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I think this is more likely a move to prevent Cornell funding from getting tied up with dictations about what gets published.

But in all likelihood someone was probably just like "we're tired of doing ops on 2 decades old stacks"

It sounds like they are just using GCP. It doesn't really change that.

whatever1 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Google cloud can easily move the the instance to a region that is not science/free speech hostile

elif 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yea but GCP was state of the art 20 years ago, php+perl was already crufty

So state of the art it wasn't even available yet (preview launch was in 2008).

	▲	elif 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sounds about right. I remember hearing about it first in a talk being given by Doug Crockford at my university around that time. It blew my mind. I thought it was like gcc for the Internet. It's kind of wild that in the interim we have experienced the complete rise and fall of mongodb, node.js, even today the react paradigm are all expressions of this tiny little functional scripting language..