alfredallan1

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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Why not? It is perfectly reasonably to have two versions of a service - one with ads/cookies and one without. The user uses the one they want. If one considers personal information as a currency, it is something one can choose to or no
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
>Consent is presumed not to be freely given [...] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance. Yes, indeed. That just l
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
>There are six lawful reasons to process data. User consent is only one of them. Yes indeed, there is a list of reasons. I pick the one based on consent, because it seems the most relevant for a company. Process the users’ data, but get
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
>Also, lots of complainants don't understand GDPR and so we will see a bunch of complaints based on incorrect understanding of GDPR. Indeed, probably lots of entitled people who believe Facebook (though I’m no fan, and haven’t used
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
GDPR has requirements about data protection, right to forget, pseudo-anonymity, etc. But as long as the ToS doesn’t violate the rest of GDPR (i.e. things like you allow us to store your passwords in plain text), are there any actual restric
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
The GDPR says no such thing, does it? My GDPR skills are limited by a reasonably good read of wiki and other articles, not the actual text. It states “Unless a data subject has provided explicit consent to data processing for one or more pu
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
I’m not sure I entirely follow the point of the complaints. The complainants seem to have a problem with the fact that they’re asked to either agree with the ToS or not use the product/service. How’s that illegal/unfair? No busine
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
No charity expected, being very founder friendly is sufficient. I must have missed this bit - “Series A program is free”. In any case, what I wanted to say is an independent Series A program (that allows direct entry in addition to Seed Pro
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Eh, are you perhaps hinting at that horrible lawsuit where Oracle sued Google(?) for a lot of money for copying about 9(?) lines of code that was basically a looping routine? That notwithstanding, I was asking about code that could be consi
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but the topic/article is about the way people speak, not the topics they speak about. To quote from the linked page, it “analyses the relationships between our voices and our incomes”.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Why? If someone has “seeded” from personal funds/friends/family and gotten to a stage of reasonable traction, why disqualify them from direct entry into Series A, or artificially force them into Seed even when they’re clearly past
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Consider using one of the command line tools to upload directly to your google drive. Have a script to do the zipping and calling the gdrive app on the zipped file, and run that as a cron job.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
I’m curious: once one has written a CRUD app, why can’t they use that as the boilerplate for other CRUDs they need to write? Replace the bits specific to each individual app. If the program is designed in a sufficiently modular fashion, sho
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Whatsapp.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Yes, they do support AWS instances on behalf of clients. It is indeed a new service they’ve added to their roster. But their own servers, networks, all product offerings are what they were.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Might I ask for a source on that? I know that they provide services for AWS, but they still have their own offerings just the same. There’s no real reason for Rackspace to dump its massive existing infrastructure and move to AWS. So the onl
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Yes, it makes sense, kinda. What doesn’t make sense is a computer also has calculation + memory. So is the computer conscious? If the answer is yes, then okay, computers are conscious and the only reason they don’t feel pain (etc.) is the l
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Of course, even companies like Salesforce, SAP have little cottage industries sprung up around them that do the “requirement analysis”, setup, maintenance, etc. I always wonder if it’d not be effectively cheaper to hire a parttime sysadmin
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Awareness doesn’t exactly go away on strong psychedelics. If it did, how’d one be able to make the recollection of strange things happening. There’s some primal level of awareness remanining to observe that the majority of the motor and cog
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
If one is sufficiently skilled, consulting pays much better in the short term and carries almost no risk. Building a product pays negatively (costs money in the form of expenses and investment) in the short term, and is very risky (the prod
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Increasingly, Microsoft seems to be taking the same approach, at least with its Azure line of products where you can buy “service” separately from the actual cloud product.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Are thoughts necessary to consciousness? One can be consciousness yet not be possessed of any thoughts. Thoughts in a human's biological apparatus are essentially neurons firing off in the brain, e.g. replaying an incident stored in me
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
One doesn’t need to go to the trouble of imagining oneself as an alien observer to do this. There are many examples closer to home. Many migratory birds have a sort of fifth sense (I don’t recall the nomenclature) that allows them to “feel”
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
"some parasite or virus which requires a host body. in which case you must concern yourself with your own survival, the survival of your host and the stability of the host/virus system” I’d really like to agree. But arguably, huma