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Business idea: AWS, but hosted entirely within the computing power of AI web crawlers.
Reminds me of the "store data inside slow network requests for the in-transit duration". It was a fun article to read.
Link, please?
http://tom7.org/harder/ (has links to the paper and also to the video)
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I believe they are talking about Harder Drive: https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio
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I like the idea but couldn't you just go the more direct route and mine crypto?
Yes, but hosting provides value to society.
Like a public service CAPTCHA / BOINC hybrid
Just reading the Ender's game series, very on-point.
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We'll wake up one day only to realise an entity living 'in the wires' is the only thing keeping the internet alive.As long as NetWatch keeps them behind the Blackwall, we're all good.