Thank you so much for this! I wanted to try it out for a long time, but was waiting for a discount. It was a no brainer at $49 :)
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#24Everyone is so fixated on the price.
What I want to know is, who they share the data with? Do the insurance companies get our genome?
Come on people, there should be no more precious data to you, than the genome of you and your family. Yet facebook users seem more concerned about their social network privacy than HN members are about their genome privacy.
For insurance companies, this could be a total actuarial GOLDMINE and it would probably even be worth them paying us for the data.
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#25I've been wanting to do this for ages and got the $49 on the second try. Much thanks to the poster for this!
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#26Wow, they are charging $115 shipping to Australia for two kits.
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#27I wonder what their threshold is for offering this as the permanent price? I know I've never considered it before b/c of the price. Heck, I didn't consider it when I got the $99 offer. But when I got $49, I ordered two.
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#28I think this could be a silent Cyber Monday sale. I saw $49/$69/$99/$199/$299.
Got mine for $49. Note once you get $49, you can order multiple kits at that same price point.
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#29Everyone is so fixated on the price. What I want to know is, who they share the data with? Do the insurance companies get our genome? Come on people, there should be no more precious data to you, than the genome of you and your family. Yet facebook users seem more concerned about their social network privacy than HN members are about their genome privacy. For insurance companies, this could be a total actuarial GOLDM…
Note that in 13 months (in the US) pre-existing conditions will no longer be excludable (subject to a few complexities, yada yada). That rules out the worst potential abuse. It's unclear to me how "insurance company" access to this data would even be an inarguably bad thing. I can see a lot of good resource planning that could come from a large body of genome data.
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#30Seems like the deal's over. I've now hit the homepage ~50 times with a new incognito window each time and the price was always $299.
Too bad, it would've been nice.