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drawkbox
6y ago
Again, it isn't either/or right now. It is currently cheaper to use the land and needs to, over decades that will have to change by necessity. I surely do appreciate the scale as I have family in farming and it is massive. Howeve
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Marijuana farming indoors/vertical will probably be the crop that pushes innovation in this area and most is grown indoors at minimum. Over time, controlled conditions will be a necessity. Right now the cost is still cheaper for most
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It isn't an either/or on Earth. Even the USDA thinks indoor/controlled vertical farming is key in the future [1] For other planets, we will have to have vertical or underground farming and controlled conditions. As more and m
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6y ago
The future of farming is most likely vertical farming with controlled conditions or underground. Especially when humans start going to other planets, this will be key. Side note: Mormon church is the biggest land owner in lots of areas inc
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6y ago
Self employed and businesses get a tax break/expense for that. It could be the same with personal insurance. Doing things only for the tax break leads you to all sorts of finagling twisted fixed markets. I'd always take real wag
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6y ago
Healthcare needs to be disconnected from the employer. Public option and private and all healthcare benefits need to go to salary. It would make workers able to change jobs easier, businesses able to start and compete with others/cou
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6y ago
> Yes, no one is going to run a service that hosts user created content if doing so means that they can be raided by the FBI in the middle of the night should a user find it funny to upload illegal content to a company's servers.
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6y ago
Still raw from a gaming platform we built for progress/matchup on App Engine (GAE) early on in 2011 for a popular racing matchup game. We chose App Engine due to flexibility, scaling and price. One day Google increased prices and our
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6y ago
Yeah most people when they say "free market" they want a fair market. Capitalism works but the top and bottom and excessive cases need to be contained, usually those happen when there is monopoly, oligopoly, duopolies, collusion o
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Interestingly the sandboxed web + web browser provided and provides much more trust and security than apps/binaries. The web browser sandbox was created to solve lots of problems with security of executables, it didn't solve all o
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This is a huge bonus for app/game developers that have always been privacy focused, now it becomes something the business/marketing teams also want on their app. What a great day for good developers and consumers to have this as b
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6y ago
Yeah that was a bit orthogonal but was going into the point that Robinhood is more than just payment order flow selling. Robinhood payment order flow selling (PFOF) is just the "limited hangout" they want people to focus on and ho
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6y ago
Well sure PFOF alone is not that much of a competitive gain, though it will put you above most investors to have it that is why hedge funds like Citadel, Virtu, and Wolverine buy this info. Those guys are doing things with that data for sur
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6y ago
Reminder that the only state in the US that does not recognize non-competes is California [1]. If you are starting a business California is still a place competition exists. Non-competes are the most anti-business, anti-worker, anti-innovat
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On top of that there was a single angle of attack (AoA) sensor active that was complained about and failed hundreds of times. [1] Not only is that a single point of failure, it is more easily sabotaged or easily damaged. Besides the fact
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The only concern I have is Apple has incentive to promote higher take apps over lower take, so they benefit more from pushing the 30% take apps over the 15% take. As long as we don't end up with a tiered App Store like XBOX Arcade or S
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Great news. The only concern I have is Apple has incentive to promote higher take apps over lower take, so they benefit more from pushing the 30% take apps over the 15% take. As long as we don't end up with a tiered App Store like XBOX
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6y ago
Anyone remember Boo? [1] It was a Python language that ran on the CLR/DLR VM of .NET. It was used early on in Unity when it had C#, Javascript and Boo. It was the language that coroutines was first implemented in that used Python like
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6y ago
James Madison "Father of the Constitution" wrote the Constitution, Bill of Rights and co-wrote of the Federalist papers has a great insight in Federalist 10: > It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to ad
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Jamstack is essentially a client/cloud model. Instead of client/server/db it is client with CDN and apis/microservices. Jamstack is static sites/headless CMS, CDN for content/storage/speed, microservices&#
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6y ago
Or that Earth itself is alive or just a giant egg for a monster.
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So Ferris Bueller could have never happened. Also, Ferrari's are useless in the apocalypse. I mean one benefit of the apocalypse is that maybe you could drive a Ferrari. Nope, they disable themselves when the grid goes down.
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Repeat after me, social media is not reality. Social media is the new tabloid salacious media. Yes it can be fun, entertaining, informative and educational, it can also be propaganda, misinformation, astroturfing, and a big high school like
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6y ago
Hard to create value when ditch or reduce power from the value creators and end up nothing but value extractors. Companies taken over and run by value extractors (finance/business/marketing) over the value creators (engineers/
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That and low interest rates and looking for a place to put money, plus the Warren Buffet multiplier. There are only 3600~ companies on the US markets [1], half of what was there in the 90s. There aren't many places to put lots of money
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Cloud based code environments are starting to merge this. Github Code Spaces for one are starting this. I don't know if they use Operational Transaction (OT) or Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) but they are repo backed. I a
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Apple had to not be anti-competitive. If ANYONE else did this they would have the same happen. Even if it was Apple in Epic Game Store. If Apple let Epic willingly break ToS and other small/medium developers would get the hammer, that
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Takes more than a forest fire to kill off the ents.
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A bit misleading. New Privately Owned Housing Units Started have merely bounced back to an already suppressed market from the Great Recession housing bubble crash which hit all-time lows. [1] Growth is good, return to baseline is good, but
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Lumberyard is essentially the CryEngine Engine that Amazon bought. It is more complex but it also shipped excellent games on it. I think game engines should always be built around games shipped. Unreal is quite nice in that aspect. Yes
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