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markkat

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About markkat

Ann Arbor MI. Working on https://foreverlabs.com, https://hubski.com, and https://tincan.ninja.

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    Comment #48649519

    IMHO comparably, cars today look depressing. So soulless, so similar, so boring. White/grey/silver/black, maybe a few boring blue or burgundy.

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    Last Word: Build as many words as you can before finding the last word

    Last Word was made by my good friend, Mike, and has become part of my daily puzzle routine. It's addictive. It stretches your vocab, and there's strategy in the words you choose, b…

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    Comment #43557309

    Those error bars suggest this was underpowered, and it did find a significant increase in females: https://www.mdpi.com/nutrients/nutrients-17-01081/article_de... Poor interpretati…

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    Comment #32441674

    Works for heart disease and likely all cause mortality. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30486813/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35908583/

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    Comment #32416755

    Existence is interaction.

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    Comment #31600139

    It really saddens me to hear this. It was an honor to get to know you as batchmates. Your passion and drive for 70MR made a mark upon me. I know that this is just another beginning…

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    Comment #28632961

    It's really consistent and strange considering the ostensive nature of the site.

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    Comment #27122368

    These industries squeezed the blood out of US suppliers to compete on cost. I don't think a correct solution is the government building capacity and supply chains. IMHO a more sust…

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    Comment #26530609

    The legal system will recognize it, and attribution protocols are being built. Removing middlemen like title companies is an efficiency, not overkill.

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    Comment #26530325

    A house is linked to a title. The title is a paper token.

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    Comment #26465752

    It'd be very cool if you could set the classic date in your profile.

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    Comment #26142563

    I expect that once Ethereum completes the switch to PoS, this issue is going to loom large for Bitcoin.

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    Comment #25956888

    If you use a product, you are aware of things that people that don't use it, aren't.

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    Comment #25661411

    >When an individual is accused of a criminal offense, it may be reasonable to dissolve their privacy to some degree in the search for truth about that offense. >However, KYC dissol…

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    Comment #25649886

    n. The quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others. n. The state of being free from public attention or unsanctioned intrusion.

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    Comment #25645673

    We should not sacrifice privacy to make law enforcement easier. It's ok to make law enforcement work harder and less efficiently rather than the people they serve.

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    Comment #25467300

    This committee is window-dressing. AMP is about Google revenue alone, remaking the web as a consumer portal, not an open platform for information exchange and creativity. The premi…

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    Comment #25443541

    As evidenced by the replies here, most people don't understand Ethereum, much less what is being done with Ethereum atm. Most people still don't know what DeFi means, or know that …

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    Comment #25268798

    If more than half of the nodes adopted an update with that cap changed, it would change. It'd probably result in a fork.

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    Comment #25268708

    I see the opposite happening, as rent-seeking models like that of the recording industry are replaced. Also, this regards the music an artist makes and sells, not every aspect of t…

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    Comment #25265367

    It makes me sad, because I expected a comment like this to be the highest on HN. In the case of Ethereum, digital scarcity secured by a blockchain enables a turing complete state m…

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    Comment #25198553

    >In the IEA's "Clean Technology Scenario", more than 28 GtCO2 could be captured from industrial facilities between now and 2060. We emit about 35-40 GtCO2 per year. So in 40 years,…

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    Comment #25151276

    I've been running hubski.com for 10 years now. Luckily we have remained small enough to have mostly small problems. Similar situation though, no ads, no revenue. I intend to keep i…