Harsh, I thought of it more as having an adorable level of cluelessness.

> no reason to abandon the idea of professional farming just because the population declined

Indeed, both for economies of scale and for the fact that existing modern farmlands are like butter to work - the major and minor tree roots of the past are gone, the rocks have been picked or sifted out, deep clays have been ripped up and mixed with sandy surface soils, etc. In this part of the world there are many 4,000 hectare farmlands made up of uniformly graded soils ready to work with less energy input than virgin land requires (whether with new or old methods).

Veering away from looking backwards:

We're also on the cusp of having self docking and charging autonomous agri bots running from battery farms - not quite there yet .. but "watch this space".

The trick with such things is keeping rent seeking cloud based VC's out of the loop and parts replaceable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljEKN7CsjnM

When humans stall on these tasks, they reach for pen and paper, a slide rule, a calculator, etc.

Mathematica is overkill for arithmetic, in addition it's licenced and can cost a bit extra.

If an LLM were to reach for a light cheap arithmetic tool something like bc would be a good first stop - a CLI tool with a language that supports arbitrary precision numbers with interactive execution of statements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language)

Money would count, but I dare say it'd need a bit of crafty social engineering running in parallel to crack in.

Caveat: I'm not a horse racing / polo insider - I did some contract work years back and rubbed shoulders with a bunch of millionaire horsey types.

It's less about the horse, the speed, the actual genetics - it's all about the process, the appearance, the gate-keeping.

Country Clubs for horses (and cows, etc)

Here's a question though (can vary by country and racing industry), how do the winnings from racing (as a distribution) compare to the earnings from pedigree breeding, stud fees, sperm straw sales, etc.?

I agree there's room for disruption, just as there is from (say) the iron grip of the US Home Owners Associations and other cartels, but expect a lot of regulatory push back from the insiders.

The, ah, American Quarter Horse Association won't let any old nag run if they can help it.

Doesn't matter, such things threaten the horse investor lock in economics.

Many years past, an early bit of software from my student days was a side project making an easy to use database system for a horse stud farm, high status stallions being put to mares with the feed, vet visits, results, etc. all logged.

Horse racing is pretty much all about pedigree - without the lineage horses are considered valueless by the industry - super fast back country waler crosses might be acceptable for a four mile charge across open ground onto machine gun nests .. but w/out that pedigree no Lord or up and coming billionaire is going to syndicate that horse for racing.

I imagine Polo to be much the same, in the rich set. Probably more open and accepting out on the steppes knocking about the heads of the vanquished.

I'm leaning toward killed the current first somehow, but very location detail dependant.

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then they never should have torn up the agreement that saw multiple third party inspectors having feet on the ground and leaving in place tamper resistant / tamper revealing air filters and spectrometer instrumentation.

Instead a path has been taken that has upped the HEU game and hardened the core guard and fanatics.

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( no vested interest here, I've got Wagyl riding shotgun on the stagecoach of my life )

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https://awpaadelaide.com/ likely has more details, as would wikipedia etc.

Maybe everyone you talked to or US press perhaps - here we ran with medical trials and epidemiologists.

> everyone said it was 100% effective

You're quoting idiots then - or second / third hand press reporting, or US/UK officials pressured by the US/UK admin of the time.

Not everyone lived in a politically captured shitshow.

But on that matter of road building, here's a vague relative kitted up to travel and take photo's in 1920 or so: https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/1d5472eb9b8a4e3e...

and here's one of his images taken much the same time of a road and railway being built: https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/20d3070e95eb924a...

It's all manpower and horse drays - the really tough bits are dropping, chopping, and moving those trees, they're a bit bigger and tougher than they look.

I've renovated old old houses in Fremantle and flipped them with very few contractors (while working on bleeding edge code bases) and built air strips in the PNG highlands, worked with wood workers, glass blowers and metal workers, etc.

I suspect some people have spent a little too long behind screens and forgotten how to shear a sheep, draw, card, spin, and knit a jumper.

Did you consider playing nice and perhaps taking the regular forum users out to dinner first? Make some light conversation?

People (the other HN users) react poorly to strangers busting in and spruiking in their living room / corner bar.