jjmellon

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by jjmellon 4y ago
If your garden is in the front yard of a house located close to a busy street in an old neighborhood, maybe so (not sure of the risk). But in the U.S., cars manufactured after 1975 used unleaded gas, and leaded gas was no longer sold after
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by jjmellon 5y ago
The founder of Trigon was a guy named Don Tapscott. Back then, he had a gift for hyping the "next big thing". I haven't thought or heard anything about him in decades, so it was interesting just now to find that he has a webs
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by jjmellon 5y ago
I worked briefly for a Toronto company named Trigon that had a government contract in 1984 to produce interconnected office software (word processor, spreadsheet, calendar) for the Icon. The product was called "Emerald". I don&#x2
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by jjmellon 5y ago
The number that can only be named with too many words.
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by jjmellon 5y ago
New Scientist
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by jjmellon 5y ago
I don't understand the point of this article. Why is PostmarketOS singled out over the 20 or so Linux distributions that run on the Pinephone?
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by jjmellon 5y ago
In the case of books, I think the battle has already been lost. I doubt that small acts of charity will keep Amazon's competitors viable at this point.
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by jjmellon 5y ago
The chart shows that 25% to 50% are not "capable" of being sold. I think this refers to losses in the field, such as unripe, overripe, insect or animal damage, etc. However, the article ignores the fact that many of the ones that
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by jjmellon 5y ago
The article's profit calculations assume that every pumpkin grown can be sold. If you take a drive in the countryside today (last day of sale before Hallowe'en), you'll see this is not the case. Huge piles of pumpkins still a
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by jjmellon 5y ago
The problem is that Ivermectin is off patent, so no drug company can make any money from it. Since there is no money for expensive research studies or clinical trials, all the research studies that get done will be low budget and subject to
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by jjmellon 5y ago
I am a software developer. I would honestly not have the nerve to release a product with software in the state the Pinephone is in today. But of course, pine64.org takes no responsibility for the software on their phone, it's a "c
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by jjmellon 5y ago
I received a Pinephone in the latest shipment, about three weeks ago. I also got the convergence dock to be able to attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I am extremely motivated to get off Android on my phone, and yet my Pinephone has alre
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by jjmellon 5y ago
Yes it is. Even if it had a PTO, this vehicle won't do much agricultural field work, it will bog down. Tractors typically have much larger back wheels, usually weighted, and a larger engine.
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by jjmellon 5y ago
You have to laugh at the obligatory time-to-market estimates in these lab-grown food articles: "I estimate we are only four years away from ramping up production and having regulatory approval in place." It would be interesting to
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by jjmellon 5y ago
The Hollywood movie industry was created to escape from Edison's patent enforcement actions on the east coast.
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by jjmellon 6y ago
It’s not 10% of revenue, it's 10% of the first year of ARR. So if the company is doubling revenue every year, it is 5% of revenue. Any slower growth, it's a lower percentage.
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by jjmellon 7y ago
In addition to cost of lighting, I've found that the cost of hydroponic fertilizer is also too high, at least for small growers buying it premixed. I've successfully grown hydroponic tomatoes following standard guidelines, and fou
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by jjmellon 8y ago
First time I've heard of the QBist interpretation of quantum mechanics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism