Hexayurt

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by Hexayurt 28d ago
https://archive.org/details/designingfreedom00beer Stafford Beer's book, written just after CyberSyn's unfortunate end. There are a number of very subtle insights contained, in particular there's a tensi
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by Hexayurt 9mo ago
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 essentially doing _transactions_ by writing into such a databas
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by Hexayurt 9mo ago
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 are what left the gap which t
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by Hexayurt 5y ago
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 tape for table2 in the other drive. Things like fixed length
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by Hexayurt 5y ago
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.
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by Hexayurt 6y ago
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 not that far from his claim of "testing his c
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by Hexayurt 6y ago
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 framework to look at that question which isn't basicall
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by Hexayurt 6y ago
Thanks to whoever posted this. I am the author of the text. Any questions?
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Existential Risk, Ecological Economics: How Blockchain Will Transform Capitalism(medium.com)
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 / volunteer) is taking time. There's also this: ht
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 wanting to get too involved (for fear people will
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 politics in. The reason is simple: I want to politically organ
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 materials deployed in sensible ways, keep the
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
(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 couple of weeks, having the time of your lives!)
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977146 I'll
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 think. I really want to take a crack at those storage mark
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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. The work on that thread - getting Ethereum to superc
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
A desire for a funded entity to continue development work.
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 they were doing. We took an approach to that, and we&#x2
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
Thanks. I think it's a much less troubling problem than power consumption for mining, frankly. Serenity, serenity, serenity.
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 through rich user apps) and Serenity (parallel supercomputer perf
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
Thanks, I've passed that on to our web guys.
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 that they read a contract and tell you what i
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 which are not publicly associated with him. I do not thin
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 running a full node continues to stay about static, unless tra
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
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 shipped.
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
We still have a substantial reserve of bitcoin and fiat currency, plus the pre-mined Ether which the Ethereum Foundation holds for further development. I can't speak on this officially, but Vitalik Buterin has mentioned it in the past
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the piece, and the release coordinator for Ethereum. If you have any questions about the launch, please ask me. You can watch the new network stats here https://stats.ethdev.com/ or download a cli
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
"by the end of this article, you’re going to understand blockchains well enough to decide what they mean to your life." I very deliberately didn't explain mining or blocks or consensus protocols because, really, that's t
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by Hexayurt 11y ago
Hi. I'm Vinay Gupta, the release coordinator for Ethereum. I'll tell you exactly what Ethereum is: a blockchain for storing code. Bitcoin stores transactions, Ethereum stores programs. Those programs have persistent state on the b

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