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by wcchandler 7y ago
The worst part about startups and agriculture is trying to bridge the two. I spend a LOT of time thinking about the shortcomings in agriculture and how I'd do it better. So many areas for advancing a current technology. But then I&#
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by wcchandler 7y ago
I use FF exclusively on my laptop. Having FF on my phone syncs my tabs and history. This is amazingly useful. Use it 3-4 times a week. If you enjoy FF I recommend signing up for their beta program. New versions come out every couple of week
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by wcchandler 7y ago
Reminds me of this scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer where the character simply didn’t understand something: https://youtu.be/MZ96c7IOIPQ
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by wcchandler 7y ago
I’m currently a sys admin/sys engineer. I’d become a farmer. I love growing plants. I love being outside. I love being away from electronics. It’s perfect for me. If only it paid more... (but I’m working on that, in 2-3 years I hope to
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by wcchandler 7y ago
I’m a hemp farmer. I definitely believe we need some kind of system like this to prevent corporations from monopolizing certain phenotypes. Sadly, I can’t see this working very well in practice for our industry. Cultivars already go to grea
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by wcchandler 7y ago
This sounds fun. I’ll give it a shot next week. My prediction - 30% food related, 20% co-workers names followed by linkedin (hoping for a picture, I can’t remember names), 20% random stuff (e.g. population of Brazil), the remainder is actua
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by wcchandler 7y ago
link -s this (to) that This has to exist... but that doesn’t.
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by wcchandler 7y ago
Got it. Thanks for the extra reference. Definitely seems like it’s a moot point and something else is at play, giving more credence to the OPs speculation.
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by wcchandler 7y ago
I guess you could say that. I’m in my first year as a farmer growing hemp. It’s pretty fun and interesting stuff!
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by wcchandler 7y ago
Do you think that pesticide use could be a contributing factor as well? I ask because my hemp mentor will never touch concentrates. He argues that even the tiniest bit of pesticides or inorganic fertilizers will also be more concentrated an
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by wcchandler 7y ago
The mighty vape is pretty well respected and ranges from 180C to 200C. Would that be hot enough to convert some into Benzene?
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by wcchandler 7y ago
I haven't spun up anything in Azure for quite a while. Does anybody know if their default images use anything exFAT formatted? Doesn't UEFI/EFI binaries usually sit on exFAT?
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by wcchandler 7y ago
Wow. This just answered a big question I’ve been having. I’m starting a farm this year on my parents property. I’d like to remotely monitor it in the most scalable way. With resiliency being key. This is going to do great!
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by wcchandler 7y ago
Not at all. We should all be free to pursue whatever interests us. :)
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by wcchandler 7y ago
So the only way they evaluated Roundup was when they also used a hoe? Which they also proved was just as detrimental of a process to the underlying micro-organisms? Why not use roundup alone? I feel like this was written solely to argue “ro
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Major universities are starting to offer cannabis degree programs(qz.com)
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by wcchandler 7y ago
Can that 3x cost be attributed to just being in Alaska?
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by wcchandler 7y ago
Try to find a private university with a nice endowment. My employer is sitting on $7.5B. I feel pretty comfortable knowing that.
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by wcchandler 7y ago
About 17 hours per week, or 42.5%. That’s still too high though.
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by wcchandler 7y ago
> Why is Quebec excluded from the CTF? Local laws and regulations make it extremely challenging for us to run a competition open to residents of Quebec. We are truly sorry about this, and hope to change this in the future if possible.
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by wcchandler 7y ago
I’m wondering how many of these can be crammed into a 1U box. Might be an alternative for cold on-site storage. Managing tapes gets old and annoying quick.
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by wcchandler 7y ago
Stephanie Seneff has some interesting things to say about glyphosate. https://youtu.be/mX5OiRRNRnU
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by wcchandler 8y ago
How do you think algal oil would work out? Also, are you interested in studying groups of peoples and cultures and determining if e.g. somebody who's lived a life on the Mediterranean diet is better adapted to this kind of uptake and i
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by wcchandler 8y ago
Any guesses on a timeline? Satellite 6.6? Or will it be in the next major version? 7.0?
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Young, hip farmers: Coming to a city near you(source.wustl.edu)
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by wcchandler 8y ago
Honestly the writing has been on the walls for quite some time now. I’ve argued this with a few applications to YC. Farming in America is about to have a hard pivot. I definitely see it going from large-scale, monocultural enterprises to sm
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Meet the Plantfluencers(nytimes.com)
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by wcchandler 8y ago
Mike Rowe has a short video on this: https://youtu.be/CVEuPmVAb8o Just rewatched his TED talk and he brings it up around ~12 minutes in: https://youtu.be/IRVdiHu1VCc
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by wcchandler 8y ago
I’m pretty interested in a lot of AgTech. While I like to see these pieces as it justifies my interest, it reminds me you can’t escape capitalism and everyone is going to try to make a dime off of you. As such, I feel like I’ll only be able
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by wcchandler 9y ago
This is an excellent list. YC will do very nicely with this batch. Modern agriculture is about shift hard and a few of these companies will go far even if they look to be "failures." - Bear Flag Robotics - Macromoltek

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