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2019. Hasn't spawned a billion dollar startup yet. There must be something wrong with the idea, or it'd have been commercialized by now.
by h2odragon 4y ago
2019. Hasn't spawned a billion dollar startup yet. There must be something wrong with the idea, or it'd have been commercialized by now.
- HopenHeyHi 4y agoIt lacks an adequate delivery system and recurring revenues. If we could construct some sort of machine to conveniently squeeze the slurry out of the packaging to spare our consumers the hassle you'd really be unto something. Top shelf industrial design. No funny business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
- totetsu 4y agoI think this topic shifted from the realm of Satirical hypothesis into the real world about six months after is was published.
- kevviiinn 4y agoSacrifice the elders to the gods of the Economy!
- eurasiantiger 4y agoHail residential care!
- Animats 4y agoYes. It's called the "acceptable losses" approach to COVID.[1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/28/covid-who-is-dying/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/28/covid-who-i... [2] https://philadelphiaweekly.com/as-the-cdc-removes-mandates-we-must-all-fight-the-idea-of-acceptable-losses/ https://philadelphiaweekly.com/as-the-cdc-removes-mandates-w...
- RobotToaster 4y agoMaybe we can sell it as a way to turn granny into a NFT?
- pavlov 4y agoLast year some crypto-douche destroyed a Frida Kahlo artwork to turn it into an NFT: https://www.vice.com/en/article/aken7k/rida-kahlo-nft-mexico https://www.vice.com/en/article/aken7k/rida-kahlo-nft-mexico Mulching people for NFTs is the logical next step. Surely Andreessen Horowitz would fund the startup that gives grandma an eternal life as a web3 token while also contributing to solving the world’s food problem.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoEven if there is artistical merit to his performance, it is in poor taste, as using another artist’s work as-is as a part of a new artwork is generally frowned upon. Minting NFTs off the original is straight up thievery.
- HPsquared 4y agoHow about a person's genome encoded as an NFT?
- meindnoch 4y agoUkranian scientists are utilizing this technique to fertilize crops around Bakhmut with Russian-sourced organic slurry.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoCompared to A Modest Proposal, it's clearly second rate. Everyone knows the elderly are less nutritious than the young. Better nutrition is a critical element of making a better future.
- h2odragon 4y agoI'd be more worried about flavor and texture than nutrition. Old grandmas tend to be tough and chewy.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agowhat kind of barbarian dislikes beef jerky?!?
- michelpp 4y agoThe young are needed for slave labor and click farming, and you have to feed them something. Real food is for the rich.
- DoreenMichele 4y ago"We need their small fingers for certain tasks."
- adolph 4y agoBits are hard. As I understand it they are working to get regulatory approval in Canada, The Netherlands and China, where the some baseline sources have been established.