Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders

Post by gruseom » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 3:54 AM UTC

javert wrote: post #78

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He's not allowed to say "Big", but you can say "mass produced"? Those are pretty close. Why does "Big Food" necessarily make less healthy products than "independents"? I agree that a lot of mass produced food is unhealthy and probably excessively seasoned and sweetened to improve market appeal Take out that hedgey "necessarily" and you've answered your own question. that isn't really an argument To say that Ensure is…

> He's not allowed to say "Big", but you can say "mass produced"? Those are pretty close. No, because "Big _____" is a Progressive catchphrase that is normally used to villify whatever their target is and rationalize taking away some freedom from the marketplace, wheras "mass produced" just means "mass produced." Of course, some people might use "Big _____" in a useful way, but it's definitely like a code smell but f…

Post by Gormo » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 4:10 AM UTC

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1. Bitcoin has no rigorous security definition. 2. Bitcoin can be "attacked" (for some vague notion of what it means to attack a system that has no security definition) in polynomial time. 3. The economics of Bitcoin are extremely suspect and based on a poorly developed economic model, supported by neither the Austrian school nor by modern monetary theory. This is probably the underlying cause of the lack of a securi…

Adding a few of my own peeves: 4. Bitcoin is inherently deflationary, which is an awful idea if you talk to anyone who knows anything about money 5. Bitcoin is fundamentally backed by pointlessly wasting CPU cycles and wasting energy trying to reverse hashes.

Post by JohnHaugeland » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 4:17 AM UTC

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Just as Soylent is disrupting the traditional food industry Huh? I've asked this before and never got an answer. How is Soylent different from Ensure Complete? Is it cheaper? Better made? Easier to order? Tastes better? Better for me? Higher quality? Because if it isn't really any different then what Soylent will need to do is market better than those other companies. Because I'd definitely trust Abbott with my healt…

Post by JohnHaugeland » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 4:29 AM UTC

gruseom wrote: post #111

javert wrote: post #78

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> He's not allowed to say "Big", but you can say "mass produced"? Those are pretty close. No, because "Big _____" is a Progressive catchphrase that is normally used to villify whatever their target is and rationalize taking away some freedom from the marketplace, wheras "mass produced" just means "mass produced." Of course, some people might use "Big _____" in a useful way, but it's definitely like a code smell but f…

"Big _____" is a Progressive catchphrase [...] used to villify [...] taking away some freedom from the marketplace This all sounds much more ideological to me than the comment to which you are objecting.

Post by ynniv » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 5:08 AM UTC

pydave wrote: post #77

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Nice. It is an extremely good name for what it is, and it might (sadly?) succeed based on that alone. Countless energy drinks have paved the way.

Really? Soylent sounds like it's made of soy, but the name essentially means cannibalism. I'd expect the former to kill enthusiasm from the energy drink market (where the cannibalism angle makes it sound more extreme) and the latter to put off everyone else.