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10591.
by api 8y ago
I've been programming since BASIC on a VIC-20 sometime around age 6. I can code in like 10 languages and have written everything from crypto and network protocols to distributed systems, database sync engines, and high throughput video
10592.
by api 8y ago
I ascribe this to a lack of understanding of how Internet protocols work and how the Internet works in general. Non-technical people tend to see the Internet as its services -- Facebook, Netflix, etc. -- and don't understand that proto
10593.
by api 8y ago
I'm curious about this. Are you saying that relying on storage latency and volume is energetically cheaper than relying on compute? I see a few flaws in this. First of all: all fast storage media consume energy even when idle. Secondly
10594.
by api 8y ago
Yes I have considered that. It didn't exist in 2010 so it's worth taking a look. It already does some of what we want, but the devil is in the details. Noise also did not exist in 2010. The cryptographic world is so much richer to
10595.
by api 8y ago
Not in 1.2. This is planned for 1.4. It's fairly prominent in the manual. It was left out of the original design since ephemeral negotiation means state and therefore latency and stalls if packets are dropped. The present design leaves
10596.
by api 8y ago
An identity is a public key. An address is a hash of that public key. Key agreement is just SHA512(Curve25519(my secret + your public)). Public keys are looked up from addresses via "upstream" nodes by the sender. An upstream node
10597.
by api 8y ago
I have two issues with PoS that I've never seen addressed? (1) Isn't it Plutocratic? PoW can be too in that capital and energy costs money, but PoS seems to directly reward the largest stakeholders with more stake. (2) Removing mo
10598.
by api 8y ago
I am the primary maintainer. :) A minimal implementation could be much shorter, but the ref implementation is not minimal and includes a lot of features that go far beyond the scope of WireGuard. Salsa20/12 is standard and according to
10599.
by api 8y ago
No RFC-type document yet but quite a bit of commenting here: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/node/Pac... There is also a higher-level description of the entire system here: http
10600.
by api 8y ago
They will just move it all offshore.
10601.
by api 8y ago
What's hyperbole? I heard all this predicted when smart phones came out, and people said it was paranoid hyperbole then. It wasn't. If anything the parent's predictions are probably conservative.
10602.
by api 8y ago
Do it on the dark web.
10603.
by api 8y ago
... but you don't have 10.* to yourself. I've seen many cases where companies were bought, merged, or linked to other companies and had to put complicated NATs in place to translate org A's 10.* addresses to/from org B&#
10604.
by api 8y ago
Secure hosts would be nice. I always say that VPNs and even firewalls are a band-aid. The problem is that the world is overrun with insecure legacy software and insecure-by-design new software that assumes it to always be running on a &qu
10605.
by api 8y ago
Is proof of space actually "greener" than proof of work? Memory and hard drives consume power, and querying them consumes power. Seems like it could be just another kind of work. It would be more ASIC resistant though.
10606.
by api 8y ago
This seems like a thoroughly thought out version of a DAG (directed acyclic graph) based currency. I don't have time to go through it with a fine toothed comb, but I'm curious about others' reactions. There are well known pro
10607.
by api 8y ago
Don't forget flight capital from China, Russia, etc.
10608.
by api 8y ago
Such mine. Much electric bill.
10609.
by api 8y ago
It's still pretty popular, and arguably works better than Bitcoin and had a better community.
10610.
by api 8y ago
> they have alienated many lower-income voters. It seems like lower income voters reliably vote against their economic self-interest across the United States.
10611.
by api 8y ago
Look at Canada (Vancouver and Toronto specifically) for a glimpse of how bad it can get if anti-development urban policies combined with pro-home-inflation monetary and banking policies are allowed to run unchecked. The prices are even more
10612.
by api 8y ago
> Every zero-sum adversarial system would be a lot more efficient if they accepted the judgement of a third party instead. How much energy could we save if we dismantled the court system, elections, and pro sports? None, since players wo
10613.
by api 8y ago
... or alternately all money is a Ponzi scheme. Take your pick.
10614.
by api 8y ago
Elsewhere in this thread I posted this: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/ If this is correct then if we had a cryptographic lottery players would devote the same amount of "work" to attempting
10615.
by api 8y ago
If the economic reasoning behind this is correct... http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/ ... than fiat must according to the same line of reasoning also consume resources when it is placed in circulation.
10616.
by api 8y ago
They're not, and this site is a very well known ideological rag. Many power bills give you a cost breakdown. Where I live delivery charge is more than the cost of the electricity itself, which is not terribly surprising given the massi
10617.
by api 8y ago
JavaScript is IMHO not a bad dynamic language, especially for rapid development of typical web, UI, glue, and scripting stuff... in other words most of what you use dynamic languages for. We are moving to Go for our backend because dynamic
10618.
by api 8y ago
It was struck down by reps, not voters directly. Make a note of yes and no votes and now you know who to vote for or against next election.
10619.
by api 8y ago
There is definitely a market for this. When you hit really high levels of the corporate or governmental world, time becomes enormously more valuable than money. The market might bear a cost many times that of a private jet flight if the tim
10620.
by api 8y ago
Same is true of the USA.

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