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by tjic 10y ago
No time to answer this now. Send me an email and I'll respond in detail. Email addr is in my original comment above.
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by tjic 10y ago
We have a 1,000 ft^2 greenhouse, a 3,000 ft^2 corn field, and a 3,000 ft^2 pumpkin patch. We do not have 10 or 50 or 5000 acres of crops. Basically, large gardens, not real farming. That said, we ALSO delegate some chores to farm hands. I
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by tjic 10y ago
Glad you're intrigued! Feel free to reach my by email with any questions! > Do you not get cognitive dissonance from killing "your children"? Well, first, they're not my children. I don't mean that flippantly,
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by tjic 10y ago
I disagree. Meat CAN be ethical, and often is.
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by tjic 10y ago
Chickens need to be protected from predators, need to be sheltered from the sun, need to be protected from the cold, need to be fed in a way that minimizes waste, need to be watered in the same way, etc. Also, don't underestimate the c
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by tjic 10y ago
If my choices were factory farming or vat grown food, I'd choose vat grown in an instant, to minimize suffering. If my choices are vat ground vs home ground...that's complicated. There's a lot to be said for small scale farmi
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by tjic 10y ago
I'm not defending factory farming of chickens (I actually just adjusted our fencing to double the size of the chicken run), but the answer is: cost. Chickens in modern factory farms are stacked deep. Each has < 1 ft^2, and their ca
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by tjic 10y ago
As I mentioned in another thread, I live on a farm. (I hack Ruby and C++ as a day job, the farm is just a hobby). One major reason for doing so is animal welfare. I'm a meat eater and will staunchly defend it...but factory farming is
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by tjic 10y ago
> This whole clusterfuck is thanks to Reagans (Nancy and Reagan). No, the war on drugs started during the same Progressive era that pushed alcohol prohibition and eugenics. The "controlling what people do with their lives" ball
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by tjic 10y ago
Front page of news.yc: 3. How privatization increases inequality 4. Examples of How City Services Privatization Leads to Inequality Are Piling Up each with EXACTLY 7 up-votes. Sock-puppets, or just a voting brigade?
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by tjic 10y ago
I continue to suggest that inequality is an actively good thing. Freeing 100 people from jail will increase their inequality; should we therefore oppose it?
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by tjic 10y ago
I know I'm going to sound like a crank, but I can't get over the fact that Lincoln killed 3% of the population of the United States. Every other Western country was able to end slavery without an insanely devastating civil war. O
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by tjic 10y ago
I'm thrilled at the success in putting some child abusers behind bars. ...but we have to remember that these stories are the result of press releases and active press management by law enforcement, as part of a two pronged strategy to
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by tjic 10y ago
"At this point, the US should repeal the law that engineers need to be paid. People say it will result in unemployment. Let's find out." This is obvious a reckless idea. I personally think that copyright should last maybe 10
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by tjic 10y ago
I owned two businesses: * SmartFlix.com (dvd rental business) * Heavyink.com (comic book ecommerce)
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by tjic 10y ago
If you want to be miserable and ineffective, you can be. All you have to do is set your mind to it. ...and you're doing a great job so far!
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by tjic 10y ago
Re-read my statements above. I'm telling you not to use those websites. Move to the city, make contacts, do good work.
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by tjic 10y ago
I've been a coder. I've been a manager. I've owned a firm that had 15 employees. Of all of these, I prefer to be a coder. I'm just 5 years away from 50, and let me tell you: not only do I want to be a developer at 50, I
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by tjic 10y ago
Also, the way to compete with someone who's charging $10/hr for crappy code is to do what they can't or won't do: * be an excellent communicator * be high bandwidth. F2F, skype, etc. * be a whole stack developer * manag
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by tjic 10y ago
Knowing people happens after 20 years in the industry. It may very well be that the best way to kick start your career is to move to SF or some other big city. So be it. I did the first 20 years of my career in the Boston area. I have no
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by tjic 10y ago
I think that the "Bay Area scene" is different from much of the world. I think that part of human nature is that people like people who are like themselves, so you sometimes get these insular / discriminatory sub cultures tha
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by tjic 10y ago
None of this creates new jobs. In fact, it destroys jobs (higher minimum wage, higher taxes). Do you have any thoughts on how to create jobs? There are lots of studies that show that welfare dependency is destructive to goodwill; it's
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by tjic 10y ago
Serious question: how do you propose to address (a) some people can't make meaningful contributions to the economy because they lack the intelligence to compete with machines (b) some people can't work because globalization means
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by tjic 10y ago
Indeed. It's striking that much of the OWS movement was made up of "the 2%" ... angry that they weren't in "the 1%". First world, college educated people...who'd either picked the wrong majors, or didn&#x2
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by tjic 10y ago
Ad hominems aside, what statement that I made do you suggest is false?
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"People like free shit." How hard is that? The abstract says it in a bit more formal academic tones: " The findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest". But put it
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Yes, I agree. And I think it does it well. Cory Doctorow is a self promoting fear monger, and I think it's a useful addition to the conversation to make that clear. It lets people calibrate their outrage over his most recent pronounce
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by tjic 10y ago
> How active should men be in actually helping to solve the gender diversity problem There is, objectively, different representations of different groups in engineering. There is no objective reason to think that this is a "problem&
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by tjic 10y ago
Great question; I'd love to read an answer.
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by tjic 10y ago
If all people felt that way no one would run drugstores, and there'd be ZERO plasters / bandaids available on the market. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but

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