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Don't get too excited. We don't know the full story on the 2% that lived. For all we know, they could become tomorrow's 20% that developed pesticide resistance and rampaged through China's countryside.
From wikipedia.
Why not mention the startup name instead of saying China, which just makes it sound like if the Chinese government is behind it ? Do Chineses newspapers say US phone instead of iPhone ?
This is a really common thing with articles about Chinese companies. People seem to collectively equate them to the government. Perhaps it’s a holdover from communism? For example, people will say things like “Reddit is controlled by China” when in reality Reddit has an investment from Tencent, not China.
Take for example the recent law requiring companies in China to “support and cooperate in national intelligence work“. Private companies in China have no ability to fight against such a law.
So I wouldn’t say it’s a “holdover”... let’s not forget that even with China’s economic modernizations, it’s still a totalitarian regime.
See:
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/no-such-thing-as-...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...
I'm a bit disappointed that there's no mention of mini laser cannons strapped to these drones. That would be way cooler, especially at night, and much more environmentally friendly compared to pesticides.
Seems like the laser technology is patented and they are aiming for fixed defenses though, so it won't be in drones anytime soon. Also lasers have more safety concerns than insecticide.
This is pretty interesting to read... I think our media normally ignores North American pests travelling to other parts of the world. Around here we have a lot of talk about pests that have arrived from China that affect our local plants but not many that talk about our pests that have invaded China. Locally I've had to deal with the Asian Winter Moth decimating trees in my yard and throughout the area I live in. Tha…
Edit: Wow. https://www.masslive.com/news/2018/09/umass_amherst_scientis...
Fascinating read. I wonder if we could eliminate invasive species that way in a more general way. They tend to wreck havoc on local ecosystems and are unmanageable. I wonder if they would not just evolve to evade ML detection or if that's too high of a wall to jump.
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Some percentage are mixed in with the government pretty tightly, though, and the ones who aren't can effectively be assumed to pass any kind of data to them, or be forced to do their bidding if the occasion ever arises. That's true in the US, too, of course, but at least in the US the companies can (secretly) fight it out in court, and actually sometimes win.
> That's true in the US, too, of course, Do people really believe still this, or is this something everyone says reflexively to avoid committing the faux pas of coming across as believing that the U.S. is better than a communist country? Trump should have exploded this idea. He can't even get his own executive bureaucracy, which he is theoretically in charge of, to do his bidding, much less random U.S. companies.
If I hadn't added that, I would've received the opposite comment about American bias towards China.
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Think plastic pipes that can be laid out/taken out at beginning/end of season. Low tech/cheap being the key element here, same as targeted irrigation, where only a sliver of water goes directly to the roots, only in this case it will be pesticide targeting directly the crop. Drones sounds for me way too expensive.
You got to spray the whole plant amigo. you are talking tons of pipe. It’s acres and acres of row corn.
Why not mention the startup name instead of saying China, which just makes it sound like if the Chinese government is behind it ? Do Chineses newspapers say US phone instead of iPhone ?