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The food replacement Soylent is now hitting 2.0. The new version will come premixed in bottled liquid form instead of powder, though the powdered version will still exist. It will cost $12 per day, as opposed to $9 per day for the powder. The liquid and powder versions will have slightly different compositions.
In other Soylent news (pun intended), Soylent products will now be shipping in two to three days instead of the multi-month waits previously due to overwhelming demand relative to supply.
takyon: Soylent blog post and The Register.
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Soylent 2.0 is Coming: Food Replacement Premixed in Bottles
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(Score: 4, Informative) by gman003 on Tuesday August 04 2015, @04:20AM
The founder of Soylent (the food) wrote blog post and it is the most pretentious, self-serving thing I've ever read [arstechnica.com]. I'm linking to Ars instead of his personal blog because some of the comments there are pretty good, and also I'd hate to give him more page hits.
Notable highlights:
Electric cars like Teslas still use fossil fuels at the power plant, so he uses Uber instead because they're mainly Priuses
Speaking of Tesla, he doesn't see the point in a 7kWh Powerwall when a car battery is all you need
He doesn't cook for himself. He eats Soylent (literal dogfooding, which I guess is good) or goes to restaurants, exclusively
Grocery stores are a torture he can't ethically even pay someone else to do for him. He buys all his food online "like a civilized person"
It's "presumptuous" for an architect to just assume people want a kitchen in their home
His only computer is a NUC, when he "needs" more computing power he uses an EC2 instance
He orders custom-made clothes from China, wears them until dirty, then donates them because it's more energy-efficient than washing them
He doesn't just not own a TV, he also does not own a refrigerator, dishwasher, oven, microwave, or basically anything else. His technological possessions seem to be a computer, two monitors, a nanoprojector, and a butane stove for coffee and tea
His power consumption is down to "well below" 420 Wh per day, or so he claims
There's just so much blatantly wrong stuff in there that it's surprising when he says something I can agree with, like nuke-powered container ships. I know it's irrational to judge a product by the behavior of its creator, but this seriously killed any interest I may have had in Soylent the Food.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by GoonDu on Tuesday August 04 2015, @05:28AM
Most of the things he do seem to off-load his power consumption to other people instead. Technically, he s reducing his power consumption but in turns, he is pushing that responsibility to other people instead. Not sure if that really counts. That said, while it is commendable, the tone of it makes him sound like a entitled privileged person who sees himself above mere plebeians like us.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:50AM
so... a black chick who votes for obama not cos she's racist but because he's black
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:04PM
I'm sure the power running that Chinese factory is so much cleaner than the power that would operate his washing machine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @07:13PM
Using uber (instead of cycling, public transport), buying clothes from china and donating them when they are dirty, burning gas to heat his coffee. And then trying to spin it as if he's environmentally friendly. Plenty of WTF there.
Maybe his sales of Soylent are low so this is a publicity stunt/troll and he hopes that he'll get plenty of stupid customers to buy his product. $2.4 per 400kcal = $12 a day for 2000 calories.
(Score: 3, Touché) by darkfeline on Tuesday August 04 2015, @11:16PM
>I know it's irrational to judge a product by the behavior of its creator, but this seriously killed any interest I may have had in Soylent the Food.
It's a clear-cut example of the ad hominem fallacy. Even "I prefer REAL food" is a better argument.
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