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It doesnt matter what kind of tax they didnt pay. They SHOULD pay tax. Otherwise this makes it a loophole for private companies to dump research & development costs on the taxpayer but reap all the profits.
I could not find a reliable source
Thousands of videos livestreamed on twitter, some by even the actual victims who die at the end of the video. If you havent been able to find any of them until now after 1.5 years of genocide, you will never find them. And not because you could not.
I feel historical events maybe after the Victorian age can claim to be theft, otherwise it's just empires and conquest.
It was always theft. Having been done in the past does not make them less theft. The reason East India Company is shown as example for such things is that it is the first human organization that did those on an industrial scale and genocidally.
https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide
It was already starving Indians by forcing them to plant opium instead of food crops to sell to the Chinese to kill them for money (20 million/year estimated dead from opium) in the late 18th century. And when the Chinese finally tried to stop it, Opium wars happened. The justification shown for that war was 'Free trade'. The justifications still havent changed, neither the practices. This should tell you why East India Company is specifically evil, because it is the first large scale application of the evil you see today and it invented a lot of its methods.
Right. Its not like recent statistics showed that the US was the place where most of the cyberattacks originate. And its not like both the US and UK are openly saying that they are maximizing cyberwarfare against everyone as if it was something to be proud of. The country that is facilitating a livestreamed genocide in Gaza, is the 'good guys' to be trusted in cyberwarfare, for 'some' reason.
But, then again, in the Angloamerican culture, its always 'others' who are evil. Never itself.
Their emissions are the emissions of Western companies for whom they are doing manufacturing.
Or can we not have them use that extra money to rent servers from OVH/Hetzner
Or just use Hetzner for major performance at low cost... Their apis and stuff make it look like its your datacenter.
Variants like k3 are not as complicated and problematic as k8.
Nah. They could have just overprovisioned to hell for much cheaper. Boxes at Hetzner cost up to 10 times less than equal level of AWS compute. Just overprovision for cheaper. You have to overprovision on the cloud anyway - you cant risk your users waiting 1-2 minutes until your new nodes/pods come up. So 'cloud is good for spiky load' argument is just a lie we tell ourselves.
Likely the best comment in the thread: Microsoft couldnt kill Linux. But AWS did it by adding itself as a layer on top of Linux and literally taking control of the web that Linux liberated by taking over the entire server space in the mid-2000s.
Possible. However what is more likely is that a lot of long-time tech workers have vested stocks or investments in Amazon and they dont want the cash cow (AWS) to get hampered. And similarly a lot of tech workers have invested in AWS skills, so they cant risk those skills becoming less valued in the marketplace due to alternatives.
AWS may be overcharging but it's a balancing act. Going on-prem (well, shared DC) will be cheaper but comes with requirements for either jack of all trades sysadmins or a bunch of specialists
Much easier to find. Even more, they are skills much easier to learn for existing engineers. What's better, they are fundamental skills that will never lose their value as those systems are what everything else is built on.
The catch is that bare metal is SO cheap and performant that you can buy legions of it and have it lying around. And datacenters, their APIs and whatnot advanced so much that you can even have automations that automatically provision and set up your bare metal servers. With containers, it gets even better.
And, lets face it - arent you already overprovisioning on the cloud because you cant risk your users waiting 1-2 minutes until your new nodes and pods get up? So basically the 'autoscaling' of cloud has always been a myth.
when did people forget how to run a baremetal server ?
Bigger question: When did people forget that doing that is much easier than AWS...
British colonies universally benefited from the British empire
Yeah, the 100-200 million Indians who were killed by the East India Company through famines after being forced to raise opium instead of grain to help EIC to sell opium to kill 10-20 million Chinese every year would definitely agree...
He used 'money' for 'profits' apparently. Profitmaking is the problem. Money is just a vehicle. And you can abolish profit-making through an open-source world: Projects can get started to create infinitely repairable, durable, and modular products based on standards instead of profit-making through planned obsolescence or farcical 'new features'. These products can get used and maintained by their users for decades.
Google became a monopoly in search, advertising and various other things. It uses all of those to extract money from everyone, especially the advertisers with absolutely no accountability. All the large and small businesses have to jack up prices to make up for the money that Google extracts from them through those monopolies, and then reflect that expense on the consumer. Just go to reddits like r/ppc or r/googleads. Google became a company that single handedly amplifies inflation during its endless extraction of profit.
The real question is how the hell some circles were able to push such complexity onto mainstream tech and what will it take to prevent it from happening again.
The way they store data in a key/value system really hurts the performance
It doesnt, unless your site has a lot of post/product/whatever entries in the db and you are having your users search from among them with multiple criteria at the same time. Only then does it cause many self-joins to happen and creates performance concerns. Otherwise the key-value setup is very fast when it comes to just pulling key+value pairs for a given post/content.
Today Wordpress is able to easily do 50 req/sec cached (locally) on $5/month hosting with PHP 8+. It can easily do 10 req/sec uncached for logged in users, with absolutely no form of caching. (though you would generally use an object cache, pushing it much higher).
White House is on Wordpress. NASA is on Wordpress. Techcrunch, CNN, Reuters and a lot more.
I genuinely do not understand where how the idea of building a total surveillance police state, where all speech is monitored, can even as much as seriously be considered by an allegedly pro-democracy, pro-human rights government, much less make it into law.
Frank Zappa explained that long ago:
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
Hard to understand why people are downvoting the parent. That may be a right wing dogwhistle, but also the entire corporate industry seems to be trying real hard to turn life on planet earth into a subscription.
A grand and shallow generalization
In every single developed country leaving a child like that would cause everyone there to be prosecuted by law. I didnt hear any other country where trying to help a kid to find his mother by asking around people in a park could be considered child molestation and force someone who is helping to leave the child just like that. Feel free to provide a counter argument.
This swerve into pejorative language
Are you contesting that there are incessant fads and hysteria in the US? We are living in a time when US is waging two wars on two different fronts and creating propaganda hysteria for the third war. American payment processors are being pressured to cut service to those who certain American groups dont see compliant with their views. The list of fads and hysterias are so long that it requires an entire topic to list.
a society that is totally dysfunctional Ok, now there's no question about it.
A society where people work two jobs and yet live in their car where 99% of people will will never buy a house....
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homes-for-sale-affordable-housi...
...where people die if they cant pay the hospital, and cant feed their children even while working two jobs...
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/13/americas-dirty-little-secret...
...to the extent that the solution they find is escaping from the country...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-dream-leave-most-us-...
...and you are saying that is not a dysfunctional society and pointing out all of these are 'nationalistic'.
Comments like this, which combine denunciatory rhetoric with a very low information/indignation ratio, are not what Hacker News is for
Tech and tech economy are not exempt from a social collapse. You could make an argument that the collapse has not reached a point at which we should talk about it in every thread, maybe. But you were the one challenged the 'dysfunctional' argument. Delirious hysteria like the one the initial commenter posted is a good sign of collapsing societies. The US is one.
There is nothing nationalistic about it. I have lived in multiple countries, and in no country have I ever ! heard ! about a phenomenon like this one. In every country I lived, leaving that child alone like that would cause you to get legally prosecuted, regardless of who said what - and that prosecution would include that woman who made those threatening remarks. We are reading stories of people who even refrain from patting a child's head because it could be seen as some kind of molestation.
This is one of the hysterias and fads that visibly come out of the US frequently as the US public opinion and even the political landscape change.
The Nordic countries act as if they were an extension of the Angloamerican culture for some reason. They sure would object to their data being used by China or Russia for example, but American companies doing it doesnt pose a problem. But France has its own national identity, and it does not see itself as the extension of Angloamerica. So its natural that Angloamerican corporations having unfettered access to its data would be a no no.
It used to be the case, now the majority of the people in high-income countries and the high earners of medium-income countries can globe trot, it is a massive increase.
Except that is still a ~20% minority at the top. And worse, they can only trot by gentrifying cheaper locations - they can't trot in central London, Ottawa, or Japan, bar a few who are much richer.
As for the "colonial" aspect, Japan is not exactly a poor country
This new colonization phenomenon doesnt have much to do with those. Foreigners who earn more than their peers of equivalent level come into a country and they eventually push those, even including the white collars, out of their own cities by gentrifying them through long term or short term rentals, and especially through buying properties to live in or for 'investment' (speculation, really). This happened in Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid, and is now happening in Valencia. It will inevitably happen in Japan. The only reason it has not happened yet is that Japan's digital nomad visa is just 6 months. If it starts giving out a year or more, you will see how fast the colonization will happen. It took only 2 years for Spain. Japan would likely be a more popular destination, so it could happen faster.
Aside from half of those who stopped working going back to school, there is a simple reason why a lot of people will stop for a while when universal income or a similar scheme first starts:
People are burned out. They are overworked. Over-stressed. Most of them were just hurled into careers by the system without much choice because they had to make a living. Most of them didnt even have time to think about their choices. A majority has spent decades struggling for survival amidst financial insecurity. When universal income starts for the first time, all of these people will stop for a while and start revising their lives. Something which they needed to do way before, but were not allowed by the system. Its natural.
When they get over the burnout and do their reflection, they will go active again. We see this in the case of the privileged minority who are able to retire early or take sabbaticals. They rest and do random stuff for a while, then they go back to doing something they want to do. Especially in tech, that has been the case.
People dont like staying idle for long.
'Globe trotting' has been 'democraticized' only for the top income earners from the high-income countries. The rest of the world is not able to globe trot. Combined with digital nomadism, golden visas et al, this 'democratization' is a new form of colonization in which the high CoL countries' people can literally buy out poorer countries' most desirable regions or set themselves up as an aristocratic elite on top of the locals.
Japan's economy is in trouble, and the tourist money helps and hurts at the same time. It creates tax revenue, yet inflates prices for locals
I lived in a successful major tourist region from its inception to maturity. You are incorrect in saying that it creates tax revenue: The Tourism sector generally gets tax breaks and subsidies, so it ends up eating up tax revenue to enrich whatever oligarchic structure or family dominates the landscape. Moreover, in any mild temporary crisi,s it risks collapsing and forces the government to bail it out by spending enormous amounts of money.
Tourism is like a tick that sucks away the productive forces and resources of a country - it diverts both budget (tax breaks, subsidies) and educated manpower away from actual goods and services production, provides sh*t jobs to those employed in tourism, causes inflation and CoL rise across regions and even the entire country. If you want to cripple a country's industrial and technological power, the best thing to do is to push tourism on it.
Could that be because the US think tanks and establishment mouthpieces published papers on how the US needed to destroy China to prevent it from becoming an economic competitor decades ago, and then started appointing people to the State Dept. to implement that plan?
Some people actually enjoy helping their business/users.
Beyond that - doing coding without solving problems or enabling anyone/anything is just doing art for art's sake. It may have a place, but its more personal, a hobby, an expression than anything tangible to be used in the real world - leaving aside business.
Lower egypt always had Levantine genetic influence. Middle and Upper Egypt always had Kush/Sudanese genetic influence. The Ancient Egypt we know originated from Upper Egypt when Narmer conquered Lower Egypt and established the first dynasty.