You can open the link and see it for yourself; what other "verification" do you need?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/49656730

So it’s actually not -lite but -ite. =)

I think that’s a sweeping generalisation.

Ben Yorke is the only expert I see mentioned in the article, so it'd be a lot more accurate (and a lot less sensational) if The Guardian changed its title to "... says one expert" (but it wouldn't sound as interesting then, would it?).

> Eight accounts, all newly created around 21 March, bet a total of nearly $70,000 (£52,000) on there being a ceasefire. They stand to make nearly $820,000 if such a deal is reached before 31 March.

Not to sound privileged but $800k doesn't sound like that much of money for someone that has access to that kind of insider knowledge, especially considering the risks.

All things considered, I feel like the same people could make much bigger bets using trad-fi instruments than Polymarket so I don't understand what's so significant about Polymarket "whales".

In the end people just betting on TACO.

[0] https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

[0] https://confer.to/

[1] https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confessions-to-a-data-lake/

Actually, you're right! I thought the proxy can nominate/decide that any other license can be used in the future (i.e. "licensed under GPLv3 or X" where I can chose X to be anything) but it seems that I was wrong. Re-reading more carefully (emphasis mine):

> If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of the GNU Affero General Public License can be used, that proxy’s public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the Program.

So FSF creates the future versions of a specific license the work is under (in this case AGPL) and the "founder" chooses whether to allow its usage or not. That sounds reasonable to me.

Thanks for the pushback!

If you don’t want to hand FSF a carte blanche regarding your project—perfectly understandable—then pick a “version X only” variant and move on.

> That'd be the ultimate hard-mode for a business that was dedicated to being rugpull-resistant.

It'd be great if they could clarify in their FAQ [1] if and how the CLOUD Act affects them.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_c...

[1] https://aws.eu/faq/

I don’t think it’s that difficult to answer, and the answer is “no” for two main reasons:

1. I don’t think the US has the greater good of humanity in mind nor even of its citizens except a minority, when it’s policing around.

2. Even if we were to assume otherwise (that the US concerns itself with the greater good), “who will watch the watchmen?” Especially when its institutions are being undermined day by day…

Regardless of your opinion on Maduro, you can still acknowledge that the head of a sovereign state being captured in an unannounced/unnamed military operation by a superpower is wrong from a principled standpoint, and that it’s destabilising a country with 30+ million people if not the entire region.

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