Readit NewsThis site is not for either of those things. They rapidly take threads off topic in predictable (i.e. uninteresting) ways, and degrade the quality of conversation.
I guess Orwell was right In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I guess your notion of "thinking of humanity" is different from mine.
It is ironic you feel government is the only solution to the problem, when many people both in and out of the US die waiting on government care.
I met someone involved in the .com registry. They have multiple data centers per continent with 200 racks of equipment. Those are the major sites. Each major city/peering point may also have a smaller presence of something like 10-20 racks.
It is more than just a few dns servers. I know some of the people at DNA Made Easy. They spend a lot of time and money building and maintaining infrastructure and peering/bandwidth agreements at major peering points around the globe.
They are obviously much smaller than a major registry but they are very performant and compete at the lower end of pricing. Their prices are probably a good indication of the cost per query($125/50 Million queries). I guess the question is the number of queries per domain and how different the level of DDoS is from a DNS provider.
DNS does not work that way, Major DNS companies like RackSpace and AWS's Route 53 I suspect have higher load DNS than the Root Registries, and they offer the service for free...
It is, there is no debate.
To address the social systems and welfare, I personally believe these systems are largely need because of government. Government creates the problem it then uses taxes to "solve"
A stateless or libertarian society does not benefit the rich, in fact strong central planning and control (aka government) ensure the rich stay rich.
Smash the State, Eat the Rich: https://c4ss.org/content/30085
No, I don't. And looking into a history book for five minutes reminds me why.
There is a reason that the tax system has been invented and is used basically everywhere (exceptions are failed states): Hoping to get the money needed for duties carried out by the government institutions on behalf of the state by charity does not work.
I believe we can Accomplish a lot with out Taxation.
I think we can even have a Universal Basic Income with out taxation. Geo-Libertarians have long proposed such a plan creating Universal Basic Income Derived from Commons Rent
I do not believe to have a civilization you must hold a gun to someones head and take a part of their labor or insert yourself in every financial transaction unethically taking a cut of that transaction like the mafia's protection racket...
I am sure your definition of "fair" is vastly different than mine, but I do wonder how you define "fair"
You do not think very much of humanity do you?
Is this the offical position now of Hacker News? Libertarian Topics are not allowed? As I do not see you "detaching" any of the Pro-Government Comments