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by rmah 4y ago
Get people to think? What are they supposed to think about? Honestly, it irks me a bit when people repeat the mantra "think for yourself" without thinking. To "think for yourself" about a topic requires a foundation of
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by rmah 4y ago
No, the money doesn't have to go anywhere. Nor does it have to come from anywhere when everything goes up at once. Because there is no money involved. It's sort of like asking "where do the pounds go when I lose weight?&qu
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by rmah 4y ago
Since when has Canada ever been a "3rd world country"? The OP is talking about schools in poor emerging economy nations, not schools in industrialized economies.
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by rmah 4y ago
Well, as far as I can tell, China is seems willing to sell just about anything to anyone as long as they can pay.
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by rmah 4y ago
We know one very important thing: consciousness is not a binary state. We have learned that different animals experience sensations, emotions at varying degrees. That different animals can solve problems of varying difficulty. And more a
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by rmah 4y ago
I'll start by saying that I believe that we need societal changes to help mitigate climate change. BUT, 1) it is personal, 2) it is an attack and 3) it is a limitation on personal freedoms. If we wish to make actual changes to save t
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by rmah 4y ago
Because most generated diagrams of code has very little actual value. Sometimes it fools you into thinking you understand how a system works. Which I would argue has negative value.
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by rmah 4y ago
Um, but the water in California is cheap and plentiful. Sustainably sourced, I don't know. But the root of the problem is that farmers do not pay a "fair" price, they get steep steep discounts. All the lawn watering, all
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by rmah 4y ago
"must be a genius"? Did people ever think this? While I went to university many decades ago, the whole "he went to Harvard, he must be a genius" would have seemed like a bad TV sitcom trope, when I was young. And stil
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by rmah 4y ago
The people who go hungry are the ones who are NOT well connected to the global supply chain.
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by rmah 4y ago
It can't slide back because 99%+ of people don't want to live like peasants of 100 years ago. I hope I don't need to explain why having a lot more people spending a lot of their time farming small plots leads to a substantia
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by rmah 4y ago
That's great and all. I think home gardens are great. But the topic is about food shortages in poor nations due to increases in grain prices. Home gardens does literally nothing to help anyone in poor nations who will be going hungr
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by rmah 4y ago
In my experience, one of the key factors of being engaged with one's work is feeling a sense of progress or accomplishment. Few things sap motivation more than the feeling that you're just spinning your wheels and nothing is gett
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by rmah 4y ago
The idea that more power in the hands of local governments seems attractive. Even knowing better, it still seems attractive to me... You imagine people knowing the lawmakers better. You think that the lawmakers will be more connected to
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by rmah 4y ago
there are machine tools all over this country that make it possible [...] sitting in basements, garages, barns, forests That may not be as true as you imagine. Entire factories, refineries, chemical plants, etc. were dismantled and shipp
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by rmah 4y ago
I disagree, the best time to evaluate how a candidate behaves towards other people is when they don't know they are being evaluated. Were they stressed before/after the interview? Well, how one behaves when stressed matters too.
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by rmah 4y ago
Not to sound contrary... but if their techniques are better, why haven't they been replicated widely? If they can output just 20% better financial return, they will double the profits for most farmers. Understand that it is my wish an
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by rmah 4y ago
The famines were from before the rational agricultural planning.
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by rmah 4y ago
Financial viability of farming as a business is independent of yield across all farms in a market. The consequence of radical improvements in agricultural yields lower prices (as a % of unskilled labor income) and usually means that most
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by rmah 4y ago
They could prove their case by actually doing it at commercial farm scale. But as far as I know, no one has. Which, to me anyway, shows they're probably (but not certainly) wrong.
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by rmah 4y ago
Have people considered that perhaps the author enjoys the process and it's a win-win given they learn new stuff, get to teach that stuff, and make a little cash on the side too? It's hardly out of bounds to think the primary obj
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by rmah 5y ago
Am I the only one annoyed that they use the term "supply chain" for a software build process?
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by rmah 5y ago
I think this was called AskJeeves. Google rolled over them without breaking a sweat.
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by rmah 5y ago
Sorry, that post was my attempt at a bit of data humor :-) I actually agree with everything you're saying.
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by rmah 5y ago
4 bil households (8 bil people) with each household living on a detached 500 sq m lot (20m x 25m or apx 1/8th acre) => 4,000,000,000 hh * 500 sq m => 2mil sq km. The earth has 149mil sq km of land area so those suburbs would take
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by rmah 5y ago
When NeXT launched their first machine back in the late 1980's, it came with a spreadsheet 2.0 called Lotus Improv. It used what we now call pivot tables as the first class data representation. I never used it but the demos looked ve
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by rmah 5y ago
The problem is that there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these sort of bio labs around the world. So, I would agree that suspicion is warranted. Perhaps enough for an investigation. But, IMO, that's about it.
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by rmah 5y ago
That something can be used for X does not mean that it is used for X.
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by rmah 5y ago
The author seems to overlook one of the fundamental purposes of money. Which isn't too surprising given her background, but somewhat disappointing given the topic of her site. That is, she ignores the role of money as a unit of acco
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by rmah 5y ago
Age of the beaver is over? There are millions of beavers in the wild in the US.

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