Timely article for me, since I'm thinking of using channels in a real-world application for the first time.

Points for using the term "Non-Ergodic". I wish it were used more often.

The post is well written, mostly cohesive, and with a willingness to express ideas counter to the status quo.

Chicks dig the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

I did't get the article at first. Was the solution self-managed PostgreSQL on EC2 and EBS, it's not stated explicitly, but implied with the WAL-G reference?

Why not use K-V if your looking for performance?

PostgreSQL gives the performance if you are not running it on AWS

Well, another ideas used for identity in the crypto world was having a twitter account for more than a specific time period, and a number of followers. So I was considered unidentifiable as a person because I had a Twitter account that did not have the requisite number of followers - so I couldn't get test network tokens for development work. SMH.

Limited partners (pension funds) are paying for this aspirational idea (less any funds from selling tokens perhaps) while a16z will pocket a Venture Capital fee.

Lots of money sitting around might as well roll the dice.

I notice that Mexico and Australia are not included on the extended list, I'm not sure what that says about the study or the two countries.

Australia is 57th in supplementary table 5 of the linked paper, which adjusts for urban areas only. I assume that coastal areas (where the cities are) are impacted more under this CDD measure than deserts (which is what most of Australia is).

When was this published? There is no publication or revision dates in the pdf. Maybe 1999 when Jane Street started?

WaybackMachine’s oldest snapshot for this url is Sept 2019.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.jane...

Anyone else unable to gpg verify the browser download. When I downloaded the VPN gpg verify was OK.

Nevermind, I had to follow instructions from the github page to download the TOR Browser Signing Key and verify.

I designed a facility IoT system with AWS products: IoT Core (MQTT broker), SiteWise (analytic dashboard), S3 and Lambda. I found the AWS offerings to have everything I needed in one place with a low cost. Added benefits were being able support NIST cybersecurity requirements (CMMC v2, Level 2) in addition to the IoT system.

I was a fan of NATS and Kafka in the past, but AWS tooling makes IoT relatively easy.

Cheers