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If your garden is in the front yard of a house located close to a busy street in an old neighborhood, maybe so (not sure of the risk). But in the U.S., cars manufactured after 1975…

The founder of Trigon was a guy named Don Tapscott. Back then, he had a gift for hyping the "next big thing". I haven't thought or heard anything about him in decades, so it was in…

I worked briefly for a Toronto company named Trigon that had a government contract in 1984 to produce interconnected office software (word processor, spreadsheet, calendar) for the…

The number that can only be named with too many words.

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I don't understand the point of this article. Why is PostmarketOS singled out over the 20 or so Linux distributions that run on the Pinephone?

In the case of books, I think the battle has already been lost. I doubt that small acts of charity will keep Amazon's competitors viable at this point.

The chart shows that 25% to 50% are not "capable" of being sold. I think this refers to losses in the field, such as unripe, overripe, insect or animal damage, etc. However, the ar…

The article's profit calculations assume that every pumpkin grown can be sold. If you take a drive in the countryside today (last day of sale before Hallowe'en), you'll see this is…

The problem is that Ivermectin is off patent, so no drug company can make any money from it. Since there is no money for expensive research studies or clinical trials, all the rese…

I am a software developer. I would honestly not have the nerve to release a product with software in the state the Pinephone is in today. But of course, pine64.org takes no respons…

I received a Pinephone in the latest shipment, about three weeks ago. I also got the convergence dock to be able to attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I am extremely motivated t…

Yes it is. Even if it had a PTO, this vehicle won't do much agricultural field work, it will bog down. Tractors typically have much larger back wheels, usually weighted, and a larg…

You have to laugh at the obligatory time-to-market estimates in these lab-grown food articles: "I estimate we are only four years away from ramping up production and having regulat…

The Hollywood movie industry was created to escape from Edison's patent enforcement actions on the east coast.

It’s not 10% of revenue, it's 10% of the first year of ARR. So if the company is doubling revenue every year, it is 5% of revenue. Any slower growth, it's a lower percentage.

In addition to cost of lighting, I've found that the cost of hydroponic fertilizer is also too high, at least for small growers buying it premixed. I've successfully grown hydropon…

First time I've heard of the QBist interpretation of quantum mechanics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism