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.
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.
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.
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.
> 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.