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amazingamazingyesterday at 7:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

It’s a shame there’s inherent performance cost to homomorphic encryption. If there were not it could make sense at least on the compute front to treat it as a commodity and just put it everywhere l, importantly including untrusted locations and have a control plane handle coordination for low latency.

Otherwise why not wipe out these gigawatt dcs? They don’t employ many and are of high consequence for rich countries.


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WorldPeasyesterday at 7:52 PM

I think it's more the performance cost of building the servers themselves, and their density, why put compute in a flood basin or tornado hotspot if you know the latency improvements won't be immense enough to offset the cost of their destruction

contraposityesterday at 8:33 PM

Even biology doesn't cross check that much. Cells are happy to copy virus materials.