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Bitcoin will become a sentimental Gold while a more robust, efficient protocol such as Ripple will become cash

If the founder is strong enough, it should not matter IMO.

guy I hate to say it - but is is either school or other talents. you can't half ass both and get away with it. it is either C student and entrepreneur-facilitating, marketable outside talents or A student and no-little outside talents. B student and mediocre outside talents will lead to mediocracy and failure. so decide which you want to encourage. i would go for outside talents but you better make damn sure your son has the right tutor, influences, and environment to hone his natural inclinations outside the traditional academic system.

We hope as more data becomes available, the field will become more and more definite. We will use indefinite mathematics in genomic interpretation until we have near perfect information.

Interpretation is an indefinite field - statisticians and econometricians will be highly valued.

23andme is babyish relative to what's coming. Even exome sequencing does not provide the whole story. There are so many conditionals, so many sequences important in regulation, so much of the "dark" genome that actually codes for RNA. Sure, some SNPs are highly predictive, but there are compensatory mutations and regulatory gene circuits. Everything works together and must be weighed together. Even with whole genome we still need epigenetics and we need time-lapse data and sampled location specific (cell and organ system) genomic data to really produce clinically relevant predictions.

The cost comes from the continuous washing and waves of nucleotide additions (reagent costs). Illumina's technology suffers the same difficulty. The promise of PacBio's technology is that it does not require this continuous washing and staggering of nucleotide additions (unfortunately PacBio was not able to translate its technology to high-throughput high-accuracy or manufacture properly its version of "chips" [SMRT cells] for Single Molecule Real-time Sequencing). I'm afraid the cost will not come down significantly for iontorrent or illumina without a fundamental improvement in reagent utilization techniques or reduction in reagent costs.

I'll tell you what, we had a bike sharing program over at Davidson College, by the end of each semester those bikes were unridable. Be prepared for some heavy maintenance fees and liability issues.

Bullshit.

The founding fathers built an incentive-infallible system. Is Obama smarter than Madison? Is Obama smarter than Benjamin Franklin? What are his true intentions? Strong IP law made this country great. Strong IP law is vital in the information age and vital to the superior positioning of this great nation. Strong IP will be the driving force which will save humanity from extinction events. Keep IP strong. Keep America strong.

People have to understand this is a career for many. Inventors spend months even years developing their ideas into inventions. We need strong IP in this country. Obama has forsaken us and has used false logic that non-inventors can get behind to destroy the incentive system for innovation in this country. He is taking baby steps, warming us up to pure socialism. Without strong IP, the United States of America will crumble and Obama will get his way - utter destruction of the potential for greatness we all strive for. Obama does not have the capacity to invent and does not understand invention. Use empathy and realize how important our inventors are and how important IP is to the future of this nation. IP is all that sets us apart from Greece.

The socialists insist that everyone has a label, a "place in life" and will transfer the "Troll's" ideas and intellectual property to people who are better politically and socially well positioned. This is a ploy that will ruin our society.