Just across the road from where this grotesque spectacle happens daily is a hospital.
Cricketers & the administration - do you have a shred of decency?
People are dying daily in the thousands. Everyone knows someone in their 1st or 2nd degree that has died recently.
Convert the stadiums to hospitals. Divert the enormous resources being used for the cricketers’ and the IPL staff’s bubble towards this catastrophic and humanitarian disaster in India.
Wake up and smell the deaths and misery around you! #StopIPL
To be clear, I am a huge cricket fan and love watching IPL. But not acknowledging the tragedy around us is downright ridiculous.
Also Indian elites, many of you who are probably reading this, please don’t be apathetic, donate / volunteer / express your grief and outrage. 🙏🏽
Re the @MightyApp streaming browser approach being touted as the future of computing, I will stick my neck out against some of the most respected names openly backing this and calling it the future of tech.
This is a dangerous technical approach.
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Network/edge computers have been a tempting and promising technology for 25 years, but are flawed IMHO for *wide use* for deep, fundamental reasons:
In general, there are use cases for which cloud is much better than doing it on one’s computer. Eg google docs, figma and other cloud webapps have drastically improved our user experience and reduced setup and management headaches.
“Networkless Mobile Payments With Minimal Changes in Trusted Execution Environments” just got published tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/4…
So I am excited to finally talk about this foundational work that I & a small team have been doing in Google Pay along with our Android Security team.
All digital payments today are built on the fundamental assumption of Internet connectivity. Basically, every payment transaction needs to ring up one or more remote servers every time.
The server checks for stuff like fraud and double-spend and enables book-keeping and is essential for overall security. This is also true for decentralized blockchain networks. Servers and connectivity are a must.