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Thanks! I would like to expand testing into other areas beyond plastic chemicals (like heavy metals) if and when the project grows.

Currently a one-man side project:

https://laboratory.love

Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.

This seemed like a solvable problem.

Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, whatever you're curious about.

Here's how it works: Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, get detailed lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn't reach its funding goal within 365 days, automatic refund. All results are published openly. Laboratory.love uses the same methodology as PlasticList.org, which found plastic chemicals in everything from prenatal vitamins to ice cream. But instead of researchers choosing what to test, you do.

The bigger picture: Companies respond to market pressure. Transparency creates that pressure. When consumers have data, supply chains get cleaner.

Technical details: Laboratory.love works with ISO 17025-accredited labs, test three samples from different production lots, detect chemicals down to parts per billion. The testing protocol is public.

You can browse products, add your own, or just follow specific items you're curious about: https://laboratory.love

While PlasticList has already tested hundreds of products and found plastic chemicals in 86% of them, laboratory.love lets you crowdfund testing for the specific products you actually buy.

Think of it as democratizing PlasticList's methodology: you choose what gets tested, we handle the logistics of sample collection + lab work, and results are published openly to pressure companies toward cleaner supply chains.

Goat. Low-key would vote Dan Robinson for mayor

Balaji recently said he was in favor of reducing military capacity. Whether that's a good idea or not, it shows that his preference with a cloud country is a non-violent one.

One interesting aspect of a cloud country, or networked state, is that it would be distributed/decentralized. In theory it would be hard to attack in the real world as there may not be traditional borders at all. If if distributed globally it's certainly resistant to nuclear type attacks. A country with a capital "in the cloud" has a digital defensive structure similar to the Củ Chi tunnels from the Vietnam war.

I have been pwned. Also of note, while my phone number was on my Facebook account, it has had its visibility set to "only me" for years. Still leaked.

INSTACART | Solutions Architects | Toronto only | Full–time

Tech stack: Rails, Python, AWS CS background and work experience are helpful, but moreover we're looking for strong, motivated candidates that want to work hard, learn, and grow with Instacart in the coming years. Benefits and perks: competitive salary + equity, health insurance, remote work allowance, catered food if you're on–site post–pandemic, fun/inclusive work environment and strong culture, rapid career growth opportunities, high impact work. Also IPO "on the horizon" doesn't hurt.

If you're interested shoot me a SHORT email to collin dot ferry at the company domain. Include your resume or LinkedIn and links to Github + any relevant projects.

INSTACART | Solutions Architects | Toronto | Full–time

This is a role that works with retailers to design integration solutions. Warning, this role involves more communication and system level thinking than it does coding.

- Our mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.

- Tech stack: Rails, Python, AWS

- Benefits and perks: competitive salary + equity, health insurance, remote work allowance, catered food if you're on–site post–pandemic, fun/inclusive work environment and strong culture, rapid career growth opportunities, high impact work. Also IPO "on the horizon" doesn't hurt.

- This role is not formally listed just yet. If you're interested send me a SHORT email to collin dot ferry at the company domain. Include your resume or LinkedIn and links to Github + any relevant projects.

- Thanks!

I loved both Last of Us games and this was really cool to see. Thanks for sharing.

I'm so grateful that this level of craftsmanship exists.

INSTACART | Software Engineers & Solutions Architects | Toronto | Full–time

- Our mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.

- Tech stack: Rails, Python, AWS

- CS background and work experience are helpful, but moreover we're looking for strong, motivated candidates that want to work hard, learn, and grow with Instacart in the coming years.

- Benefits and perks: competitive salary + equity, health insurance, remote work allowance, catered food if you're on–site post–pandemic, fun/inclusive work environment and strong culture, rapid career growth opportunities, high impact work. Also IPO "on the horizon" doesn't hurt.

- These two roles are not formally listed just yet. If you're interested shoot me a SHORT email to collin dot ferry at the company domain. Include your resume or LinkedIn and links to Github + any relevant projects.

- Thanks hackers!

Sometimes spending more energy is a net win even though it's more energy expensive (cars vs horses).

That's a feature not a bug (of BTC anyway). A deflationary store of value....has value.

Unschooling. That's an actual term/movement you can Google.

You pointed out there are great, interactive lessons online, but the problem is the syllabus. Forget the syllabus. Shouldn't the goal be learning rather than conformity?

Then the problem to solve is not schooling but childcare.

If you don't like the taste you can use caffeine pills which take less time/money and you can be more specific with your dosing.

I found the ~6 min video embedded in the article worth watching.

If I'm understanding it correctly, this technology could ultimately provide a means to generate very realistic holograms (after many iterations and lots of capital investment).