Some of the hairy ones are kinda bald with a comb over though

They mention autonomous drones. Could that be what people are seeing in new Jersey? The government would probably not want to admit they are flying autonomous drones in new Jersey.

From what I've seen of "ai" so far I doubt this product adds value to a team. But it doesn't matter! Using them means the CEO gets to say he is embracing ai in his products, and the engineering manager gets to say he's improving his teams velocity by using ai, and resumes and stock go up in value and around we go! I don't want to get off!

People need to get on board with tofu.

I get your intentions but things are a bit more complicated.

In some places, mid to big animals are a pest, they destroy cultures (even the ones for direct human consumption), public places and wild environments, threatening the biodiversity.

So humans need to take action.

We can kill those animals and dump them in hole/burn them, or we can provide (almost) free food to people with difficulties to buy food.

There isn't the environmental downside of cattle (quite the opposite, actually...) and regarding the ethical part... that's complicated. Overpopulation and environment destruction means bad life condition for those pests and for the other species, so the number reduction aims to find a nicer balance for all the species. But being tracked and killed is definitely not fun.

This is a good way to put it. Because we humans tend to eliminate the large predators that we need to control some populations, we have a bunch of potential protein that would otherwise go to waste, why not mix it in?

There's room for tofu and meat in a diet, and if you're hurting financially things like this program, married with other cheap protein sources, is not only a great way to go but what a morale booster.

When I was a kid and we were broke a friend of ours gave my mom some rabbit. Alone it's not fatty enough to keep you alive but she mixed it up well with other stuff and we felt like we were having a feast.

Regarding the environmental downside of cattle, I couldn't agree more. We know several plains farmers who don't keep cattle but, after harvest let deer come onto their land to eat the leftover stuff in the ground and poop it back out as fertilizer. Once that's cleared out they shoot the deer and sell the meat. Yeah it isn't as profitable as a CAFO, but it's a hell of a lot less work, actually helps the land, and it tastes pretty good too.

And yeah I'd hate to be tracked and killed as you say. But then I picture being born in a prison and growing up to mid-childhood with the express purpose of being killed, and I know which one I'd pick.

I eat a fair bit of tofu, as a vegetarian for decades. It might be considered a meat substitute from a nutritional POV but it is not a good substitute from a culinary POV. You need to adjust how you plan your meals and how you build flavor, and many people just aren’t ready to do that.

I had a vegan phase so I'm familiar with stuff like tofu, tempeh, boca burgers, etc. I don't understand the excitement around Impossible burgers. I eat meat now but I also eat a lot of things I learned to eat as a vegetarian. I wouldn't say tofu is better or worse than chicken.

I rarely eat any of that fake meat stuff, and the stuff I like is not the hyper realistic stuff with weird fake blood.

Like chicken? Sure, to the extent that it is often bland and flavorless.

We freeze and thaw tofu a lot, which helps the texture.

Have been for longer than it's been popular in the states, you can still rip meat from my cold dead hands.

One too many retros

When I saw the backpack and the gun I thought "so he's a guy that likes luxury gadgets and lifestyle items with neat functionality... software engineer?"

If he had gone to a decent coffee shop and not Starbucks I'd have been convinced

This is like LinkedIn content not hackernews.

Did you read the article? The drugs did work, but only at the high doses prescribed.

In fact I am certain you did not read it, as no decent person could read it and say "but it's crazy to me that people can read this and come away thinking the insurance companies are the bad guys."

I read it, the drugs may have worked but it's possible that one or both were not necessary, or that some other change caused it. The relevant question is bigger than "did it work", it's "was the likely causal improvement enough to justify the cost"

These drug combinations are mostly not approved outside the US because of a lack of data

It literally says in the article: "McNaughton had tried individual biologics".

This means he most likely had already tried them alone. Remicade especially, as it's essentially been the most popular biologic (aside from humira) for the last 15 years. Do you need to see his full medical history before you have a little empathy? As a person who isn't a gastro doctor I'm sure you'll fully understand it.

All that matters to the patient is that it worked.

Perhaps, but it may not actually work and there are trade-offs. For example if the treatment were $1T we obviously would not do it.

How do we allocate resources? Who gets to decide? These questions don't disappear when you change policies, it's just the answers that change

Product launch when will you launch demo startup VC! VC! Demo product launch eat sleep code repeat cringe what's your stack hacker congrats on the launch website just a website not working at NASA just crud crud crud standup grooming review retro LinkedIn engineering@fuckly so excited to share! Occam's razor

meanwhile in america: "you're taking time off work for a 1 week vacation this year? what are you, a commie?"