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It doesn't seem all that different from scaring a herd of buffalo into running off a cliff. No reason that we need to by flying to spring the trap on wild resources. > Fish Farming…

While I agree with the lawnmower sentiment, should we really write off unethical behavior by comparing humans to machines?

Do you have further reading on these events? I agree with you 100% but I would argue that these growers are probably some of the lesser evils facing our public lands.

I personally am drawn to this idea. $100k seems arbitrary though. I would like to see it adjusted for the COL of an average American family. Would you happen to have any reading ma…

I'll drop Indianapolis in here. It is becoming a midwestern tech haven with large companies such as Salesforce making headquarters there. Speaking from personal experience it is al…

Do you have any recommendations for books regarding stoicism? I'd like to learn more.

I agree with you, but what is the solution? I can't think of any reasonable solution to the stated problem.

I just wanted to highlight this comment. The rating review systems are becoming a trusted source of information more so than advertisements. Reminds me of another comment on here t…

It's interesting to read this. I wonder if you would change your mind if $5,000 would make or break your business. The odds of that happening are small, but still possible. These o…

Org-Mode is great but not perfect. I would be willing to pay a significant amount of money for anyone that can reproduce most of the features of org-mode outside of emacs in a ligh…

3 - 5 cups of coffee per day. And an average of 3 beers per night. Once or twice per year I tend to take 1 - 4 weeks off from alcohol and taper down on caffeine significantly. .. s…

Okay you have my interest. Could you expand on why you would like to see desktops with laptops for a VM? Would the laptop borrowing happen on a night by night basis? Wouldn't you e…

If you can get away with it, Xero Shoes: Z-Trail is a perfect "shoe" if the weather is over 50f. Although I completely understand that they are not for everyone, everyday. But I hi…

I'm not sure about mobile friendly. You could probably use just about any template and hire a freelancer to touch it up. But I just want to put my vote in for Jekyll. Makes static …

Airflow might be primarily intended for workflows, but scheduling is fairly robust. But you also say that you want more than just simple Cron so I suggest taking another look. What…

I'm worn out on articles dissing the performance of SQL databases without quoting any hard numbers and then proceeding to replace the systems with no thanks of development in the l…

Alternatively try Intermittent Fasting. Most people do it where you break your fast around 1pm, but for the purposes that OP is discussing, move your eating window to between 5pm a…

Chrome tends to perform better than Firefox handsdown on my 2015 mbPro. I went back and tried both the developer edition and the stable release after seeing this post because I wan…

After reading the recent post about Slacks analytics stack. I found myself wondering if even with newer technologies like parquet being used to house the data, do modern companies …

I know that years of experience is just supposed to be a guideline in these cases, as we all know that YoE doesn't directly correlate with ability to perform. But the difference be…

2015 Macbook Pro, which has been the best machine I have ever owned. Just as important as the machine though is the software/ shortcuts I have put on it. -homebrew -iterm2 mapped t…