p2p cache sharing is an interseting one. it seemed to work for spotify for a long time, but they eventually found it easier to use edge caching. afaik they still use it for places with less developed infrastructure
this part of the abstract gets right to the point: 8.8% of music data played comes from Spotify's servers while the median playback latency is only 265 ms (including cached tracks)
Steam added a P2P caching mechanism recently and allows downloading games for other local machines that already have the game installed. Greatly helps with avoiding duplicate downloads on a steam deck, for example.
I also added a similar mechanism to my own product years ago. Works flawlessly. Using content based addressing already made it quite easy to implement.
> Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.
> The main thing to understand, before I go into detail, is that the Declaration of Independence is one of the founding documents, but it did not create a nation. Some of the colonists got together and wrote a historically eloquent letter to the world that basically said, “ayyyy England, F your king!”
Saying "F your king" is an integral part in being independent of England which is a prerequisite to being an independent nation. The Declaration of Independence established the United States as an independent nation. Any previous forms of the United States would have been a colony of England.
> The Continental Association is first time the colonies expressed a collective will to work together in the form of a legal document. It was published October 20, 1774 but went into effect December 1, 1774. The US does not observe December 1 as a national holiday, though it should. It is barely in the cultural memory at all.
The Continental Association is, essentially, where the colonies got together and discussed the idea of independence. The word "colonies" is a dead giveaway. After July 4th, there were no more colonies.
"The Union", referred to by Lincoln. Is not synonymous with the Nation.
The independent nation of the United States of America declared its sovereignty on July 4th, 1776. That's the "correct" way to think about July 4th, aka Independence Day.
The Revolutionary War was over a disagreement between England and the US over the validity of the declared independence on July 4th and the US won that argument when the Treaty of Paris acknowledged the validity of the Declaration of Independence.
> It didnt have its sovereignty until the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783.
What? You have sovereignty as soon as you decide it. Especially if you are fighting a war to maintain your sovereignty. If the treaty was never signed, the US would still be sovereign.
Try this extreme example. Imagine if the founders decided to simply wipe out the british and there was no brit left to sign any treaty. Would the silly british king still be sovereign over the US even though the silly british king and his silly kingdom no longer existed? Of course not.
A treaty between the breakaway rebels, and the previous claimants to sovereignty, where the previous claimants accept the rebels claims and give up their own, would seem to be a pretty good candidate for the official start date of sovereignty.
The place where the treaty was signed is much less important than what it said and who signed it, even if it ends up being named after that place.
The problem is that I am constantly fatigued in finding out whether what I just read is a snark/joke/hyperbole/exaggeration (which is fun tbh) or a serious historical fact or part of your central thesis.
This is usually quite entertaining in other contexts, but when relaying history which entirely depends on narratives based on facts, it creates fatigue for me.
here is a paper written by the people who designed it: https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/
this part of the abstract gets right to the point: 8.8% of music data played comes from Spotify's servers while the median playback latency is only 265 ms (including cached tracks)
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