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markkat

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

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dragonfjord.com 1y ago

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

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www.nature.com 6y ago

New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Launch HN: Forever Labs (YC S17) – Stem-Cell Banking

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www.bbc.com 9y ago

Risky therapy using chemo and autologous stem cell transplant stops MS for years

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www.diamandis.com 9y ago

Peter Diamandis: Stem Cell Revolution

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hubski.com 11y ago

The social aggregator is a terrible business model

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hubski.com 12y ago

Will Bitcoin eat itself?

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hubski.com 12y ago

Google+ cannot be undone.

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Did the vertical spacing increase?

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hubski.com 12y ago

Personal content isn't a sin.

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www.stjohnkarp.net 12y ago

The Great [Edison] Diamond Disc Experiment

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t3kd.com 13y ago

Tin-Can, a novelty name, a serious app.

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hubski.com 13y ago

Tin-Can: building a one-to-many messaging app sans Internet or cell service

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hubski.com 13y ago

Hubski: Mirrored threads (an experiment)

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www.theadvancedapes.com 13y ago

What is Lamarck's Role in This Modern World?

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www.theverge.com 13y ago

Facebook launches first real-money gambling app, 'Bingo Friendzy'

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www.reddit.com 14y ago

The web rabbit hole.

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hubski.com 14y ago

Space exploration is about us.

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www.opencongress.org 14y ago

6 GOP co-sponsors ask Reid to cancel PIPA vote

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

Over 40 Internet Companies Come Out Publicly Against SOPA

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marsrover.nasa.gov 14y ago

NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited By Water

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hubski.com 14y ago

News needs to be decentralized

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Show HN: Hubski, my idea of a better aggregator

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qed.econ.queensu.ca 14y ago

Japan’s Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan

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www.dailydot.com 14y ago

Hubski - a Reddit alternative and more

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allthingsd.com 14y ago

Get on AllthingsD: Email: no. Friendly follow-up email: no. Write a ballad: Yes.

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: what is a good iPhone text app?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Looking for a good short web pub platform.

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hubski.com 14y ago

For the very rich, citizenship is a problem to be solved.

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hubski.com 15y ago

Google+ got right what Facebook got wrong.

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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 for you, full of new opportunities, and that you will continue to help and inspire people. Godspeed!

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 sustainable strategy is the government taxing the environmental and human rights externalities of off-shore production.

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 dissolves the privacy not of certain specific individuals accused of wrongdoing, but the privacy of all individuals, none of whom have been accused of anything. We can do better than that as a society. Warrantless surveillance of all people cannot be our standard.

So glad to see this view rising up. When so many private and public parties are required to collect my private data, how can it remain private? I've had unemployment claims made in my name this year due to a breach, and it was on me to fight the fraud that would harm me. The collection of private data does not protect us, it results in a honeypot and puts us at risk.

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 premise that the web ought to compete with native app experience is flawed to begin with. Executing that goal through a corporate gateway is perverse.

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 Ethereum has more nodes, processes more transactions per day, has thousands of more devs building with it, that real estate shares are issued on it (https://realt.co/), or that tokenized digital art is selling for millions on Ethereum (https://usaherald.com/beeple-an-iconic-digital-artist-sells-...). etc. Most don't know that $2.3B (0.62%) of BTC is locked in custody to be traded as an Ethereum token (https://defipulse.com/wbtc) as to get access to financial istruments built on Ethereum.

Eventually this will be common knowledge, but it isn't yet. It's early days.

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

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 their life.

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 machine that the world can use. In the most basic terms, this will remove clearing houses for transactions of assets. In the long term this will lead to novel types of assets, and make ownership extremely liquid. Imagine using your phone to buy shares in a recording artist you just discovered, and selling those shares when they win a grammy. Imagine building a stream of passive income based on the shares you've earned in projects you've worked on throughout your life.

As an example, already, anyone in the world can buy property in the US: https://realt.co/

What the web did for infomation, Ethereum will do for value.

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, we might expect carbon capture to remove less than one year of emissions.

Not useless, but close, considering the investment which could be used instead to more rapidly reduce emissions by installing/improving solar, wind, geothermal, etc.

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 it going as long as possible.

Fun times.

It is important to keep it fun. I've done silly things like https://hubski.com/weather and I am seriously considering adding user vs user chess.

I rolled a custom IRC that I am pretty proud of: https://hubski.com/chat

I am planning on a proper ‘Show HN’, but I’ve been working on something for quite a time that has prepper use-cases.

Most people have phones. Technically, they don’t need a third party to talk to each other. It seemed like there should be a communication option that took advantage of that.

Thus, Tin-Can: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tin-can/id1435356247

In short, TC is a one-to-many messaging app that has no central service. Proximate phones use BLE to sync.

My mom is headed to high ground in FL atm due to Eta.. I think it’d be useful if phones could all do this natively.

FWIW, I just got it on iOS, and updates like replies are forthcoming. But feedback is appreciated if you try it out. I’ll do a show HN once a few features are completed and bugs squashed.

Stripe Climate 6 years ago

Rotting trees (and the leaves they drop) add carbon to the ground, creating organic soil.