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14971.
by api 12y ago
Personal servers are almost certainly the way forward if we want to de-feudalize, but they're not the whole solution. Now somebody just needs to make a personal server platform based around CoreOS and Docker.
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by api 12y ago
Multicast presently does have some tunable parameters, but so far they all have acceptable defaults and are hidden. I will probably expose them under an advanced tab in the future. So I didn't mean to be totally dismissive... My point
14973.
by api 12y ago
BitTorrent Kad is one of the only huge scale totally decentralized systems in use today. I wonder if it could stand up to a big Sybil attack though? Most of the black hats that could do it don't because they all watch illegal movies an
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by api 12y ago
I completely disagree. If you offered a decentralized alternative to, say, Facebook that gave the user command of their data and could compete on user experience I think you would have a mega-hit. The bugaboo is "compete on user experi
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by api 12y ago
The other day I wondered if Bitcoin might not be considered a kind of AI. The fundamental value of Bitcoin is in the fact that the block chain is itself a trustable third party. Does that make it a citizen? A nation state? Still... I wonder
14976.
by api 12y ago
Todo. I'm doing some refactoring to make it easier.
14977.
by api 12y ago
Tunable means there's now something else people have to understand, which means nobody will use it.
14978.
by api 12y ago
With eventual consistency "eventual" becomes a long time with a big network. Either that or the bandwidth requirements become massive. It would be an example of choosing security and decentralization at the expense of efficiency.
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by api 12y ago
They're different things architecturally. cjdns is cool but as far as I know could not scale really really huge or survive, say, a Sybil type attack by someone with NSA or top-tier black hat hacker group expertise. I'm not sure my
14980.
by api 12y ago
It would fragment the network, almost like NAT. Instead of just being able to link up by address, I would have to know what trust choices you'd made. A federated model or some kind of expanded hierarchy is possible but it would still h
14981.
by api 12y ago
It's similar to the original pre-Microsoft design in many ways, but ZT is actually less asymmetrical in that client and "server" run the same code. A supernode is just a regular node blessed as such. (And at a fixed address w
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Decentralization: I Want to Believe(adamierymenko.com)
133 points by api 12y ago|69 comments
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by api 12y ago
Another question is why do companies get them? Software and other ephemeral businesses lack physical assets. That's scary to quite a few MBA types, especially those brought up outside this industry. A patent is something that makes sof
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by api 12y ago
It doesn't say how much thrust the null article "produced." If there's a significant difference, that's still very suggestive. My next suspects for error would be that the device is propelling itself through heat
14985.
by api 12y ago
Meh. If that's true then Wired shamelessly went for click bait. :P
14986.
by api 12y ago
Like I said, the best test would be to put one in space. If you fire the thing up an the satellite's orbit changes, that's kind of a hard measurement to screw up. (Let it orbit with the drive off for a while as a control.)
14987.
by api 12y ago
It would alter our understanding of physics, so it would be both scientific and technological. From what I understand it would move our understanding of everything even further from classical Newtonian physics and deeper into the relativity
14988.
by api 12y ago
Third replication then? This stuff has been hovering (pun intended) at the edge of detection for some time: spinning superconductors, this thing, etc. all claiming to provide evidence of tiny amounts of thrust in apparent violation of stand
14989.
by api 12y ago
RIP The Open Internet 1993 - 2014
14990.
by api 12y ago
I wonder if the OP and change.org petition is viral marketing for the show? Calling for something to be banned is marketing gold.
14991.
by api 12y ago
Naming it Opteron is horribly confusing... is it x86 or ARM?
14992.
by api 12y ago
All invented and in many cases first prototyped in the 60s.
14993.
by api 12y ago
The responses are not encouraging. They're either incremental improvements on things invented before 1980 (often before 1970) or the poster is misinformed and the idea pre-dates 1980. The WWW is actually a 1960s idea. Watch Engelbart&#
14994.
by api 12y ago
I've had an intuitive sense for a long time that the innovation rate has fallen dramatically since the 1950s. What we're doing now really feels like small incremental improvements to technology that was all invented prior to 1970.
14995.
by api 12y ago
Had this occurred, I wonder if it would have immediately been interpreted as a Soviet strike and started WWIII? Stuff like this makes me wonder about quantum immortality. Maybe we just inhabit one of the slices of the multiverse where we di
14996.
by api 12y ago
FB seems to be doing some amazing work trying to make the web a more tolerable UI platform. Once we finally have a good, solid, stable UI building consensus in HTML5/JS, it'll not only be possible to use it for the web but for the
14997.
by api 12y ago
I'm talking about how mobile platforms are completely locked down and gated, with app stores taking ~30% of your app revenue and no ability to install what you want. That sort of thing would never have been tolerated in the PC world,
14998.
by api 12y ago
Good point. I do have some docs up, like this: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/wiki/Multicast-Algor... ... but no RFC-level documentation yet.
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Creating a Provider-Agnostic Private Backplane Network in the Cloud(zerotier.com)
6 points by api 12y ago|2 comments
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by api 12y ago
"I was a die hard Apple fan since 1985 and was an Apple developer all through the darkest days of the Apple death spiral. I continued to be an Apple fan until they announced the “walled garden” and the app review process for iOS. I am

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