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by jckt 13y ago
Google's cache here (as it seems down for some people): http://goo.gl/PWIme
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by jckt 13y ago
What about cost of living in general in UK/USA (or perhaps more relevant, LDN vs SV)?
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Likewise the converse statement is true and, I believe, important to mention explicitly: the USA has a uniquely advantageous position in this world.
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by jckt 13y ago
Interesting. I think the real challenge behind this though, is not the API itself, but that for it to be really useful there has to be some sort of semi-automated form of data collection, that can be generally applied. Relevant: http://b
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by jckt 13y ago
+1, but do you mind expanding on " discoverability "?
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by jckt 13y ago
"catholic : comprehensive, universal; especially : broad in sympathies, tastes, or interests <a catholic taste in music>" Note that he didn't capitalise the word. Edit: sorry, I don't tend to read the article's author's name -- bad
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by jckt 13y ago
That's what they think, based on their CFD models. Before reading this I was thinking that, since warming has increased overall liquid sea-water volume globally, more CO2 was being dissolved in the sea or something, and that's why despite h
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by jckt 13y ago
This is probably relevant http://www.climatecentral.org/news/why-the-globe-hasnt-warme... "The answer, according to a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters, is that a lot of it is being stored in the deep ocean, more than a half-mile
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by jckt 13y ago
I think you are making a superficial analysis. He didn't really create a false dichotomy. Of course there's a big overlap between nice people (without quotation marks) and "good" people (his take). In the OP he created two models of people,
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by jckt 13y ago
I don't blame you. I thought the picture just sealed the creepy touch. But then again, one can argue that creepiness is a social construct, and that it itself is a barrier against making the conversation approach of interviewing for jobs se
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by jckt 13y ago
Instead of just complaining about a qz.com site, you offered an alternative, and even made a proper comment. More karma to you.
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by jckt 13y ago
Wow, I never knew that (not much of a start-up guy myself, admittedly). This is really interesting (from their blog): "By the start of 2013, we were working on a handful of projects. Sometimes collectively, sometimes independently. One day,
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by jckt 13y ago
That was the main selling point, though, as I understand -- that you can eat Soylent 100% or hell, 95% of the time, and you'd be healthy and not die. And most people were actually complaining about that , that everything's been so rushed.
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I understand Rob Rhinehart just playing around, some initial self-experimentation, that kinda thing. There's no reason to get the experts from the get-go. But when he got serious and made started his crowdfunding, and hired a bunch of marke
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by jckt 13y ago
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone think that in ten, twenty years, their "most outdated device" would be their personal computer? It's like Moore's law has been too kind -- just 3 years ago I don't think I would've ever had this thought.
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by jckt 13y ago
Not exactly what you're looking for, but you may find this interesting nonetheless -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
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by jckt 13y ago
Don't think so. Technically speaking racism is strictly prejudice based on racial, biological theories. This is prejudice based on history. Imperial Japan was part of the 8 Nation alliance, defeated China in the Sino-Japanese Wars, in WWII,
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by jckt 13y ago
I'm probably slightly biased here, having quite a few good friends that themselves are very involved with the manufacturing scene in China. From what I know and have seen, the apparently widespread cheating you mentioned is much rarer than
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by jckt 13y ago
"Finally: this is being presented within the context of "an experiment". If you start eating soylent, and you get sick, STOP EATING IT!" If you ate a McDonald's said their food was nutritionally complete, and you ate it everyday for a week,
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by jckt 13y ago
Do you mind explaining why Soylent is the solution for metabolically disadvantaged people as opposed to a "traditionally balanced diet"?
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by jckt 13y ago
Lactose intolerance is not an allergy to lactose. Most people are actually lactose-intolerant -- in most of history people around the world simply had no need to drink milk after the toddler stage, and those who are truly lactose-tolerant t
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by jckt 13y ago
Perhaps. There seems to be a lot of people who seem to have thought what I thought, though. Maybe it would be better if they gave an all-out disclaimer saying that, "no, Soylent cannot be considered as a replacement for your balanced diet"?
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by jckt 13y ago
Well their "Rewards" section is slightly misleading then. For $230, you can get "One Month's Supply of Soylent We'll ship enough Soylent to fully replace one month's worth of meals . Shipping included."
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by jckt 13y ago
Technically he says he thinks he broke some FDA rules. His phrasing could've been better, but his point stands--perhaps it's false advertising? This is what the campaign site said: "Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your bod
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This is not a veggie shake though. I'm pretty sure most people who eat this would eat this in conjunction with other foods, but the few that really do try to eat Soylent alone, and for long periods of time, which is exactly the idea they're
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by jckt 13y ago
Are we not allowed to criticise anymore? Chasing makes a good point. They simply stated several claims, and didn't even attempt to substantiate them at all.
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by jckt 13y ago
This is an interesting parallel to another article on the front-page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5743419
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They actually noted that "Unfortunately due to regulatory constraints, our initial runs of Soylent will be available within the United States only. We are diligently working to provide it worldwide as soon as possible." So indeed the UK won
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Also, the quotations from the early adopters...they could at least say who said those things, never mind whether or not they actually said them.
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by jckt 13y ago
I remember a lot of people noting that facebook's UI evolution toward a focus on images rather than text is theoretically nice. That is, it's presented very well whenever the images are nice, but on facebook that's rarely the case--a quic

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