From what I can glean, content handlers should no longer be native, and WebExtensions are going to be more controlled in what you can and can't access.
Really? Where/how exactly did you read that in the article? All I could find that is slightly related to your comment is this:
"Although some U.S. companies, including Google, seem eager to help Cuba build up its Internet capabilities, the government still hasn't tipped its hand on how much help it wants from the United States."
I'm pretty sure Cubans don't care who's setting things up as long as they get connected at last. To me the article seems to focus on the OMG-I-AM-ONLINE aspect of things, reporting people trying to make video calls for the first time and such. That's special and that's about technology enabling people, not much about politics at this point IMHO.
I agree, OMG-I-AM-ONLINE, is pretty much the only good thing about it.
I'm cuban, I haven't lived there for a few years now. My wife and her family have been able to speak using video. I have also heard stories of people have been able to see they loved ones after many years.
Other than that, cuban internet is horrible. I have had all kinds. I worked in a 300 employees company where our internet was 196kbs. After that I worked in another with 2 mbps, but this one had more than 4000 employees across the country, so after 5 pm the internet was awesome, not so much on office hours. I never had internet at home until I quit my job to work as freelancer, then I had to pay 60 usd for 80 hrs a month on a commuted connection, which never when above 40kbps.
All of that happened after 2005. And btw, that commuted connection, was because my grandmother was born in Spain, so she had the right to have internet, I was lucky. Other cubans need to use more irregular methods.
Today it's not much better, yes, you can have internet on the park, but it is still very hard to actually use it to get work done. For that, you still need to leave the country.
Cuba has been technically "connected" for years. The question is how widespread internet data connections are among people in the country. When I've been there Internet access has been virtually non-existent and when I did try to access the internet over wifi, the bandwidth was abysmal. (i.e. < dialup)
"I wouldn't write anything big in <insert language>" is pretty much always a true statement. What changes it is the framework.
I can write a web application in some homebrew <insert language> and it can grow to 40 developers, 1000 db tables and thousands of files. But it would be terrible to work on (I know I've seen it). Or i can write the same thing with a framework, and have it much more manageable.
Realistically, when was the last time you say down and wrote a big application in vanilla <insert language>?
Summer 2014 I traveled the US via motorcycle, camping for the majority of the nights. "Real food" takes time. Refrigeration, cooking, cleaning, time, not crushing it in transit... I also don't eat meat (and was vegan that entire summer), which makes finding decent food in many places (if you're willing to eat out) really hard.
I unfortunately didn't get my original Soylent 1.1 in time for the trip, but how I wish I'd had it.
I don't use Soylent on a daily basis, but I always take it camping or on extended trips. I'd rather have a decently balanced food source (nothing is perfect) then eat greasy fast-food or just go hungry so I can make an extra 100 miles of travel before sunset.
And what's the problem with that? Surely you didn't travel via motorcycle complaining that motorcycles are "too slow" for the trip. It was an integral part of your traveling experience and without it it would've been completely different.
Eating is a normal part of life. Any inconvenience in it is exactly part of a human experience, much like what you wanted with the trip. If your bike broke down for that extra 100 miles or if it was too cold in camping it wasn't "an issue", it was just life. You could have solved those two issues by traveling by plane and staying in hotels, but that's exactly the kind of convenience that you wanted to avoid.
Not everyone wants an "experience" every time they need to feed their stomach a morsel of food.
People are pretty capable of deciding that for themselves. No need to try to convince anyone what kind of appetite they should have for ceremony and the, deep voice, "human experience."
Essentially there was next to no way for me to actually have food I wanted, keep it safely, cook it properly, etc. Sometimes I wanted to make it to a specific destination the next day. Fast food not being an option, setting up a small kitchen setup 3x a day really would put a damper on things.
Good question. I use Soylent as a meal replacement once a day. It's easier than cooking when I'm very busy during the day, very cheap, and I like knowing I'm getting some essential vitamins.
Or you could just buy Ensure, which has no trouble shipping and is available at nearly every grocery store and pharmacy.
I don't get Soylent's appeal, and I don't understand what unmet needs in the market it is meeting. My best guess, people that want to feel like they are "hacking" eating. Which is really just different marketing for a meal replacement shake.
2. It has too much sugar and too little of everything else. If you scale the calories to 2000 you'll have 400% of your daily recommended value of some nutrients and 50% of others.
3. It comes in annoying sizes (one bottle is only 240 calories, wtf?).
In addition to what others have said, the transparency of Rosa Labs (the makers of Soylent) is a big deal. Now that they have a manufacturing plant and so on, maybe things will change for the worse in the future, but up to this point they've been very open about their goal to produce a cheap, liquid, easy meal replacement, and they've openly supported the DIY community as well. They've also been adamant from the beginning that it's a process of continual improvement, and that's why Soylent is versioned, almost as if it were open source software.
You could file this all under marketing and not be technically wrong, but it makes a real difference in the experience as a consumer.
It's certainly marketed to the startup crowd as the startup work fast break things beverage.
If you go into a health food store like whole foods, there's a dozen or so other meal replacement options very similar to Soylent. Some soy free, some with exotic herbs and algae, some high protein, and all within the same price range.
No, my argument is I don't understand all the excitement here at HN for Soylent. It doesn't seem novel or exciting, but a lot of people act like its the best thing ever invented. I then attempted to guess at the reason, which is that it's marketed towards techies and hackers in the startup scene, which ensure isn't.
Other replies have given me additional information which I'm going to go over. Your's was setting up a straw man argument.
It has better balance of nutrients. Anyone can throw in some cheap vitamins and call it a day, but having enough potassium (which Americans under-consume compared to sodium), magnesium, protein, is rare. Soylent has 20% of RDA of EVERYTHING. Just check here:
Absolutely. Deciding on and preparing meals is the single biggest regular struggle and unpleasant time sink of my day. I wish I could get Soylent but they're still a bit slow and aren't selling directly to my country so I'd have to go through an importer/smuggler, upping the cost.
I know some people like cooking. That's fine for them. I like coding and I do that for fun. No enjoy-cooking-people I know want to write software. Different strokes for different folks.
We need to get out of the mindset of some kinds of work being "noble". When I was growing up it was "noble" to clean dishes by hand, repair your house yourself and repair your car yourself.
Now that I'm an adult, most people I know have "failed" and are lazily hiring specialists or using machines for those once-noble tasks. And some are very successful in their lives despite that failing! </s>
Here in the USA the modest apartments I was renting more than 30 years ago had dishwashers. However, I didn't always use the dishwasher because it's hard for one person to generate enough dishes a day to make it worthwhile to run. Especially if frozen food made for microwave heating is a large part of your diet.
Is this news? Because I've always assumed the tests are very biased. my car says it can get 70mpg in extra urban, yet it gets 54 max, I knew 70 was a lie when I bought it. Same with the tv, light bulbs, fridge and so on. In no way is any of it real world efficiency.
