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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Isn’t this due to supply constraints, at least in part? There simply are not enough teslas available to meet current demand, so they end up buying other brands to avoid waiting a few months.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Chris Rufer may run a tight operation but I have nothing nice to say about him as a person, especially how he communicates with his growers. I’ll leave it at that.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Alfalfa is especially good for adding nitrogen, but clover can do the same for a home garden. You are correct on the number of years between plantings, but really only 2-3 years off are needed to clear the fungus. Alfalfa just lasts longer.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Agreed. That’s why I said I think there is room for us both for a long time.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Definitely a good opportunity for selling the higher value tomatoes restaurants and some upscale markets desire. I like the emission benefits of shorter supply chains too. Best of luck, I doubt our tomatoes will be competing with each other
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
How many square meters will that facility be, and what is the cost to construct? At $100M I don’t see how it would be financially viable. 50k kg a day is approximately 600 acres of tomatoes with our yields. That much land in CA might sell f
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Interesting, but not that dissimilar to the United States. I grow a couple thousand acres of tomatoes in California, all of which are for processing into juices and pastes. These tomatoes are all transported in open-topped trailers by semi,
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
I need to write that I was slightly mistaken, CA houses half of the “unsheltered” in the United States and only a quarter of the “homeless.” The unsheltered are highly visible and make up 70% of the total homeless in CA, the highest rate in
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
CA has 1/2 the population of homeless in the US but only 1/8 of total population. The eastern seaboard has close to half the US population but obviously cannot have nearly the same rate of homeless. Something is at play, though it
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Being stuck at an intersection for 10 minutes as cyclists meander through does not make me want to support their cause. Seeing such a large group act in a coordinated and legal manner probably would.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Doctors are expected to give medical advice while the US government is banned from policing speech. The analogy is fundamentally flawed.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
The owners of public companies are irrelevant to the large public company’s continued existence. Owners for them come and go and pay their own taxes, but the company never has to pay the estate taxes itself, hence the advantage against thos
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
These businesses have a natural limit to their growth due to the estate tax. If the company grows too large, the taxes on death can be crippling for families that can not plan decades in advance. Public corporations do not have to pay this
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
There are entire textbooks written about how to construct options from a combination of short and long positions in different assets offset by borrowing. It’s not trivial, but it’s a well established discipline in trading world. For anyone
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
I have not looked at the financials, but equity compensation to employees can often be vesting at a significant higher rate around the time of an IPO and push an otherwise profitable company into a short-term net loss.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Pretty nice for Cloudflare that their closest competitor makes very little effort to gain customers, and actively avoids the hobbyist set which is key for mindshare.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
It’s a bit of both. Lots of countries have low wages and lax safety protocols, but they haven’t been able to hit double digit gdp growth for decades because of that alone.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
The book “On China” by Henry Kissinger makes almost that exact argument. Whatever your opinion on Kissinger, he opened relations with China and definitely has an interest viewpoint.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
You’d have a revolt at Google of you tried to take away their MacBooks and iPhones.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
I think it depends on the team and your role in it. I worked at one of the Google X moonshots and never heard of this. There were a couple engineers from other teams that were donating one day a week to helping us, which is a similar 80&#x
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
I once had a math PhD friend tell me that if they ever became aware of any practical applications to their research, it would probably lose all interest to them. I’ve always found that to be curious and a good reminder that others can have
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Hasn’t been a big issue for us since we are a larger farm and have blueberries pollinating right after our almonds making us a desirable partner. The rates have gone up, but we can afford them easily for almonds. The current almond pollinat
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
It depends on the OEM, but in the worst cases it’s essentially anything. You can’t even change your own oil.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
The biggest problem with product development for agriculture use cases is that the conditions are extreme, every situation is unique, and the customers don’t really want what you are selling. It adds up to a lot of failed companies with goo
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
I have not heard about that, I’ll check it out. The water situation is not good for a lot of farmers, but we are fortunate with where our aquifer-drawing land is located and that most of our acres don’t draw from the aquifer at all.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
California farmer, mostly pistachio and almonds. The farm has been in the family for four generations now and we hope to continue that. I found HN while I worked at Google on self-driving cars from 2014-2018. At least two postings on HN hav
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Norway also spends a lot of energy criticizing foreign regimes for attempting to follow the same path as Norway; prosperity through natural resource extraction. It’s great that Norway has gotten rich enough to turn the corner, but not every
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Would those competitors not have the same moral obligations? Why hold Cloudflare to a higher standard?
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
They definitely care about safety. I don’t doubt their dedication to preventing accidents. My objections come from their hand waving away disengagements from the official results, shared with both regulators and Alphabet leadership. This wa
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
From personal experience seeing how their data is generated, I don’t trust Waymo reports at all. They straight up lie about the capability and disengage rates to an astonishing degree. I left several years ago, but I see no reason they woul

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