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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…

And with thoughtful care could do a better job a transforming it some more.

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…

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 r…

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 m…

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 ara…

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 gues…

>>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 …

I can't seem to "like" posts right now and posting is impossible. Am I the only one or is it happening for others. I used to blame everyone but Facebook but since yesterday that is…

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 …

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…

>>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 wo…

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 els…

>>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…

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 w…

Have you had the fish from well run systems like this? I think it is fantastic. Data point of one.

>> 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…

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…

>>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 …

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 sale…

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…

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 effic…

>>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 acr…