Soylent, the man food :)
The Register puts Soylent to the test
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#12I'm interested in shelf life.
What's the shelf life of the beta product? And what's the expected shelf life of the released final product, in the correct packaging?
Are they going to sell it as a monthly subscription, delivering each week as individually bagged days? Or do they deliver a huge box of the stuff?
The World Food Program has a Specialized Nutritious Foods Factsheet, and that lists shelf life as 12 or 24 months. (One product, Wawa Mum, is listed at 6 months.)
(http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...)
I'm still strongly against the way it's being sold at the moment. Other people on HN have said that they enjoyed the idea of Soylent when it was self-experimentation.
As Kurtz79 say, they've done a remarkable job of generating media buzz about something that is not new or disruptive or innovative. I'd be interested to see what they could do with a real product.
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#13Start the soylent diet. Then take some pill to suppress your libido. Know that now you lost all joy in life, not only half of it.
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#14Start the soylent diet. Then take some pill to suppress your libido. Know that now you lost all joy in life, not only half of it.
If eating is half the joy in your life you live a miserable life I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies.
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#15Regardless of what anyone can think about the actual product, I find it remarkable how the author managed to get such resonance in the media. It might be the name, it might be that the subject matter generates strong opinions in people, but in terms of generating buzz and getting attention it has been quite a success.
Personally, I'm slightly surprised that it's proving to be so popular. Making and eating awesome food is a great joy in life; why would you try to work around that? Interesting concept, nevertheless.
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#16Soylent, the man food :)
I completely forgot about the original blog post about this and was thinking "they couldn't possibly mean".. I must need to catch up on sleep.
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#17Start the soylent diet. Then take some pill to suppress your libido. Know that now you lost all joy in life, not only half of it.
If eating is half the joy in your life you live a miserable life I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies.
Hogwash. If you have the good grace to eat food that makes up half the joy in your life, then you have a good life indeed.
In my experience, good food is everything that joy intends: gardening, growing food from nothing, spending time outdoors, connectedness with the land, creativity, quality process, science, creation, enjoyment, collaboration with others, socialization (especially when combined with good booze of many varieties), nutrition, survival, health, and certainly joy.
In fact you could say that eating and everything that goes into it makes up the a good chunk of life, and a good life at that. Certainly a hundred years ago, if you could do everything required simply to eat and eat well, then you had a life better than most. And in fact, you could certainly say the same today. Eating is a luxury, and the choice of what to eat an even greater luxury. You are lucky for it, and you should be damn joyful.
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#18Regardless of what anyone can think about the actual product, I find it remarkable how the author managed to get such resonance in the media. It might be the name, it might be that the subject matter generates strong opinions in people, but in terms of generating buzz and getting attention it has been quite a success.
Personally, I'm slightly surprised that it's proving to be so popular. Making and eating awesome food is a great joy in life; why would you try to work around that? Interesting concept, nevertheless.
Not everyone enjoys preparing food (I don't, for example. And the popularity of restaurants and prepared foods indicate to me that I am not alone) and not every meal is a great joy, especially if you want it to be healthy. If I could reduce the time wasted on cooking/eating 2/3 of my meals, and then truly savor the last 1/3, I would be quite happy.
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#19How is this different / better than any other shake-based diet powder?
Edt: As my wife just put it, "It sounds like guys are too insecure to drink Slim-Fast, so the idea is being re-branded to be more manly. Like the Axe of diet shakes."
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I'm slightly surprised that it's proving to be so popular. Making and eating awesome food is a great joy in life; why would you try to work around that? Interesting concept, nevertheless.
Not everyone enjoys preparing food (I don't, for example. And the popularity of restaurants and prepared foods indicate to me that I am not alone) and not every meal is a great joy, especially if you want it to be healthy. If I could reduce the time wasted on cooking/eating 2/3 of my meals, and then truly savor the last 1/3, I would be quite happy.
I get that, but I'd consider it a fairly rare stance. Perhaps I muddled things up in the comment by including cooking. I happen to enjoy both, but I'd argue that most people enjoy at least the eating part. To try to save time on it sounds like a terrible trade off (unless other people eat for hours on end?).