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beberlei
8y ago
It is not illegal to track users only if they opt out, by citing legitimate interest as the ground for processing not consent. That is how all privacy policy generators and lawyers handle google analytics, facebook pixel, even self hosted s
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beberlei
8y ago
Have you looked at Shopware? Having worked with many PHP-based ecommerce systems I like it the most.
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beberlei
8y ago
You are not excluded from the law as volunteer organization. As far as deleting old member records and public archives, it depends on what consent members have given before. Membership information, especially receipts for subscription must
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beberlei
8y ago
To my understanding no. But you must enable ip anonmyization in GA settings and provide the opt out link in privacy policy. Google should have a page on the link
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beberlei
8y ago
This is an important point. Example: Parts of our software run on customer servers and as such they are processing data in their control and not ours, hence can for example used to filter out personal data before they are then sent to our s
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beberlei
8y ago
Yes! The fud keeps increasing every time another gdpr related post pops up here.
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beberlei
8y ago
that is not true being that extreme. as per GDPR 6(1) grounds for processing can be (b) performance of contract, (c) compliance with legal obligations (d) vital interests of data subject - which can all cover logging ip addresses and user a
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beberlei
8y ago
well, that is economics 101. consumers price goods by value, not by costs. if your costs are higher than consumers are willing to pay, then you will at some point go bankrupt.
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beberlei
8y ago
Or all the environment variables containing tons of password+tokens, or in javascript libraries all the headers, including cookies that could be used to overtake a session. Error/Exception tracking software is quite dangerous if it wri
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beberlei
8y ago
IANAL: No, there is a process of stuff before you will get fined. A human error does not suddenly lead to heavy fines, if you can prove that you put everything you can to prevent this from happening, i.e. follow all the processes GDPR defin
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beberlei
8y ago
Depends on the storage engine afair, but both innodb an myisam have either index or global metadata based solution for this. I think in myisam its an estimste if you use count(*) so you need to use count(id) to get an exact value. This is a
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beberlei
9y ago
in german law a tax is general purpose, government can use the money to pay for any of their "services". whereas a fee has a specific purpose and cannot be used for anything else.
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beberlei
9y ago
maybe with survival distributions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_function googling gives some results of scientific papers that would say this is the way its done.
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beberlei
9y ago
I would consider NewRelic, AppDynamics and other more expensive APMs high touch.
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beberlei
9y ago
Yes this exists, for example Travis-CI Pro has a free trial that includes 100 builds and is not time based.
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beberlei
9y ago
I am thinking the same, there is enough up and down that arbitrage / day trading bitcoins could make you a lot of money. I find it interesting that always around the full thousands there are sudden immediate pushbacks, for example when
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beberlei
9y ago
Logfiles are necessary to operate a service securely and guarantee quality of service. This is one form of implicit consent that users are giving you without you having to ask them for it. But Storing IP addresses for each access indefinite
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beberlei
9y ago
from what i catched talking to our lawyer, there are other levels of consent than explicit by the user explicit consent that might be revoked, in this case. 1. concerns of security and quality of service (gathering logs with full ip address
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beberlei
9y ago
Its different, because you need to get a banking license to be a bank and use fractional reserve and controlled by central bank, and then the reserve is in the governments money. Bitfinex has no "banking license" and is not overse
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9y ago
yes, it is much more complicated in Europe, but you can rent software that handles most of it (and you should). If you cater to companies, it is easier. You ask for the VAT number and only if the company is from your own country, you add th
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beberlei
9y ago
This test is probably not being used for "what kind of cancer" but as a cheap and easy way for yearly/bi-yearly tests of the general population as part of prevention.
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beberlei
9y ago
Even if its much lower, because there is the potential for a new entrant that has better "features" so that demand for the previous coins drops, there will always be risk in holding specific coins. Think disagreement between miner
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9y ago
Technical Understanding of cryptocurrencies has nothing to do with financial understanding. It feels to me a fallacy to think because you understand the tech, you are magically a good investor in it. Buffet is historically one of the most s
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beberlei
9y ago
in terms of metal we have gold, silver, platinum. In cryptocurrencies we have 1000. If cryptocurrencies persist over this current hype, then its still open which of the +1000 ones will be the "gold" and which ones will go to 0.
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beberlei
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it could have a massive effect on tech valuations in general. so from a real economy perspective you may be right, but the stock market and VC market might start to see this as an event to re-evaluate everything.
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beberlei
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Per European Privacy Law, you only own the data for the specific use-cases that you asked it for in your terms of use / privacy policy. I agreed to that when signing up. If you change that in the future, you have to ask for my consent
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beberlei
9y ago
Tideways (xhprof fork) maintainer here. We are working on separating the extension that powers our SaaS APM for PHP and the original xhprof callgraph profiler again into two extensions in the near future :-) Then the extension will still be
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beberlei
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How can you buy those futures as a regular joe? CBOE seems to be aimed at certified traders
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beberlei
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i find cross country comparisons that lead to multipliers very hard and often arbitrary, because of differences in taxes, social security, health insurance and of course the exchange rate.
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9y ago
Initially when I saw this open salary approach and especially the calculator I was intrigued. But you cannot make salaries into a formula and get 100% good results. The approach Basecamp (37signals) has with picking a location, then paying
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