The second one.

Mirroring is good for speed, but a storage mechanism with parity checks will always be more recoverable. And you will have far more storage available.

Tesla’s design [for Wardenclyffe] used a concept of a charged conductive upper layer in the atmosphere, a theory dating back to an 1872 idea for a proposed wireless power system by Mahlon Loomis. Tesla not only believed that he could use this layer as his return path in his electrical conduction system, but that the power flowing through it would make it glow, providing night time lighting for cities and shipping lanes.

It’s a very Victorian / Steampunk idea that is also kind of horrifying. It’s working off theories of what electricity “is” that we now know aren’t accurate, but if you try to scale them to actually working every building and tree and person is now a lightning rod.

Topsy was also electrocuted at the request of the ASPCA because otherwise she was going to be hanged and it was seen as more humane, which always seems to get left out.

To clarify, Edison wasn’t trying to ‘disprove’ Tesla, the War of the Currents was Edison vs Westinghouse. Tesla didn’t invent AC, he would’ve learned about that in engineering school, he invented the 3 phase motor, which made AC significantly more practical. Tesla had an argument with one of Edison’s managers over pay, not with Edison. Tesla and Edison wrote each other letters later on and generally spoke positively of each other in public.

Tesla’s an interesting guy but unfortunately went off the deep end pretty steeply. His ‘death ray’ was a ‘blueprint’ he sold to his landlord instead of paying rent and is basically gibberish. Wardenclyffe tower was doomed by not understanding wireless transmission and is basically a Bond villain device. Turning the Ionosphere and Mantel in to halves of a capacitor would both take more energy than humans have ever generated and be really really really bad for anything tall and conductive, which would be basically everything with the energies involved.

Yes, a return to the unstructured hellscape glory of unranked comments of yesteryear. Every thread starting with a resounding “First!!1!!”. Relevant or interesting things hidden on page 5 of 31. Spam lurking around every corner, as a treat.

~2010

I remember them being noticeably louder. Unless you were in a library or a movie theater I don’t know why people cared all that much though.

Residential =/= short term rental

AirBnB and equivalents are usually a better deal for landlords. The property is vacant a majority of the time, meaning less maintenance or chance of damage. The rates are significantly higher, a booked weekend or two can exceed a month’s rent. You/your management company deal with customers significantly less than renters, it’s usually just collecting money and asking for a review.

But this means there’s now less housing available in the city, and not in places where it’s expected to be. Which other than the very obvious “thing meant for housing is now a hotel”, screws up a ton of public funding/planning because there’s not people living there, it’s just the occasional vacationer.

Like anything, if there was only one or two people doing it it would just be annoying. But it’s being done on an industrial scale. So cities are banning it unless the property owners get explicit permission, which they may deny.

Is your home connection down that much? I’d think that even syncing once every day or so would populate everything fine, and if you’re at home it should update over wifi.

I might just be spoiled because I’m the only one using mine and only for a handful of devices.

Yeah Nintendo tends to move pretty quick on these things. From what I’ve seen there’s not an obvious objection that wouldn’t also include things like Digimon.

Sync is nice IMO.

Was curious before about setting it up on a Samsung TV, apparently can sideload an app or something? Didn’t look too far into it because Plex ‘just worked’. Will have to revisit that.

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ENS is the root for a very small number of top level domains, half a dozen? Everything else just gets passed to the regular ICANN DNS root because most people don’t monitor their DNS/ENS traces and it would be bad™️ if google.com didn’t actually go to google.com.

ENS is in a weird place because it’s a non-profit operating a namespace database that charges money to update the database, which is just ICANN with extra steps. Both are more distributed than the previous solution, which was Jon, but they’re still a singular organization providing oversight. ENS seems to be struggling to find a way to mesh the whole blockchain ethos with that it can’t just let whoever register google.com (/google.eth/etc.). That’s a social issue that requires negotiation/oversight, not a tech issue. Or at least not one they’ve solved yet.

The Currency applications of blockchains make a lot of sense. It’s what the original BitCoin whitepaper was all about after all. They’re just hamstrung by the people using it for speculation/investment instead of… currency. It’s why virtually every business that accepted BitCoin in the 2010’s has stopped. It’s too volatile unless you’re getting in/out as fast as you can like with a quick transfer to a person that’s waiting for it.

It’s the attempts to graft a database onto blockchains that I find questionably useful. ENS/Handshake are interesting enough, but they are still ultimately a database that resolves via ICANN, plus some extra domains. The only intrinsic difference from just upgrading to DNSSEC or any of the other encrypted alternatives is that it takes more computing power to add or modify a database entry.

For a data carrying Blockchain? Ethereum doesn’t have any real competitors. But a serious contender for what?

Blockchain as a database is a solution looking for a problem. Most of the problems it solves other than decentralization are internal. Changing the format of the database to blockchain doesn’t get rid of existing problems with validation, it just abstracts them one more step. A contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on if there aren’t external systems ensuring it’s enforced. Calling that ‘paper’ a ‘smart contract’ doesn’t change that.

I attend a worldwide unicycling convention every other year with thousands of attendees and millions of people have seen unicyclists. I wouldn’t call it mainstream.

Ethereum is still in the “garage band” phase. It (and BitCoin) had some commodity speculators jump in to make a quick buck and generate headlines. But other than that there’s a few thousand enthusiasts and the people they’ve managed to get interested, and little clear idea of where/how to build from there. For basically every blockchain use case the non-decentralized versions are at least an order of magnitude faster and simpler for the end user to understand. Unfortunately “It’s more secure” has never been a huge selling point in tech.

Ethereum has outlasted competing attempts to graft data onto a blockchain. It’s a long, long way from being accepted for general use by anyone who isn’t an enthusiast. The evaluation of a currency/company/blockchain is a measure of investor interest, little more.

You’re also misunderstanding. The problem isn’t whichever blockchain, the problem is that it’s still just a database. Someone has to be trusted to validate an entry. Whether that’s a trusted party, which defeats the point, or a consensus mechanism, which quickly becomes arbitrary/random, that the validation mechanism to interface with the ‘real world’ is the same weak point any other centralized database has. That the nodes are decentralized and cryptographically secure isn’t relevant.

“.onion addresses and bitcoin addresses are secure and decentralized but not human-meaningful;”

All “crypto as in blockchains” requires trust and buy-in to that blockchain, and someone to put it on the blockchain. It being internally secure/trustworthy does not intrinsically mean it’s globally secure/trustworthy.

Cryptography is not limited to blockchains.