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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 #26559391
For now.
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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…