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What's the best way to hear from your audience? Comments on the blog (e.g. disqus), or Twitter? Managing spam is such a burden that hosting your own feedback facility is risky.
You may be getting downvoted because your assertions are based on opinion, not fact. Many people don't want to take the time and effort to change a single stranger's opinion. cjrd is an exception and I'll point to their comment.
When you put plants through an animal to concentrate the nutrients, you're going to get 10% efficiency. In these controlled systems, if you care about efficiency, it's always better to eat the plants. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level).
Well, if the technology isn't impressive at least they still have Neal Stephenson. He may be able to create experiences that no other VR platform offers.
I strongly recommend volunteering. I taught in Oakland in the '17-'18 school year. It was a great experience and I will gladly do it again as soon as I have a more flexible job. I was anxious about the known and unknown challenges, but that faded quickly after the first couple classes. I learned a lot from this experience, and I'm a better person for it.
This isn't the SOMA I remember back in the day. Even if that estimate is accurate, "SOMA" was barely a thing. Now SOMA is literally south of market, and a 50% vacancy would be quite different.
Why does it bother you that another animal might understand language? Everything humans have we got from our animal ancestors. Is language different? Is it divine?
I could see a small firm offering one-on-one, high value cryptocurrency-to-cash-and-back transactions doing very well. They could jump through all the money exchange and KYC hoops just like Coinbase did, but offer top-shelf, direct service.
Absent from the reasons given for ranch decline is that "Per capita U.S. beef consumption peaked in the 1970s and has since declined by about one-third, according to USDA data on food availability." (http://www.wri.org/blog/2018/01/2018-will-see-high-meat-cons...) Though this does seem to be trending up again lately.
If you're in New York City or the San Francisco Bay Area, ScriptEd (https://scripted.org/volunteer/) offers opportunities to teach programming to students at under-resourced high schools. It's especially rewarding because these are students who are least likely to be exposed to this material in their normal curriculum. If your employer is OK with you taking half days twice a week to volunteer, then I strongly recommend it. It's a unique growth opportunity.
It's embarrassing at first, but it can be turned into a learning experience for everyone. It can foster a more engaged, collaborative classroom when an instructor admits when he's wrong and graciously thanks students for improving their own knowledge. That said, the instructor should have the strongest grasp of the material.
While we're on the topic, it's criminal that other holdovers continue to be allowed. E.g., horsepower, film, glove box, "dialing" a number. The future is a very misleading place.