Hubble Network (https://hubble.com) is building something similar - an open, global BLE network.
Both let you transmit arbitrary data, but the custom setup here is a lot of overhead. Hubble gives you an SDK and lets you get back to building your device.
I recently ran a test on the page load reliability of Browserbase and I was shocked to see how unreliable it was for a standard set of websites - the top 100 websites in the US by traffic according to SimilarWeb. 29% of page load requests failed. Without an open standard for agent identification, it will always be a cat and mouse game to trap agents, and many agents will predictably fail simple tasks.
Cheap and abundant energy is strongly correlated with prosperity. Every barrel of oil produces roughly 1,700 kWh of thermal energy. In countries with low cost of oil production like Saudi Arabia and Iran, that means electricity generation for less than $0.01/kWh. The only viable technology to compete with oil and gas over the long term is Nuclear.
I was thinking the same. Wouldn’t it be better to let agents buy access to your site? It wasn’t feasible with the Google monopoly. Now with dozens of agents competing for info it seems feasible to put a tollbooth in front of your site.
"The reduction in the purchasing power of money is similar to a form of taxation... As people start spending more and saving less, they become more present oriented in all their decision making... this helps explain why civilizations prosper under a sound monetary system, but disintegrate when their monetary systems are debased."
You're missing the point. I actually had this realization on my own and had heard that the concept was outlined in the book which is what prompted me to read it.
Cheap money cheapens everything, because the velocity of money is high and so capital turnover is the name of the game. To make a profit, what you sell has to be cheaper than the money you get. It cheapens people because they have to constantly be scratching for a buck just to keep up.
Yes, I agree with your point. It reminds me a little of the ongoing debate over CDN vs Edge. However, one difference we offer is that eventually our 'cache' will flush to a persistent storage layer - so you don't have to think about managing your memory or disk resources. Data not used for weeks ends up in low-cost object storage - further saving you from high-cost memory storage costs and the repetitive task of performing this archiving operation yourself.
When a blob is saved, first I write it to Postgres (https://neon.tech), so that ensures there's a persisting backup. However, it's typically a waste of money to store infrequently accessed blobs in disk with Postgres over months and years. After 4-6 weeks data is offloaded to object storage - so that you benefit from low long term storage costs.
The lifecycle of a blob works out roughly something like as follows, based on last read date:
Both let you transmit arbitrary data, but the custom setup here is a lot of overhead. Hubble gives you an SDK and lets you get back to building your device.