jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
"e-cigarettes still emit a smelly" Not to be overly crude, but so does my ass after I eat to much mexican food. So do my burps, after shotgunning a bunch of vodka-redbulls. As for visual byproduct.. would it be better if it we
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Unless there's any indication that Soylent will do irreparable damage from day 1, I see no good reason for an individual not to try it and monitor their progress. You are demonstrating a very basic failure to analyze risk, under
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Absolutely agree, it definitely is "startup hackathon culture". Well, that combined with typical SV engineer hubris. Being bright in your field and well paid does not mean that you can be the master of any field. Some engineerin
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "many believe welcoming e-cigarette use in public places would erode the decades of progress made in banning public smoking." Assuming that the intent of indoor smoking bans is to minimize the amount of smoke that is indoor
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Exactly. Not even McDonald's would suggest that. They are far more risk-adverse than the Soylent people are.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Show me some evidence or even some indication that Soylent will result in an irreversible and sudden decline in health. > If it fails to live up to the hype, it's reversible. Once again, demanding evidence that something is
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Back to your hyper-relaxed "the human body is no more complicated or serious than a machine" thing? I can't believe I have not made myself clear on this already, but I'll give it one more go: You can fuck around with
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by jlgreco 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720683
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This is exactly the relaxed attitude I am talking about. Soylent, used as hyped, should not need to be proved hazardous. Soylent, used as hyped, should be shown to be safe.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You have failed to understand the analogy. Hitting things with a wrench is how I fix things. Hitting things with a wrench is not analogous to eating Soylent, hitting things with a wrench is analogous to the medical care required when you
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by jlgreco 13y ago
When a lawnmower breaks, you hit it really hard with a hefty wrench until it starts working again. Maybe even take it apart, clean it, and put it back together again. Worse case, you buy a new one and find yourself out a few thousand doll
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The maritime industry as a whole is one big hack, even with it's fancy regulations and bureaucracy. People are dying constantly due to the failures of the industry. It is nice to see fresh ideas. That's why I am pitching my new gr
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Eaten that way? Obviously no, they are not safe. That is why you should never suggest that they are eaten that way.... Don't eat only pears; It would be a stupid and dangerous thing to do. You know why Soylent is receiving more crit
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You forget that this is a SV product. That wasn't mold, that was "eco-synergy".
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by jlgreco 13y ago
FDA regulates both finished dietary supplement products and dietary ingredients. FDA regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering "conventional" foods and drug products. Under the Dietary
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You could "buy" your debt by going to the person that owns it and making them an offer.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There's a joke about bailouts in here somewhere.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
For that matter, can I start stealing bitcoins, and transferring them all to known FBI controlled addresses in order to 'pin' those attacks on the FBI?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ah, technically correct... the best kind of correct.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Consider the possibility of blackballing anybody who continues to be involved. Would that mean blackballing people who continue to work for government contractors as well? Possibly. I'd say that is left up to the individual impleme
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "NSA is literally Hitler now, is it?" The "Yuppie Nuremberg Defense" is a pop-culture reference to the movie Thank You For Smoking . In the movie, the phrase is used to describe the defense "I've go
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by jlgreco 13y ago
From the comments: "No mention of the four comets currently in the Solar System. I'm no genius, but don't you think four electromagnetic balls of energy might have an effect on the Sun's magnetic field." (In case
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by jlgreco 13y ago
A shame Confucius and Zeno never got a chance to sit down and hash things out. That would make for an interesting dialog.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Why would people have assumed that after the failure to enforce Clipper chip usage, that NSA would have simply given up on getting access to the plaintext of messages?" Consider this exchange on HN nearly three years ago:
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So? I honestly don't know what your point is here. This isn't some sort of "'free market' vs 'government', and who gets credit for various achievements" discussion.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
They are free to mount the defense that what they are doing is not wrong, but if they are instead resorting to "Hey man, I've got a mortgage to pay" then I am going to call "Yuppie Nuremberg Defense" . If their
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by jlgreco 13y ago
For some people, the concept of action outside of the officially endorsed channels is so alien, they implicitly treat it as though it is categorically illegal and unethical. I don't even think it is intentional, they just aren't f
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The hypothetical infinitely scaling tool would just be inevitably be functionally equivalent to splitting repos. Basically all you would be doing is swapping around terminology. Instead of "here is Foo, our great big git system whic
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "when you get down to it they are basically just folks trying to make a living and feed their family like any one else." aka: "The Yuppie Nuremberg Defense" Anyway, the theory of operation here is that if you crea
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "I'm only saying that if your goal is to prevent the NSA from working against you then this isn't the way to prevent that" We shouldn't be looking for "the way" . We should be looking for "w

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