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Why Not Signal? 5 years ago

The author can barely contain his hatred for the politics of Signal's founder (about which I know nothing outside this article.)

It's especially bizarre since the author's only reference to the founder's "confused and useful idiot politics" is that the founder claims that regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, China are authoritarian and that there are human rights abuses elsewhere. That claim seems not only reasonable, but also perfectly consistent with still being suspicious about US surveillance policy.

If I understand correctly, the instances available are containerized instances that users run (i.e, the system matches hosts to guests and takes a cut).

Beyond being dangerous on multiple levels, there doesn't seem to be any guarantee of storage or network bandwidth/traffic. Having a multi-TFLOP GPU to train with is hardly useful if you can't get the training data on the device in a reasonable amount of time, or hold that data in local storage.

I'm not sure if this is really relevant, but recently I've been looking into something similar: trying to find a decent, self-hosted, simple "real-time chatbox" to add to my site instead of the various online options. Anyone know of something good for this?

To be fair, there are some instances where GC has unique technological advantages compared to VPSes. Their new distributed ACID SQL database comes to mind.

I remember that program! Interesting though that my experience with it was different; I recall that letting it run for enough time it was able to come up with viable and often quite efficient build orders. By the way, I do seem to remember that putting 2 probes on an extractor was slightly more efficient (per probe) than 3 :)

Why aren't decimal odds used, a-la the established betting exchanges? The system is equivalent without having to dedicate pages to explain confusing terminology.

Economic Inequality 11 years ago

Graham writes another article on a subject about which he knows little, and in doing so quotes Stiglitz as advocating a silly "fallacy".

What? He was a Zionist according to the classical "definition" and principles of the time. The varying uses of the word "Zionist" are confusing, yet nonetheless Einstein supported self-determination of the Jews in Mandatory Palestine.

Crypto 101 12 years ago

Who is the author? I can't find anything about him except for his real name and a self-description of "hacker". I'm confused why he thinks it's reasonable to create something so authoritative sounding as "crypto 101" without bothering to explain his credentials to do so.