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That is great! I'd love to see all parking lots covered by solar panels and all roof tops covered with green space and solar panels.

(But I could never live in France. Two weeks was 13 days too long.)

I've never worked in an open floor plan with more that like 100 people. But I seem to recall only being bothered by people within a few cube sections from me in any direction. I would imagine that at some point the rest of the people in the "room" are far enough away that it doesn't really matter.

I'm not going to get into the debate of open floor plans vs individual offices since most people already have their opinions and I see pros & cons to both. That debate aside, I think that roof top green space is absolutely awesome. I would love to see more of those being built into new buildings.

I've lost ~20lbs since I first started drinking Soylent. My longest stretch of a 100% Soylent diet was for 2 weeks when I first got it last August. I lost ~8lbs during that time. I was mixing one pouch with enough water to make 4 pints. I would have 1 pint for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So I was getting ~1500 calories a day. From Thanksgiving into the New Year, I hardly drank any Soylent. And the scale was certainly ready to remind of that. I managed to undo much of my weight loss as a result. At the beginning of this year I added exercise to my routine. Since that first 2 week stretch last year, I've gone as much as a week at a time. But typically, I will do 2-3 days of 100% Soylent, then have a solid dinner one night. Some times stuff gets in the way and I'll not have Soylent for a day or two. It varies week to week. I'm a bit of an emotional eater so when things get hectic or stressful, I crave crappy food. So there are days when I've just said "F it... I'm getting pizza." So Soylent is not going to be some magic diet drink that will give you willpower you didn't already have. :)

> Most people are going to compare it to the meals they actually have now and what they spend.

Fair enough. Before switching to Soylent, I was regularly (meaning "nearly every work day") spending $8-$12 a day just for lunch. What I was spending on lunch for just one day is enough to fund several days of Soylent lunch. Or, during times when I am on a 100% Soylent diet, enough to fund more than an entire day's worth of meals. (I never could drink an entire pouch in one day.) So Soylent is very much saving me money. YMMV.

I would hazard a guess that a majority of people that realize a significant savings in Soylent live in places where things run a bit more expensive. I'm in Berkeley. Sure I can get a lunch for $5 but it won't be a quality lunch. And dinner? I can't think of any place where I can touch dinner for <$10 (unless I'm going to the same places I can get a $5 lunch). Granted, we usually cook dinner at home. And Honestly, I have no idea how much dinners cost at home. There are 5 of us. I buy food. We eat food. I assume it is cheaper than going out. But I can state with near certainty, it is more expensive (per person) than Soylent. It is funny when people talk about how they could never drink the joyless slop when they can cook fabulous meals at home for $3/meal... and then go on to describe meals that probably do only cost $3 but seems just as joyless as Soylent.

Side note: I've lost ~20 lbs over the last 4-5 months that I will attribute 80% of to Soylent. Even if some of that is just psychological, it is still working for me. Again, YMMV.

I've been using a blender for awhile now. I found that just dumping it all in the pitcher and shaking was a PITA. It always clumped to the sides and bottom. Now I put about half the required water in my blender, turn it on and slowly pour the powder/oil into the whirling water. Then I dump that into my pitcher. I rinse the sides of the blender with some water that I then dump into my pitcher. I top off the pitcher as needed. A little bit of shaking then finishes mixing the newly added water with the blended slurry. It has been working out pretty well for me.

I am curious to see how the 1.4 mixes. My subscription really out paced me so I have about 35-40 pouches of 1.3 to get through before I get to the 1.4 box.

Fair enough. Assuming it is technically possible, I would suggest having a lower tier plan for people that don't want/need a hotspot in their car but still want all the other cam related functions. I certainly don't need another connected device in my car to stream music and movies. But I would want the camera to be able to connect out and do all that other stuff.

It does look like a nice device. Wish I had one last week when someone keyed my car. :(

From the FAQ:

Q: Does LyfeLens have a subscription service?

A: While LyfeLens will provide superior functionality as a dash cam without a subscription plan, the full LyfeLens experience requires a subscription. The subscription activates the 4G LTE connection and the web portal, which are necessary to support push notifications, WiFi hotspot, automatic cloud storage, live video feeds, and speed and location monitoring.

So, without the subscription it is just a dash cam. But they don't have any info on subscription price. I don't have a problem dropping $200 on a device like this with the full LyfeLens experience. I don't have a problem paying a subscription fee. But I'm not going anywhere near a device that basically requires a monthly/yearly fee to make it more than just a dash cam... but isn't upfront about the price.

I'm not a golfer but my FIL is. Being retired and living on a golf course, he probably golfs 2-3 times a week... easily 6+ times a month. He would bankrupt a deal like this. I have serious doubts about the sustainability and even the legitimacy of such a claim. Just a quick glance at 2 of the better courses in my town shows green fees to be between $90 and $120. I don't see any way either of those courses would affiliate themselves with a discount card that cheap. Even if they did and offered a steep discount to GreenCard, there is no way GreenCard could profit from a $100/month subscription unless they are also banking HEAVILY on people only golfing a few times.

Take a minute to imagine if this 1:1 ratio "dream" comes true...

Sally Programmer is working for Company X. One day, she gets an offer from Company Y. So she quits her job at Company X. What does Company X do? They start a search for a new programmer, of course. Oh... but they need to maintain their 1:1 quota... so for this round, only female applicants will be screened. Joe Coder sends in his resume. Sorry, Joe... they're only hiring women today.

Congratulations, you just traded one discrimination for another. And this new discrimination cuts both ways. Next time, after Bob Builder quits, Company X would not be screening female applicants. (Imagine how the world would lose their shit right now if a company posted an ad: "Wanted ~ Programmer (males only please)".

Edit: Oh snap! We forgot to mention, Sally is also Indian. There is a racial quota too. So Company X needs to hire an Indian woman.

Edit 2: Well, isn't this embarrassing... turns out Sally is also gay. Company X needs to hire a gay Indian woman to maintain that ratio too.

Edit 3: Son of a ... We were just informed that Sally also suffered from Spina Bifida. Company X says "screw it!" and decides to just pay the fine and hire the most qualified person because that makes more sense than trying to find another gay, handicapped Indian woman to replace Sally.

Every nutritional label I've seen that prints the RDA % is based on a 2000 cal/day diet. I think they're just following the norm here.

It will be nice to get rid of the oil bottle. (Although my kids love the empties for various play activities so I better stock up on them before I use up my current supply.)

I also think the serving size fits into how I use the product. I usually go a couple days consuming only Soylent, and then have dinner one night and then back to only Soylent for a couple more days, and repeat. But either way, I usually only have a pint for each meal. So even if I have nothing but Soylent one day, I still only use 3/4 of a package. I never was able to drink an entire pouch in a day.

Seems to have slowed recently but Clever was borderline SPAM there for awhile. On more than one occasion I wished I could flag their post. (I understand that would probably be a slight misuse of the flag button.) Had there been a comments section I likely would have said something to get myself banned for a bit. So maybe it was a good thing I couldn't comment.

Perhaps they referring to the duplication of the site title. And looking at the source code, the title tag is in there twice and each one has the title text in there twice. These are the things that make some people wonder what other little landmines are hidden in a product that misses such simple mistakes.

Edit: nope... probably talking about it being a dupe of this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9080069

Interesting. I'm curious if any of them would become hostile after being actively rejected (rather than just passively ignored).

I'm not sure how they do it but one of the dispensaries (in California) I use actually takes credit cards. I still pay cash because I don't really want it showing up on my statement. But they manage it somehow.

Very nice. I plan to use this the next time we search for a movie to watch on Family Movie & Pizza Night. It can some times take like 30 minutes just to search the various subscription sites we use (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc) to find a movie. We try to find a free one first but when we can't, we then check around for which service has it cheapest. Seems this is going to make searching a whole lot easier. Thanks!

Would be great if I could also filter by rating. And exclude those that are "Buy" only.

From The Site: Use photos from Instagram, Facebook, and your computer

Seems one could make a collage entirely from pics on their computer. So not exactly as "Facebook only" as you make it out to be.

I had no idea that fun was not allowed to be an adjective.

> the incidents have not been linked publicly to environmental activists

It doesn't mean there isn't something to investigate. Or that the public knows everything the police do.

I think I read that the project was fully funded in only 8 minutes of going live. And within 7 hours it reached $1Miliion

He also managed to raise that insane amount to building a Tesla museum.

To put it bluntly... our Walmart is gross and is populated by gross people. There is a lot of truth to the "People of Walmart" meme in our Walmart.

The day before Christmas I found myself at a Radio Shack looking for jumper wires to go with an Arduino/breadboard kit I bought my daughter for Christmas. (A mix up with my wife's Amazon order left us suddenly without jumpers. Desperate times, desperate measures.) What a sad place. I ended up with some crappy jumpers that cost 2x more than the good ones we wanted from Amazon. The component section of RS is a joke. They used to be my go to in college (early 90s) when I needed components for a project. Now they are just trash. I left there Christmas Eve thankful I had some jumpers but they have now joined Walmart on my list of places I will only go if I am truly desperate and have exhausted all other options.

Seems like a long, up hill battle for any new phone OS at this point. Not that more options/competition is a bad thing. But they have a lot of ground to make up if they want to be more than a footnote.

I can definitely see a market for stuff like that. The first cam site that adds that could probably rule the world.

Thanks! I knew there was a word for it but it was totally not coming to mind.

Well... for (just about) any product that is already being marketed there is potential for a DIY market along side it. I don't see any particular reason why this can't be one of those products. Aren't we in some sort of "maker age" right now?

Seems like this type of platform would be a good base for building SexBot type things that are connected remotely. Guy in one location is making love to his Fleshlight, which uses sensors to alter the behavior of the vibrator his long-distance partner has. And vice-versa. Huge potential there.

Here in the East Bay (San Fran Area), the charter school my kids attend gets ~$1300 less per student. So every student that moves from a non-charter to a charter frees up ~$1300 to be used another way by the district (or at least reduces the financial burden of the district if it is already almost destitute). So I wonder... if all those ~1200 charter students were attending the non-charter schools in the district, what happens to that ~$1.5 Million gap? I don't imagine that the school district just has an extra $1.5M sitting around to cover the difference. So does it spread that cut around so now all public schools get less per student? It seems to me that the charter school is saving money not sucking it out. Even if they are only as good as the non-charter schools, they would be doing the same job for less money.

The toggles aren't "work arounds." They are the UI of Calendar.

But interesting that two of your bullet points in a comment about Google's shitty design are actually about the shitty design of some 3rd party apps, not Google. None of the 3rd party apps I use for Calendar have those issues.

I don't think it is a big deal. You do. Both are opinions. We disagree.