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by sprocket 10y ago
> Seattle/Vancouver are so far up north that in December, the sun rises at 10 AM, and it starts getting dark at around 3 PM That's a bit of an exaggeration. Even on the shortest day of the year in Vancouver, the sun rises at s
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by sprocket 10y ago
For the remote position, are you able to hire candidates outside of the US? I've been developing in Perl for 20+ years and am located in Canada, but would be unable to relocate to the Santa Monica location.
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by sprocket 10y ago
Honestly, I'd rather hire someone at a reasonable wage, train them, and turn them loose without my supervision, or spend 10k and automate part of my production, than have to supervise people. It's likely a bit different in dairyi
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by sprocket 10y ago
I believe that the requirement for > 30 day leases is also an attempt to block the proliferation of AirBnB rentals, which the city doesn't look favourably upon. ie) You can't claim your house has been occupied for 6 months beca
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by sprocket 10y ago
This is starting to happen already. China has started launching lawsuits in Canada to seize real estate purchased with questionable money: http://www.reuters.com/article/canada-china-court-idUSL1N19K03D
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by sprocket 10y ago
I graduated with a degree in CPSC in the early 2000's and worked in the field for about 10 years before my wife and I moved to a more rural locale, bought a small herd of dairy goats, and started making cheese. It's a very differ
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by sprocket 10y ago
It's not entirely clear to me either, though I would assume it's so that the first server in the list doesn't get constantly hammered by a hundred people going through the list sequentially.
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by sprocket 10y ago
I'm in a very similar situation; I live on a island in western Canada, on a farm, and contract remotely. I don't have the extreme cost of living like our nearest city (Vancouver, BC), and being remote, no one cares about how old
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by sprocket 11y ago
We farm on Vancouver Island and the drought we experienced this summer (effective no rain from May through September) is going to hit us hard, as the hay crops we took off are significantly less than previous years. We do irrigate some of
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by sprocket 11y ago
How much of what you do is limited to being beer-centric? I run a small artisan cheese company, and having data like this would also be helpful at refining our make processes, as well as detecting seasonal preferences in both the milk we p
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by sprocket 12y ago
Came here to look for responses about the AND/OR issue - was wonder why searching for "goat meat" and "flour" suggested that I should make shortbread cookies. :)
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by sprocket 13y ago
I'm a big fan of a lot of Joel's methods. His advice to develop cheap, low cost, portable infrastructure is what we've been building our farm around. As an added bonus, the quality of pastured chicken or ducks or eggs or wh
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by sprocket 13y ago
I left full time tech work 3 years ago to start farming and overall, my quality of life has increase substantially. (Though I often joke that I can't tell if it's the best-worst decision I've made, or the worst-best decision
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by sprocket 13y ago
My wife and I are in for the lifestyle/long term. 3 years back, we'd decided to move out of the city into a more rural area to start building a farm business. We've built up a herd of about 50-60 dairy goats in that time, a
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by sprocket 14y ago
I welcome any data that you care to provide.
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by sprocket 14y ago
This is a ridiculous assertion. First of all, "organic farming" doesn't preclude you from treating sick animals with antibiotics, if necessary, nor does it prevent you from vaccinating. (Sick animals are required to be held back for a sp
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by sprocket 14y ago
Just because food is grown in a non-organic/commercial system, doesn't necessarily mean it's grown without using manure as a fertilizer. There have been many cases of non-organic products being contaminated with E.Coli as well: http://
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by sprocket 14y ago
I live in Canada so I can't compare directly to a USDA Organic chicken. However, based on a chicken one could get from Whole Foods, for example, our bird has a much richer flavour and a firmer, less rubbery texture. This part is very subj
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by sprocket 14y ago
My wife and I run a small farm and one of our products is organic, pasture raised chicken. All of our birds spend the majority of their lives out on fresh grass in the sunshine and our never exposed to any antibiotics, pesticides and herbi
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by sprocket 16y ago
If you're young, debt free and don't have any family relying on you for support, then I wholeheartedly recommend leaving to do what makes you happy. When my job ended this past February, I booked a ticket to Europe and spent the next four m
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by sprocket 17y ago
I'm spending 2 months in the Pyrenees at a farm producing Tomme de Montagne and a variety of smaller sheep's milk cheeses and three months outside of Toulouse producing a variety of blue cheese.
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by sprocket 17y ago
Five months in France learning how to make cheese.