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by _petronius 7y ago
Which probably accounts for a lot of people's behaviours, but the real cost of most products is going to be more like 100-500% markup, not a flat $5, especially once you get into cheap flights or items that have been shipped large dist
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by _petronius 7y ago
At the very least, a price point that doesn’t externalize the real environmental cost of the item, perhaps?
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by _petronius 7y ago
I don't think either of your "possible explanations" are borne out by the evidence, but then there are a dozen other explanations that are both more plausible, and whose truth-potential is not dependent on whether they make s
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by _petronius 7y ago
Because Ecuador warned the US they would be kicking him out of the embassy, but did not warn Sweden. I don't think that is in doubt at all. The US does not need Sweden's involvement to extradite and try Assange. The rape charges a
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by _petronius 7y ago
This whole "if the accusation is real then why hasn't he been charged?" pseudo-fact relies on a rather stubborn misunderstanding of the difference between the Swedish legal system and the UK one. Assange can't be "c
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by _petronius 7y ago
Comparing the quarter-turn metric and the "standard" metric is very interesting. I'm fascinated that for both, the number of positions above a certain distance starts to reduce again (which is much more pronounced in the quar
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by _petronius 8y ago
> Not sure if it's a true story or not (can't be bothered to check) - but seems like a good illustrations of the problems that are faced. This exact sentiment -- that the truth of some tidbit of anecdata is not only unverified,
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by _petronius 8y ago
I recently switched back to iOS after years on Android, and on this point I've been very impressed with Airdrop. Dead simple UI, very quick transfer speeds, uses WiFi or Bluetooth as available. It's just a shame that it's lim
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by _petronius 8y ago
For the first load of the page, sure. But if you're embedding HTML and CSS, then you can't cache it separately, which means having to fetch it all on every request where anything has changed, in addition to the decoding etc on e
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by _petronius 8y ago
> The crux of the matter is that social problems are never just technical, but always at least in part human. I would revise that further: social problems are never technical; they are primary political. That we are, in most western coun
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by _petronius 8y ago
Also in Berlin and several other major European cities, for those on this side of the Atlantic. (In Berlin we sing from both the '91 red book, and the Shenandoah Harmony on a regular basis.)
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by _petronius 8y ago
> How many Western governments are trying to draw legitimacy from ancient Rome or Greece? The West has used the aesthetics of the Roman empire as a basis for the trappings of power right through the modern period (see: Napoleon; US civic
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by _petronius 8y ago
> Business don't decide that kind of things, consumers do. This is a cop-out. Businesses have a responsibility for the decisions they make, and "it's profitable" should only be one factor. > If there were clear int
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by _petronius 8y ago
Don't get too wowed by lots of zeroes without context. When I moved from London to Berlin, my salary barely changed on paper (45k GBP to 47k EUR), but my quality of life went way up and cost of living way down. The best thing these s
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by _petronius 8y ago
I would humbly submit that your sample size is too small. Even just the Rocket Internet output is a pretty good indicator of the size and diversity of successful startups tsrgetting the German market specifically (and thus with no incentive
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by _petronius 8y ago
We do have tech startups here in Germany, and quite a few of them. It's just that they tend to be funded differently, and with less of the wild valuation-speculation that goes on in the US. I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
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by _petronius 8y ago
Hmmm, that's kind of a stretch. You can hypothesise about motivating factors in people's behaviour without endorsing bad behaviour. I sort of took it as read that people who break into museums and steal the collective cultural her
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by _petronius 8y ago
> For Romania up to now it's mostly criminals who travel. That's both offensive and unsupportable, and I've downvoted you on that basis. This kind of bigotry against Romanians and other eastern Europeans, especially the Po
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by _petronius 8y ago
Sadly one thing most art thieves don't understand is that even if a painting is worth millions to a gallery or collector on the legitimate market, it's black-market resale value is basically zero. (Turns out, not many people want
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by _petronius 8y ago
First of all, come on, obviously I'm not saying there are left and right in EU politics (and in the national politics of EU countries), but what those left and rights are concerned with don't match 1:1 with the issues under debate
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by _petronius 8y ago
You're bringing your US-American assumptions about politics and left vs right into the context of European politics where they are a poor fit. The world is not Democrats vs Republicans. There is no GDPR debate or fight: it's done,
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by _petronius 9y ago
I think the key here is to think of this in obvious terms: can you (easily) recover the data? Are you trying to trick customers/regulators into thinking you got rid of the data, but really have a secret copy for later? Did you make a g
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How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop(smashingmagazine.com)
526 points by _petronius 9y ago|688 comments
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Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and the Social Workings of Law(estsjournal.org)
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by _petronius 9y ago
I'm really hoping that GDPR enforcement is done in a way that is consistent with the intent of the law, and that we don't end up with a repeat of the cookie regulation (the end result of which was merely training users to click th
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by _petronius 9y ago
> companies that have no presence in the EU Just because you don't have a business presence (in the form of an office and employees) doesn't mean you don't have a presence: collecting data from, and making a profit on, use
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by _petronius 9y ago
I find it really interesting that there's no political will in the US to create a non-partisan body like the UK's Boundary commissions in the US. Even if just for congressional districting, it would be a huge improvement over the
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by _petronius 9y ago
> And is it my religious duty as a Christian to fight for release for all the prisoners? I think it probably is. Prisons are pretty inhumane: this has been recognized in the modern era by people as disperate as Johnny Cash and Eugene Deb
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by _petronius 9y ago
No, I don't think it's anyone's job to simply "get the best deal", at least not from an ideal-social standpoint. I think employers (whether government or not) should adequately compensate their employees. And I thin
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by _petronius 9y ago
It's hard for me to get bent out of shape about salaries for public employees. Most of them do shit work, at shit pay, for many years -- and if a few of them accrue enough overtime and holiday pay to make very good money in their last

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