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Kano is using this thread to promote his own product
And just where has he said anything in this thread that can be construed as Marketing of his pool? Nowhere. It started as a way to bring to light valid concerns. I agree the title is a bit over the top but at least it got the conversations going 
When specific points have been brought up he states what he has done regarding those points. Ja he tends to also point out what others have not done - so what? As a counter point one can always explain why they think his solutions are unnecessary. This is a technical discussion after all and that is how discussions are supposed to work...
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empty blocks MUST happen unless the time it takes to download a block, verify transactions, deal with the mempool, build a block =< zero ms, which is not true even if you claim so, even if all pools run on the same LAN with block size being 1byte time will never be =< 0, there will always be empty blocks and there will always be orphan blocks,
The only time an empty block MUST happen is the very very rare times mempool is empty. Aside from that, generating empty blocks is a conscious decision made by the operators of certain large pools. They are not a random event that any pool might do.