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Re:Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers by pitaj on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:00AM (#26943206)
Paying people to walk through fields picking weeds doesn't sound scalable or sustainable to me.
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Re:Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers by AlstZam on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:29AM (#26943567)
It was for the last 11 000 years. With variabilities, but based on demographic only it was pretty scalable and sustainable.
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Re:Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers by colinmhayes on Monday April 26, 2021 @12:15PM (#26944259)
Most of humanity was suffering for the past 11000 years. Almost everyone lived in extreme poverty.
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Re:Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers by kube-system on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:23PM (#26947583)
A mere 125 years ago it required the majority of the US workforce to farm enough food for people to eat. The mechanization of agriculture enabled much of the technological and cultural progress of the past couple centuries.
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Re:Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers by NullPrefix on Monday April 26, 2021 @12:08PM (#26944172)
A lot of slave labor was involved in the last 11 000 years.
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