Duckeh

> We usually have long testing periods, but we didn't this time, for reasons that remain unclear

A pandemic ravaging the globe doesn't seem clear?

> Please remind me, when was the last time that we gave people vaccines not to protect that person specifically, but to allegedly protect some unknown other person, somewhere?

Herd immunity and personal protection are both parts of every vaccine, they go hand in hand. I'm surprised this is even a discussion on a place like HN... I guess I'm feeding the trolls...

Regardless of how well the democracy your government is based on is functioning, I have a rather hard time imagining that a corporation focused on maximizing shareholder profit would do anything better than a piss-poor job for the vast majority of the population.

The whole idea of the government stealing from people makes no sense to me. You live in a democracy, the people choose their government and it does what it's elected to do. If the government starts actively stealing money from its people, the problem isn't the way in which you file your taxes. The problem is that the government brought by your democracy isn't working as intended.

For what it's worth, in the Netherlands it takes most people 5 to 10 minutes to flip through an app that has all your tax info filled in already. If you need to add anything that isn't already filled in, you get every chance to do so. It doesn't stop you from getting an accountant to do it for you either, if you'd prefer.

> How would you even know if it is right?

Because it's still the same tax system you had before they made it easier by filling it out for you already. It doesn't get automatically filed, you still have to check it yourself and approve it.

> Furthermore it only takes one of the 12 to stop a miscarriage of justice.

On the other hand, it only takes one of the 12 to stop justice from being served if they for whatever reason disagree with the other 11.

> inally, a jury doesn't need law education. Their job is to judge the facts. They are informed of the definitions of the crime, and the evidence, and must reach a verdict of yes he did this or no he did not. Upon rendering a guilty verdict, the actual law part of the law is executed by the judge.

Except they don't just judge facts. They judge based on the stories they're told. Even if the evidence (facts) is lacking, a good story can still sway people. This would be a lot less likely if the panel consisted of people educated on the law (eg. judges). There's a reason the supreme court consists of judges, not 12 (or 9...) random people from your populace.

It means less prefixes until people start announcing each /48 in their /32 separately...

But then you're tunneling your L2 across your L3. So if you provide connectivity to a customer in a datacenter all they'll see is the L2. But you're right. Underneath everything is an IP fabric these days.

A lot of the people commenting don't seem to understand how hard it is to fend off such DDoS attacks. You either need some serious infrastructure (cloudflare style) or you need to buy equipment to mitigate attacks (like radware devices) or route it via a DDoS mitigation service (prolexic style). The one thing all these solutions have in common is that they are insanely expensive. People can buy a 1 gigabit DDoS for only a few bucks, whereas mitigating a 1 gigabit DDoS will cost you either $20K+ dollars for a mitigation device or some stupid amount of money to have a service like prolexic mitigate it for you. Services like cloudflare are a whole load cheaper but only provide basic reverse proxy protection and still leave your server vulnerable for attacks directed at it's IP instead of DNS name.

I can't say I've ever heard of Hetzner, but from the comments I'm reading they apparently offer servers for cheap. Bearing in mind how much money DDoS mitigation costs I don't see how they could handle this any other way without having to make some pretty serious investments (which in turn would make their hosting less cheap as the money has to come from somewhere, right?)