dumbledoren

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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
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.
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
> 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 wil
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
> 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
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
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 somet
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
Their emissions are the emissions of Western companies for whom they are doing manufacturing.
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
> 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.
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
Variants like k3 are not as complicated and problematic as k8.
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
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 you
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
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-2
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
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
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
> 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 a
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
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 se
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by dumbledoren 11mo ago
> when did people forget how to run a baremetal server ? Bigger question: When did people forget that doing that is much easier than AWS...
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> 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
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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, du
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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.
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> 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 multip
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> 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
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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.
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> 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 a
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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 legal
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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 F
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> 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
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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-s
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
'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 'd
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> 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 inc
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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 De
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> 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 hob
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
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 dy

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