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That sounds like a stereotypical victorian thing.


What is it meant to achieve?


Be cautious of the backstabbing, blackmail, gossip you might/can get involved in if you trust the wrong person.

Personally it's hard for me to imagine life without deep trust friendships.


I generally find broadcast sports to be incredibly boring, but saying 'good riddance to sports' is a great way to lose the political battle, which is what this really is.


Used to do 15 hour days.. then cubital tunnel :( Now I'm trying to recover and limiting myself to 4hrs.


The nearest grocery store to my house is about 35 miles away. The nearest Sams Club (big discount grocer) is about 60 miles away.


I read up to that quote and decided it was bullshit.


Im not quite sure what to say to this.


How about: Oh, hells no.

I get it: it's an experimental product that may or may not be actually healthier and more nutrient-packed than conventional foods. It might even help alleviate some of my health issues.

I can't look past the whole "insect" thing. Maybe a few generations down the line, say, my grandkids kids (theoretical grandkids) may think nothing of it. But there's too much cultural inculcation for me to ever be able to contemplate eating or to actually eat something made from crickets.

Unless it was the zombie apocalypse and there wasn't anything else. Maybe then. But fortunately, that's all fantasy.


Cochineal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal) is a fairly commonly used food additive made from ground bugs. I'm sure there are a number of others that you consume, too.


Your aversion to insects is highly cultural. Plenty of cultures, especially in Asia and Africa, treat insects as common foods and even delicacies.

You don't have a problem eating insects if you eat any sort of processed grains. The USDA (or equivalent agency) has distinctly non-zero limits for insect parts and rodent feces in cereal, because it's impossible to economically keep all insects and rodents out of grains.


I understand that, but by making a Kickstarter in English, they are targeting exactly my culture, which isn't keen on eating insects. And yes, everyone knows they slip into our food supply and there's a non-zero chance that we've all eaten them unintentionally, but that doesn't logically mean I'm going to think, "well, I may as well just start going whole hog now!"

This is a novelty and will never make it big in our market because the "ick factor" is just too high (for our cultural norms).


We have to start somewhere, right?


Have you considered the possibility that you might be unusually (relative to the rest of the globe) quite squeamish? What makes cricket flour any worse than raw fish or a nice, runny, sunny-side-up egg? Or more directly: do you eat commercially-prepared peanut butter?


Squeamish? I'm pretty sure I'm not.

I grew up on a cattle ranch and regularly poked cow stomachs with a stick behind our local cattle processor. As a kid, I had to go out at 4am and 30 degrees F with my grandfather to deliver a breech birth calf (didn't end well).

I'm not afraid of most bugs (spiders a bit, tarantulas a lot, crickets not even a smidge) but I've never had any desire to eat them.

It's cultural: Bugs are not people food.


You can't be serious? Besides the obvious physical differences, there are biological differences as well. An egg is not a slow roasted chicken.


great article. I wonder what the range can get to with this.


Or the power efficiency.


same.


getting https cert error


Get firebug, or use developer tools in chrome and look at the requests the browser is making when you load the page, and when you scroll down and it loads more data. Then you just implement that in whatever language you are scraping with. I usually use pythons requests module.. That's about as easy as it gets for something like this.


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