declination of –60° 50′ 02.3737″, which makes it necessary to adjust for the time of the d
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by chicob 7y ago
I like IRC a lot. Simple, light, and a very good example of the minimalist principle that "less is more" .
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by chicob 7y ago
The libertarians, perhaps, yes. But not the anarcho-capitalists, who will always defend the right to property and freedom of agency in the markets above all other things. Which includes minting your own coin, if you choose to do so.
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by chicob 7y ago
But perhaps they wish companies became independent of the Federal Reserve, and more in control of the value of their own currency, both in terms of exchange rates and the ends to which they can be used or not.
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by chicob 7y ago
Nothing, unless you're a anarcho-capitalist libertarian.

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