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Comment · 13 years ago
If Firefox is supposed to be Google's serf, why aren't they supporting NaCl and Dart?
Comment · 13 years ago
Is it worth replacing a proprietary plugin (which the owner may stop supporting at any time) with an open standard (which has guaranteed continued development)? Yes, I believe it is.
Comment · 13 years ago
If it was indeed sarcasm then it was too subtle for HN. I mean if you had posted that on 4chan then it would be blatant sarcasm, but people on HN take themselves a little to seriously so it's a lot harder to tell.
Comment · 13 years ago
You must be fun to hang around with.
Comment · 13 years ago
You're missing out, it's hilarious. Oh, and get adblock.
Comment · 13 years ago
I want to like it too but I don't think DDG results will ever be as good as Google because of the no tracking thing. Google just has more context to figure out what I actually mean with my query, and the more I use it the smarter it'll become.
Comment · 13 years ago
Yeah, the hypocrisy is astounding.
Comment · 13 years ago
Why would you want to prevent the rest of the world from catching up to America?
Comment · 13 years ago
Not to mention all the patent trolling and hardware restrictions.
Comment · 13 years ago
I'm not sure I understand the need for 8k. If you want to watch your TV at an optimal viewing angle of 20%~40% then 4k is more than enough to achieve "retina display" at the required viewing distance.
Comment · 13 years ago
The stuff that goes in Soylent and their quantities come from FDA recommendations.
Comment · 13 years ago
Didn't know about Ensure Complete and it seems that you are right, it looks pretty complete. The problem though is the variance in the DV% of different nutrients. For instance, if I wanted to get 100% of sodium from Ensure then I would have to intake 3500 calories and 260% protein, and I haven't heard too many great things about having too much protein. The DV% of most micros is not listed so there may be a lot of problems like this.
Comment · 13 years ago
No, but it sounds logical to me that it would be a lot more efficient to get, say, X tons of calcium from calcium carbonate than from milk, or protein from a high yielding source instead of one that needs to be tasty.
Comment · 13 years ago
Older products like Ensure weren't good enough to go "all in" on liquid food because they don't have 100% of everything we know we need.
Comment · 13 years ago
>>the idea of chugging multiple cups of gray, sludgy drink daily sounds like an enormous burden that would grow tiring really quickly. It sounds like something that would make you dread the passing of the day, as another cup of slurry draws ever closer.

I guess some people just don't care about taste as much as they care about superior nutrition that uses less resources to produce and transport, and less time to prepare, consume and clean up.

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