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by chicob 7y ago
Irresponsible people like, for example, those who deliberately installed defeat devices? Manufacturers don't trust users, but ask users to completely trust them. This is what we're asked to do post diesel emissions scandal.
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by chicob 7y ago
I know. It was a joke.
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by chicob 7y ago
Since I saw a female dog performing pelvic thrusts on a female cat for no apparent reason, I'm a lot less skeptic of this kind of headlines.
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by chicob 7y ago
Organic is something that is not synthetic (the intricate philosophical details being left as an exercise). Obviously, and sarcasm apart, the difference is nuanced. Organic Farming revolves around what is apparently natural, and in practi
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by chicob 7y ago
Rotenone, a naturally ocurring herbicide. Known cause of Parkinson's disease.
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by chicob 7y ago
Farming has the issue of mass scale, as any other human activity. Farmers have been artificially selecting species for thousands of years, but perhaps not at the scale and speed we witness today. I have no doubts that normalization and lack
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by chicob 7y ago
One can use chemical solutions in Organic Farming, if these are organic, e.g. rotenone, insect-killing viruses, bacteria and fungi. In some rare cases, synthetic mineral solutions are allowed, like copper sulfate.
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by chicob 7y ago
I understand that worry, but it doesn't make much economic sense. It is possible that some farmers would abuse it, but that would be expensive and unnecessary, since the target weed would die with a regular dosage. Abuse of glyphosate
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by chicob 7y ago
I understand your heuristics, but let it not drift towards the naturalistic fallacy. Rotenone, an insecticide produced by some plants, is used in organic farming because it is naturally ocurring. It has been pointed out as a cause for Parki
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by chicob 7y ago
Your second paragraph pretty much resumes what Integrated Farming is. That is exactly what I do. And everything you do in Organic Farming can be done in Integrated Farming - you only resort to chemical solutions if there are no other option
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by chicob 7y ago
I would most certainly not say that. The precautionary principle lies within Integrated Farming, because it is highly adaptable. There are harmful insecticides being used in organic farming, and the avoidance of synthetic fungicides allows
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by chicob 7y ago
Even in that case, we would have the issue of Vavilovian Mimicry. This time being done by robots, which would certainly be a counter-argument for those that claim that this is not natural selection, but artificial selection.
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by chicob 7y ago
I wouldn't decide for organic because of that. Like I said in another comment in this thread, organic farming still uses pesticides, just not the synthetic ones. In my opinion as a farmer, the foundational principle of Organic Farming
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by chicob 7y ago
Many herbicides are harmful in some way, but most are safe if used properly (i.e. respecting the correct dosage for each target, respecting the safety interval, etc). Buying organic is not safer, though, because one can still use herbicides
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by chicob 7y ago
On Firefox, open about:reader?url=https://www.birdguides.com/news/millions-of-birds-vacuumed-to-death-annually-in-mediterranean/ It won't show the comments, but at least you can read it.
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by chicob 7y ago
The trees are stripped at night because cool temperatures help preserve the olives' aromatic compounds. I don't think that is why they do it. First of all, producers are paid according to the titratable acidity of the oil (and c
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by chicob 7y ago
I'm an olive producer in Portugal. I suspect the main reason behind the need for harvesting at night is that the demand exceeds the supply for super high density harvesting service, and contractors harvest day and night in order to fac
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by chicob 7y ago
People are already ditching John Deere for not letting them repair the tractors they own. If you are developing an AI sophisticated enough to pilot a tractor, would it only be able to drive one model? If John Deere ever achieved this goal,
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by chicob 7y ago
If you decide to spend thousands on a tractor with an AI sophisticated enough to do everything a regular human tractor driver does, but nothing other than that; and if once you buy that piece of equipment you've committed yourself with
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by chicob 7y ago
Maybe. Or maybe they'll be just like regular tractors with a side module for your AI of choosing. In which case you still won't be locked out of your machine, in the sense that you can choose the company with the best farming AI.
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by chicob 7y ago
"The project is through California Polytechnic State University’s Capstone I/II class and sponsored by iFixit. Material on this site is protected from DMCA takedown by a DMCA exemption granted by the US Copyright Office." Y
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by chicob 7y ago
Where I work (Portugal), John Deere tractors have been sold for decades and this year Kubota made a record comeback. Most contractors use New Holland tractors now. I suspect the reason is a shift from annual crops to permanent crops, that d
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by chicob 7y ago
They do trust their machines, and want them serviced the way they see fit. But they also want to protect their business with lockout strategies.
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by chicob 7y ago
And some models can simply lose support as they age, which is something just accelerates planned obsolescence. My father owns a John Deere, kind of old, and it is a good machine. It is not that sophisticated, and all the electronics we use
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by chicob 7y ago
I suspect the Humanities seem to be at an advantage here. In the Arts, students learn about the basic physiology of the human eye, the Physics behind color and also some Geometry. In Sociology, surely there must be some Statistics course. I
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by chicob 7y ago
I sure will. Thanks!
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by chicob 7y ago
I do use LibreOffice. There seems to be some way of using SQL to access Base data, but I still didn't explore that.
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by chicob 7y ago
Thanks. I'll give it a try. I chose MySQL because I knew there were Python libraries I could use.
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by chicob 7y ago
I once subscribed to a farming management program, developed by a french company that was launching to the cloud market. Apparently they had bought several other smaller companies, integrated their software into their own program when usefu
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by chicob 7y ago
Thanks for sharing!

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