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Even if they are untruthful, there are surely multiple bitcoin millionaires from Hacker News. Bitcoin was announced here multiple times in the very early days.

Nightmares in response to melatonin suggests low serotonin. Try 5-HTP sometime, which is a partial prodrug for melatonin and in practice works quite similarly to melatonin, except it induces vivid happy dreams and is the proscribed treatment for night terrors in children.

They must have unusually low chargeback rates. It doesn't seem like they are that bad of a deal in the scheme of purchasing clubs like this, right?

>...and now Berkeley rents will start rising to match San Francisco rents.

Downtown Berkeley is already pretty close to San Francisco rents. I recommend getting out of the zone where you are competing with Cal students. Near Ashby BART to be closer to nightlife and Oakland/San Francisco, or near North Berkeley BART for a safer, quieter existence.

I've lived in Berkeley for three years and love the lifestyle and the weather. I pine for the city sometimes but recognize that I don't want to lose what I have here. And this place just opened around the corner. http://www.yelp.com/biz/rangoon-super-stars-berkeley

Berkeley has not coalesced as a software startup hub because city zoning policies discriminate against software companies. Large swaths of real estate are reserved for food production companies and some biotech space. Definitely start your food companies here, and there are small built out lab spaces available here if you're doing biochemistry.

Eventually zoning policy will change and then Berkeley can more firmly integrate itself into the greater Silicon Valley.

How much do you want it? https://asana.com/jobs :)

I've heard that the amount of lighting and fire in the night sky at Burning Man works as a leading indicator of the economy, and if this year at Burning Man was an indicator, the economy is back.

I think much of the tension between haves and have-nots at Burning Man is contrived. I see modern Burning Man as a colloboration between wealthy techies from the Bay Area and builders and makers living closer to the event. There might be a higher proportion of spectators to participants at Burning Man in recent years, but in terms of absolute quantity there are more participants than ever.

Burning Man is not a communist utopia. It's just Burning Man.

I thought this was an exceptionally well-written, nuanced article and your comment, to me, just reads like typical Hacker News complaining.

My credit card was once stolen and used to sign up for a VPN

"Plutocratisation": Great neologism.

10% in Bitcoin

witty and poignant, +1

It seems like it should be a reason for DHS to force Mt. Gox to share information about their customers and agree to help DHS prevent money laundering, but shutting things down seems like an overreach that will likely be temporary.

I stand corrected. It looks like 23andme is testing for just a few high-penetrance but uncommon mutations that are mostly only of interest to Ashkenazi Jews.

Sure. Of the high penetrance mutations 23andme tests for, I don't have anything really bad. I think it's worth knowing for most people, because of minor things you can do to alter your risk. For example, people with the bad version of the high risk Alzheimer's gene (ApoE4) probably respond better to paleo-esque diets and intermittent fasting than the average person.

But those are three of the most significant of the possible BRCA mutations, no?

Note that the BRCA test costs $3k when purchased through a physician, but 23andme violates the patents and tests for BRCA for $99. http://23andme.com

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline

It's really low volume. Check out the crazy spreads on https://tradehill.com/

I think we'll stabilize around 100 over the next 48 hours but with crazy degrees of volatility.

So you think the price will be lower than $200 USD / BTC 3 years from now?

If it's not a bubble, it's the first hyper-monetization. http://konradsgraf.com/blog1/2013/4/6/hyper-monetization-que...

It's happening because more and more people are buying Bitcoins are fewer are selling. Supply and demand. This interview talks about the real-time increased demand. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5517634

Don't forget antibiotics, antivirals, and narcotic painkillers for your zombie survival kit...

And has a longer commute to downtown by public transit than Oakland

The nice-ish two bedrooms in the Lower Haight for 3600/month are where I suggest new transplants to the city move.

I would pay a few hundred a month (or more?) if I could hold semi-private events for 20-30 people occasionally in the evenings, but the listed hours of 9AM-5PM are uninteresting to me. Mechanics Institute still sounds neat, I'll check it out sometime. Thanks.

If it's in San Francisco or Berkeley/Oakland...

Criminal prosecution for fraud? Does that really happen with any regularity? I think by far the most common consequence of being caught lying about a felony is firing with cause.

I don't question the premise here, but I question the research and specific formulation.

I'm more specifically intrigued by the formulation behind something like Chori bar. http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Chori-bar-nutritious-pu...

One could update the "crash conferences" advice to "volunteer at conferences". Being behind the desk giving out badges is a powerful place to be in terms of developing connections or fitting into a scene.