((long series of tweets – you want to read this in reverse order, if at all – I’m keeping it for later)) Vinay Gupta @leashless 11h We can simply work-and-buy our way back out of this mess. It’s worked on the Desktop w. Linux, it can work on the network. Next round!!! Expand Reply Delete [...]
Read more →Here’s my prediction: space in data centers is going to become almost free. A convergence of trends is going to crash the price, and business model, of many Cloud providers in the next two years. Those trends are four. 1> Smart dotcoms are rewriting their backends in fast, compiled languages like golang. One example went [...]
Read more →* although there was this one time A few people have noticed my biographical similarity with Satoshi Nakamoto – British person with American English tendencies and ties to Ireland. There are three reasons why I cannot be Satoshi Nakamoto. My coding skills are not up to it. I haven’t written C/C++ since the mid-1990s My [...]
Read more →Draft of an introduction to an energy policy doc. Could use some feedback – comments welcomed! ==== Nothing stands still. The continued addition of complexity to the basic systems of our society has run for hundreds of years, mainly on fossil fuels. The continued injection of energy into our societies has produced a boom in [...]
Read more →Paul Hughes writes about the possibilities for radical decentralization in a high tech world. This comes up in a thread with some discussion of Hakim Bey. Let us proceed. ===== Let me answer those points at a practical level, and then at a more philosophical one. 1) As I note in the piece, Hakim Bey has [...]
Read more →Three lightly edited excerpts from a conversation about bitcoin with some Californians. ===== I actually worked for the NSA. I did a genocide-resistant biometric ID project for them. http://guptaoption.com/cheapid/ (note that it is fully public and in the public domain – those are the only conditions I work for spookland under.) What we know, for sure, [...]
Read more →A quick summary. Data centers are inherently centralized, and bloody expensive. Once you have all that data in one place, doing large scale monitoring is very easy. Sutherland’s Wheel predicts that centralization and decentralization take turns as “progress.” We are turning forwards to decentralization again: bitcoin, bittorrent and so on. The People’s Cloud is the [...]
Read more →Simple concept (!) I wanted to give a URL to. One thousand or more nodes in a mesh or other network Each node has: One terabyte or more of disk One gigabyte or more of ram On gigahertz or more of processor Nodes are scattered through a contiguous geography like a city Conceptually, Petascale Urban [...]
Read more →(hit play, and read on) Marmaduke Dando’s back… if you help! Marmaduke Dando is a good friend and a great musician. He is recording a new album, and he’s crowdfunding it because, well, this is 2013 and that’s how great, quirky musicians make second albums. His first album, Heathcliffian Surly, is a damn fine piece [...]
Read more →I got an interesting write up on the unemployment / mechanization / income angle from my friend Nathan Koren (he does collaborative futures with Noah Raford at Futurescaper). Nathan’s basic argument is that Ford’s innovation of “make a car your workers can afford” has now been displaced with “race to the bottom” feedback loops in manufacturing, [...]
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