>An interesting part is the "we'll send you an email to confirm you're you", followed by a "enter validation code here" screen that immediately gets forwarded to the re-enrollment message. Also, no confirmation emails are being sent.
> Obviously HFT has not invented superluminal communication techniques.
They haven't, but they've put in tremendous resources into going above the speed of light in optical fibre, including the use of point-to-point microwave links and, when it's impossible to place towers for microwave links (for example, across the Atlantic Ocean), the use of HF/shortwave (as in 3-30MHz stuff) radio.
> There's no open source network, graphics, peripheral and GPIO hardware that can be cheaply plugged into a synthesized design that can be sold at the price you want.
Why not PCIe? Aren't there already a bunch of design/validation/verification tools for it? A RISC-V CPU with just a bunch of PCIe lanes (and a couple of channels of fast DDR4) coming off of it (and maybe an IOMMU) would be a lot easier to integrate with existing hardware, rather than trying to recreate open-source equivalents of modern GPUs and network hardware.
That is _exactly_ what happens to me.