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Very cool. Thanks for the link and thanks for taking a stab at a hard problem! Snow looks very promising so far... (I can ping nodes on my LAN over it too, which is usually a stick…

It's not a requirement, it's just that it tends toward it naturally due to the asymmetric addressability. As long as there are two or more global addresses available to the public …

Unfortunately, that does not provide a solution. Since public IP addresses are becomming scarcer, and since at least one side needs a global address, all of the workarounds for NAT…

In order to boot strap a connection to a P2P network, one must contact a well-known server. It doesn't matter if the well known server is a "peer" that happens to be running the sa…

> "Lots of people think NAT is a show-stopper for peer to peer communication, but it isn’t. More than 90% of NATs can be traversed, with most being traversable in reliable and dete…

The Web is about statelessness and hyperlinking, so I'll note that: 1) Javascript breaks stateless linking. 2) Mobile versions and browser detection breaks stateless linking. 3) Ce…

> "I would see no reason to ever move." (Obligatory) Apart from the single political point of control. AWS is to web apps what GoDaddy is to DNS and Verisign is to SSL.

Granted, arrests are held to a different standard than convictions in that they merely require "probable cause" rather than proof of guilt and this lower standard does make it look…

> "it doesn't seem entirely irrational." (Yes it does...) > "It doesn't have to be perfect to be better." (Yes it does...) The problem used to be approached by presuming innocence …

http://boingboing.net/2009/12/08/farm-family-put-unde.html Edit: The title and link of this HN article have changed. The link changed from a BoingBoing article to the original Germ…

I think the cooperation necessary would be for the "big guys" to not have a vested interest in selling out privacy, which has been the prevailing business model for a long time. An…