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I know its not that sexy, but soil is a hugely diverse ecosystem that is barely understood. There is lots of science to be done trying to classify and work out the mechanics of how nutrient is filters transmuted and transported

It we want to feed the world, when that world is throwing more extreme weather at us, we need to work out how to do companion planting at scale. (think how east coast indians did farming) IF we can make practical farm robots, we can not only remove the need for herbiscides (direct manual intervention, ie physically weeding buy pulling out the seedlings) but also keep ground cover even after cropping, meaning much less water loss.

Soil degradation is a real threat. the way we farm now means we have massive monocultures, large tracks of land that are bare for weeks on end. All of this requires lots of inputs to be productive. The promise of non-pesticide farming is that you get much richer soil, because you're not killing off the stuff that lives there.

But we need to understand what makes a soil productive, however that changes based on location and crops.


Customers are creditors, as they have given money in credit in exchange for a service at a later date.

> Why is the camera there in the first place??

I imagine its for security. Ie if there are reports of robbery, you can find who did it. I know its not that popular in the states but its common elsewhere, but with better controls. (well, "better" as in controlled by shitty IoT devices)

I think the thing with flock is just how poorly put together everything is. They are obviously insecure, and the entire network has massive holes in it. Yet its still being rolled out.


Why would a gymnastics gym get robbed? It’s just a bunch of smelly equipment that’s hard to sell and probably very little cash.

Robbery may not be the main reason for a camera. Having a video of any incident that happens (broken equipment leading to injury, angry parent, etc.) would be valuable.

Vandalism.

It's the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta.

Jewish Community Centers are targeted more for attacks than a YMCA.


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Pretty sure some Atlanta organization has exactly zero to do with whatever Holocaust you are thinking of.

Looting is done for fun too. It must suck to have kids show up for practice in the morning and some of the essential gear is gone. It doesn’t matter if it is inexpensive to replace, you still have to cancel class and take a day or two up replace it, file a police report, etc

Right, but why is a Flock camera a better approach than: insurance, on-prem camera, etc. The Flock camera doesn't prevent theft. It increases remote viewing (especially if it's used in a demo to strangers they aren't customers yet, doubly especially if those strange customers are doing it because the might want to see young gymnasts)

normally a condition of insurance is that you have CCTV and other preventative systems in place.

> The Flock camera doesn't prevent theft.

Not directly, but it does increase the chance of the perpetrator getting caught (not flock, the camera) in theory this means that less people are about to steal/break stuff.

Also sign posts with saying that "this place has surveillance" tends to reduce opportunists.

On a side note I would recommend volunteering at a community centre/sports/scouts/library. First its extremely rewarding, and secondly you learn about how things are in the real world "for the normals"


Possibly as a deterrent to a child (or adult) going through clothing/bags and stealing mobile phones while the owners are exercising.

School shootings?

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a faceless guy with a camera?

here its mostly mobile phones.

You have to remember that enterprise pricing is covered by NDAs

But things to note:

1) the per user license fee is almost certainly waived.

2) if you look in teams, when you buy extra credit, you get a 30% discount if you buy in bulk.

Unless you default into enterprise from teams, you're almost certiantly not going to pay the list price for per token price


What I don't understand is there are really good controls for spend, why on earth didn't they put caps on?

Or ask engineers to justify the spend?

Why should we spend that many tokens, what will that get us in return?

If this was AWS we'd all be pointing and going "Ahhhh you twats, didn't you look at your monthly spend?"


> Ashley Biden diaries

Unless they contain allegations about Biden the president, or indeed other people then they are irellevent no?

The point is, if someone is breaking the law, they should be in jail.

This applies to Clinton, Biden, Trump, anyone. The point is the law is meant to be without fear or favour. The problem for us is that its been proven if you pour enough shit on the floor, you can get away with raping children.

Given the whole point of Qanon was to oust the peadophile ring in washington, its a bit sad that we are now supposed to disregard all that and blindly accept billionarse not seeing justice.


Obviously the intelligence material being gathered was too valuable.

I'm sorry you're gonna have to explain that, what intelligence and why was it valuable?

so valuable that only the press paid any money for it?


My blog posts have a reasonably unique writing style. When I asked opus to work out who wrote an unpublished paragraph, all it did was select the decent insults and search the web for them.

After that it gave up and said it didn't know.

So either, Kelsey writes in such a unique style that its really obvious, or they repeat themselves with goto phrases that give them away.

When I tried to re-produce the test, it found Kelsey's blog about the test. So dunno, maybe it did it? but I can repro.


its about 21600 gigajoules or about 1500 tonnes of wheat.

> No. the battery storage will deliver more power than the plant.

I mean it wont. it only stores power. The problem for germany is that they still have shitty coal plants. If they'd kept the nuclear and yeeted the coal, they'd have a much cleaner grid. they could have been able to turn off half thier gas and entirely oil free


Part of the reason why its good is that the HV link is already there.

For solar as well, the time you need the battery is usually when the solar ain't solarin


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