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Re:Ask HN: After almost 30 years the romance is over - What ... by rdtsc on Saturday September 25, 2010 @01:09PM (#1727344)
> There are so many difficult and important problems around but no one wants to solve them just because there is a huge ???

I have thought about this the other day -- "what has happened to P2P technologies?". There used to be a lot of excitement about it, there was flurry of academic research on distributed consistent hashing, lots of P2P networks appearing, and now, it seems, bittorrent is all that is left of it.

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Re:Ask HN: After almost 30 years the romance is over - What ... by jonhendry on Sunday September 26, 2010 @07:28PM (#1730224)
All the porn probably took the shine off it. Looks less like the future and more like a grubby swapmeet in a red light district.
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Re:Ask HN: After almost 30 years the romance is over - What ... by bitwize on Monday September 27, 2010 @04:29PM (#1733264)
"I call this my Greatest Zukes album... all great artists that asphyxiated on their own vomit! You can't get this in stores, man!"
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