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It was argued at length by people brighter than me so not sure it's worth repeating.
Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
What (U.S., I assume) state do you live in that has a state law requiring green grass? I've never heard of that.
Georgia, but doesn’t require green, just doesn’t allow for wild grass to grow. The HOA can set any kind of rule it wants grass wise. Please prove wrong!
One of a whole list of reasons I would never buy into an HOA.
I do realize that in some localities you don't have a lot of choice, though.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
What (U.S., I assume) state do you live in that has a state law requiring green grass? I've never heard of that.
Georgia, but doesn’t require green, just doesn’t allow for wild grass to grow. The HOA can set any kind of rule it wants grass wise. Please prove wrong!
While in some ways I am against HOAs, I've also lived in neighborhoods without them and inevitably someone always ends up with a rusted out old Buick covered in a tattered blue tarp in their front yard for 400 years
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was argued at length by people brighter than me so not sure it's worth repeating.
I'll have to look it up. Black and white statements like that don't usually prove out.
One of them was just on HN like yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529101
You do you, just letting you know.
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#46I recommend to change the title of this submission to: > Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis When I first saw "vet", I assumed that an American was trying to virtue signal using their armed forces veteran status.
Ok, we've erinarianed the title above.
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#47How do you know the diagnosis is correct?
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#48Let’s waste more water so we can waste more water. Lawns. Yay. Yawn.
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#49> Your lawn is trying to tell you something. It's saying "I'm an unnatural, non-native monoculture that does little to support biodiversity but will gladly suck up your time and money." Sorry to speak negatively of the thing you're working on Andrew, but the subject matter is one I feel strongly about. Having a short cut lawn area has many recreational uses, but most people don't do anything except maintain most of t…
I have gone full "pocket forest" / Miyawaki Forest - planted 100 trees in my tiny back yard. Technique developed by the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki: planting seedlings close together makes them compete for sunlight, thus growing tall quickly. Get a forest in under a decade! https://www.creatingtomorrowsforests.co.uk/blog/the-miyawaki...
Huh! Seems quite obvious in retrospect, but the forced competition for limited resources that encourages growth, while fairly dystopian* if applied to humans, is an interesting idea in terms of forests, as long as you don't believe trees can experience qualia such as grief, a fear of death, unhappiness, etc.
[0] I was thinking of this kind of human dystopia: "overpopulation could never be a problem: if people run out of food they'll either invent a better alternative to farms or simply arrange themselves in groups where people who can achieve the highest metric that the head/quorum of their society wants the fastest will be fed and the new growth that can't be supported and can't reach that level will simply "select themselves put of existence", increasing our evolution by >10x"
P.S. ..that being said, if a confirmed traveller from the future tells me that in 100 years we discover that trees have feelings (just like we discovered that plants communicate about threats and exhibit behaviour that is definitely anthropomorphized by a tiny, but loud portion of people as selflessness), I would not be at all surprised. I mean I would be surprised, but about as surprised as I was when I learned that a captive octopus that lived in a tank kept shorting out the electrical system in his room at night. No one had any idea wtf was happening until they put cameras and found out that when it wanted to go to sleep at night, it would turn off the lights by spraying salt water into electrical outlets until the breakers tripped so he could get some nice dark sleep.
It seems to be a trait from the time we became _the_ apex predator that we are way too overconfident about our understanding of our environment, especially the other creatures that share this rock with us. Are we the baddies?
I'd add more but this already went on a huge tangent. Thanks for the link.
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#50Off topic question and probably a far too ambitious idea... but as a veterinarian, have you thought about working on improvements to the software that vets use?
About six months ago I was spending time with a vet friend, and was hearing stories about terrible user interface and ways the software was getting in the way. The story I most remember was a 60 second timeout requirement to enter patient data before the workstation locked and required logging in again, and that a logout while still typing would cause the current notes in progress to be deleted. I have no idea if those problems are caused by regulation (a kind of kitty HIPPA compliance) or just terrible UX.
I worry that vet software is probably a terrible market as well, with regulation and established providers, maybe it's a lower margin business (certainly not a profit center) and maybe edge cases for each vet practice in the US.
As someone with domain knowledge, perhaps that's a challenge you might consider, now that AI makes coding so accessible across domains now? Since I have zero domain knowledge, it seemed like something I could never help solve.