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9391.
by api 7y ago
We found stuff like this while researching before creating LF. I remember finding this exact project and a few others like it. This is in the ballpark but has numerous issues in a federated or fully decentralized use case, such as who sets
9392.
by api 7y ago
This is mitigated via a proof of work "hashcash" mechanism, or for signed owners the ability of the CA to revoke the cert. BTW "high resource use" is in reference to things like tiny embedded devices. You won't be p
9393.
by api 7y ago
LF is part of a return to focus: global scale network coordination and decentralization. Making a hardware box was the big defocusing project and took more time (with less results) than this. Lesson learned: avoid hardware if you are not a
9394.
by api 7y ago
Send me an email or PM and I can look into this.
9395.
by api 7y ago
It wasn't built to be a cryptocurrency but to serve as a data store for a decentralized network backplane. You could theoretically build a token on top of it I suppose.
9396.
by api 7y ago
You can create your own database/network easily. There is even a command for it. This is just the default.
9397.
by api 7y ago
The lf.zerotier.com node is just another node. It's just hard coded as a default so people can use the CLI right away. It has no special status and could be taken down with no effect on other nodes.
9398.
by api 7y ago
Yes
9399.
by api 7y ago
This is for systems that cross trust boundaries. Etcd or consul would be a better fit for systems controlled by one entity. The only exception might be where the network is unreliable or transient. Think of it (as the readme says) as consul
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LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store(github.com)
191 points by api 7y ago|46 comments
9401.
by api 7y ago
Ragging on things that failed with the benefit of hindsight is a good way to sound smart. I have never liked that genre much. 5gen failed but Apollo, the Manhattan Project, DARPANet, the Bell Labs transistor project, and SpaceX reusable boo
9402.
by api 7y ago
What frequencies are these using? Also what is the speed? I assume its low frequency and pretty slow.
9403.
by api 7y ago
It must be better/simpler than the centralized web or it will fail.
9404.
by api 7y ago
Endless scroll has lots of legitimate uses, and there are a million more dark patterns where the dark use of endless scroll came from. Bills like this are not the answer.
9405.
by api 7y ago
Hah... I meant to say gamified but I'm glad people understood the autoincorrected version. Mobile is the foot rub. (Autoincorrect of mobile is the future I saw once.)
9406.
by api 7y ago
The change you describe is still a little bit mystifying to me. People went from caring about privacy and freedom to being totally fine with listening devices in their homes owned by advertising companies in only about ten years. I personal
9407.
by api 7y ago
Isn't like 90% of water use in CA agricultural?
9408.
by api 7y ago
Isn't the Internet a cesspool of all kinds of pseudoscience?
9409.
by api 7y ago
Another observation: as with any slushy area of science, peoples' willingness to apply skepticism and what they are willing to question tends to be determined by their politics and other biases. Liberals are happy to question IQ and
9410.
by api 7y ago
Something incredible just happened. After a half century of jaw-boning about the need for renewable "green" energy, we now have a repeatable scalable tech template similar to the [oil well + refinery + piston engine] or [coal mine
9411.
by api 7y ago
CISC since around the turn of the millennium is basically a custom tuned high decode speed data compression codec for RISC-like micro-ops. It's been a very long time since anyone designed a CISC processor that actually ran (non-trivial
9412.
by api 7y ago
... or about a myriad other technologies. It's sad that cryptocurrency speculation and hype sucked all the air out of the room vs other decentralized tech. In the end its leading to a condition where decentralized equals Ponzi finance
9413.
by api 7y ago
CISC is basically a specialized data compression codec for micro-ops. That is all.
9414.
by api 7y ago
It's a special case of a more general trend: the complete abandonment of what were once called RAD (rapid application development) tools. Microsoft also killed WYSIWYG Visual Basic (pre-dotnet), quite possibly the most productive GUI b
9415.
by api 7y ago
Of course it does. Nearly everyone today is time poor. Let's say your time costs $40/hour. A "free" open source app that takes three hours to set up costs $120 and if it takes an average of an hour a month to maintain it
9416.
by api 7y ago
I love the "hold my beer" era of US / USSR atomic testing.
9417.
by api 7y ago
What sort of memory consumption and general overhead are we talking about here?
9418.
by api 7y ago
I pimp this project any chance I get: https://github.com/andlabs/libui We're considering using it for the next generation of the ZeroTier desktop UI. Unfortunately no mobile support (but we already have native mob
9419.
by api 7y ago
It would be far better to give one thousand risky cutting edge projects one million dollars.
9420.
by api 7y ago
I love the quote at the end: > In 2014, I attended TED’s main Vancouver conference and watched the opening talk, from the MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. In his closing words, he claimed that in 30 years, “we are going to inge

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