mitchell_h

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by mitchell_h 4y ago
muscle cars aren't about fast, or horsepower, or anything logical. They're a feeling. The rumble, the sound, the vibration. Electric cars just can't reproduce that. they can be faster, quicker, better off the line...but th
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by mitchell_h 4y ago
I recently got into goats. Already have cows, chickens, and pigs on my hobby farm. Goats are without a doubt the most picky. I use pigs and goats for pretty much the same things, land clearing then food. Pigs are pure freaking destroy e
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by mitchell_h 4y ago
Value based pricing as been tried a bunch of times. I've only seen it work to lower the price.
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by mitchell_h 4y ago
Can confirm. I've both won and lost a lot of money on it.
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
Folks underestimate the community aspect of church. It was also key for us in building a network. Met some wonderful friends there that have helped us and we've helped them. Same with my kid's school friends and various other t
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
I've tried the outsourcing part before. Unless you have fields you can lease out or some other basic need of other farmers, it really doesn't work. Especially today with the shortage of "blue collar" workers. The cost
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
even today where knowledge of farming and land maintenance is basically free and available to anyone with a phone, farms fail ALL THE TIME. And not just startup farms, multi-generational farms. I live around a bunch of farmers & ranch
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
Adding something to this incase folks are thinking "I can do this...I love manual labor." You're not alone alone. In some cases you're actively disliked by towns that you'd move into. Sure the stores and such will
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
As a rural dweller(15 miles from the nearest town) the whole homestead(read: (semi)off grid, no prior experience, DIY ALL THE THINGS!) movement to me seems completely stupid. It's encouraging people that have no experience or knowledg
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
He's full of it. I do have a background in farming. Case, and Deere go head to head in almost every market. New Holland and a couple others also play in the same markets depending on what KIND of machine you're looking to run.
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
fellow small farmer(live stock only) with a day gig. The only benefit to having a small farm these days is it provides a tax shelter, and an enjoyable(yet difficult) hobby. Even if you outright own the land, by the time you figure in maint
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
Here's the problem with driving on the weekends. Unless you get hooked up with a company and they're ok with paying your insurance the answer is no. The TLDR here is that if you're and employee or contractor for a trucking
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
I live on >100 acres and maintain a software job. Spend all day in front of a computer and all night in the dirt. Only thing we grow is a 1/2 acre garden. We stick to live stock. I much prefer watching pigs, chickens and cows g
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by mitchell_h 5y ago
I live in an extremely rural area. The Deere integrations are a huge reason. Another that's not talked about is Deere field service. It's just DAMN GOOD. If you're running a serious tractor(7-9 series ) and it's the
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by mitchell_h 6y ago
I'm almost on this same path. I've got a hobby farm with chickens, meat cattle and pigs. Haven't quit tech yet and don't see my self doing so.
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by mitchell_h 6y ago
Thank you! Seriously AWW is an awesome app.
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by mitchell_h 7y ago
I'd go so far as to say Intellij and eclipse are one of the biggest reasons for Java and python's success. Those two languages came about during an IDE revolution and it made them so much more accessible.
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by mitchell_h 7y ago
On a bet a couple years ago someone gave me a week to compile and stand up most of the core hadoop services distributed by horton. 4 days in I lost my shit and desk flipped.
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by mitchell_h 7y ago
I live by a large-ish herd of farm raised Bison. I've gone to visit them a few times, mainly because they boarder a national forest with great trails. They're big as heck, when they run as a herd you can feel them. Truly impres
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by mitchell_h 7y ago
Cyber security is so wild west right now. change your linkedin. Do some public speaking. Read some blogs and you'll get your foot in the door. Where you go from there is about how well you sell your self.
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by mitchell_h 7y ago
I'm the guy that if you're in the line at walmart with me, I'm going to start talking to you. I've met some down right interesting folks this way. I also travel for work a lot. Talking to people in the hotel lobby is
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by mitchell_h 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgN8pCMLI2U Bryan expresses his opinions on this. When you say Isolate that really should include security.
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by mitchell_h 7y ago
Because they can't. I was going at this to the parent post. What JD offers in addition to the warranty riders, is a logistics and service network that's INSANE. when you buy a big tractor/combine/machine you get white
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by mitchell_h 7y ago
A lot of folks call this setting standards. The standard you set for you self is X, your ego/will/desire/whatever you call it will not let you drop below your standard.
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by mitchell_h 8y ago
I'm not in the bay area....However I did recently buy a house. Banks are taking locked out stock, or even pre-ipo shares, as people's "gross value" in order to get people qualified.
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by mitchell_h 8y ago
Preface: I am far from an apple person. Android phone(pixel), chromebook, linux desktop. But your airpods are flawed. I use airpods daily and I've never had complaints. A bunch of co-workers use them and there's never issues.
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by mitchell_h 8y ago
I'm a pagerduty user and I've met a bunch of their people. Their service is top notch and their people are really cool, knowledge folks. https://response.pagerduty.com/ is a _MUST_ read for anyone remotely near o
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by mitchell_h 8y ago
I'm currently sitting in LGA waiting on a flight that was scheduled for 1:30pm. This sucks.
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by mitchell_h 8y ago
Same here in missouri. We had 2 dry summers in a row, then a wet harvest time this year. Hay prices are up over double last year and last year was up from the previous year. Last year for example I would have been happy to buy $25 a 5x5 r
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by mitchell_h 8y ago
Check your credit. My second son was born a month early and spent 3 days in the NICU. 3 years later I was getting fresh bills from doctors I couldn't remember. Spent another year arguing with the hospital, the doctors and the facili

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