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I don't think lemons are a real concern in digital economies where marginal costs are zero, so it costs you nothing other than a lost sale to offer a refund.

Not sure about Apple's store, but you can get a refund without too much difficulty on Steam of the Play store.

Discoverability is a real concern though.
It's a shame apple doesn't make a usb-c cable with a magnetic break at the computer end of the cable.
Well, they would probably have the same density, so they would be smaller.
However, you are still right, as drag scales with r^2 but mass with r^3.
How does it blow away a clif bar?
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It's just food, and food doesn't need FDA approval.

They've stopped making medical claims for the product.

> Recently learnt about some Amish selling home made honey without FDA approval; now awaiting trial on a 20 years jail charge.

I'd be inteested to read that case. Most of the cases I've seen people were making clear medical claims ("cures cancer") or selling raw milk.
>> I want anyone to be able to do whatever they want to with my code. That includes developers wanting to create a proprietary application. Telling them they can't is not freedom.

You emphasized anyone but by allowing developers to take the code proprietary, their users (which are using your code) are being denied the freedom you promote. This is of course the distinction between GPL and BSD-type licenses. One gives developers all the freedom they want while the other ensures that all users (including those using derivative works) are given those freedoms.

>> I feel we've lost ourselves in the freedom of users and forgotten about the people that make the applications for the users.

No, we have not. One form of license ensures all users have the right to do whatever they want with the code. The other form (which some call permissive) grants the right to deny others those freedoms. I understand both stances, but I believe calling the right to deny others rights "permissive" is rather misleading.
You don't quite understand what the deal with Soylent is.

You couldn't live on SlimFast if you had to. It's an appetite suppressant/meal replacement for short term use, given that it's not nutritionally balanced.

Neither is it similar to Ensure or most other meal replacement drinks for the same reasons. They're usually absolutely loaded with fast, low-index sugars that'll spike your blood sugar.

Basically, it's the food equivalent of water. Neutral, nutritious, has what your body needs and nothing more. The carb source they're using is high-GI, meaning it won't cause that spike. The idea being that when you CBA'd to cook, when you'd normally run to the local burger joint's drivethru, you shake up a glass of this stuff, and you're back to doing whatever you're doing for cheaper (about $3 a meal) and in less time.

Basically, it hits all of the right notes that most of the on-the-shelf competitors do not. It's relatively cheap, it keeps a long time, it's actually good for you, it's convenient as food could ever possibly be.

I personally love the stuff.
I don't even understand the impulse behind consuming the product if it isn't for weight loss, like slimfast is.

Is the market for people who don't enjoy eating all that big?

It'd like selling those prostate simulators that cause ejaculation and calling it a masturbation toy. Need to ejaculate, but don't have to time to waste on boring orgasms? Well now there Pris_Stratton!
Amazon will surely buy you once your product matures. I can see that happening.
If you go to what they've written up on their website, https://www.amplemeal.com/products/ample, you can see they've taken and written about a lot of care in selecting ingredients.

Off the top of my head, probiotics are a big thing that you don't see in Soylent. Spirulina is included. Omega 3 fatty acids. The emphasis on whole foods rather than nutrients is another thing important to me.

From what they've written it is clear they are taking a significant focus on nutrition, as the expense of, er, expense. This is a trade off I am willing to make.

I don't want to spend my days pouring over the latest nutrition research to see what I should be eating. Before Ample I would spend a lot of time chasing the latest research, yet continually feeling like there were huge things I was missing. It gives me great peace of mind to see that apparently smart people are doing this work in my stead. This is a huge advantage I cannnot overstate.
> I automatically think more about "How to improve the reviewing process? How to improve onboarding? How to calculate costs? How to organize / improve our customer support?" and similiar problems.

FWIW, those interests really should make you a good choice for moving into a less technical role. I don't know if there are career paths that don't start with being someone technical but that's something I would persue, if I were you.
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Well, a large part of what makes up Soylent is soy protein isolate. So there's that.
> I tried cafes and libraries but, oddly, they no longer worked for me—the noise and the people walking by suddenly became a huge distraction.
Total hypothesis, but don't they not need it since all of the ingredients are already FDA approved?
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>Capitalist means absolutely nothing in terms of philosophy. Its just a word used by marxists to express their annoyance with a vague concept

This is patently (excuse the pun) false. One of the largest economic texts it Capital by Karl Marx; in this book his only objective is to critique classical political economy, and by doing so set out what constitutes capitalism. It's not vague, Marx defines capitalism in very concrete terms. Her refers to the capitalist mode of production, which consists of production to maximise exchange value of commodities, the private ownership of social means of production, and the primacy of wage labour.

>and they obviously have no problem with value

This is false. Communists do have a problem with value, their qualm is with exchange value ruling production, which is almost a unique quality of capitalism. It results in shoddy goods, goods not made to be used, but to be exchanged in a money-commodity circuit.

>end up in the hands of the peasants

Not even Communists argue for this; the Communists argue for the means of production to be put into the hands of the people, who can, within themselves, elect leaders who are qualified for the task. This is democratic rule, rather than autocratic rule (which is what there is now) of a particular firm's productive capacity within an industry.

>russia was not "capitalist" for a long time, and still suffers the consequences.

You're right, it had the feudalist mode of production for that time. With the advent of the USSR, it had the state-capitalist mode of production. On what basis do I declare this? On the basis of Marx's definition of the capitalist mode of production.

>which is the idea that they are still somehow the core of the USSR and have to restore that thing, instead of trying to fix their real issues.

What issues are you talking about, in particular? I think the requirement to sell one's labour to a class of property owners is a rather big issue.

>People seem to forget that there are janitors at microsoft who drive ferraris.

That doesn't mean that they are not exploited; janitors driving Ferraris has nothing to do with the problems of capitalism.
A question to Soylent customers:

Do you use it as the occasional convenient meal replacement or how far do you go into replacing all real food?

I suspect there is both, but what I am getting at is how much Soylent's long-term success depends on people seeing eating as a nuisance that should be optimized away versus something that should be savoured and enjoyed.

To me this is in the context of the larger question of personal utility maximisation. In the grand scheme of things, we have just started being able to really monitor and improve all aspects of our lives (in terms of time spent, convenience), and there is the question of how far we (most people/potential customers) ultimately want to go. It has become clear that there is the potential to optimise away friction/time spent in almost all human habits, but it is not yet clear if we really want to keep going down that route.

Will we keep optimizing things like meals just because we can until there are (conceivably) nutrient implants that make eating unnecessary, or will we sort of revert and see that maximising utility of every interaction does not lead to overall greater satisfaction?

In one world, Soylent could eventually dominate, in the other, it will remain a niche product because eating and food is too important too most, also culturally speaking.
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Yeah, both Google and Apple have contributed to the commoditisation of consumer software. But I don't think it was a strategy designed to screw over independent developers though. It was designed to stop Microsoft.

Microsoft's 90s dominance was achieved by commoditising PC hardware, owning the OS market and the most profitable parts of the software market, and locking in the rest of the software market to their OS.

Apple and Google looked at this and decided that, rather than try to beat MS at their own game, they were going to change the rules to favour their own strengths. In Apple's case, that's hardware. In Google's case, that's web services and advertising.

Apple's strategy was to decommoditise hardware by making their products premium, desirable objects. Meanwhile, they gave their OS and its upgrades away for free, so decreasing the perceived value of Windows. Then they built a software market on top of their OS, one even more locked-down than in the old Windows model.

Google's strategy was initially to make the OS irrelevant by building the web into an alternative application platform. Then, when mobile arrived, they gave away Android for free in order to both encourage commoditisation of mobile hardware (discouraging Apple/iPhone dominance) and lower the perceived value of OS (harming MS/Windows).
Ensure wrapped up in a nice minimalist package.
It's my favorite. Tastes like the milk leftover from a bowl of Fruit Loops.
> I was cynically happy when a lot of GNU projects were licensed under GPLv3, and suddenly everyone who locks down their firmware was sent scrambling for alternatives

This is not necessarily a good thing.

Lower adoption rate of GPL'd software means less freedom for the user.
How do you flirt with someone without them knowing who you are? I mean, how do you know if they are interested. Because they don't know who you are, so how would they be?

Seems sort of strange to me.
"means testing" refers to something very specific which includes asset valuation.

Obamacare/ACA/Medicaid no longer include means testing. It's a simple income test against FPL.

Where did I say that Medicaid has grave financial results for all recipients?

Again, you continue to ignore the point:

The fact that these hooks exist in Medicaid is objectively wrong. Very wrong.

They (the hooks) are also very real and, yes, they affect millions of people. So real that there are myriad attorneys specializing in complicated asset protection schemes intended to shield people from them.

The trouble is this is only available if you have the money to afford some very expensive and complicated legal work.

In other words, the poor and lower middle class are totally screwed and can't defend against this. This is horrible.

We should not do this to our people.

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1- Are you saying it is OK for Medicaid to have estate recovery rules?

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2- Are you saying estate recovery isn't real?

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Please clarify because I truly don't understand where you are coming from.
Brand.

Unlike the examples you mentioned, Soylent is not a "lose weight" brand.

As an undergrad in college, Soylent is everywhere. Can't remember the last time I saw any of those other meal replacements.
First off ingredients on labels are listed in order of most prevalent to least.
So what stands out specifically is the unhealthy oils. Sunflower and canola. I'm mobile or I would paste links, but read up on them. Horrible omega ratios, and sketchy by-products are usually found in them (hopefully Soylent at least has quality versions of this).

Also maltodextrin is always one of the main ingredients. Super high gi, and no nutritional value.
Thanks for the personal experience! So my impression was wrong. I'm happy about that.
The site uses its own framework, but the menu isn't responsive?
Yes that was the one. He had a client cliaming she got cancer free.

http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-23-amish-farmer-facing-68...
> That is far more preferable to spending hours or days (or maybe even weeks) learning to do it yourself.

It depends whether you're trying to maximize your income over the next year or over the lifespan of your career. Investing in yourself by taking the time to learn technical skills and also develop your aesthetic taste in different areas of design is usually going to pay dividends in the longterm far beyond whatever immediate benefit you'd get by outsourcing this.

Once you know how to do it yourself, then by all means find a consultant to do it for you, but until then it's just a risky shortcut that's not likely to work out.
No, the name is directly referencing the movie. It's a tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, much in the spirit of programming culture.
The lack of a trial period or a demo function in the App Store is the main impediment for me spending money on Apps. A lot of this falls on developers not marketing very well, though. Apps that are recommended to me by people who I know have similar needs and tastes as me I’m generally happy to pay for.

Apps that can show me a video or even a pictures/animations of the application in action I would also be likely to pay for. More often than not, though, I get treated to a powerpoint presentation or a short 3 sentence brief about what the app does that barely describes anything.
And I also have no idea about the app’s stability or the likelihood of continued support. So how am I supposed to just trust that I’m getting $30 worth when I buy your software?
Unless you can fleece people out of tens of millions on Kickstarter...
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As I recall, Clif Bars are predominantly carbs and some fat. Soylent has a reasonable balance of protein and more emphasis on vitamins and minerals.

To be clear, I'm not a nutritional expert. But I've had people who know more than me tell me clif bars are basically non-nutritious.
Imho, it will make a big difference for large apps too, especially on CPU usage. Chromium is what takes up the majority of CPU time, so by reducing it to a very small replacement, it should help.
IIRC Soylent is not patented and the creator has said that if someone can
create the same thing, then that's fine because the goal is to help people.

So... it doesn't matter.
OK, let me be clearer then. There is a significant portion of people for whom there is no housing available that does not constitute half of their income.
Well first you have to ask where the product fits into the FDA's spectrum. https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm194879.h...

This is not a supplement or additive so it's a food. It's not a pill you take in addition to your meal but a meal replacement. The best route from here is to see if ensure is fda approved and if it is, what's the value of that stamp? Is it objective 100%? You can't make many assumptions so we must continue on from this point. I"m not sure there are regulatory requirements for a product like this and if there are what is the value? Does an FDA stamp on this supplement mean 100% that a product can replace all food forever?
> boasting a big resume but unable to tell a mutex from a semaphore.

"We passed on hiring that guy to do our drywalling. He boasted a big resume of recent drywall hanging work, but he didn't even know the where the CEO of CertainTeed was born!"
Hey HN! How do most of you find stories you care about on the web? Everyday, I have a few go-to sites that I use but usually only find a couple stories I'm really interested in...Extending this circle of sites is difficult as well with 1000's of news/media options (e.g. Vice, NPR, Gizmodo, HBR, CNN, Medium...the list goes on forever) which site to try out and then I have to take the time to find stuff I care about on those sites. Furthermore, this is complicated by each site organizing content such that it's easier to see what they want you to see vs what might interest you (agendas). I've come to realize that it's really difficult to find great stories on a daily basis so thought what if people could share any story they found on the web (from anywhere!) and have this content in one place, then instead of organizations deciding what we see, the community gets to decide that. I put together a simple site to see if people are interested in sharing stories they find on the web and also in discovering interesting content and wanted to see what you all thought.

Wrote a short 'About Us' section to more or less summarize what I'd like to achieve. http://www.lumn.io/documents/about_us

Keep in mind this is a work in progress. I'd love to see some of the interesting stuff you all read. If you have any feedback/comments, feel free to email me at mark@lumn.io
Why are the default cables that come with laptops not magnetic cables?

Are the Griffin-style magnetic cables just crap?

It seems like a usability regression for no great reason.
So, I have a Surface Pro 4, and for various things I have an Ethernet adapter, a portable disc drive, flash drives, etc.

...Everything I want to plug into it is USB-A. I actually have a single USB-C device, which is one of my wireless charging pads for my phone. The phone itself is Micro-USB, and the wireless charging pad... it's own cable is A-to-C.

I'd be really disappointed if I bought a laptop and it didn't have a USB-A port, but USB-C is a trivial thing I do not need. I honestly think the practical call if I have to pick one or the other is still USB-A.

That isn't to say this won't change in the future, but I don't feel we're at a place where on a PC you can only fit one or the other you should be picking C. It's just not there yet.

(And, as a SP4 owner, I'm glad Microsoft is still pushing SurfaceConnect, it gives me hope my Surface crud won't all be useless soon.)
Let's not get lost in the weeds here. The question at hand is: The government takes my money because they think I committed a crime. The government is later proven to be wrong. Do I have a right to get the money they took back?

To me this is a total no-brainer: the answer is obviously yes, notwithstanding that the Constitution does not explicitly say so. I don't see any point in quibbling over what flavor of right this is.
Occasional meal replacement. I keep a couple in the fridge at home and work and will grab one if I'm looking to save time and/or money. Bought one case each of Coffiest and Nectar on Amazon.
> FB employees are certainly not "only busy exploring ideas", I don't know where you got that idea from.

Meaning that they have all resources and flexible mindset/approach (agile) to play with interesting ideas and iterate on them quickly! This was not a thing time ago... Nowadays you see companies as big as Microsoft being swiftly responsive to the open source ecosystem and to ie. Electron apps, and releasing Visual Studio Code to tackle that slice of the cake! In that sense. Also please, read again my first sentence :)
I'm almost certain I know who you work for, and if I'm right I'm contractually obligated to end the conversation here.

Good luck.
Soy has proven to be not as healthy as people believe. Maltodextrin is just sugar.
Do you know of any other product management specific job boards?

ProductHire.co is free, similar to Roadmap.com
Same here. I started renting an office this month after about 10 years of working from home. Same reason: family is growing and the apartment is not large enough to isolate me well enough.
> That is far more preferable to spending hours or days (or maybe even weeks) learning to do it yourself.

Unless you are interested in learning that stuff, then it is not only cheaper (in terms of cash, but not time) but you are doing something you'll enjoy as well as learning new skills.
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They're interface designers. If everyone was trying to be disruptive, we'd have a mess of interfaces and no usability standards.
It depends how you view nutrition. I'm personally a big proponent of eating lots of cholesterol and saturated (read: stable) fats.

One of cholesterol's most important functions is to support learning and memory — the brain is basically made of cholesterol. And statin drugs provably lower cognitive function, for instance.

Anyway, it's a real rabbits hole to go down research wise, but I certainly wouldn't advocate a cholesterol-free diet like soylent.

And saturated fats have been unfairly demonized for years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-...
>Telling them they can't is not freedom.

There are different concepts and types of freedom; collapsing them all into one singular concept is incredibly reductive and misleading. There is also the freedom of the users to take into account, which the GPL tries to guarantee. Why should only the freedom of the developer matter?

>and forgotten about the people that make the applications for the users

The freedom of the developers matters. But as any jurist or philosopher will tell you, freedom does not mean the freedom to do whatever you want. This was noted by Hegel as he described the freedom of the savage being a kind of unrefined freedom, restricted.

Your argument is similar to saying that we should think of the freedom for the people who want to take away the rights of others. Arguably they should not have that "freedom" at all. Your argument is a very poor one.
> "If you question it we will ... socially humiliate you"

The irony is quite amazing.
I wonder how long it will be until some VC forces the inevitable rebranding of the Soylent name.

"We need to reach out to a larger demographic with a name that communicates the value proposition of the product. Liquid Lunch focus-groups well in the demographic of females 18-30, which is where we see our growth trending in future..."

I've always liked the cheekiness of the Soylent name and it's really the only thing that's made me pay the slightest bit of attention to the product.
Yeah I'm hoping the parent responds, I don't consider myself an expert on nutrition so I'm curious if theres something we're not seeing! I tried Soylent for a bit and had mixed results, but that was I think mostly due to misjudging how many calories I actually needed.
That doesn't happen very often, and when it does you could copy the bootloader as well. Probably each OS should have a copy of it, for recovery purposes.
Same here! Will go back to work just after replying to you! :)
Supportive case: Huel in the UK.
Yeah that's a good idea. Treating it like a regular contract and expecting contract pay rates.
Aside from brand, how does soylent differ from ensure?
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I have also been working out of my garage for the last eight years and I'm just now in the process of finding an office. I don't have any kids, but I still feel like I'm going stir crazy.

Sometimes you just need to put some distance between where you sleep and where you work.
Inversely, the other person in your example is forcing their concept of property on others.