one way or the other this is going to solve it self, right ?
Or pipes, etc. get a lot bigger (things like silicon photonics in the data center and NVRAM will help) or people with more knowledge of the problem will find a better job.
I'm surprised Bitcoin doesn't adopt some or more of the ideas from the altcoins.
Are they to busy cleaning up their code ? Are they to busy doing small changes ? Are they to careful not to make big changes ?
Are they watching to see if what other altcoins have done really works as they grow instead of what it currently looks like to work.
For example if you want to change the proof-of-work you don't let people invest years into ASICs. Then again, changing the proof-of-work doesn't seem like a popular idea with at least 1 or more of the Bitcoin developers.
The longer they wait, the harder it is going to be to make certain changes, right ? Or maybe they think they need a good update process first ?
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one way or the other this is going to solve it self, right ?
Or pipes, etc. get a lot bigger (things like silicon photonics in the data center and NVRAM will help) or people with more knowledge of the problem will find a better job.
I'm starting to think it would be easier to solve the energy storage problem than get a working fusion power.
Because it looks like solar is on a similar exponential improvement cycle as Moore's law:
https://www.google.com/search?...
DNS is still pretty centralized though.
But that actually has a fix without having to change everything (!):
set up your search path correctly.
I should probably add:
most businesses probably have a public website.
Don't make the internal domainname the same as your website.
If you want to re-use the same domain, use:
office.domain.tld
As a business you register a domain from a TLD of your choice for US $10 or more a year.
Then you use that domain internally.
The reason start up and VC-investors put money into Bitcoin is because the blockchain is actually a novel and useful technology.
If you think PayPal is the cause of the problem, you haven't looked close enough.
The whole system is a total mess.
First of all there are, far and far to many regulations and a lot of countries has some of their own unique regulations as well.
The second problem is: SWIFT is from the 70s it's a rigid protocol that isn't going to change any time soon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It usually takes days before a transaction is confirmed. Bitcoin takes about 10 minutes, a lot altcoins take minutes.
ASIC proof could also mean: it not is profitable to create an ASIC to compete with the large factories building GPUs.
national and transnational economies ?
Really ? you are kidding right ? It's clearly not backed by gold anymore. So what's it backed by ?
There is only one thing: the amount of money people have invested in a currency.
They have 2 levers. Change the Interest rate or print more money. Both influence the economy, always in a way which has pros and cons.
The rest of the time, they can only do the same thing everyone else does: create dept.
But only up to a point.
I'm surprised Bitcoin doesn't adopt some or more of the ideas from the altcoins.
Are they to busy cleaning up their code ? Are they to busy doing small changes ? Are they to careful not to make big changes ?
Are they watching to see if what other altcoins have done really works as they grow instead of what it currently looks like to work.
For example if you want to change the proof-of-work you don't let people invest years into ASICs. Then again, changing the proof-of-work doesn't seem like a popular idea with at least 1 or more of the Bitcoin developers.
The longer they wait, the harder it is going to be to make certain changes, right ? Or maybe they think they need a good update process first ?
Email is federated (it has a standard protocol and a domainname).
All those other solutions are silos that can't talk to each other.
Facebook to Twitter ? Twitter to Whatsapp ? Nope.
I guess it depends on the type of foundation you mean.
Things like fiber have been there for many, many, many years now. I hardly see it as anything new. Or anything part of this quiet, they talk about it.
There are some big changes coming in fiber optics though. Silicon photinics.
What the hell are people talking about quiet before the storm ?
What do you mean foundations have been laid ?
Bunch of BS. Large companies are starting over, without the legacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They are obviously talking about in generalities.
That doesn't mean everyone is doing it. Or that it fits every task.
Here is some random survey from 2012 as an example:
58.9% Javascript
58.9% sql
51.1% jquery
37.6% java
37.6% c#
28.9% php
23.4% python
21.1% c++
The year after:
57.9% Javascript
53% sql
37.9% java
37.6% c#
26.2% php
22.5% python
21.7% c++
18% c
10.3% objective-c
9.8% node.js
9.1% ruby
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/...
I don't know how representative Stack Overflow is or what it means, I just know Javascript is used a lot.
If that means they are using Javascript only on the website front-end or also for other things. Who knows.
Node.js is listed as 'most exciting new technologies': /raspberry pi
38.4% node.js
36.1% arduino
28.4% angular js
So maybe it's used on the server too.
Actually, the limitation would be that it only works in 1 browser, Chrome.
How about a standard protocol around devices like Yubikey hardware tokens for integration in the browser (or use with other applications):
https://air.mozilla.org/fido-u...
Google, Microsoft are already involved, Mozilla is looking into it.
It could also act as a man-in-the-middle where everything looks fine.
I think all it needs is a copy of the data to be able to 'steal' it.
You can't do this for the webservers, because you build these datacenters to be closer to the users. To improve latency.
So you are not going to increase latency to save power.
I believe I heared someone from Google mention they do this for certain batch jobs, but I could be mistaken.
The problem might be: you can only move such workloads if you have the data in the other datacenter too and the data is up to date enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if you turn off the machines there is also a larger chance of failure.
So when you try to turn it on, it wouldn't turn on or some disk would have not spun up.
But I've never done the numbers if this is actually true.
Wasn't it made clear that: one of the things Oracle wanted to do is sue Google over Android when they bought Sun ?
That didn't work out, though. So their use for 'buying' Java has diminished greatly.
So, I think Oracle will eventually just say: we don't care about Java anymore.
This could be a good thing, but might be a bad thing.
Al though, most of it is open source/free software now, so it might be OK.
Learn how best to automate that task so you can start on other projects to automating other tasks.
An other reason, as I mentioned above.
Facebook runs it's whole infrastructure on bare-metal with containers.
There are no hypervisors in use for most, if any, workload in their datacenter.
But the funny thing is, Facebook doesn't run on virtual machines.
So I wonder what their plans are.
The MPTCP stack for Linux isn't in mainline, but is much further ahead then the FreeBSD version (not sure if it that in mainline).