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(The idea of mapcodes is great though. I've been to a few countries where even cab drivers don't know the proper street names)
by remh 10y ago
(The idea of mapcodes is great though. I've been to a few countries where even cab drivers don't know the proper street names)
- VLM 10y agoReinvention of DNS. Speaking of money for imaginary rented identifiers, there is/was a LOC type for DNS. So meet me at pizzahut.com isn't going to work with thousands of locations (but... anycast?) although meet me at momandpopsfamilydeli.com will work.
- striking 10y agoIf every Pizza Hut had its own DNS server (kinda expensive and impractical), and each location was guaranteed to respond fastest based on your location (which it won't today), then it would work. Decentralized Pizza Resolution.
- mcphage 10y agoLike if you were at the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell on Jamaica Avenue, and you're trying to meet up with your friend who's at the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell on Jamaica Avenue, you might never actually find each other.