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A Deep Dive into Skynet(blog.sia.tech)
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The cultural factors related to being gay could easily be unrelated to how much being gay is accepted by society. Especially considering how many famous people are now known to have been gay during a time when it was not acceptable. Also, t
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UMC and IBM, not sure if IBM has a full fab or just the IP
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We are doing research into cost. This stuff gets massively cheaper every year. It's cheaper and easier than ever to build a 16nm fab. Profit oriented companies take those cost savings and choose to drive further down the technology sta
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IBM having a blockchain team makes about as much sense as Nintendo having a self driving car team.
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I think in practice it won't be so much about agreeing on a protocol but rather new apps just parasiting off of the data models of the most popular and successful apps. The thing about decentralization is that it forces the data to be
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Open data models allow for faster innovation and stronger collaboration. That's basically the meat of it. Right now the cost outweighs the benefit but the cost is decreasing and the benefit remains.
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I really feel comments like these come from people who haven't successfully actually quit Facebook. There's a real heavy cost to not being on Facebook and most people don't feel the dependency because they've convinced t
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A lot of people have had success moving their friends to signal, and that I think that is very encouraging. Well done to you, and certainly I'm trying to do my part as well.
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For what it's worth I think you are wrong. Decentralization is a complicated technology that needs a lot longer to mature than I think most people realize. But once it is mature - and we're getting close, imo just a few years left
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Privacy policies are unenforceable because social lock-in means you can't leave even if you eventually decide the new policies are bad for you. I don't want Facebook to get my list of contacts, but I also don't want to lose t
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Signal is hosted over centralized servers, I don't think it's that much of a break from the status quo in terms of control. That's not to say it's not the best out there. As a company, Signal is a million times better an
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Japan is pretty damn racist, any white who has there for an extended period of time knows that their skin color means they have a much harder time in certain establishments, or even just aren't allowed at all.
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The more I work with production systems, the more I appreciate healthy logs. We've solved at least a dozen big issues this past year with "just scan the logs and rebuild the historical data, we can pretend like we were monitoring
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The "post mine" is something that has been discussed in the community for many months, and is not something we are hiding - in fact it's stickied at the top of /r/siacoin and has appeared in all of our announcment c
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1 gbps us if you are running your own node, when you are on a public node you are sharing the speeds with hundreds of other users
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Europe servers are struggling, US servers are doing fine. We're still building out our load balancing strategy.
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We're closer than I think you give us credit. The only major component we're missing is that normal browsers don't have the ability to verify that the portal is serving you the right code - which is of course super important.
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Are you in Europe by any chance? We haven't finished setting up load balancing yet and the Europe server is getting hit really hard right now. The dapp sample was blocked because it was mistaken for a phishing attempt (it's the Un
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As a user you have the ability to control what apps you use, what feeds you use, who you follow, etc. Decentralization doesn't mean it's completely free of moderation, it means users have the ability to pick their moderators and
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That's the crazy thing about Skynet. You can do both "easy and decentralized". For example, let's say you go to https://skyfeed.hns.siasky.net/ and you make an account (SkyFeed is a decentralized alterna
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The Sia and Skynet projects are focused on achieving a vision of a decentralized future for the Internet. Pumping the token value has never been a priority. SC is a utility token, and you should buy it if you want to use the Sia network.
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It's a paid network. https://siasky.net/ is free for the moment, but will be switching to a freemium model in the near future. As a portal, siasky will have the ability to ratelimit and block abusers. If you "abus
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It's not really correct to say that Skynet stores all files 'by default in cleartext'. Skynet is a platform for building applications. Whether data is encrypted or cleartext is up to the app developer. The files uploaded via
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My cofounder has been working on an upgrade for Sia that switches the core consensus engine to 'utreexo', which uses an accumulator rather than an entire blockchain history to verify new blocks and transactions. This brings down t
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I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but most jurisdictions have strong protections for providers hosting third party content so long as the providers are not aware that the content is problematic. If a provider is notified that
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Most of the latency right now is software slowdowns, our production testing suggests that with some more optimization at the software level we should be able to get below 80ms with today's protocol and host network. That's still n
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To be a host on Skynet, you have to declare yourself on the Sia blockchain, which means users running a blockchain node (full node or lite node) are able to have a complete and limited list of all the possible hosts on the network. The Skyl
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We get somewhere between dozens and hundreds of DMCA's per week, and we comply with all of them. We can't actually take content off of Skynet itself (similar to how you can't actually take content off of IPFS), but we can hav
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We're just finishing up the database code to handle this, but most Skynet portals intend to operate on a freemium model. If you use Skynet for free, you get a certain amount of storage and a ratelimit on your usage of the platform, and

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