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Specifically: a globally visible distributed database is a fantastic resource for managing namespaces, as demonstrated by DNS and SSL Certificate Authorities. But when we start ess…

Waterken was the same kind of logic, applied at web API scale. https://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/201... The failure of this system and the HP ESpeak system a…

Tape. SQL databases emerged when data was stored on tape. join table1, table2 where table1.id = table2.customer_id type operations would have a tape for table1 in one drive, and a …

A lot of the problem is that when the lefties arrived, it went from artistic and creative to a really shoddy, greyed out political shadow of itself. It was promising for a while.

I've read a variety of reports. I've come to the conclusion that a bunch of weird shit went down, but that he did not have sex with anybody. The weird shit is well documented, and …

Bad there. 1000 times worse in India, relative to both Christianity and Islam, and with the great aggravating force of Yogi Adityanath pouring salt into those wounds. I know of no …

Thanks to whoever posted this. I am the author of the text. Any questions?

It's been built in Haiti, Africa, Sri Lanka - test units, results positive. Getting over the hump on a deployment with refugees living in one (rather than the odd aid worker / volu…

PS: we've got at least five or seven companies doing short run commercial hexayurts for Burning Man, and one start up in the UK doing different markets. I bless all of 'em, without…

This is a Hard Problem. I could have taken the politics out in one of 99 ways, but I did not, and I'm willing to sacrifice 5 or even 10 years of hexayurt growth to keep the politic…

Ah, you want to take a look at https://angel.co/houslets which is looking at multi-story stuff with much the same design philosophy as the hexayurt (use whole panels, get modern ma…

(and of course the hexayurt is those hexagonal pod things you see all over Burning Man - I'm sure quite a few of you have camped in them and will be camping in one again in a coupl…

Hi, I'm Vinay, the hexayurt guy, a Hacker News regular, also the release coordinator for Ethereum. You might remember me from a post I did about Ethereum recently https://news.ycom…

Hashes in the blockchain, when necessary, and then markets which will sell you a file when presented with the hash. Storage technology can be whatever. That's the smart plan, I thi…

Agreed. Right now it's a single shared processor emulated with cryptography and massive replication - but that's not an architecture that will get you supercomputer performance. Th…

A desire for a funded entity to continue development work.

Effectively funding FOSS projects is HARD. We wound up with GPG and OpenSSL maintained by tiny teams going broke because we hadn't figured out how to get people paid for the jobs t…

Thanks. I think it's a much less troubling problem than power consumption for mining, frankly. Serenity, serenity, serenity.

We really do hope that there will be mass adoption, and that we can continue to build out Metropolis (a web-browser that extends the security of the block chain right the way throu…

Thanks, I've passed that on to our web guys.

A very good question about a very hard problem. We've discussed a variety of approaches. The one I like best is that "contract interpreters" offer a professional service, which is …

Programmers generally have to be hired and paid. We do not know what Satoshi's financial arrangements were, and we do not know if he mined early on in the network using accounts wh…

Actually, storage on blockchains has two different solutions. 1) Disk space halves in price roughly every year and a half. Currently 2tb costs $100 USD. So odds-are the price of ru…

I think we have just delivered quite a lot: the network is up and running, transactions enabled Monday or Tuesday, and the code is all FOSS and available for download. We have ship…