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by amarkov 8y ago
The question at this stage of the lawsuit isn't whether the investors actually did rely on the fraudulent claims, but whether each of the investors should have to show they did. The judge isn't saying that "well maybe it was
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by amarkov 8y ago
I don't think it's necessarily the case that everyone's using consent currently. They just think (probably correctly) that regulators will be more favorable to a company that always makes disclosures and asks for permission u
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by amarkov 8y ago
But why does this interconnection necessarily establish a price floor? The cost of producing a penny is more than 1 cent, for example.
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by amarkov 8y ago
I mean, each EU member already had the right to litigate vague data privacy laws if they wanted to.
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by amarkov 8y ago
In most countries, regulators are given broad authority to issue supplementary rules, explaining exactly what's required or forbidden to comply with the original law. The goal is that people who know a lot about data privacy, rather th
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by amarkov 8y ago
On the contrary, it's the legal perspective that's most worrying. If every software bug carries the potential for liability, there's no way your legal department will let you have a widely-visible bug tracker, or easily repor
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by amarkov 8y ago
I'm not aware of any rule or case which supports this claim.
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by amarkov 8y ago
COPPA only applies to sites that are directed towards children or have "actual knowledge" that they're collecting data from children. It's legally sufficient to ask for birthdays and refuse signups from anyone under 13.
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by amarkov 8y ago
I don't understand what Schrems is alleging here. "They totally know that it’s going to be a violation", and they're not bothering to do anything about that fact, because... why?
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by amarkov 8y ago
Of course! But hiring a US resident who happens to also be a French citizen doesn't count as doing business in France.
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by amarkov 8y ago
The policies required for PCI compliance are all straightforward too. But enforcing large sets of policies across an organization is a challenge, no matter how simple the actual policies are.
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by amarkov 8y ago
That's not how jurisdiction normally works. A French citizen working within the US for a US company can't demand that they follow French employment regulations.
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by amarkov 8y ago
File a complaint with who ? There's no EU-wide data privacy regulator. Which specific EU country would have jurisdiction over an interaction which took place in the US?
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by amarkov 8y ago
High level estimates aren’t optional for most development. Customers waiting for an important feature won’t take “ it’ll come when it comes, estimates aren’t real” as an answer. You can skip low level estimates, but the consequence of that
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by amarkov 8y ago
The question is what specific anti-competitive action Google is taking. It would be very strange to decide that, simply because Google's made a really good service everyone prefers to use, they should be forced to pay Yelp for permissi
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by amarkov 8y ago
He can certainly send private emails, Slack messages, or even Twitter DMs. What he can't do is publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people from them on political grounds.
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by amarkov 8y ago
Absolutely. Facebook deliberately chooses to have a business presence in the EU, and nobody denies that this means the EU can levy fines against them or set rules on how they operate within the EU.
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by amarkov 8y ago
I imagine US regulators would be on Facebook's side there. The US can't really tolerate a world where the EU purports to reach inside American borders and forcibly reorganize American companies.
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by amarkov 8y ago
Isn't that exactly why we should expect a solution from them? Google knows first-hand why some leaders are opposed to remote work, and stands to make a lot of money if they can overcome it.
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by amarkov 8y ago
But imagine someone sitting there in 1804 Wales, looking at the first steam train, saying "slow down buddy you haven't actually changed anything yet". It seems like there's a sense in which this is short-sighted.
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by amarkov 8y ago
Mr Clueless X didn't want the feature because he read it off an Ouija board. He wanted it because sales told him "this feature could make us millions of dollars a year!", or a customer asked him "how could you possibly s
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by amarkov 8y ago
For an embarrassing amount of time, I didn't even realize Java interrupt() could only interrupt blocking operations. I guess I thought they were like hardware interrupts, capable of just showing up anywhere without the program's c
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by amarkov 8y ago
But isn't that the problem? When we see the news media blasting articles about internal disputes most Googlers hadn't heard of, that could mean the internal culture is secretly toxic and the employees are too brainwashed to notice
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by amarkov 8y ago
It's a lot easier to get a $250k position at Morgan Stanley than build a business generating $250k in profit. If more people go the latter route, that's just a matter of a larger denominator, not an indication of what's actua
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by amarkov 8y ago
You're mixing up levels of indirection. Financing the creation of businesses that create products people want to buy isn't itself an example of "practical products that provide value that the average working class person woul
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by amarkov 8y ago
For career driven people, it's not enough that just some company will hire them for something. And there are very few cities where it's easy to find a job matching the skills and expertise of e.g. a Microsoft tech lead.
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by amarkov 8y ago
Unless he's just completely making things up, the previous owners had limitations and charged a fee.
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by amarkov 8y ago
Do you have a source for this? I hadn't seen the claim that there was any previous easement.
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by amarkov 8y ago
It's the EFF's mission to ensure that everyone gets privacy, not just those who are connected enough to know which apps they should delete.
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by amarkov 8y ago
When you let engineers run around doing our own thing, we never have to show that the work we're doing is the most productive use of company time. We just have to show that it plausibly could be. Nobody will hesitate to reward the we

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