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by kickout 4y ago
Very cool. This type of thinking and combining next-gen tools in the genome editing space will be time well spent. Hopefully there is a future state where pesticides can ultimately be reduced because of this tech. Obviously engineering pest
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by kickout 4y ago
Very good article, thanks
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by kickout 5y ago
any link to fallout maps? None are listed in the wikipedia
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by kickout 5y ago
That looks more probable for Iowa than NE. Still, great link! Never seen the before
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by kickout 5y ago
Interesting location choice. Why central NE?
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by kickout 5y ago
I agree with your core statement of a series of patches to fix things that get deployed, but I'm not so pessimistic we won't have better/faster/more accurate tools to deploy those patches. I generally never want to bet a
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by kickout 5y ago
Eh, slight disagree. DDT at that scale is problematic. No comment on silent spring, but to clearly struck a cord with public perception— real or baseless
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by kickout 5y ago
Organic is the regulated term. Again, GMO is not a regulated term. The fact you see companies using it to try and extract a premium is the result of marketing, not a defined technical certification.
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by kickout 5y ago
All good points. Another topic lost in these debates is _very real alternatives_. People lament fields soaked in glyphosate or neonics. True, there are real problems with these actives. Unfortunately, these chemicals largely replaced _even
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by kickout 5y ago
The banana is a seedless triploid (seeds don't form because they have an odd number of chromosome pairs). This is a common mechanism in fruits to achieve seedless varieties that can then be propagated vegetatively. The term GMO has fun
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by kickout 5y ago
My opinion continues to be tools like CRISPR and genome editing techniques are just that--tools. Can be used for good or bad purposes depending on your context and bias. Most people associate these genome modification tools as inherently ba
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by kickout 5y ago
Other have also commented, but this is mostly a marketing ploy. Non-GMO is not a regulated term and most things we eat have do not have a 'GMO' alternative.
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by kickout 5y ago
They play about as nice as Microsoft and Google and other big tech on protecting patents. Also, Monsanto was purchased by Bayer (a German company).
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by kickout 5y ago
Also imagine if money spent on stock buybacks went somewhere productive. :/
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by kickout 5y ago
That's a bit disingenuous. Individual decisions != policy decisions. No government struggles with 'perfectionism'
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NFTs for Sustainable Agriculture Infrastructure(thinkingagriculture.io)
2 points by kickout 5y ago|1 comments
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An NFT Solution for Sustainable Agriculture(thinkingagriculture.io)
1 points by kickout 5y ago|0 comments
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by kickout 5y ago
>LA is actually representative of large swaths of the US No, not even close.
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by kickout 5y ago
Thank goodness criminal computer activity didn't exist before cryptocurrency--had me worried. But once we get rid of cryptocurrency (soon), those problems are solved thankfully.
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by kickout 5y ago
Crypto had its original run-up in 2017...when the fed raised rates 3x...
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by kickout 5y ago
No way anyone outside of LA/SF/NYC were paying dishwashers 10+. I made 5.25 (i think) around that time period (98-00) washing dishes. It sucked ass
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by kickout 5y ago
I've never said regenerative ag can't scale. Look through my comments, I _strongly_ believe regenerative ag can scale and is needed to solve alot of problems. The parent comment is talking about organic agriculture. Organic is a l
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by kickout 5y ago
There are plenty of citations demonstrating organic practices cannot realistically replace even 50% of current production. You clearly know how to Google. This comment reads like socialism fan-fic. How well did communal/collective farm
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by kickout 5y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/22/132497/sorryorga... Also source: me. Been in agriculture for a long time. Have good friends that _run large organic farms_ (1,000-4,000 acres).
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by kickout 5y ago
Not a bad prediction and I agree. Would the organic food people be okay with that though? Some of those people want to convert 100% to organic, which is obviously not scalable or sustainable (ironically).
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by kickout 5y ago
Distribution networks is key. We are plenty of food to feed everyone in the world, right now. Petro-chemical based agriculture was one of the greatest innovation of humanity. But it's been misapplied and abused, mostly in the name of p
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by kickout 5y ago
It's clear these practices don't scale. It's like saying you only need to hire 1 software dev and have them do everything, perfectly. When you find that 1 dev, it looks great. Your friend's farm is likely a well run oper
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by kickout 5y ago
So the US abandons agriculture production and Brazil slurps it up by chopping down Amazon rainforests? Global effects, not so simple.
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by kickout 5y ago
The problem is we try and grow crops in places like Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma (corn, soybeans) that have no business being grown there. There production could disappear overnight and no one would notice. Problem is what are you replacing
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by kickout 5y ago
Care to explain why a recession is a better choice to inflation?

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