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Feed two billion people with TerrAvion (YC W14)(terravion.com)
1 points by terravion 10y ago
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by terravion 10y ago
Do we really trust the purveyors of traditional advertising (newspapers, television news, etc.) to be without bias or vendetta when reporting on this problem? It seems to be part of a larger pattern--at least as much of a pattern as the f
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by terravion 10y ago
It is interesting, but not all that surprising that ineffective management strategies are slowly being flushed out of the market. That human stock picking is pretty bad, is widely known, sorry for the pickers, but I'm sure there are o
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by terravion 10y ago
I love how the author accuses the IAU of an agenda, but then clearly has his own--which doesn't seem to be nearly as grounded in taxonomic consistency.
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by terravion 10y ago
You should have read about restrictive production systems poisoning the Amazon. It is European production restrictions that cause them to need cultivation in virgin rain forest to feed their population. USA on the other hand, is one of the
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by terravion 10y ago
I don't think anyone is advocating for health decisions to be based off shoddy-half baked research--some might say that is the current situation. Rather, if it takes a year from experiment completion to publication and the data is emb
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by terravion 10y ago
I don't really understand why the NYT is so terrible on ag policy issues--they could really do some of the heavy lifting here for us and at least try and evaluate the claims being made--like severity and concurrence rates being claimed
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by terravion 10y ago
Does anyone here have any context for whether the concerns about AES and Tesla batteries is at all founded or is it just journalistic hype? I find it hard to believe that those companies haven't thought through battery management at th
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by terravion 10y ago
Is this really a good idea? Open meetings laws, pre-vote publication, and a variety of transparency measures have often backfired and gotten us worse, more special interest controlled legislation.
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The New York Times had similar structure to Google for almost a century.
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by terravion 10y ago
Also, every plan allows for exercise of vested options. While this might not be tax advantageous you can use the options and get the stock at a sweetheart price. If you believe in the company this still seems like a good deal.
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by terravion 10y ago
Probably depends more on the price of energy (solar?) than on the absolute reductions in energy requirements for desalination. The Israeli's have been making great strides in making more economical plants, but they're still off o
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by terravion 10y ago
Actually, the opposite, this is the same principle as a hyperspectral sensor. These line scan sensors (kind of like the pupil photos in the article) create "data cubes" (i.e. an 2D image with a 3rd spectral dimension for every sp
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by terravion 10y ago
Can you say more about how Workramp is for start-ups and how it grows? The TC article had more than what I could find on the website about how onboarding leads to goals, leads to performance evaluation--but giving those tools to the SMB ma
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by terravion 10y ago
This! And talk to your representative / MP / whatever and tell them how important this is. Often they just don't know and they hear <SCARY THINGS> from people who have control+profit based agendas.
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by terravion 10y ago
While it is true that people (besides the very rich and very desperate) usually don't try and migrate to escape laws, corporations do it all the time and think about it proactively. It is particularly easy for technology companies to
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by terravion 10y ago
"The future is here, just unevenly distributed... " and the cool thing for the rest of us is that the learning curves on solar, especially, and battery power are incredible, so some people adopting now hastens the day when it is
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by terravion 10y ago
Genocidal I can grant, but we are talking about bank policy here. It seems that all evidence says that the 100 years after Jackson were objectively some of the most economically dynamic for the United States, especially in comparison to Eu
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by terravion 10y ago
I guess it depends on whether you think that net metering is a subsidy and whose eyes are beholding the payments. Those tiles are generating electricity, why shouldn't they get paid same as large generators?
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Buy plenty of people who have read it fail to act on it.
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by terravion 10y ago
Almost any papaya you eat in the US is GMO. https://gmoanswers.com/studies/gm-papaya-saved-hawaii-papaya...
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by terravion 10y ago
But they have spent ten thousand years crossing them with unknown bacteria: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/05/05/40419855...
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by terravion 10y ago
There's been quite a bit of shade cast on that article as well. It compares yield growth rates (not absolute yield or cost) across country level data and ignores issues with European production like really high levels of fungicide use
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by terravion 10y ago
There are plenty of university/public domain GMOs as well. Your stance is analogous to not using any software because you don't like Microsoft's closed source model.
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by terravion 10y ago
Short term thinking is often under-rated in business and people outside of business love to deride "quarterly thinking." Corporate cultures that manage to results and care about interim performance make sure their competitors nev
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by terravion 10y ago
That transition to software is what makes this so approachable. Also exciting that cars are starting have radar where volume will bring down price to something accessible to people outside of aerospace.
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1 points by terravion 10y ago
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by terravion 10y ago
If you click on the link to Bloomberg you can read the conclusion: "Some time ago, I suggested that we would eventually learn whether higher minimum wages were going to kill jobs. The early data is in, and so far it doesn’t look like t
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by terravion 10y ago
That's a re-write of history. The Roosevelt administration Congress has approved the Lend-Lease act which meant active involvement in Europe with armaments, active naval combat in the North Atlantic, and ground troops in Iceland. The U
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by terravion 10y ago
Also, the Zenefits service works. If HR compliance and administration is the business equivalent of going to the dentist for tooth removal, Zenefits is at least anesthesia during the procedure. Not to condone violating laws, but if the old

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