Sure, Bob is still out of luck though. This only works if Bob also receives an equivalent amount of income through his channel with Alice which is extremely unlikely.
Edit: I speak from experience, working on althea.org which included a similar system (although ours is backed by a blockchain and doesn’t require nodes to trust each other). The reality is that most nodes are either mostly paying or mostly being paid. The channels must constantly be refilled anyway because of this. We found that the saved transaction fees were not worth the complexity, and now nodes just use on chain transactions with no transitive trust system after about 50 cents of debt has built up in either direction.
I follow you people for a long time on /r/darknetplan! How are things going?
As tmacro noted, Offst friends put credit limits on each other. Therefore Bob will not be able to buy forever. This is not really a bug, Bob is out of credits and shouldn't be able to buy more things until he gets new ones.
How does Bob gets credits is another question. In a normal economy Bob would have to get to work or exchange something to get credits.
I agree with you that initially in a small network this could be a problem, because maybe nobody in the network wants to exchange something with Bob for credits. But if this kind of credit system is widely use, I hope this won't be a problem.
I graduated from 42 in April. I moved here with no prior work experience in tech, and got a developer job in a little under a year. The curriculum is mostly C based which can be a little tedious, but you do learn programming from the ground up.
On the flip side of of bootcamps, are orgs like 42.us org, which aside from being a nonprofit, is also completely free! Much emphasis is placed on code review by your fellow students, with it being required that your projects must be graded by them. They just opened a new campus in Fremont that even inclides a dorm room for free for about 11 months. Disclaimer, I attend 42 at the Fremont campus
I'm super excited about this. I've been waiting on an Android release since I saw this the first time, can't wait to apply this to some of my side projects
My guess would be that Monsanto has show itself to be a overly litigious, generally "evil" corporation. While it does not pertain to GMO crops, look at what they did in Anniston, AL. The effects are still quite visible even today.
Disclaimer: I live in Anniston
I have to wonder if this takes into account self maintenance. It is my experience that labor makes up a significant portion of vehicle maintenance costs. That, coupled with the high availability of used parts for popular domestic models, seems like it would bring down costs for those vehicles significantly.