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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>it's frustrating that there is no minimal cap on users before GDPR comes into effect, given how the EU has constant exception for artisanal food and goods manufacturers. Privacy (including the right to protection of one's pers
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Article 4(1) of the GDPR states the relevant definition: "Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, direc
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>GDPR is an EU law that applies to sites that market directly to EU citizens. That is wrong. The GDPR does not make reference to citizenship. It explicitly notes that it applies when either when the data subject is physically in the
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I was surprised to learn that it was actually co-production between the BBC and Amazon
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>let alone in the UK with no constitutional protection only the much weaker ECHR one. I think that's overstating the situation a little. The Human Rights Act (which enabled domestic courts to give effect to the ECHR) is considered t
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
This raised my eyebrow a little: >At this point, I reach out to prawnsalad, a known person in the IRC space who has relationships with many people. What Lee neglects to say here is that prawnsalad's work has been sponsored by Lee (v
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
TIL Usenet was in use in the 14th century. What newsgroups did Chaucer post to?
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>It feels like he's trying to deal with something on his end, and we're just watching him rationalize to himself. That's the case for all PG essays, isn't it?
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I'm shocked - shocked - that a shady VPN company would ruin a community resource like that.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Take a look at the devastation happening in India because of the disease. Lockdowns were (and are) worth it.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I'm guessing, but I would expect that there's a fair few people using ad blockers that have turned off telemetry, and thus aren't included in the report.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
If you're persistent you can get them to provide better data
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I still don't see the value a blockchain provides here. You could just have the database be append-only...
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Any EU citizen in our out of country has their PII protected by EU law, regardless of who processes that data. No, that's wrong. First of all, the GDPR does not take in to consideration citizenship, at all. The Regulation targets
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The original MSG/CRS "paper" was a hoax. Hell, it wasn't even a paper. It was more along the lines of a letter to the editor, IIRC. But a mixture of sinophobia and alt-med woo spread it far and wide.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The BBC were definitely covering it in late December 2019 - I distinctly remember the TV coverage on New Years Eve.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Requests could use the If-Unmodified-Since header to guard against DB changes without the overhead of a separate HEAD request. If the underlying DB has been changed then the server should respond with 412 Precondition Failed.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
"I'm not trying to invalidate this woman's experiences, but <attempts to invalidate this woman's experiences>"
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> I guess I’m missing the part which indicates this is obviously a scam. The host was really pressuring people to pay to join, even when his prospective customers didn't have the money: >Before Snowden joined, Tulsiani was trying
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>French was one of the languages of both spoken and written communication in England for an extended period from 1066 onwards and it was still used in some legal contexts up to the end of the 17th century. Fun fact: it still is! The form
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> Replace interracial marriage with something like abolish the police. Is the ethical/sane choice still clear cut? That's easy, if you don't elide meanings: Abolish marriage (as an institution that is only between two peop
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Even so, left-right and liberal-authoritarian are orthogonal axes.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>In the UK we have limited freedom of expression [...] which is much more narrowly defined There is no real distinction between freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Speech is expression, or rather it is a subset. Section 10 of
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>The overton window has shifted to the left on many issues. E.g. trans rights > >In my own workplace the overton window shifted notably left in gender issues in the last decade. These are not shifts to the left, they are a shifts t
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>In the UK we don't have and have never had freedom of speech. That's not true - we do have freedom of speech. It's just not absolute freedom of speech, which is a frankly horrible idea, because absolute rights almost
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>Similarly, 62 percent of adults told us that journalism was “too political” I don't understand what this even means. Is it that people think that there is too much reporting on politics? Does it mean that people think that journali
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>Presumably his family already knows so it's not going to shock them. Or only some of his family know, and it may be best that for those that haven't heard yet the best people to tell them would be the other family members t
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Employees of JL don't own any shares. They cannot be bought or sold or given to employees. 100% of the shares are owned by the Trust. That also means that every employee effectively has the same stake in the company - those high up in
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The John Lewis Partnership[0] in the UK (which owns a chain of department stores[1] and the supermarket chain Waitrose[2]) has more than 80,000 employees and operates like a cooperative. Technically it's a Public Limited Company (albei
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>I often need to be able to do that in e.g. snowy weather where a combination of all-terrain tires and 4WD/AWD is invaluable How often does it snow enough for that to be a problem? It can't be more than a couple of days a year,

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