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Just curious if anyone has an opinion:

Is it worth ordering a dev kit now, or should I wait for this next one to come out?

Also what's the minimum cost rig needed to run an oculous effectively? I only have a 3 year old macbook right now.

I'm not understanding how the android powered standalone headset would work? Would you download games to it? Would it have enough horsepower to run the games? Would it need a huge battery?

Could word2vec be used as part of the algorithm for this? Ever since I read about it I've been trying to think of applications for word2vec.

I was trying to figure out if this same type of thing would be possible to build into a car tire. I haven't been able to figure out braking yet?

Is there any work being done to simple regen braking systems that could easily be added to cars?

But if you limit spending by too much you give the media additional power over elections.

Interesting. So this is something that would be built into the client, and happen automatically I guess?

I see coinjoin mentioned a couple of times in this thread. Would anyone be able to explain it in simple terms?

Sounds promising. Can anyone tell how the delivery into bacterial cells works? Wouldn't this also affect the human cells?

It mentions blood sugar control as a major problem with sitting. I wonder how much benefit could be achieved by simply taking a walk after each meal?

But the serving size on yours is two pills. Maybe you need to double up?

What do you mean about multiplying by 2.3?

How does turning work? I've been curious if I could build my own omni?

Thanks. What do you think of this one? Is Swanson a good brand? You can't beat the price.

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-efas-super-epa-fish-o...

Isn't the proof of work the same as bitcoin though?

(I shouldn't have said blockchain, proof of work would be what the ASIC's are relevant to.)

Do you think the amounts of EPA vs DHA are important? Do you worry about too many heavy metals?

How does the omni control the game? Just curious.

That's a lot, where do you buy it?

Also all I brands I've seen are higher on EPA over DHA. (The one in front of my is 780mg EPA and only 260 DHA)

Does that still help you or do you need a certain ratio?

They could also be used for other blockchain based technologies such as bitmessage, or future voting systems. (I think, correct me if I'm wrong)

They can be used for other currencies. For example namecoin must be getting a huge boost from all the bitcoin mining.

My mining pools just throws in namecoins for me. I guess they can check the same hash against both systems.

I've always wondered what kind of rate a high volume company like McDonalds or Walmart could negotiate? Could they be paying pennies per transaction?

I feel like this wouldn't jibe with conservation of energy. Unless the bird can eat in the air somehow.

It just physically couldn't store enough fuel to fly to fix months straight, right?

Couldn't this be a failed solar system with this as it's sun that just wasn't big enough to ignite?

Would this help APOE4 folks as well?

I don't think you can know that. What if the drug turns on genes responsible for building more "brain structures"?

Or what if the human brain is currently artificially limited say to conserve energy and a drug could remove that limitation.

I'm confused as to why it would leave behind h3 and h4?

Wouldn't intelligence be 100% genetic. I mean humans have intelligence and insects have way less. And all that programming to make one or the other is encoded in the DNA.

Really cool! Any tips on finding similarly undervalued businesses?

By the way flippa seems to be getting worse and worse though I can't really put my finger on why.

I find the sites for sale on flippa to be overpriced. They seem to go for 18 months profit (or more) for an ad supported site that could lose most of its traffic in the next google update.

I think a lot of people would be interested in buying such businesses. I really don't know where you'd find them though.

One thought I had would be a once per month "who's selling" hacker news post for people to list businesses for sale. Similar to the who's hiring. If you like the idea maybe go ahead and post it on 11/1?

Somewhat relatedly how does unemployment insurance work for the furloughed? Can they collect it? If they get back pay later do they have to return the unemployment payments? Could they actually come out ahead?