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by markkat 10y ago
Quite possibly. However, if I found myself in a similar situation years from now, I would try it again.
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by markkat 10y ago
I did water, a zero-calorie powerade, and a few pinches of salt. Not having any calories is the goal.
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by markkat 10y ago
Just a personal anecdote, but I was getting colds and flu-like symptoms several times per year for years. People I knew often commented on how often I was ill. I did a 3-day fast two years ago, and haven't had much more than a scratchy
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by markkat 10y ago
If you look at the OP's link: http://fork.ethstats.net/ you can see that the miners have indeed enforced the hard fork chain.
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by markkat 10y ago
Of course there is. However, as Bitcoin Classic may illustrate, it is possible to leave the core developers working on a defunct chain. Core developers represent a double-edged sword. They are critical for getting the network adopted, and f
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by markkat 10y ago
I am surprised how so many seem to think this is a bad thing. Ethereum is very nascent, and this was how the community wanted to fix this issue. It was not just about returning DTH, it was about the implications of the allocation of the DTH
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by markkat 10y ago
Bitcoin might seem like it has a conservative culture, but the truth is that the Chinese government could fork bitcoin tomorrow. I find that worrisome. Those miners that hold more than 80% of the hash power operate at the pleasure of the CC
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by markkat 10y ago
The author makes a lot of assumptions about DAO holders. I am both an ETH and DAO holder. I am pro hardfork, not because I will get my DTH back, but because 1) the consequences of the attacker having that much ETH as Ethereum migrates to Po
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by markkat 10y ago
>I would think having a bank of healthy stem cells would have simplified the procedure and perhaps improved the likelihood of positive outcomes. It is possible, assuming that the banked cells were drawn before progression to a disease st
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by markkat 10y ago
That runs counter to what I have been hearing/reading. AFAIK the dev community is the fastest growing in the cryptocurrency space.
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by markkat 10y ago
>Can people from other countries use your service (by traveling to one of your locations?) Yes. >At what (maximum) age would the max potential benefit be achieved from harvesting? Functional data of cells harvested from donors of diff
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by markkat 10y ago
No, just a local. I described the experience here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11832220 It's not bad at all.
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by markkat 10y ago
In MI/NC it is $3500 and $250/yr storage. Storage will remain constant, but there may be some market differences for the procedure.
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by markkat 10y ago
Great minds think alike. ;)
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by markkat 10y ago
I believe it is adapted from this study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16041622 Thanks. I'll confirm and add an attribution, which should be there.
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by markkat 10y ago
People often use 'marrow stromal cells' or 'mesenchymal stem cells' interchangeably as scientific terms (but of course, there is debate) that refer to adherent colony-forming multipotent cells. We use 'bone marrow s
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by markkat 10y ago
As mentioned in the article, transplanted MSCs have not been found to carry risk of tumor formation, and this is seen as one of their advantages. Induced stem cells (IPS), or stem cells that are genetically modified may carry these risks, a
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by markkat 10y ago
We are based in Ann Arbor, MI. We are currently opening operations in the Piedmont of NC, and CA (SF) will follow soon after. More cities after that. If you are interested, contact us, and let us know where you are at. The procedure is done
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by markkat 10y ago
Different therapies will likely require different numbers of cells, and most clinical trials using MSCs involve preliminary expansion of the cells. We store multiple aliquots of your cells so that only a portion may be thawed at a time. We
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by markkat 10y ago
Sounds great! :) There has been some animal work that suggests transplantation may have that effect: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23967009 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25707248 There i
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by markkat 10y ago
Actually, the brain is not as immune privileged as was long thought. Only last year, lymphatic vessels were identified in the brain. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lymphat...
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by markkat 10y ago
I've been working with MSCs for more than 15 years, mostly in stroke, and I agree completely. It's worth noting that this trial used donor cells, and that might be part of the reason they don't remain after a couple of months
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by markkat 10y ago
This is a lying, cheating, athlete in particular, so it's not surprising. Many athletes do have integrity and don't need to concoct such excuses.
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by markkat 11y ago
I was talking about this to a fellow physicist friend the other day. Natural system with equilibrium points don't evolve away from them smoothly. It doesn't seem reasonable to expect the climate to be any different.
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by markkat 11y ago
14 second low-variance block times is one that makes an impression from a user perspective. >In blockchain-based systems the costs are related to market dynamics. Eg. miners can decide what they put to blocks and at what price. Or is eth
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by markkat 11y ago
I agree that oracles make many use-cases over-hyped, but IMO you shouldn't overlook that Ethereum is far better at transacting ETH than Bitcoin is for transacting BTC. ETH has a powerful use case as programmable money which settles fas
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by markkat 11y ago
>And that Detroit is/has bulldozed 20 or more square miles of empty homes. The ones they bulldoze are not fit for use.
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by markkat 11y ago
Local bitcoins volume is a good resource. https://coin.dance/charts
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by markkat 11y ago
My concern is that LN puts a premium on unpredictable transaction behavior, and private transactions are unpredictable by nature. Thus, LN trades privacy for efficiency. It's odd considering the struggle to keep the blocksize near 1MB
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by markkat 11y ago
Follow both #space and #astronomy (and related) on Hubski. https://hubski.com/tag?id=astronomy https://hubski.com/tag?id=space

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