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by tabeth 10y ago
Indeed. Ideally (need to do more research) the community would self sustaining with a low quality of life, however, all of the usual amenities would be provided. The difficulty is setting it up so that they don't necessarily become ent
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by tabeth 10y ago
This is just a tiny part of a much broader goal, which is to create a completely self sustaining town of 100 to 1000 people within my lifetime. My intention is with 100k that could get you 10 acres. 1 acre for food, 5 for solar/energy
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by tabeth 10y ago
Weird, but somewhat relevant question (given that self driving capabilities combined with buses can potentially disrupt public transportation in urban areas): why do we even allow anything that's not a bus (say, 10+ passenger) or indus
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by tabeth 10y ago
Is property ownership instinctive? I'd definitely agree that [usage] is instinctive, in that one may want to use something without interruption or threat of having it taken away during usage. However, the idea that one needs to own som
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by tabeth 10y ago
I completely agree. I personally believe barter is implicit in property ownership. Since you can't barter anything you don't own, and once you do own something bartering (in my opinion) is inevitable.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I doubt anything will beat property ownership, agriculture, and money, in that order. I reckon if you remove those these three things and wait a year and the human race will be unrecognizable from a cultural point of view.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Indeed. What I imagined was that if a single acre could produce a high yield, balanced diet, then they could simply be placed in places where it before wouldn't make sense: e.g. interspersed within the suburban sprawl. And since it&#x2
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by tabeth 10y ago
Really? I thought aquaponics and other advanced techniques drastically increased that by an order of magnitude. Doing a quick search, it seems that you're right. For an average person, with an average diet, to feed a SINGLE person you
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by tabeth 10y ago
Is there a theory for what "effect" would be produced by a theoretical object going faster than light? The relevance is that, I thought a "sonic boom" was defined as what happens to an object and its surroundings after g
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by tabeth 10y ago
Any organization that's not profitable won't be saving people money for long. Generally there are two scenarios: 1. The company is not profitable, and VC money is subsidizing the cost. Eventually they'll either close down, in
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Ask HN: What's happening in agricultural technology?
194 points by tabeth 10y ago|143 comments
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by tabeth 10y ago
Why not just get more, higher quality sleep? It provides all of the upsides that you mention with no downsides.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I've never heard of Meta, so, like any normal human being I went on their website. [1] TLDR: From a glance, this entire organization's existence is centered around the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. There's no indication of anyt
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by tabeth 10y ago
This is the answer. However, it raises an interesting question: are users using collapses to hide threads permanently, or to read the N-level comments first, then proceeding deeper as necessary?
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by tabeth 10y ago
Shocking to me that there are so many articles on this. The strategy to becoming a good programmer is the same strategy to become good at anything else. 1. Identify what it means to be good 2. Work endlessly towards that aim 3. Deliberately
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by tabeth 10y ago
Failing to be humble eventually leads to arrogance. This advice is counterproductive. The part regarding being proud of who you are is completely tangential. I also highly doubt that "90% of people" in the tech industry don't
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by tabeth 10y ago
Maybe I'm naive (I don't have children), but many of these articles basically can be reduced to "I want it all." [1] Nothing is wrong with that, but considering the popularity and ideal climate one can't expect to l
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by tabeth 10y ago
The top cause of death in the United States is heart disease, which is also the most preventable. Assuming all causes of death have surgical intervention proportional to their occurrence in the population that would mean yeah, maybe not all
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by tabeth 10y ago
> Again, its only an issue for bad companies, with bad employment practices. The rest of us will be unaffected by the restriction Don't you feel that this attitude is dismissive?
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by tabeth 10y ago
Ah, well, I'm more of a "ban by default" kind of person. As for the answer to implicit question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13452727
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by tabeth 10y ago
Not sure what you're getting at. No one said things should be banned by default. Now that it is up for debate, as you mention, the question still is: why allow it? What benefits does it serve?
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by tabeth 10y ago
I skipped that step because it leads to the same conclusion. Or do you think a regular person in this country is capable of consulting, contracting, starting a company, etc?
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by tabeth 10y ago
> You can choose not to answer it; you can lie; you can choose not to work for employers that ask the question in the first place, especially if they coerce you into providing records. >> you can choose not to work for employers th
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by tabeth 10y ago
You're asking the wrong question. Why allow it? Employers and people are not equivalent in my mind, even if they are the same, legally. Your story is nice, but I've also heard stories where people are rejected immediately because
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by tabeth 10y ago
A society truly run by the people, ala individuals, would have banned this long ago. Just think about it: for an average person, what benefit do they receive by allowing employers to ask about past or current salary information? None. Would
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by tabeth 10y ago
I suspect there's some legal strategy here, but this fine seems pretty meh. The real punishment should be paying them what they advertised: 600,000 * 0.10 (at least 10 percent of all drivers were paid less) * 15/hr (average advert
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by tabeth 10y ago
I know nothing about storage, so I'm a bit confused about why Twitter needed: 1. Hadoop 2. Graph 3. Redis/Memcache 4. Blobstore 5. SQL variants (and a few others). I do see that the post has a short snippet briefly describing what
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by tabeth 10y ago
What's your use case?
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by tabeth 10y ago
There's no way to know what the outcome is until the end. Perhaps all of our suffering is necessary for us to realize something akin to what I said, and then we'll all be elevated. Also, yes, I do believe our species future is det
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by tabeth 10y ago
Maybe. The article is talking about luck, without talking about what exactly "luck" is. If luck is defined as favorable circumstances, then the article really is talking about initial conditions cascading into good opportunities.

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