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> There's no secret to Soylents apparent succes but good dietary research. There wasn't any good dietary research. All we saw is a series of amateurish blog po
by geoka9 13y ago
> There's no secret to Soylents apparent succes but good dietary research.
There wasn't any good dietary research. All we saw is a series of amateurish blog posts by a guy who seems to have nothing but ambitions in the way of credibility.
- MrJagil 13y agoWho cares. I mean, despite this not being software, "ship early and iterate" still applies. They've now hired 5 professionals to help them out. In any case, whenever something related to diet comes up on HN, it seems like no one really knows anything anyway. If nothing else, this project is interesting because of him putting his own body on the line, for a litmus test on current health recommendations.
- faddotio 13y agoNo dietary research, but they DO have a gullible youthful demographic that has a pathological distrust for authority and love of underdogs.