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gustoffenon Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production

First carefully consider what you want to print. For example, this resin type printer is not a great technology for creating strong replacement parts around the house.

gustoffenon Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production

This stuff is great, but too bad resin prints are brittle, and nearly useless at building replacement parts that require any strength.

gustoffenon Nexus 5

Isn't this the same as the current nexus 5 model, just an updated OS? Has the price dropped from a year ago?

gustoffenon Hacking the Oculus Rift DK2, part III

Where is the source code?

gustoffenon Hacking the Oculus Rift DK2, part III

Facebook has yet to release their promised, but long overdue (about 3 months) linux SDK. So about 10 days ago, a group of developers felt compelled to reverse engineer and come up with their own FLOSS version.

Meanwhile, facebooculus is still claiming they will release "soon", and claim to have multiple dedicated developers on it. They have been saying this for weeks. It would be embarrassing, but huge with if a small group of unpaid enthusiast/researchers/hackers beat the facebook team by releasing a working linux (and open source) version.

gustoffenon That which does not kill Bitcoin makes Bitcoin stronger

It is also like a bubble. A tiny pin prick, and pop! Which is also doubly apt because some consider the market price of bitcoin a bubble.

gustoffenon Apple Pushes Deeper Into Mobile Payments

This helps explain why all bitcoin wallet apps are banned from the app store.

gustoffenon Bitcoin Black Friday: Why Namecheap is Participating

Just find a friendly localbitcoins seller. Hand him cash once a week while you're at your favorite coffee shop.

gustoffenon BTC correction happening?

You are wrong about point number 1. The purpose of mining is to process and secure bitcoin transactions. The work that goes into mining is what provides the utility of bitcoin. The 25 btc mining reward is just an incentive.

gustoffenon Baidu now accepts Bitcoin

There are other indicators that this might be legit trade volume. Things like state-sponsored media exposure, the large number of Chinese bitcoin miners, and also that Chinese are already familiar with another very popular digital currency (QQ).

gustoffenon Ask HN: Why do all payment processors charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction?

Not anymore: http://www.coindesk.com/dwolla-bitcoin-companies-virtual-cur...

gustoffenon FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine

It might be too early for a kickstarter, but looks like it hasn't stopped someone from donating pi bitcoins - https://twitter.com/FarmBotProject

gustoffenon Ask HN: Are Your Donations to EFF Triggering Bank Fraud Protection Measures?

In case you didn't know, the EFF takes bitcoin donations now.