Point in case, the German chancellors phone being tapped a few years ago:

https://www.thelocal.de/20160223/nsa-eavesdropped-on-merkels...

Does anyone know if techniques like these are applicable to betting in baseball games?

What's the license of RobinHood's core algorithm? This seems useful.

But this being sponsored research (Microsoft) brings me to thinking of the old ARC cache licensing problem.

http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/96.php

No, we do not expect any licensing problems. There's an open issue on github: https://github.com/dasebe/robinhoodcache/issues/1

The issue mentions 3 Clause BSD, which will probably be implemented today.

pretty cool, just learned about destroyallsoftware

(long term lurker here)