Re:Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (2018)
by framecowbird on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:34AM
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I know this isn't the point of your post, but is blockchain all that new? Distributed ledgers already existed in the 90s, pretty close to your 30 year cutoff.
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Re:Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (2018)
by hasa on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @04:57AM
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If fundamentally unscaling signed linked list is worth to lift up here, there are perhaps plenty of other things to be mentioned as new.
Re:Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (2018)
by exporectomy on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:12AM
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I think cryptocurrency is a fundamentally new invention because despite many people's efforts, nobody was able to achieve decentralized digital currency before Bitcoin.
Just the fact that a blockchain doesn't scale in an obviously good way is probably part of what confused people into not inventing it sooner. Surely if total storage requirement increases without bound, it can't possibly run forever! Well, humanity won't run forever either. It just has to last long enough to be useful while it exists.