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KitDuncanon Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely

I am a vegan and I am aware of the use of fetal bovine serum and I am all for it. Still way better than slaughtering billions of animals every year.

Until we have a plant-based growth medium I won't eat any fake meat myself though.

KitDuncanon Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year

Cool so now miners are buying commodity hardware in bulk instead and I can't build a proper workstation because GPU prices are through the roof.

Mining in general can't be the solution to consensus issue. It's just horrible for the environment.

KitDuncanon Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year

Mhm I wonder why non-mining altcoins are getting the most fud...

KitDuncanon Feasibility of low-level GPU access on the Web

Do you have any resources on how you did that? I am developing a web app and I have to visualize a ton of datapoints in a bunch of charts and all the charting libraries I've tried are way too slow. I've been looking for something that could utilize WebGL to speed things up, but haven't found anything so far.

KitDuncanon Lab meat to transform meat industry in 2021

It depends on whether Fetal Bovine Serum is used to grow the meat. If it is, it's neither vegan or vegetarian.

KitDuncanon Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017)

If you are using a car once a month, shouldn't it be far cheaper, even without taxes, to just rent one?

KitDuncanon RaiBlocks: A Feeless Distributed Cryptocurrency Network [pdf]

Same. Even though HackerNews despises IOTA for rolling their own crypto, building on ternary and having a centralized coordinator, I still think that IF IOTA manages to solve their issues and can establish themselves as an IOT powerhouse, they'll be absolutely enormous.

Also IOTA and Rai aren't really competitors. So for the time being, I hold both.

KitDuncanon SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken

To some people real meat (and animal products) already seem incredibly cruel.

I'd argue most people actually know it's morally wrong and just choose to eat it out of convenience.

KitDuncanon Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

Still seems weird that in avoiding sugar, you're going as far as not eating fruit, but you still have milk.

KitDuncanon Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build, that you can't be bothered to?

Have you tried bitwarden? It's open source and self-hostable and I definitely prefer it over lastpass.

KitDuncanon FCC approves first wireless power at a distance charging system

I had a Nexus 5 a couple of years ago that could do that and I am sure there have been phones way before that with induction charging.

KitDuncanon Vue.js vs. React: what happened in 2017

Since October (I think) vue single file components work flawlessly with typescript. Can't speak for jsx though.

KitDuncanon Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

I am keeping an eye on Modum. They are about to launch Q1 2018 and it's the first blockchain application that makes sense to me.

KitDuncanon Bitcoin exchange Youbit shuts after second hack attack

Back when I held bitcoin this is what I did. I had two ledger nanos holding a private key and one private key managed by an online wallet, that shut down since. It was a really comfortable way of accessing my coins and it felt quite secure.

KitDuncanon Show HN: Shazam-like acoustic fingerprinting of continuous audio streams

Why not just use a rom without all the bloatware and maybe even without google services alltogether?

KitDuncanon Show HN: Shazam-like acoustic fingerprinting of continuous audio streams

You need an adblocker.

KitDuncanon How to get enough protein without meat

I am not suggesting you ingest the soil bacteria, for it to produce the B12 inside your body. If you were to ingest small amounts of soil (on fruit or in water) it should already contain B12. I don't know why anybody would do that, if they could just take dirt (hehe) cheap supplements instead though.

KitDuncanon How to get enough protein without meat

This annoys me so much. The essential amino acid myth has been thoroughly debunked for years.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-protein-combining-myth/

B12 is the only real deficiency vegans experience and it's easily solved by taking a supplement. B12 isn't some miracle vitamin, exclusive to animal products either. It's produced by bacteria in the soil and since we're usually sterilizing our food, it's not usually found on our produce anymore. That's why livestock are getting it supplemented, just the way vegans are supplementing it. It's not even like eating meat and animal products saves you from B12 deficiency as a big chunk of the population is actually deficient.

KitDuncanon [dead]

Yeah what a surprise. Nothing about our fishing is even remotely sustainable and with fish being promoted as a health food lately, even less so.

Consumers need to face responsibility and need to start making ethical and sustainable choices!

KitDuncanon Ask HN: Have you open sourced your software and still made money?

It probably will still be worth it. People are incredibly lazy and not everyone can be assed to self-host. You may think about adding another monetization incentive to your self-hosted version though. We are self-hosting a tool called Invoice Ninja, but paid a small one time fee, to not have their logo on our invoices.

KitDuncanon Soylent can no longer ship to Canada

I experimented with drinking Soylent only for a week and experienced no issues at all. But I am already vegan, so my gut may have been adjusted.

KitDuncanon Soylent can no longer ship to Canada

Completly off topic, but everybody should try the field roast apple sage sausages. They are absolutely amazing.

KitDuncanon Riot – Full-text search engine in Go

And riot games. Basically the worst name possible for SEO.

KitDuncanon Most sushi fish isn't fresh

Plant-based and lab-grown is what we'll be eating in the future. Farms (be it livestock or fish) are inefficient and cruel.

KitDuncanon The impossible dream of USB-C

Dells proprietary charger is the worst. They have a cable dedicated to insuring the use of original chargers, which appears to be especially prone to breakage. If it does, your XPS won't charge anymore, but it still gets power. I managed to repair my charger, but it was a real clusterfuck.

KitDuncanon Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer

Yeah. Lets all go on a Keto diet and sustain 400 million americans on steak. Do you people ever stop and think about the consequences of your diet?

KitDuncanon Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library

Yeah back when I started with my app, the wrapper didn't exist. Even now it's not perfectly suited for my needs, so I am sticking with my solution.

KitDuncanon Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library

https://github.com/RubaXa/Sortable

This is what I am using. It's not perfect and was a pain in the ass to get running with Vue.js, but now I am kinda happy and my clients are as well.

KitDuncanon EU paid for report that concluded piracy isn’t harmful, tried to hide findings

I wouldn't have a problem, compensating an artist a reasonable amount for his songs. The problem is that most of my money goes to an (for me) unneccessary distribution channel (iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music,...), when there are superior ones for free (torrent).

KitDuncanon A curated list of things related to Vue.js

Two-way databinding is not supported by Vue 2 if I remember correctly. You can do it, but you'll get console logs, about how you should avoid doing it.