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Post by solotronics »

samstave wrote: post #112
aoenht2nte8 wrote: post #70

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> The concept of food that's uniquely tagged and tracked from origin to consumption is pretty attractive - makes contamination a breeze to trace back, keeps you from cooking with rotten food since the machine knows to reject it, and it could automatically track what you've got in your kitchen to suggest recipes / restock for you. What makes you think people want those things? I certainly don't, and I've never heard a…

HELP the neighborhood is flooded and the network is down, now I cant feed myself!

interestingly enough much of Houston had running electricity the whole time. We have an office downtown that flooded and never went to backup power and the datacenters stayed on the mains as well.

Re: Juicero Is Shutting Down

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Post by samstave »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #159
samstave wrote: post #118

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There are low-tech versions of spoilage alert. oxygen sensitive stickers that change color if too much o2 detected inside the package.. However - there is one food label that I have always wanted on meats: slaughter date, freeze/pack date, sell date, cook date, eat date. So if I go to the store and there is meat in the freezer - when was that meat caught/slaughtered/packed/frozen. Am I eating something a year old? If…

I eat year+ old beef all the time: I buy an entire year's supply at once and freeze it. Tastes fine. What I really would like is a "picked on" label on fruits & vegetables. A cucumber from my garden is fine 3 weeks after picking. One from the grocery store is barely edible a few days after purchase.

I didnt word that as clearly as I meant;

I just think that each step in the processing of food should be transparent.

Has frozen food sat in various places far longer than expected?

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Post by microcolonel »

wickawic wrote: post #167
hwillis wrote: post #126

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It's like... 70% fresh squeezed. The fruit is chopped up into smaller pieces, so for the most part there isn't much difference, and it is very new fruit. But to the target demographic 70% might as well be 0%.

People might have a misconception about the machine then. I had heard that the juice was easy enough to extract from the pack that you could do it with your hands. This gave me the idea that the pack basically just had juice in it already.

It does, it is shredded vegetation in a bag which is squeezed by an amazingly overengineered solid steel screw press with giant, beautiful one-piece plastic moldings on the back. It is also true that you can extract the vast majority of the fluid without the press just fine. It is not "chopped" into "smaller" pieces, but literally shredded.

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Post by ChemicalWarfare »

petra wrote: post #86

The thing i'm curious about: why did this raise $120M? And how much has already been spent, on what ???

not sure how they managed to convince the investors. as far as the money spent - setting up physical manufacturing of anything, especially at scale is orders of magnitude more expensive than setting up an "IT" shop. here we're talking the actual (apparently worthless) juicers and the packs.

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samstave wrote: post #123
jjawssd wrote: post #80

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Agafia is a hermit surviving in the Russian wilderness for 70 years. I recommend the RT report on her because they do not try to force a conclusion to the contact. She is afraid of barcodes even though she barely has any contact with other people. During the last world war humans were assigned serial numbers for efficient tracking and resource allocation and extermination. Agafia and her people ran away from several…

Hmm... Whats this entirely detailed sensor that has ALL my access/identity/sentiment/social data on it - where I am required to pay a monthly fee for, and life in modern society will basically stop if I dont have one? The one where I am expected to follow and celebrate every release of one with far more tracking/identifying/documenting features -- and then spend more money on upgrading my tracker? You know - the one…

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Re: Juicero Is Shutting Down

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Post by jjawssd »

jjawssd wrote: post #80
GuiA wrote: post #67

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What's "digitized food"? Does every single one of my strawberries come with a bar code on it? Or does everything come in Juicebro style pouches?

Agafia is a hermit surviving in the Russian wilderness for 70 years. I recommend the RT report on her because they do not try to force a conclusion to the contact. She is afraid of barcodes even though she barely has any contact with other people. During the last world war humans were assigned serial numbers for efficient tracking and resource allocation and extermination. Agafia and her people ran away from several…

Why am I being down-voted?

Re: Juicero Is Shutting Down

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Post by FICO »

samstave wrote: post #162
teddyh wrote: post #82

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> I'm fairly certain he also mentions at one point how they're almost certainly selling the juicer itself at a loss Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ&t=15m07s and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ&t=33m42s

After watching the teardown video - I really want one of these things - very impressive.

They will probably be available on eBay cheaply now that they are paperweights for those who bought them.

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Post by dopamean »

wickawic wrote: post #167
hwillis wrote: post #126

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It's like... 70% fresh squeezed. The fruit is chopped up into smaller pieces, so for the most part there isn't much difference, and it is very new fruit. But to the target demographic 70% might as well be 0%.

People might have a misconception about the machine then. I had heard that the juice was easy enough to extract from the pack that you could do it with your hands. This gave me the idea that the pack basically just had juice in it already.

I think you're right. The Bloomberg video clearly shows someone just squeezing the back with their hands and juice comes out.
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