Enron crashed because they were cooking their books and faking income, declaring potential profit where none existed

• Sell chips to X

• Receive stock in X

• Value of stocks = discounted sum of future (fake) income

• Booked as an asset on the balance sheet

This is exactly like Enron but the underlying commodity isn’t energy, it’s compute.

It’s harder than you think to renounce American citizenship.

It vaguely involves a non US country

Fuse looks like a good way to make the 3tb look like 400tb but it doesn’t do the replication bit.

I’m commenting these ideas publicly because maybe others will join in. Thanks for playing along!

Yes, almost. But i want it to seem like i have all 400tb on my 3tb drive. I want the cache to handle downloads automatically and I want an even spread of files so that none get lost.

Torrents give me:

• Chunking
• Redundancy via multiple seeders
• Partial downloads

But they do not give me:

• A unified filesystem view
• Automatic caching & eviction
• Guarantees that every file stays available
• User side load balancing or placement control
• A way to say “this file must exist on N peers”

Maybe I should be typing this into a LLM.

Edit: ChatGPT is suggesting an IPFS Cluster

Edit 2: If the torrents stays active I can remove some requirements

I have 3gb of space to share. Are there 150 other people like me that want to do some distributed hosting? What technology can handle this?

Yeah, but the US used to be a bit more subtle.

oil and mineral reserves of Nigeria

Oh. I thought the choice of country was strange. Now I understand.

We only need consult the list of countries by proven oil reserves to identify the next attack.

Now will BA pay Louis Theroux for his podcast?

Thanks. $10k for a jukebox with all the music in the world sounds like a cool luxury novelty.

I thought metadata couldn’t be copyrighted though?

Just a random question. What would the cost be?

Is Zelenskyy wanting pre 2022 borders or pre 2014 borders?

With due respect, you have not understood how snake oil is detected.

Yup. This was almost science. It’s just lacking measurements and repeatablity.

As does Bob. I’m not sure what the specific point you are trying to make here. Do you want longer before the twist is revealed? Because this conversation already let that cat out of the bag.

As mentioned above, it could be a Ukraine drone gone wrong. Or North Korean. Or Chinese. Or Alien.

I would argue he humanity lasts much longer, only losing it after a lot of generational drift.

Different book, but try We are legion (we are Bob)

Genetic traits explains a fair amount of physical attraction.