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Blend it with peanut butter. It's quite delicious this way to me. Apologies if you are allergic.

caublestoneon Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited Photo Storage

While it doesn't appear to be easily done through the UI, I'm sure contacting Amazon support will get you all of your files back.

caublestoneon Show HN: Hypermasher – Live streaming of Hyperlapse videos

I turned off the sound and put on Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4WlNj1TTqA

I skipped ahead to the 10 minute mark.

caublestoneon What Tesla owners are doing while you sleep

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=667&t=2

Based on the figure of 9 Kwh to charge the Tesla, this is less than 1 gallon of gas. Pretty efficient.

caublestoneon Responsive Logos

I find it ironic that the logo for Responsive Logos and the social media icons are not responsive.

caublestoneon Startup Growth Calculator

For physical products, input gross profit in place of revenue.

caublestoneon Uber Sets Valuation Record of $17B in New Funding

Price is not the issue for me. It's the service quality and convenience. I used taxi's to get home from bars and I would say 50% of the time I would have a problem (card machine doesn't work, don't go to my address, won't accept 3 people). Uber eliminated the friction.

caublestoneon Uber Sets Valuation Record of $17B in New Funding

Before 2012 (when I started using Uber), I took a cab (outside of NYC) maybe 5 times in a year. Today, I take an uber 5 times a week. This is anecdotal but I am sure that's the market growth investors are looking at.

caublestoneon I got tired of packing my own capsules so I made Nootrobox

Cool! We will have to give this a try :)

caublestoneon I got tired of packing my own capsules so I made Nootrobox

Just curious, was the soylent site a design guide at all?

caublestoneon For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome

I barely made it through this article. After the 10th minute of pushing through my tears to read, I had to resolve that nothing would stop me.

On HN we dream big. And we all agree that we can dream big and maybe hit it big. Imagine what it feels like to realize at a young age that you DONT get to go after your dreams because you are missing the tools. Imagine what it feels like to believe something is wrong with you because you talk to yourself sometimes. Now get back to starting your company.

And yet, you can be happy to commute, to have co workers, to have some freedom from our parents.

caublestoneon Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors

My brother has downsyndrome and struggles with muscle control. When he eats he tremors quite a bit losing food on his plate forcing him to take a desperate eat fast approach to his meals. He has gone through quite a bit of muscle therapy to help. Needless to say, I will be buying this for him and can't wait to see what other types of people find an improvement in their lives with this product.

caublestoneon Random Tweet: See one random tweet at a time

I got 3 clicks to get to a Cat picture. Anyone else?

caublestoneon Orders projected to begin shipping 4/21

Soylent has all of the RDI's of vitamins and minerals for your diet. We don't expect anyone to live off of it, but we design it so you can feel confident that Soylent is an option to do so if you absolutely have to.

caublestoneon Orders projected to begin shipping 4/21

I put on 20lbs in 2 months. Having Soylent made it so easy to measure exactly how many calories I'm getting and how much protein and fat to add on top of the base formula (2k cals per 66oz). Others in the company went the paleo diet route and spent 5-7x more money and 10-12x more time on prep.

caublestoneon Orders projected to begin shipping 4/21

Exactly.

caublestoneon Orders projected to begin shipping 4/21

We ship orders based on size first and order date second. If you order a week today, that order will be placed at the back of the queue. If you order say 6 months, your order will be one of the first to go out.

caublestoneon Orders projected to begin shipping 4/21

Animals love Soylent too!

caublestoneon Orders projected to begin shipping 4/21

The final soylent formula tastes incredible. We are in the process of having medical research firm conducting formal tests on the precise effects soylent has on people during real world use. Regardless, soylent is safe for consumption now as certified by our manufacturer and the FDA.

caublestoneon Sam Altman for President

Congrats Sama!

caublestoneon US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests

Not quite. The US gov is accusing these men of putting wealth through the Silk Road (which was believed to be untraceable) in order to get this wealth off the books to avoid taxes and investigations of the source of this wealth.

Edit: Not necessarily their own wealth.

caublestoneon 2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor

"When children are well-nourished, fully vaccinated, and treated for common illnesses like diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia, the future gets a lot more predictable. Parents start making decisions based on the reasonable expectation that their children will live."

The data seems to support the notion that healthier lives for children leads to a decrease in birth rate and family size. The size of the children population decreases as the overall quality of life for them improves because parents don't shotgun approach procreation. Also, from the piece, millions of women are unaware of contraceptives so as education increases so does the use of contraceptives.

caublestoneon Inside the Saudi 9/11 Coverup

What was the motivation for Saudi Arabia to carry out these attacks? Was it an independent decision by Saudi elite? Did any events take place that would encourage vengeance of some kind? And why did it take place just once?

caublestoneon Soylent Micronutrient Breakdown

The FDA has different restrictions and requirements depending on if a product is labeled a food or a nutritional supplement. A nutritional supplement is limited to 100mg of potassium while something that is a food is free to have up to 1500mg. Soylent is a food and is thus able to have 3500mg of potassium.

caublestoneon Ask HN: What are some good gift ideas for hacker types?

I'm ok with being a mythical beast.

caublestoneon What the Fluck

At the top of the comment thread,

"This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules."

Though it doesn't specifically talk about censorship, freedom of speech was pretty essential to all of these historical pieces. Ironic.

caublestoneon A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail

I wish I knew! From our perspective, because our total risk exposure is very minimal (again less than 1% of total revenue has come in from Bitcoin) we don't have a need to convert into cash immediately and can instead hold on to them for future use. I imagine every business does this risk assessment to determine their bitcoin conversion policy and all have different sensitivity to risk (i.e. silk road 100% bitcoin revenue > soylent 1% bitcoin revenue).

caublestoneon A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail

At Soylent, we have been accepting Bitcoin using coinbase. The decision to do so was based on marketing and the anticipation that not many people would actually use Bitcoin and we wouldn't have a large risk exposure. To date only 130 people out of 12,000 have pre-ordered Spylent using Bitcoin. Our total risk exposure was less than 1% of total revenue. The recent rocket ship rise in a Bitcoin valuation has valued our Bitcoins at 10% of total cash from revenue. So far, the decision to accept Bitcoin has been a tremendous success.

The recent rise in Bitcoin valuation is speculation based on merchant trends. Well established merchants in Asia are starting to accept Bitcoin. The total valuation of Bitcoin is still around $15Bn. The total value of annual US domestic cash flow is somewhere around $15T. Think about the potential of Bitcoin. Highly unlikely? Absolutely! But think about if you woke up tomorrow and Amazon or Apple announced that they would start accepting Bitcoin? What do you think the valuation would be?

caublestoneon Show HN: Built a 'Kayak for courier services'

Hi Laura! I am in the US. I was able to use the service just fine. Thank you.

Matt

caublestoneon How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

Soylent is a food and not a supplement. The commercial version of the product is being produced in an FDA approved and GMP certified facility - RFI.