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@btskinn I mean, it doesn't carry any water in this case, since I'm asking about how meat being cultured affects people's willingness to eat it at all.

If you are in the "I'd pay 10x for identical" group, you're probably in a group that would pay 2x for a "close enough" simulacrum. If you're in the <1x group, you might be convinced with extra enticements (e.g. "it's not exactly the same, but you can get a close simulacrum of this ultra-rare and expensive delicacy for the same price as beef").

If you wouldn't eat lab-grown meat at any price point (even free), then I guess answer <1x, or don't answer.

If you are a vegan or vegetarian but *would* eat lab-grown meat, then answer >2x, since you wouldn't accept farmed meat even if it were free.

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At what price point, relative to the cost of farmed meat, would you switch to an otherwise identical cultured alternative (i.e. this was grown from cell culture or some other mechanism that doesn't involve raising an animal and killing it)?

(To be clear, >2x means "I'd pay at least $10 for cultured steak that would cost $5 if it came from a cow.")

@tasket @tomw You are the one that made it sound like firing a bunch of tech people was an obvious response to this. Backing away from it like, "Well people do stuff for random reasons" doesn't really seem like strong evidence considering your initial claim at least appeared to rest on the idea that getting rid of your tech staff is a natural and rational response to advances in AI.

@tasket @tomw I mean, I do think AI is probably going to transform the industry in the next 10 years, but I don't think it has anything to do with the IT layoffs, considering that no one has built useful things on top of this tech yet, and you need IT workers to do that.

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_Forge Your Future with #OpenSource_ is now available as an #audiobook from @pragprog ?

Well, heck! That's spiffy!

If you or someone you know wants to learn more about #FOSS and how to #contribute to open source, this is the book they need.

Check it out!

pragprog.com/titles/a-vbopens/

( #ebook version here: fossforge.com)

(boosts would be great, please!)

@marcbrooker @norootcause "Giving Birth" is on there at least 3 times with very different values.

> "For a while now, people have been asking us for a Discord server. Now for those who don't know, this has nothing to do with being unhappy..."

Speak for yourself...

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Thank you @derekprior and team!

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@Greg Also zero problem going with the path of least resistance. I also have young kids, free time to futz around with this kind of thing is pretty precious.

Since the development philosophy of `audio-feeder` has been "make something that works for my personal workflow", I would not be surprised to find that it would not work for you or any other non-me person. I'm not offended in the least that you didn't try it, and I would definitely not have been unhappy if you tried it and found you didn't like it.

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@Greg FWIW audio-feeder also has a docker container: github.com/pganssle/audio_feed

nextcloud rant 

@astrojuanlu But I suspect I'll still have a bunch of other problems when they eventually bring fiber internet to Somerville.

nextcloud rant 

@astrojuanlu I think NextCloud is already a project disrupting OwnCloud, right?

My biggest problem is usually that I don't have a symmetrical connection, so I send people stuff and I''m like, "Just wait a while because I have to upload these 3GB videos of your kids at like 1MB/s, but at least I'm not uploading them to someone's cloud."

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@Greg Oh, hm.. It looks like it would require me to completely refactor how I store my audiobooks.

Not that audio-feeder is any less opinionated about directory structure (though I'd be OK with adding a mode that supports the other structure).

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@Greg Did you end up trying out audio-feeder? I recall you saying you were going to look into it. If you did, how does it compare to audiobookshelf? I think I'd be happy to not continue maintaining my own solution to this indefinitely... 😛

FedEx picked up my shipment from GNC on January 24th. The "Two Day Shipping" package is now estimated to be delivered... February 3rd.

It's like FedEx doesn't even care if I'm swole. 😤

We're hiring a Security Developer in Residence! This a contract role so we can consider remote candidates from anywhere the US can do business with. pyfound.blogspot.com/2023/01/t

@mahmoud To be fair, most business books already fit into the genre of "management fiction". 😉

Python HTML Sanitizer library Bleach reaches version 6.0 and **end of life**. Why? The underlying html parser library (html5lib) is no longer maintained.

bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/dev/

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