m_coder

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by m_coder 1y ago
I am quite confident that a normal 16 year old will can still drive in 6 inches of snow better than the most advanced AI driven car. I am not sure the snow driving bit will ever be solved given how hard it is.
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by m_coder 2y ago
And with thoughtful care could do a better job a transforming it some more.
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by m_coder 3y ago
I have settled on a strategy of bidding that seems to work when I am actively bidding (this goes only for little stuff not land and such). When I hope the other person bids, then I know I don't want the item at the stated price. I can
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by m_coder 3y ago
I have raised multiple 100s of mice and have an active ongoing interest in this idea. I have wondered mightily about the cleanliness of the mouse experiment. If you have tried to raise mice, you know that cleanliness is imperative. The ques
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by m_coder 4y ago
You are right on target however I am not seeing people here understanding that the tight spot is not land but manpower. It seems to me that people think that if the first farm is more efficient in converting labor, dollars and cheap fuel in
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by m_coder 4y ago
I believe you are on target. Small plots of land are on average far more productive per acre than large mono cropping plantations. "Dacha gardening accounts for about 3% of the arable land used in agriculture, but grows an astounding 5
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by m_coder 4y ago
The comment farther up the thread (at this point anyhow)[1] references Gabe Brown. He is using very little to no commercial fertilizer on his farm and has been for years. I am guessing his audience among cash strapped young desperate farm
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by m_coder 4y ago
>>At some point on of these companies is going to hit someone with enough power to force them to do a better job. And then they fix that one situation and go on about their normal business. At least that is what it seems to me. I wo
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Is Facebook buggy and slow for everyone or just me?
1 points by m_coder 5y ago|0 comments
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by m_coder 5y ago
I unblocked Facebook right now from my hosts file so I could message someone and couldn't figure out why Facebook failed to load. I tested HN and viola I see that the entire world has sent Facebook requests to 0.0.0.0 lol
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by m_coder 7y ago
Yes, I did read those articles and it has me very interested. What I would be more interested in is some sort of applied DIY situation. Something I could cobble together myself and it would have the potential to get the efficiency that is
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by m_coder 7y ago
>>More likely is that we eventually switch to a more poetic small-scale compressed air energy storage system (CAES). Please do this!! I want to see that article on CAES actually worked out in real life not just theory with no howto s
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by m_coder 7y ago
Best quote was at the end. "However, human being are such creatures of habit and imitation, that what is necessity soon becomes fashion, and each one wishes to do what everyone else is doing. A lady in the neighbourhood closed all her
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by m_coder 7y ago
>>practically impossible for modern citizens to overthrow a corrupt government. However, given a sufficient percentage of the population which is interested in doing this, it would be very difficult even for the US military to complet
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by m_coder 7y ago
And moving to five children is another level. :) Parenting is what you do not a side project. Also the effects of parenting are more like keeping a good culture going and showing what are healthy ways of relating so that children can rel
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by m_coder 8y ago
Have you had the fish from well run systems like this? I think it is fantastic. Data point of one.
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by m_coder 8y ago
>> Unsold inventory is the curse of retail. Absolutely. I run a small retail pet-farm store location. This is such a curse, that I often wonder why it isn't talked more about among small retailers. Certainly the salespeople fro
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by m_coder 8y ago
I use Square all day every day here at my pet store. The killer feature for Square is the consistent pricing. There are no add on fees and no clowning around. You get the same 2.75 percent on (almost) every transaction and it builds a lo
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by m_coder 9y ago
>>learn Pennsylvania Dutch and join the Amish. I know Amish people and have grown up Mennonite. There is a significant way of thinking that is very hard (though not impossible) to overcome coming in. This is true even if you have a
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by m_coder 9y ago
I was going to say something very similar. People have a (faulty) fake radar and if you are trying to just remarket crops without raising them yourself, you better have a good sales line if the next stall over is a family selling the produ
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by m_coder 9y ago
And now I am very glad that I never used Google Drive for much of anything. I never had a good gut feeling about drive in general and especially after I read about a man who lost a year's worth of stuff with no recourse. https:/
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by m_coder 9y ago
The space isn't what is used efficiently by industrialized agriculture (for the most part). The efficiency comes from saving time by having large machines. Space is used most efficiently when you have people actively involved on smal
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by m_coder 9y ago
>>Having a 1 acre garden as a hobby, is huge ecological violence Can you explain how this hobby is so violent? I don't think I am following the line of thought. The typical one acre hobby garden is farmed with far fewer chemical
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by m_coder 9y ago
I really wonder what how much food could be produced if all the lawn and empty lots in a city were effectively productive as vegetable plots. I know that it can't be used because people like their lawns and things but often there is
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Square Service Outage(issquareup.com)
68 points by m_coder 10y ago|28 comments
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by m_coder 10y ago
I was hoping that someone would mention biochar. Heating your house using the leftover heat from the process of creating biochar could be carbon negative.
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by m_coder 10y ago
Isn't the burden of the article poking at the people who have tremendous wealth and who use it to influence policy? >> inflation exists precisely as a tax on savings I don't think the article is suggesting that a person who
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by m_coder 10y ago
I had been itchy for quite a while in the field and thanks to a very generous boss and a wife who could put up with a very low standard of living, was able to do some farming part time last year. I realized that while I grew up on a farm,
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by m_coder 10y ago
I often hear testimonials from owners who say "I have been feeding this food for 14 years and my dog looks great!" I think that there could be such a thing as a good enough people kibble the same as I believe that many dogs live
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by m_coder 11y ago
I know that no one here cares but VBA returns 0.3 Edit: however a better test of ?.1+.2-.3 in the immediate window now returns 2.77555756156289E-17 I wondered about that first result...

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