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by mikeg8 6y ago
I agree - this never really occurred to me either. My girlfriend's mother is a preschool teacher who just had to go back to in-person sessions and she believes some of these kids will have trauma's from being young and terrified.
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I live in a rural area on 3 acres, 1 hour north of SF. Last year, a couple, mid 30s, from the city, bought a house on our street to live out the "Country Dream". Their new country house was back on the market within 12 months. Man
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There has been an incredible resurgence of small scale farms, in the range of 40-300 acres, that are a combo of country house and working farm. Some are capable of feeding thousands of community families. Not all food comes from industry.
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Thanks for your great comment, it's helping further the discussion and my own understanding. > but it would be a huge shift to grow everything that way, and it's far from clear that it's even workable for the volumes neede
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Top soil depletion, nutrient deficiencies in crops, watershed damage from excess fertilizer run-off, insect population decline from overuse of pesticides; these are all real issue. I'm accurate in hating the effect... the cause is ign
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If you are interested in this subject, I highly recommend checking out Joel Salatin and Polyface Farm. They are doing amazing work. http://www.polyfacefarms.com/ https://vimeo.com/125404937
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BS. It can, and often times is, more profitable than traditional farming. I encourage you to learn about Joel Salatin and the amazing Polyface Farms in Virginia. http://www.polyfacefarms.com/ By layering different farming e
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I'm definitely not anti-technology as a whole, but I very much think many of the environmental problems we're facing in agriculture were caused by an over reliance on technology in the first place. We abstracted ourselves out of
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This is a great answer, thank you for articulating. My only disagreement would be in regards to government being the only institution with the economic incentive to do invest here, long-term. From my understanding of the federal governments
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I do not believe the solution is to increase robotics to support this field, I think the solution is much more about a paradigm shift from over-optimization aka mono-cultures to a more holistic approach that increases the human-nature conne
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by mikeg8 6y ago
I am very aware of how wholesale and retail pricing works - but that is a very different distribution channel, and customers enter supermarkets and department stores well aware of this. Restaurant pricing is based on (with maybe some outlyi
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A restaurant is a brand and a brand gets to determine the pricing of their products. Pricing is one of the ways customers relate to the brand's identity. Having a 3rd party, which may still add value to both the brand and end-user, int
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by mikeg8 6y ago
A lot of people buy Lululemon for the style/comfort/status... not to actually sweat in.
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Others bear the cost, only if the meat consumption supports the producers of externalities aka factory farms and CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations). If the meat you consume comes from small-scale, grass fed, local producers, the
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by mikeg8 6y ago
Again, you continue to describe the role of a FOUNDER, not an employee. Your use of words like “blow up” and “duty” need some serious reflection. One of the biggest failures of or modern corporate culture is the mindset that we should live
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by mikeg8 6y ago
I never implied all remote engineers would be adept at remote work, but I'd easily argue that engineers, as a group, would be more adept at remote work than most other professions, including a group of college students.
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Remote work in engineering is completely different then remote learning. Engineers are self-directed, a particular type of thinker. Maybe the professors are just as effective at performing remote work, but that does not mean that all stud
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by mikeg8 6y ago
I think you are wrong it saying that there doesn’t exist an avenue to excercise free speech on the internet. The internet in and of itself is arguably the best tool ever developed for expression of free speech. It’s the distribution to a ma
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by mikeg8 6y ago
This looks awesome! Can’t wait to dive in a little deeper and try it out on some upcoming side projects. Thank you!
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that is a mind blowing comparison. Thanks for highlighting
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> 2. As few CSS tweaks as possible > 3. It must be fun to build I personally enjoy messing with CSS, it's incredibly fun to try new things and give an otherwise boring page some life and expression. Obviously there is a fine line
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I think the owners are tired of giving up so much control - your proposal sounds too similar to the platforms they are trying to leave. Without having the first-hand knowledge of parent comment, my assumption is restaurateurs want more cont
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If you’ve spoken to so many owners that all want to ditch the platforms mentioned for their own systems, do you feel there is enough interested to justify a venture/product to sell to the owners that gives them the control they are aft
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In theory yes, but React and similar JS frameworks have been chomping away at the “cascading” of CSS for a while, in favor of embedding styles inside each JS component. They have become very much intertwined.
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Definition of malware: software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system. You could argue that tracking software is "disruptive" but more so to the user, not the system its
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Tracking software is not malware. I totally oppose the use of tracking software, but they are not the same.
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I think it’s highly unlikely that an upstart is going to steal a noticeable amount of market share from AirBnb during this pandemic. It would be hard enough during normal times when travel volume is much higher.
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So students remain undecided as long as possible to enroll in as many undergrad classes as possible? your proposition makes no sense to me. I believe as an 18 year old, you need to begin seriously taking responsibility for your decisions, a
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by mikeg8 7y ago
That was only one of the many exceptions. Public works projects, anything supporting an essential business/service like healthcare, food production, schools etc. have all been allowed throughout the shutdown. And up here in Sonoma coun
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by mikeg8 7y ago
Construction is a massive sector that supports a lot of working class families. It is/can be performed with maximum adherence to social distancing and use of respiratory masks/PPE is already standard practice. I can see how the ad

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