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Re:Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce by flukus on Monday July 08, 2019 @11:16PM (#20388725)
> Food production is already plenty cheap in the developed world.

Even a lot of that is hugely inflated at the various steps to get to the consumer, in developing countries basic staples can be astonishingly cheap by western standards. Even semi-developed India you can have a decent diet for roughly $4USD a day: https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/country_result.jsp?countr...

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Re:Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce by abdullahkhalids on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:22AM (#20391409)
Definitely for far less. In one of the most expensive private universities in Pakistan, in the cafeteria you can eat three "home-cooked meals" for $4USD/day. I.e. on top of the ingredients you are paying for cooking/cleaning labor and space. You can eat for maybe half that at home.
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