"The only reason there is starvation in Gaza is because IDF is preventing aid from entering the territory and are refusing to let real humanitarian organizations work safely there."
This is not accurate to say the least.
Trucks do get in but Hamas and armed groups control the supplies and prevent a fair distribution
Every humanitarian organisation on the ground have said that these claims are false. What they HAVE claimed is that the gangs that are raiding aid are doing so with the support of the IDF:
This was the first result of many. I have heard these claims from many many sources for at least 6 months, despite having actively avoiding reading about Gaza.
There was a report released recently but you're not quite correct. The report said that the allegiance of the raideres could not be verified in majority of the cases. In the cases where they marked IDF as the cause it was due to the IDF picking the route or blocking their intended route. The IDF was not raiding the trucks or supporting the raiders.
Netanyahu claimed himself that Israel were providing weapons to the Popular Forces/ATF. Seemingly for the same reason they bolstered Hamas as the enemy of Fatah: the enemy of their enemy is their friend. That PF has IS connections doesnt seem to bother Netanyahu.
They are in control of many of the aid corridors especially around Gaza. Aid is only allowed through those corridors, and the PF (and other gangs) are raiding the aid trucks. Sometimes within reach of the IDF which stays passive.
Let enough aid come in, and there will be no money to be made from reselling it. If Hamas is stealing all the aid now as they claim, they will have more han enough for their forces already.
If your main source is aid organisations then be aware UNRWA employ members of Hamas and the staff at many others call for the death of Jews on their personal social media.
UNRWA being infiltrated would at least be theoretically plausible (even though Israel is lacking evidence even for that, apart from a small number of workers).
But this argument falls flat when essentially EVERY aid and human rights organization that operates in the strip is saying the same thing. (With the notable exception of one: The GHF)
Claiming that the ENTIRE global human rights system is engaged in a coordinated misinformation campaign against Israel is conspiracy theory levels of delusional.
Are you serious right now? Have you lost all sense of relativity here?
Nobody cares about what these employees say on their free time. If you collated the things IDF members say on social media about Arabs, it would not look any prettier. It's a complete non-sequitur and emphasizes how insecure you are over the actual righteousness of these actions.
The BBC is supposedly a neutral objective news source. Even if what’s you say about the IDF is correct (and knowing many Israelis it isn’t), nobody is asserting the IDF is a neutral objective news source.
Yeah, apart from everything else, the Israeli argument was not even logical: Hamas is stealing supplies to sell at inflated prices - so we have to restrict supply and ensure the prices inflate even more?
Suggesting alternatives is fine in principle, but astroturfing a competitor's thread is not. You guys have crossed the line. Please stop and do not do this on HN again.
I suppose I should add that we have no interest in the competition or which product is better, but we have a strong interest in preserving the integrity of HN threads, and the community demands that of us.
still doesn't scale efficiently. http based streaming is the only reliable way to get economies of scale. The cpu cost per webrtc socket is high compared to a cache-hit for a static resource. Not to mention that WebRTC is way more cpu intensive client side compared to hls/dash which has kernel/hardware offloading.
Hi, I'm the co-founder of Peer5. The difference is that Peer5 is a hosted solution with coordination and analytics. It's an "enterprise" product with support and everything a large media company would need.
Prices do go down, but consumption goes up in a faster pace. So overall companies pay more for CDNs for video :)
The thing is, even if CDNs would be free, they have limited capacity and they saturate during large live events. That's one of the reasons we still watch sports on pay-tv.
>Prices do go down, but consumption goes up in a faster pace
Not true. It varies based on what's in vogue on the content side, quality requirements, and the state of technology at a given moment in time.
As one point of reference, Flickr posted an analysis here recently that discussed how their architecture has evolved over time based on variable ratios of usage requirements and hardware costs.
When a user access any website of content providers online, they implicitly agree to the terms of service of that provider. When using Peer5, the terms of service includes a language about public IP temporarily visible to other users.
This line of thinking makes me feel uncomfortable. That you can secretly give away data about me and which videos I watch because of some text in your TOS.
I also doubt it would hold in court. TOS have a very restricted applicability. You can not use them to restrict people's rights in unexpected ways.
True in the US, not true in the EU. There is a reason Google Analytics has a switch to throw a few bits of an IP away, and it surely isn't because Google hates data.
Given that they are selling a CDN, and thus likely want to sell to globally operating customers, that might become relevant relatively quickly.
Yeah, I was about to say that the GP is overly pessimistic on the technology, since you could always detect metered ISPs and do something different for those (no upstream but lower priority downstream in exchange, for example). In the end, consumers of this CDN also don't want to be known as "that website which caused a 4x internet bill".
>> you could always detect metered ISPs and do something different for those
I didn't downvote, but this isn't possible for nearly all users. Whether or not you are metered isn't per-ISP, it depends on your monthly plan with the ISP. Most ISPs serve the majority of their users on metered, with some users paying for the high-end unmetered plans. There is no way to know whether a particular user is metered or unmetered.
This is not accurate to say the least. Trucks do get in but Hamas and armed groups control the supplies and prevent a fair distribution