Two Months of Soylent

Post by FaddiCat » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 3:11 AM UTC

recuter wrote: post #86

Steko wrote: post #71

Via Wonkblog: For those of us who generally don’t like food, consider it an annoyance, and yearn for a way to avoid eating it, Soylent sounds immensely promising. But is it safe? Surprisingly, the answer from nutrition experts seems to be, “Yeah, probably.” Jay Mirtallo is a professor of pharmacy at Ohio State and the immediate past president of American Society for Parental Enteral Nutrition, which focuses on the sc…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369778 Nestle produces something called Modulen specifically for people with IBD. The idea is for people with Crohn's to switch to a liquid diet during bad flare ups to settle things down as digesting food causes inflammation. It is rather expensive. Luckily for me, my insurance covered it (I'm from Israel, so YMMV). The hard part is that you have to pound a…

Post by alex_doom » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 3:19 AM UTC

recuter wrote: post #86

Steko wrote: post #71

Via Wonkblog: For those of us who generally don’t like food, consider it an annoyance, and yearn for a way to avoid eating it, Soylent sounds immensely promising. But is it safe? Surprisingly, the answer from nutrition experts seems to be, “Yeah, probably.” Jay Mirtallo is a professor of pharmacy at Ohio State and the immediate past president of American Society for Parental Enteral Nutrition, which focuses on the sc…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369778 Nestle produces something called Modulen specifically for people with IBD. The idea is for people with Crohn's to switch to a liquid diet during bad flare ups to settle things down as digesting food causes inflammation. It is rather expensive. Luckily for me, my insurance covered it (I'm from Israel, so YMMV). The hard part is that you have to pound a…

Post by vinceguidry » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 3:24 AM UTC

juiceandjuice wrote: post #59

vinceguidry wrote: post #21

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How is that implausible? He's an engineer by trade, mathematics is close enough to computer science that most half-way decent programmers should be able to read that level math casually given a good 'brain day'. I spent most of my twenties neglecting math, decided one day to learn calculus, found it pretty easy.

Comparing basic calculus to number theory is like comparing long division to calculus. Saying "oh I know how to take the derivative" is a bit different than knowing how to take the derivative of a complex expression by applying a taylor expansion to estimate the rate of change within .01%. For number theory, there's a few things you could pick up fairly easily, like understanding what 1 and 3 mod 4 primes are, but th…

Post by rodly » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 3:34 AM UTC

shurcooL wrote: post #96

I can't wait for the Kickstarter. But, it seems strange that this is coming from one guy rather than big companies. If it is possible to sell food/food replacement for cheaper this way, why hasn't anyone jumped on the chance to outsell others by selling for less?

Post by djcapelis » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 3:40 AM UTC

Udo wrote: post #18

kkwok wrote: post #15

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Not disagreeing, but a previous post does list the ingredients: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424

Exactly. This is most likely a marketing ploy, but the ingredient list is there, anybody could mix that up and try it - no magical sauce here. I have to admit it's interesting to follow this experiment, though. As bootstrapped marketing schemes go, I've seen much worse.