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by kickout 4y ago
Possibly a little clickbaity, but it was a first hand experience from the author. There are likely thousands of examples of this exact scenario playing out every year: $old_family_member needs assistance and all of the options cost $small_f
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by kickout 4y ago
Correct, society has definitely changed with women now in the workforce and the velocity(?) of people moving from where they grew up. I know my family has scattered after high school and had no intentions of returning home. Difficult for pa
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by kickout 4y ago
Agreed, and having watched the older generations go through heartbreaking experiences to squeeze out 2-3 months of 'living' has solidified me in insisting on never putting my family through that. My hope is multi-generational hou
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by kickout 4y ago
Can relate to TFA. Cost near the end of life are eye-popping the in the US, but the alternative is murky too. Just let elder relatives live in your home? Likely won't last 3-4 days, its hard. Cost of these facilities is astronomical an
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by kickout 4y ago
Bookmarked. Good post, Choropleth's in R are hit or miss and mergeing data to the mapping dataframe remains annoyingly complicated (alluded too in post).
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by kickout 4y ago
Very cool. Always interested in these hi-res photos for agricultural field monitoring. A little pricey though. ETA: 5 sq km seems big for a minimum. Multispectral availability is super cool tho!
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by kickout 4y ago
Yea, sadly I can relate to this quote. Modern science has lost it voice and purpose it seems and it nothing more than a glorified printing press of poor research and glad-handing consortiums.
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by kickout 4y ago
And yet I've been trying to find $$ for one of the most disruptive agriculture technologies that could propel to sustainable ag to acreage unheard of. Nobody wants to take a chance. shrug
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by kickout 4y ago
1492 by Charles Mann
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by kickout 4y ago
Yes it's worth using IMO. Plotting and grokking is better than python IMO.
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by kickout 4y ago
This, unfortunately, mimics my experiences. No idea when or how it happened, but it is noticeable
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by kickout 4y ago
Link to a podcast...?
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by kickout 4y ago
Private plant breeding corps have only been around for <100 years (many <40). Many research universities and non-profits (CGIGAR, IRRI, CIMMYT, etc.) do plant improvement and had a huge head start. Yet these innovations didn't ar
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by kickout 4y ago
If it is intentional, that's a no-no IMO (like the oft mentioned Canadian farmer). If its unintentional, there can be no claim of infringement. Lots of grey area in intent, but heirloom and landraces should have just as much freedom to
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by kickout 4y ago
The novelty was taking it out of one species and putting it into another for a specific purpose. Mother nature didn't transfer that gene across species. How that isn't worthy of IP is not clear to me.
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by kickout 4y ago
Go check out crop yields of your favorite crop for the past 20,30,50,100 years. Plant breeding and biotech have done _alot_ to reduce hunger and keep food prices low. Previous generations may have breed crops for pure survival reasons (they
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by kickout 4y ago
Nobody is patenting naturally occurring plants to my knowledge. Plant breeders make specific (usually) sexual crosses and sift through the progeny. Since plants have tremendous variation, many of the progeny are different than the parents.
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by kickout 4y ago
Mmm, I think your wording is clunky. Most of the crops that have patents have the patent on biotech trait. You can take a patent on a newly developed crop variety, just like any other _novel_ invention--plants are no different. Also look up
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by kickout 4y ago
Well, to be fair most of the drones used in agriculture are....DJI.... There is inherent distrust, but Deere and Case are close to pricing out/pissing enough customers. I am on the record they are sitting on the autonomous tractor tech
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by kickout 4y ago
windy is my favorite website. Absolutely loved it from day1. Wonder if anyone on that team is a HNer
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by kickout 4y ago
Still not quite 1930s dust bowl dry, but we're on the brink. Dangerous situation with no easy fixes either (other than telling California farmers they can't water)
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by kickout 4y ago
I mean....what's a realistic split on this? 95/5 bad to good? If these unicorn companies exist those jobs are vanishingly rare because people wouldn't move, correct? Im 'young' and I don't know I would ever giv
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by kickout 4y ago
Yea, I know this feeling. Not everything is sunshine and rainbows. Absolutely a ton of work and many sacrifices involved
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by kickout 4y ago
Congrats! I 'remember' life before my 5 year old, but I can't relate/understand life before a child. Fundamentally changes everything imo. Not in a bad way though! Exciting
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by kickout 4y ago
Correct. I don't disagree. However, in my experience increased money and scale (i.e tens of millions of people need this assistance) don't seem to be helping the problem. In my head I think its similar to the problems of public ed
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by kickout 4y ago
I'm honestly dumbfounded. My grandma and grandpa, whom I was close with and enjoyed spending significant time with, were in a few assisted living type facilities for the last 10 years or so. I felt bad for them (they never liked the fo
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by kickout 4y ago
I want a system that can audit systematic records falsification leading to severely worse outcomes for human subjects and punish that company/hospice/nursing home/hospital/etc. accordingly. Yea, I've been in places
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by kickout 4y ago
It's a complex situation no doubt. There is massive shenanigans in the billing aspect of this (thus the attraction of profit hungry assholes). Society has cared for it's elderly basically forever, and _now_ we're saying it&#x
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by kickout 4y ago
This doesn't make sense. Let's fix a smaller, bureaucratic problem by allowing the entire industry to be taken over by people that purposefully exploit grey legal areas and transfer life quality into dollars and cents? If nurses a
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by kickout 4y ago
Living in the Midwest… no need for Google maps. Both awe inspiring and sad at same time. Terraforming of the prairie.

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