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As with most studies there is some criticism about this and how it "changed" overtime:

https://jacknorrisrd.com/austrian-vegetarian-study-making-wa...

The reality is that there is a difference between vegan/vegetarian and whole food plant based diets. I am sure if you eat beyond burgers (processed meatless patties) everyday, you aren't doing your health any favors.

I mean potato chips are vegan. French fries are vegan, etc.

The key is whole foods. Unprocessed foods.

Sugar doesn't give you cholesterol. So how is cholesterol correlated to heart disease?

Fat storage, is for sure related to becoming overweight and the cause of many ailments.

I mean everyone has some anecdotal opinion. But there is cite-able research. To bring this full circle back to HN community, I wouldn't go start a company on my opinion alone, I would do customer development, user research, etc. to make sure my assumptions are valid.

https://jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(13)01113-1/abstrac...

Eating more calories than you burn make you overweight. Not the type of calorie. This has been proven (wish I could find the research paper) and was funded by Gary Taubes' research group.

Refined sugar and carbs are high in calories and low in nutrients. If you eat 2000 (or appropriate for you expenditure) calories of brocoli, you ain't getting overweight.

Additionally, most people are addicted to sugar and refined carbs. Half the problem with diets is getting over that. It is likely the problem defined as satiety--but really just cravings.

We are just starting to get more Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials on diets and such. Will never be perfect, but there is just not enough highly controlled research as it is very hard to implement. But I think with keto, carnivore, vegan, paleo, all fighting to claim to be most healthiest diet, there are folks starting to put money into researching them on equal footing. So we will see.

I think to summarize Michael Pollan, eat whole food, not too much and mostly plants is probably a good bet on healthy diet.

>> These studies are quick to point to conclusions. Remember that time where every "scientific" study pointed at fat as the big culprit behind heart problems? When it was sugar all along?

I mean there is just insurmountable evidence that fat is correlated to heart disease. What is so ironic is that some journalists with no medical backgrounds write a book about "The Big Fat Lie" and now it is sugar that is the cause with not much scientific research to back it up. Sugar is bad and inflammatory for sure, but mountains and mountains of research on fat and heart disease are somehow all wrong now?

One take away that this has on me, is that with Google and Apple controlling content on mobile phones, it might be impossible to have a truly decentralized application. I believe that Apple should be required to allow 3rd party installs if the user so chooses. If there is an example of monopolistic behaviour this is one for sure.

Cloud run is exactly what he described. We use cloud run and it is great.

This was what Lotus Notes was to be. Maybe not open source, but a reach communications platform.

Probably true. However, Apple and Netflix are now heavily in the content business. So maybe content + distribution is the true winner.

What are the margins. I can almost certainly say that the margins on the games are far greater than the hardware.

Super nifty. What are you using for the graphdb?

The one thing I have struggled with is to figure out if dgraph is strictly a triple/rdf graphdb or can it act as a labeled propery graph? For my usecase, I think I would prefer being able to add properties to Vertices and Edges, instead of those properties becoming new vertices and edges. IS that possible in Dgraph?

How is Arangodb, been looking at using it myself?

Switzerland isn't part of the EU.

I hope someday maybe we have a browser completely written in Rust.

What's the point of using Rust in a C++ code base if C++ is the 800lb gorilla as the article implies. If C++ is so important, then just stick to that?!

Didn't say Raspberry products aren't viable. I have shipped over 50k units with Raspberry Pi across three products. But the margins are terrible and many times a loss when you factor in user acquisition costs.

RPI0W is now double the price at $10. You still need to add power (lipo and/or charger), enclosure.

With Raspberry Pi stuff 1.) There is nearly 0 (max I have seen is $2 off) price break at volume. 2.) You have essentially one vendor (that uses distributors) 3.) When a new version launches, the older version inventory gets very constrained. 4.) You can't customize the PCB 5.) You can't get any support from Broadcom

I mean a lot IoT problems/solutions seems all about tiny things running on coin-cell batteries for years.

I guess the point is that there is a huge difference between hobbyist and commercial viability. It is a significant gap in terms of engineering effort and target BOM costs between the two. Have seen countless products fail because people with no commercial hardware experience tried to launch a product with hobbyist tools and components.

But, again, as a hobbyist it is fine. If you are considering commercializing your hobby project one day, then I would think about it differently. At least consider Rockchip. You can get a Raspi clone for less money and can work with them to customize if needed. If it runs on batteries in a small form factor, would reconsider using linux.

True about firmware engineers. Honestly, I think it is a much more technical skillset, yet still paid far less than a webdev.

True, but also consider you still need to add a radio and then run it all on batteries. There are much better solutions that still cost less. Not to mention, having to rely on Raspberry Pi of any kind for commercial use is tough in large quantities (speaking from direct experience).

As a hobbyist tool, this is great and nothing wrong with it. But in the traditional IoT sense, we are usually talking large volumes of cheap devices running on batteries.

Although pretty nice if you have a Linux host, I would say this isn't well suited to typical embedded IoT devices that would be used in large scale deployments. It would be cost prohibitive to blanket a city with temperature sensors if they all needed to use a $35 raspberry pi.

Many IoT devices run on very limited hardware mostly without an MMU, usually shared with the Radio like the Nordic NRF52 or Semtech's Lora modules. Often times with serious size, power, and cost constraints. This often rules out higher level languages like Erlang, Go, etc. These are great languages for different use cases, but really not well suited to any low level hardware. The runtime language has huge impact on cost and battery performance. More memory == more $$, more CPU cycles == more power.

As a 4x founder myself (serial, not asynchronous), I don't think the concept of a "portfolio" entrepreneur is necessarily bad. However, if Mr. X is directly blocking progress then that is a problem. If you aren't being paid, that is also a bit worrisome. If he has a good track record, I am surprised he doesn't have seed money already to fund him at the idea stage. Another red flag would be if you and Mr. Y didn't really know or interact with Mr. X previously. Usually, successful entrepreneurs have fairly good network of resources and often times work with people they might have worked with before. Just saying they red flags and you may want to be cautious about how successful he may appear vs reality.

Is it possible you can bring someone else on that can do his role?

Does he have a vesting cliff for his own equity? How is the company formed regarding voting rights? Does the company own the IP? If you and Mr. Y effectively have 60% voting to his 40%, and he is vesting, you should be able to remove him and use his un-vested equity to bring in someone else.

If you don't have a company formed with proper stock/voting/vesting/ip assignments in place, then I would immediately stop until this is done. You have very little legal recourse. This is were co-founders get into huge legal problems later on. This should be a non-starter. You should immediately make claims on any IP you have committed if there is no agreement in place.

The biggest misconception is that ideas are worth something. They really are worthless. Execution is everything. Good ideas fail all the time. When two companies with the same idea compete, the one that executes better, mostly will win.

It is a huge risk to quit your day job to work on a project like this full-time. My last recommendation is to search internally for why you joined this team? Maybe it was exciting to be doing your own startup, or maybe you felt it would be easy with Mr. X to get funding. But startups are incredibly hard and 9/10 fail. So you should make sure that you honestly believe that the product/service is valuable and that this team can iterate it to market.

Exact same boat as you. Been doing Rust for 2 years now and it is so true about the time spent thinking about how to be "more Rust-like".

I think you summarize it perfectly though, my favorite parts of Rust are Option/Result.

This really hits home for me. Somehow the centralized web became better, maybe its a user experience thing. One can't help but wonder if these are solvable in a decentralized or even federated approach?

Its not a good sign that the CEO didn't give any kind of warning. Pretty bad practice. Not sure what their funding situation, history, types of investors are etc. You will need to make your own risk assessment--but from the sound of it so far, it seems high risk.

If you decide to stay, I would demand equity, warrants, and/or some kind debt contract. If the company goes under, it would give you more power to be a debtor--not that means anything to help get your funds.

This looks very interesting. It's really nice to see all these decentralized tools popping up now.

Are there any WASM based implementation of tools? Would love to see other languages besides JS.

One nitpick, Why would they use Slack for their chat?

I would say that absolute best predictor of getting a meeting is strong introductions. I hate to say this, but you'll have an easier time with a strong network.

A trusted introduction can even overcome a bad deck in some cases. But there should be no reason to have a bad deck now-a-days as there is ample reference and knowledge share.

First-time founders: Please don't pay for access. Services like this, in my opinion, are dubious at best. Work on building a network, blogging, open source, meeting other founders, going to VC events, tapping your alumni network, etc.

I have often wondered this myself. Considering if github was ever compromised, could an attacker modify your source code without your knowledge. Seems like a holy grail of attacks.

What would be interesting if there was some at-rest encryption and maybe some audit functionality.

5 minute stop-the-world garbage collection? Go has done quite a bit to improve garbage collection times. I don't honestly believe that it could get anywhere nearly as bad as you imply it to be.

Shill - One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.

I am glued to this. Seems to update in realtime.