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...It's a very elegant solution to an extremely challenging problem: who pays for bandwidth for a workload when it's not a centralized entity (YouTube) selling ads to pay for the compute. It'll work for LLMs too. We're on the cusp of getting GPUs into STORE protocol now.
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...We're introducing an Endowment as well that raises the starting floor for bandwidth. And the issuer of a permanently stored asset can buy more bandwidth at issuance (thus incurring higher permanent storage costs).
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Extremely exciting: People-Powered Bandwidth is now live on STORE. It's effectively a decentralized CDN where once the bandwidth budget for a permanently stored asset expires, the global community can top it up.
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The older I get the more I enjoy spending time with smart people I disagree with.
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Ah, do not have the Builder DAO NFT. Best place to go looking for one?
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Where do I find this Builder DAO? cc: @dwr.eth
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This is cool
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When does Microsoft get back into the mobile phone game?
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With BFT ID, 2/3 trust in the nature of *one entity, one vote* can be established. From there, infra can be governed with trust-minimization (and democracy).
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coming next is governing infra (not running it).
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tall black house
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-100
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yea man, I semi-dumped Zeihan a couple years ago on his China thesis
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How are you thinking about paying the server costs for video on FC? (have some ideas for you)
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Diplomacy (but the hour is spread across multiple days)
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John von Neumann making the case for funding computer research, 1945: “The projected device, or rather the species of devices … is so radically new that many of its uses will become clear only after it has been put into operation. These uses which are not … predictable now, are likely to be the most important o
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1. rural, small-town, free lunch, food stamps 2. public, low-income, #1 on FEMA's highest risk areas 3. thomas edison / john rockefeller / henry ford
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app coins are coming
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Need to be willing to bet on yourself which requires to believe you're directionally more correct than the masses -- so to an extent yes (mild arrogance)
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this is good, nice work!
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