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John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX

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Re: John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX

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Post by CuriouslyC »

voakbasda wrote: post #45
PedroBatista wrote: post #31

John Deere & SpaceX , a match made in hell. Hopefully the world will end before they spice up their marriage and extend the offer to Tesla. Technically it makes some sense, but most of the push is because for more "data, intelligence, cloud, AI" in order to get more "value" to big agrobusinesses or anyone who can pay to stay in the party. Agriculture is already a massive business only a few gigantic corporations can…

Small family farming is already dead unless (a) you are willing to turn a large fortune into a small one or (b) you are willing to live in poverty.

Not entirely true, small family farming can compete in niche, specialty and high end produce, they can capitalize on having a pretty farm (because "real" farms are incredibly ugly but people have pastoral fantasies), and farm stands can be profitable if they're in the right location.

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Post by AlwaysRock »

mathgradthrow wrote: post #34

It is of incredible strategic importance that tractors not become "online only". Some fucking John Deere licensing server should not become a single point of failure for the nations agriculture.

I don't think you know that much about modern tractors. This headline is only surprisingly to people who still think of John Deere as an old school tractor company.

Modern day tractors have tons of sensors on them that are always connected to make sure any failing part can be detected and fixed before it breaks, basically or actually do drive themselves, and likely have as much or more tech in then as any modern car.

Re: John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX

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Post by dghughes »

There is a vital need for farm equipment to be open source. I get the feeling quite a few people have no clue where their food comes from.

This was going around years so the source may have been removed. "Seven per cent of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.." what was worse is I am pretty sure I saw the study and seem to recall it also said 40% replied "don't know" so 47% of supposed adults in the US are perplexed by chocolate milk. https://globalnews.ca/news/3535819/chocolate-milk-brown-cows...

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Post by unsupp0rted »

irrational wrote: post #50
unsupp0rted wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His companies keep creating the best of breed service on the market, which nobody else can come close to competing with.

Yes, Twitter is such a best of breed service.

Twitter is so bad that everybody switched to, err, well firing a bunch of engineers made it, err, well the point is that if somebody is a jerk IRL, then their businesses should fail as a matter of principle.

Re: John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX

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Post by mathgradthrow »

kube-system wrote: post #42
mathgradthrow wrote: post #34

It is of incredible strategic importance that tractors not become "online only". Some fucking John Deere licensing server should not become a single point of failure for the nations agriculture.

Already too late. Farmers already use quite a bit of connected technology in the field. Modern high-output farming and the cheap food we have really wouldn't be possible without it. e.g. https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellit...

GPS is ideally quite redundant, and the data from it is usable without an internet connection. GPS is fine.

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Post by liotier »

PedroBatista wrote: post #31

John Deere & SpaceX , a match made in hell. Hopefully the world will end before they spice up their marriage and extend the offer to Tesla. Technically it makes some sense, but most of the push is because for more "data, intelligence, cloud, AI" in order to get more "value" to big agrobusinesses or anyone who can pay to stay in the party. Agriculture is already a massive business only a few gigantic corporations can…

> extend the offer to Tesla

Coming soon to John Deer: electric automotive technology licensed from Tesla.

Re: John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX

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Post by monkaiju »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #53
mathgradthrow wrote: post #34

It is of incredible strategic importance that tractors not become "online only". Some fucking John Deere licensing server should not become a single point of failure for the nations agriculture.

I don't think you know that much about modern tractors. This headline is only surprisingly to people who still think of John Deere as an old school tractor company. Modern day tractors have tons of sensors on them that are always connected to make sure any failing part can be detected and fixed before it breaks, basically or actually do drive themselves, and likely have as much or more tech in then as any modern car.

That sounds bad still... Like it should be undone and they should be able to function locally.

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Post by mathgradthrow »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #53
mathgradthrow wrote: post #34

It is of incredible strategic importance that tractors not become "online only". Some fucking John Deere licensing server should not become a single point of failure for the nations agriculture.

I don't think you know that much about modern tractors. This headline is only surprisingly to people who still think of John Deere as an old school tractor company. Modern day tractors have tons of sensors on them that are always connected to make sure any failing part can be detected and fixed before it breaks, basically or actually do drive themselves, and likely have as much or more tech in then as any modern car.

Somehow this comment hasn't sold me on TaaS.

Re: John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX

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Post by BSOhealth »

For all the negative comments, think of the huge value this will have to improving life in countries where farming is not some pastoralized, romantic fantasy. The amount of food we have to grow is staggering. The alternative is continuing to prop up the economic disparity where first world HN posters rely on third world family farmers who would rather send their kids to college.

Yes, you should be able to grow your own food if you want to. Yes, you should be able to buy a tractor that is repairable.

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