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by runako 1y ago
If they are so important to US food security, why do they care what happens in China? This is sort of a tricky way of pointing out that they largely do not grow food for the US.
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by runako 1y ago
Thanks for weighing in here. > we are also just coming off some insanely profitable years Could you offer some color on the prominent narrative from farmers (even in this article) that the last few years have just been terrible for farme
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by runako 1y ago
Sure, it would be equally difficult to start a new company making non-niche[1] t-shirts or toilet paper or plastic cups or light bulbs today. 1 - "non-niche" a/k/a the undifferentiated "standard-quality" produc
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by runako 1y ago
Here, we are basically talking about people who grow export products, not food eaten by Americans. My understanding is we could take most of these farms completely offline without much impact to US food supply (I could be wrong on this). Th
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by runako 1y ago
I hear the argument that food is different, I do. What I don't get is why any of us should care _which_ millionaire owns & operates the farm. If one millionaire isn't scaled enough to run it at a profit and has to sell to a ri
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by runako 1y ago
I get that aspect. My assumption is that due to scale, location, etc., a farm that transitions from its current owner to a different owner will still be a farm with (possibly the same) employees. I don't see 30% of the farmland in Arka
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by runako 1y ago
The current President literally disrupted their export markets last time he was in office. It wasn't a stretch to expect him to continue doing more of the same. The line was "President".
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by runako 1y ago
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out why it should matter who owns these farms to anyone who doesn't own one. Impact to our food supply seems minimal at best. At worst, we are taking taxes from teachers to send to these rich farmers, wh
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by runako 1y ago
> 4. The grain industry must diversify. Since these folks by and large do not grow food for people in America to eat, just how important is this to Americans who do not work in ag? Why do we subsidize farmers to produce products for expo
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by runako 1y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but is this part of Android or a standalone app? Is it something that is not usable on Apple devices?
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by runako 1y ago
As an Apple user, what are they behind on? What features are other makers shipping that Apple is missing? (Genuinely curious, perhaps there are third-party apps I can use to bridge the gap.)
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by runako 1y ago
In all seriousness, is there a folding phone that doesn't have a crease in the screen while unfolded? The one I have used felt like using a real phone through a layer of vinyl, definitely not a pleasant experience.
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by runako 1y ago
> months of delays for everything Private childcare is also filled with months (often years) of delays. Expanding on this a bit: if you have a sudden need to get childcare, in much of the country you are not likely going to be able to fi
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by runako 1y ago
Important context here is that New Mexico's state income tax rates are in the "red state" bracket. Notably, they are lower than states like Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Montana.
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by runako 1y ago
> The infrastructure they inherited was never designed for the things it's being asked to do today I am not British, but this is confusing. Was private capital forced to take on the burden of privatizing the water system? Or did pri
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by runako 1y ago
> There's no reason that only Teslas will be able to drive themselves I keep seeing this, but where I am, there is only one company offering cars without drivers. That's Waymo, and they do not use Teslas.
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by runako 1y ago
> whoever invents self-driving cars first, will kill cars as we know it Are you talking about Waymo here? In any case, the timeline is not obvious.
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by runako 1y ago
> No additional coding. > You can take the code from https://xkcd.com/2501/ More seriously, for most non-programmers, even typing into a console is "coding."
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by runako 1y ago
Honestly this could be a simple as "all the docs for how to do this are in Korean, and doing the job effectively involves communicating with HQ in Korean."
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by runako 1y ago
There have been new ideas, and even a "second founding"[1]. But unfortunately, some of the ideas from the second founding era and beyond are still controversial. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Fo
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by runako 1y ago
> no more international business conferences As an American, I can't imagine why anyone would risk coming here for a conference unless it was truly make-or-break. A clerical error in your visa could land you in jail indefinitely in
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by runako 1y ago
Salesforce revenue growth has decelerated from ~24% in FY 2021 to just over 8% for the trailing 12 months. A company that was tuned to double revenue in 3 years transforming in one expecting to double in 9 years is definitely carrying too m
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by runako 1y ago
These are great questions. A key factor underlining all of this is understanding, from a business/organizational perspective, your actual uptime requirements. Google may aim at 5 nines with the budget to achieve it, but many banks have
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by runako 1y ago
This is a great example of what I meant when I said that a part of the Cloud Tax is it constrains the solution space available to developers. In an era where one can purchase, off-the-shelf, a 256-core machine with terabytes of RAM, develop
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by runako 1y ago
Thank you! I was reading so many comments suggesting that everything should be on Bandcamp, but my searches did not show that. I was wondering if I was maybe on the wrong website.
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by runako 1y ago
> Centralized logging, log search, log based alerting Do people really use the bare CloudWatch logs as an answer for log search? I find it terrible and pretty much always recommend something like DataDog or Splunk or New Relic.
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by runako 1y ago
I feel like I'm missing something, too. I just went there and searched for some very large artists (pulling from a Wikipedia article on best-selling artists of all time). Every single one was a fake profile, with no actual music by the
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by runako 1y ago
> I really don't see how "bare metal" saves any engineering time This is because you are looking only at provisioning/deployment. And you are right -- node size does not impact DevOps all that much. I am looking at t
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by runako 1y ago
One of the more detrimental aspects of the Cloud Tax is that it constrains the types of solutions engineers even consider. Picking an arbitrary price point of $200/mo, you can get 4(!) vCPUs and 16GB of RAM at AWS. Architectures are di
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by runako 1y ago
I should have addressed this. This thread is about the capital costs of getting to the first sale, so that's model training for an LLM vs all the R&D in an iPhone. Recent iPhones use Apple's own custom silicon for a number of

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