Boom times in Silicon Valley call for hard work, and hard work — at least in technology land — means that coders, engineers and venture capitalists are turning to liquid meals with names like Schmoylent, Soylent, Schmilk and People Chow. The protein-packed products that come in powder form are inexpensive and quick and easy to make — just shake with water, or in the case of Schmilk, milk. While athletes and dieters have been drinking their dinner for years, Silicon Valley's workers are now increasingly chugging their meals, too, so they can more quickly get back to their computer work.
Demand for some of the powdered drinks, which typically mix nutrients like magnesium, zinc and vitamins, is so high that some engineers report being put on waiting lists of one to six months to receive their first orders. And the drinks are taking off across techie social circles. Venture capitalists have also poured money into the companies that offer the meal replacements, and investors including Alexis Ohanian, a founder of Reddit, count themselves as fans of the drinks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @08:10PM
That isn't begging the question. Begging the question would be, for example, he drinks it for health reasons because it is so healthy. Or he drinks it as a time saving device because it saves him time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @12:31AM
> That isn't begging the question.
Unfortunately you are wrong.
Language evolves and we are way past the point where begging the question only means making a circular argument. So many people have, and continue to, use it to mean "raises the question" that it now can mean both. I expect that in 20 more years the original meaning will be archaic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @11:55AM
Ah, the standard retort of the ignorant: I don't understand a word and I use it wrong, but that's ok because "language evolves". Words have absolutely no meaning anymore because, well, language evolves and a word now means what I want it to mean.
You intellectual relativists are really something else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @11:04PM
I don't suppose you recognize the irony in the fact that your claim that his use of "begging the question" is correct because it now means that something else, that in itself is begging the question?