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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
They are entirely different strains when it comes to tomato cultivation at industrial scale. A tomato that ends up in a sauce or frozen never had the option to make it to the store while whole.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Canned tomatoes are also a different variety than what you would buy in a store fresh. Canned tomatoes are bred for a much higher amount of solids and flavor, while fresh has to worry more about color and presentation (I.e. bruising is bad)
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Costco also sells in much larger sizes, so while the price may be lower on a per unit basis, you often pay more overall. It’s a trade not everyone wants, e.g. lack of space to store bulk goods in a small apartment. Costco, Target, Amazon, e
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Why only cops and not all public sector employees? I don’t see how you can make an argument that police work isn’t work.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
I can’t give you any significant details, but I can confirm that they have sold some of their land since my family bought a bit of it.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
I don’t think that’s clear at all. I’ve seen it often repeated by the media, but there is absolutely no evidence to support it. Repeating this is only driving the two sides further apart.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
I realize that the situation is different because they were not a true startup, but Waymo was comfortably into the billions of total spending before getting even a single dollar in outside revenue (and they still have almost zero revenue).
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
I agree with your position and wish to add this quote: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
No one got a chance to short WeWork since the IPO never happened.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Our farm purchased several New Zealand asparagus sorting machines back in the 90s and they were quite excellent. They would size the spears by laser, and could do color analysis as well. There was still a significant manual component, but h
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Between 1970 and 2013, the % of Americans working in agriculture dropped from 4.4 to 1.5. I’d say we have continued to make excellent progress, it’s just not as sexy as robot fruit pickers.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
The risks are to the water table in California. The current rate of ground water depletion is unsustainable. Sorry for being unclear about what avenue I meant by risk.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Almond prices pushed $4 a pound just a couple years ago, and yields can easily exceed 4,000 an acre (I just got 4,100 on a fifth leaf orchard not even in full production). 15,000 is not the norm, but plenty of farmers have gotten that yield
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
I agree that tree crop farmers can really benefit from access to this type of product. I am a little concerned that this will only encourage even riskier nut development when the aquifers are already stressed as much as they are. I am still
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Current price is just under $500 for an acre-foot of water, and you have to buy in increments of 10 acre-feet. If you are unfamiliar with that unit of measurement, it’s pretty much what it sounds like. It’s the amount of water needed to cov
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
This is satire, correct?
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear this case.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Yes, this is a nice addition that will definitely cause a significant (thought very small magnitude) shift towards higher profits. Thanks!
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
The best rule to follow to avoid getting duplicate numbers is to just not pick them at all. Quick Pick is a common lottery feature that just gives you random numbers, and should give the best odds of choosing a number which no one else has.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
As a rule, coercion by offering money will never qualify as entrapment. The courts consider refusing money to be “too easy”, so to speak. An example of entrapment would instead be a threat of prosecution against your child unless you do so
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Addressing only the viability of the sample for basic binomial analysis, the sample size is on the small end. This would be okay if we could reasonably expect the underlying events to follow identical and independent distributions, but when
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
That the author wasted their time is purely your opinion, and really adds nothing to the conversation here. Why insult someone for doing something you don’t find interesting?
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Absolutely, the cutoff to be a large farm is quite low. I am a farmer myself, but we have a very large plot compared to the cutoff point (~10,000 acres, half of them permanent and half row crops). There are enough difficulties to managing o
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Just a few: Tractor amortization over additional acres. Administrative overhead rarely scales linearly. Better prices on inputs from ordering in larger quantities. Access to new tech that is too expensive for smaller operations to justify.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
The profit share for those largest 1% of farms is even greater than 70% as well. I believe it’s around 93% of profits are made from the large operations.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
It was pretty shortsighted when Democrats removed the filibuster from judicial confirmations in 2014 to try and ram through judges in Obama’s final years.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Destroying things that do not belong to you is not free speech.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Who decides what needs to be censored? How do we ensure a fair process if we could be silenced for just questioning the censors? The hate speech slope is slippery and unscrupulous politicians will always want to interfere.
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
All things in the universe have four measures of velocity. Three of these are easily observable to us in terms of x, y, and z movement. To understand time dilution we need to realize that we are also physically traveling through time. The t
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by opinion-is-bad 6y ago
Instacart has hired 300,000 and plans to onboard and additional 250,000. The scope is just incredible. https://m.slashdot.org/story/370040

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