rippercushions

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   Leading the whey: the synthetic milk startups shaking up the dairy industry(theguardian.com)

   3 points by rippercushions 4y ago|0 comments
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   by rippercushions 4y ago

   Which is "only", what, 90% of Google's business?
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   by rippercushions 4y ago

   Yup, typo. Apparently inago are actually locusts, so we were both wrong about the species :) FWIW, I've also tried beondegi in Korea, and I agree with you. It was easily the least pleasant of the insects I've tried (locust, cric
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   by rippercushions 4y ago

   Yeah no, I'm neither Japanese nor particularly averse to entomophagy. As another commenter said, this story seems to fall squarely in the realm of "lol what will those wacky Japanese think of next!" stories about things that
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   by rippercushions 4y ago

   For the record, this is not a "Japanese" tradition, but something practiced in a couple of villages in Gifu prefecture. Most Japanese do not eat insects and find this just as weird as the average Westerner. The one insect-based f
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   by rippercushions 4y ago

   To give some of Lippo's scale, they build their own towns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippo_Karawaci And there are many other conglomerates of similar scale: Salim, Bakrie, Sinarmas, Astra, etc.
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   by rippercushions 4y ago

   Finland used to do the same. They gave up when they realized that requiring people to reregister their cars after moving was a huge, pointless hassle, plus the original scheme was starting to run out of number space, meaning that big issuer