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by wott 10y ago
Agreed with you list. Corn can be interesting to feed chickens, though. (I mean maize when I say corn, do you guys mean maize or wheat?) BTW, you can grow beans in the corn, it grows over it. I would add a bit of barley/oat but that&#x
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by wott 10y ago
> A typical shipping container is 40 feet long, so I think they ship a 32' not a 24' one. "we’re starting with the 20-foot model that serves two acres"
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by wott 10y ago
So, that's a Pi + a rugged fanless PC with a SSD raid :-)
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by wott 10y ago
I don't know what is the thing with startups and containers :-) There were the very same kind of guys proposing the aquaponic version of a farm container for 20k€. I made a 2-minute napkin calculation, keeping the ridiculously high a
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by wott 10y ago
A median says close to nothing about repartition. That's not a fact that you can use in a logical argument against your opponent's claim about repartition.
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by wott 10y ago
Not getting Norwegian food is a service.
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by wott 10y ago
Why would you open the laptop screen when there is no battery? The only time when you have no battery in the laptop is the few seconds it takes to replace one with another. AFAIK, fixed batteries are located in the very same place as the re
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by wott 10y ago
On this forum, there are plenty of people who are totally out of touch with reality when it comes to salaries, doubled by the fact they they believe they are so above everyone else that they should earn 10 times average Joe's salary an
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by wott 10y ago
Except for the licenses (and in a perfect world, most of the work about them should have been done already while the project was private), you don't have to do any of these things, they are just bonuses. What do you think many open-sou
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by wott 10y ago
> But how does giving someone a do-nothing job, where everyone (including the worker) knows they're dead weight, respect their dignity? I don't know, but ask your manager or your marketing team, they should know.
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by wott 10y ago
Yes, that's also a common problem with infrastructures (be they road or public transit): each time you spend millions (or billions) building/improving them, people go farther, keeping more or less the same commuting time (and keep
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by wott 10y ago
I lived 8 years above Arctic circle and never had a car. Cycling in summertime, walking in winter, 2 miles to the office, shops half-way. What's the big deal?
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by wott 10y ago
> This is a complicated question because the (rich) population in the city center This is a MYTH that must be ended someday. No, not only people living in most city centres are not rich, but they are even poorer than people living in t
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by wott 10y ago
> In Europe entire families usually share just one car. Yet, in the case of France, the number of cars per household keeps rising; the share of households owning 2 cars, owning 3 cars, keep rising as well; in spite of the decrease of th
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by wott 10y ago
You can replace much and adapt most with these 3 things: organisation, organisation and organisation.
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by wott 10y ago
If the goal of solar power is to be able to justify spending ever more MWh in air conditioning, I think there is nothing clean in it.
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by wott 10y ago
Oh, this kind of horror I've met lately has got a name? Well, I learned something today. Thanks ;-)
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by wott 10y ago
I'd say the first one is a bit small in numbers and the second one too homogeneous.
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by wott 10y ago
> I must be going to the wrong bars. Very likely. There are bars where people go to be alone; bars were people go in a group to stay purely within their group; bars where people go to meet between regulars and are closed to newcomers;
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by wott 10y ago
Yes, that accounts for one part, the one with ideas behind, a style, a urban and a life project. And then there is the other part, the loosely inspired, derived copies with no real plan. Not sure which part brought the worst failures :-)
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by wott 10y ago
The English mini-serie 'Residue' has plenty of dark architectural scenes. I didn't find the plot very interesting, but if you want unending shots of grey oppressing buildings from UK and (mostly? dunno) Hong-Kong, you shall b
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by wott 10y ago
But Russians sometimes call the "ugly mass of concrete Soviet-era architecture" French style ... And well, as a French, I can't claim they are wrong about that :-/
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by wott 10y ago
The whole point of automation is to increase benefit by increasing productivity, i.e. by either increasing the production output for the same amount of jobs, or decreasing the amount of jobs needed for the same production. Since we already
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by wott 10y ago
Where would they put the foosball tables if they rent no office?
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by wott 10y ago
Walking your day to day destinations, all of your destinations, is achievable in any 4000 inhabitants town, you know. You don't have to mess with calculating compared densities of big cities and deciding if you're going to invest
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by wott 10y ago
Or having several offices across the country and departments/teams split between theses offices, resulting in having just 1 or 2 department/team members in a few of the offices. The only difference with home office and the only th
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by wott 10y ago
LOL, you think you are not? We all are very replaceable and very often replaced.
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by wott 10y ago
> I'm in that spot, I worked mostly remote for the past 4 years and at every company it would have helped a lot to have a casual hallway conversation from time to time. I have never seen hallway conversations helping. Face to face
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by wott 10y ago
> Speaking of drunkenness, being caught drunk on the job is a firing offense for a doctor, and I believe you can also lose your medical license, right? Sleep deprivation has been shown to affect judgment, alertness, memory, and reaction
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by wott 10y ago
You binge on traditional physical possessions deprivation and then you binge on gadgets. This doesn't sound like freedom to me, but like 2 constraints, and not the kind of constraints which frees (and you wouldn't use this possibl

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