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Re:FarmBot – Open-Source CNC Farming [video] by patrickk on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:20AM (#11860997)
> Imagine buying a piece of tech for growing historical coffee plants in your basement where you set the climate control to Kenia or Hawaii (buy the soil addon?) and which guarantees (as in `likely it will yield') you 2kg of your own personal coffee harvest per plant. This stuff has urban hipster $$$ written all over it.

If you could control climate and soil to that degree, I can think of a certain plant that you could grow that will yield much more profit than a coffee plant: http://botanycentral.providence.wikispaces.net/file/view/coc...

Re:FarmBot – Open-Source CNC Farming [video] by j_s on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:54AM (#11862623)
Yes, these discussions of alternative farming options always wind up being about growing drugs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845573

Re:FarmBot – Open-Source CNC Farming [video] by DKnoll on Thursday June 09, 2016 @07:01PM (#11873024)
The amount of coca needed would be far more than can fit in a basement.