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by synctext 6y ago
Indeed, as a professor who studies these systems for a living I also had to think. Will this scale? Big step forward if we get something like this finally to 1 million people. Who owns the server infrastructure? How are these miners paid? T
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by synctext 7y ago
Key bits; almost ready; then Corona came: "To date, the Company has successfully launched 74 satellites as part of its constellation, secured valuable global spectrum, begun development on a range of user terminals for a variety of cus
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by synctext 7y ago
https://textbooks.open.tudelft.nl/index.php/textbooks/catalo... Direct link to Delft University of Technology version, home of both authors. This misses the 5 stars out of 5 quality rating.
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by synctext 7y ago
> Centralization isn't binary -- it's a continuum It's both I would argue. Distributed systems professor here. My lab has been working on a "academically pure" distributed Youtube for 14 years and 7 months now.
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by synctext 7y ago
Really good read. Provides a new abstraction model that we've not seen before. It shows the depth of the problem and why we have never solved it since the days of PGP, 1991. It does not mention the idea of owning your own identity[1],
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by synctext 7y ago
Heavy. There is a scientific book discussing these topics. Centered around our 'neanderthal within': "The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution", https://www.amazon.com/gp&#x
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by synctext 7y ago
Makes sense. Is there a measure against spamming the network with 1 billion files of 1 Byte each? (besides PoW)
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by synctext 7y ago
Fascinating project. It is the first time I've seen proof-of-work combined with DAG and real world engineering details such as PulseToken, oracle nodes, varient on S/KEY one-time password scheme, etc. > adamierymenko 478 commi
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by synctext 7y ago
“This particular branch of the [commission] will be able to be approached by various companies who believe that the algorithms have been misused,” The lobby of accountants seems to desire approving every algorithm, including AI. I've s
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by synctext 7y ago
Check the original source. Note that these videos are pushed by "To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences". On other parts of The Internet it's known as a UFO organisations and other “mysteries of the universe", plus th
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by synctext 8y ago
Great article on the disconnectedness and short-term-ism: > She said the main thing is just that Miami was being very forward thinking. She mentioned Amsterdam, and how they were making it work, and how the Dutch were just the poster chi
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by synctext 8y ago
> "This allowed us to calculate the lifetime risk of cancer in alcohol-abstaining never smokers" Does this mean they create a bias in their methodology if this population subset has a healthier lifestyle? (interested scientist,
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by synctext 8y ago
Fully free. "WOWA is licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the music for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the creator or
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by synctext 8y ago
CNIL: "Therefore, it is of its utmost responsibility to comply with the obligations on the matter."
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by synctext 8y ago
> the only crisis a tech company could possibly face is declining usage? Indeed. How about European Union regulations making it illegal to targeted advertisement people online; without an easy opt-out. (from personal conversations with E
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by synctext 8y ago
> student projects along with the IPv8 library, and never about that supposed deployment. This release of IPv8 now has had 6000 downloads, through Tribler. Prior version 7.0 was 110000 downloads. This is real deployed software. > maki
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by synctext 8y ago
> Stop making things up. Again, sad to see this much frustration. Please check out real code for attestations with experimental zero-knowledge proof in Python. https://github.com/Tribler/py-ipv8/blob/master
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by synctext 8y ago
For seeding and creating a new channel with content: https://www.tribler.org/faq.html Bear with us, the documentation is still work in progress. If other Tribler users download from your channel, you get tokens. See https:
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by synctext 8y ago
> The conclusion paragraph is really bordering on academic misconduct. Sad you see it that way. For obvious reasons our Github code for Bittorrent-based token economy is separated from passport-grade identity system with experimental zer
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by synctext 8y ago
those initiatives do not seem open source and non-profit, like Tribler.
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by synctext 8y ago
BBC News announcement of "bandwidth as a currency" from 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6971904.stm
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by synctext 8y ago
> The only downside is how your identity is tied to the service provider you choose. Fully agree with this. The link to identity is not often brought up. I run a university lab focussed on re-decentralisation of the Internet as a day job
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by synctext 8y ago
"Essentially, the public Internet is now a platform of apps on mobile devices" insightful.
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by synctext 8y ago
It is a bit more complex. There are few scientific studies on this topic. See this one: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a... "We find that these datasets are overwhelmingly composed
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by synctext 8y ago
It duplicates most features of libtorrent.org; but requires a server. Therefore, a comparison to wget misses the 17 year old Bittorrent protocol.
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by synctext 9y ago
This is only a partial solution, right? Services such as Backhub.co also backup your issues: https://backhub.co/features/backup-github-issues/ (we have 1000+ closed issues in our project, nice to preserve)
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by synctext 9y ago
Paper highlights: - 22mn or 7nm are idle marketing. "The nodes were first defined according to the transistor channel length. The last nodes are more defined according to marketing criteria." - the memory wall... "The huge di
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by synctext 9y ago
Most material is covered in the most recent Stanford talk listed here: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3472 The following Github issues all contain the detailed class project descriptions, as first
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by synctext 9y ago
> Since you are one of the contributors Good to hear we are still nicely under the radar:-) We are the oldest and largest ledger research lab of Europe. (117 contributors for all repos, https://github.com/Tribler/tri
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by synctext 9y ago
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki "Tribler: an attack-resilient micro-economy for media", first code April 2005

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