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Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State Is Eternal (#277)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Is There a Geodesic Distance Between Two Nodes?

The geodesic distance is the shortest path distance between two nodes. It gives you a different intuition about how the space works, says Ramanujan. A node can instantly connect to another node just by friending a bunch of people. Or it can instantly be very far away by blocking them, right? That now extends to entire groups, which we haven't really seen as much on the internet.

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