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Post by biztos »

dolajide wrote: post #515
biztos wrote: post #461

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you come from a farming background? And do you live at the farm? I ask because I have a couple of tiny farms in my life, but can't live near the farms. Curious what other people are doing with "tech and farm" combinations.

No I do not come from a farming background. I don’t intend to live at the farm. I intend to recruit people to run it day to day (labor is still cheap in Africa). Learn and adjust along the way, and if it’s successful, scale it.

Cool, any online resources you’d recommend? Any “ag-tech” you’re interested in for a small farm?

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Post by notpushkin »

I've been reading up on Antarctica lately (thank you, mr. brr!), and that reminded me about Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean with a very weird legal status: basically anybody can just move there and live, as long as they can pay for themselves. This resulted in me spending last night researching ways to get there without a visa (most flights are from Norway, which means you need a Schengen visa – boring!). Turns out there are some tours ran by a Russian coal mining company Arcticugol, but the information is really scarce. Hope I can make it some day!

(If only I could've spent my attention working on my actual “passion” projects :')

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Post by BrentOzar »

notpushkin wrote: post #642

I've been reading up on Antarctica lately (thank you, mr. brr!), and that reminded me about Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean with a very weird legal status: basically anybody can just move there and live, as long as they can pay for themselves. This resulted in me spending last night researching ways to get there without a visa (most flights are from Norway, which means you need a Schengen visa –…

I’m sure you’ve come across her by now, but just in case you haven’t, check out Cecilia Blomdahl’s YouTube channel. The videos are way too long because she’s aiming for something ethereal and padding for YouTube ad revenue, but it’s very charming.

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Post by notpushkin »

BrentOzar wrote: post #644
notpushkin wrote: post #642

I've been reading up on Antarctica lately (thank you, mr. brr!), and that reminded me about Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean with a very weird legal status: basically anybody can just move there and live, as long as they can pay for themselves. This resulted in me spending last night researching ways to get there without a visa (most flights are from Norway, which means you need a Schengen visa –…

I’m sure you’ve come across her by now, but just in case you haven’t, check out Cecilia Blomdahl’s YouTube channel. The videos are way too long because she’s aiming for something ethereal and padding for YouTube ad revenue, but it’s very charming.

Thank you! A friend of mine have sent me one of her videos just this morning. It was about the pink skies phenomena (not sure if it has a proper science-y name?). Even on video it looks magnificent – must be a real otherworldly experience if you see it in real life.

https://youtu.be/WKZ_hwH5KXE

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Post by marceloabsousa »

ShredKazoo wrote: post #514
marceloabsousa wrote: post #486

Thank you for this post. It’s nice to see that it wasn’t buried. From the times of IRC, I do miss the feelings of the early times of the internet. I’ve the privilege to invest a lot of time thinking about what I should be doing my life professionally. In the end, the best I could think of was to be an enabler for others - which for me meant ‘to give them time’. I realised that I also needed to use my expertise to try…

>In my early days of using the internet it was much easier to make meaningful connections. That's what I recall as well. I wonder what happened. One story is something like: high-profile hostile interactions drive engagement, and are actually good for the bottom line of e.g. social media websites. But they also have the effect of modeling bad behavior, reducing "internet social trust" and "internet social capital". I…

I think that there's been a lot of research about this. I can recommend the book "Change: How to Make Big Things Happen" by Damon Centola. Ironically, it goes into detail on how Twitter became successful.

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Post by PebblesRox »

defaultcompany wrote: post #637
PebblesRox wrote: post #543

I have been having a lot of fun lately telling bedtime stories to my kids (ages 5 and 3). It's a collaborative improv effort with my 5yo since he likes to chime in with suggestions. The fun part for me is incorporating various mathematical and programming concepts into the storie like functions and boolean logic. Last night's story involved a subtraction function that would spit out negative M&Ms if too few regular M…

This is great and something I do with my kids as well. I’d suggest recording them on your phone (or wherever) for posterity. It’s so much fun to go back and listen to them!

Yes! Plus it's great to have those recordings available for sick days and other times when I want to entertain the kids without having to resort to TV or other forms of screen time that I prefer to avoid :)

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Post by FerociousTimes »

Broker0 wrote: post #524
frans wrote: post #256

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May I suggest the book "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace? I learned about it here on HN [1]. I have no alcohol issues, but there are some eye-opening ideas in that book that should appeal to everyone (unless you already are on zero alcohol) "Alcohol is the only drug on earth you have to justify not taking." [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714527

> "Alcohol is the only drug on earth you have to justify not taking." I find this quote really interesting. Growing up in a western country where people drink a lot of alcohol, not necessarily for the enjoyment of it but to get "hammered". I've countless times defended myself for both friends, family and new and existing co-workers for why I don't drink, and these people look at me like I'm some sort of alien. Accord…

May I ask when you go out with your other people what do you order exactly for drinks since you don't like alcoholic or caffeinated and probably sugary beverages too?

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Post by sbf501 »

chatterhead wrote: post #182
sbf501 wrote: post #115

I'm getting ready to spend a week playing the Interactive Fiction Competition games! Every November I get excited to play the new entries. It reminds me of being a kid in the early 1980's and getting a new Infocom game for Christmas. I makes me so happy that there are other people who not only feel the same way I do about IF, but they actually write spectacularly fun games! https://ifcomp.org/

Holy hell. Is this just like one big ass MUD adventures convention? Pretty cool, man.

No, it is interactive fiction: text-based solo games. Up until about 15 years ago it was entirely Zork-like games. But then they started added "choose your own adventure"-style interfaces, instead of open-ended language interfaces, which I don't like. But every year there are handful of really good games, and sometimes a complete showstopper.
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