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901.
by corty 6y ago
If the extension redirects to a broken cert not intended for public use, the extension is broken and should not be used. This is not making things safer, this is training users to click through warnings again. Very much "don't&quo
902.
by corty 6y ago
The premise of excel is very much "don't bug me, just do it". The highly praised UI simplifies away corner cases and errors intentionally. Summing over an empty cell? Most probably zero, why throw an error and confuse the use
903.
by corty 6y ago
Disagree on the "users can verify" part. Excel is very hard to verify, because of corner cases like date conversion. Formulas and macros, maybe spread out all over multiple sheets in hidden away white-on-white cells, make things v
904.
by corty 6y ago
The article is between imprecise to wrong. A box above the respective paragraph says so. Article 2 contains said exceptions, but limits them to "member states" and "competent authorities. https://eur-lex.europa.eu&
905.
by corty 6y ago
No. All regulations apply except for the right to (premature) deletion and the necessity of (another) reason for the data collection. Very much a situation of one regulation putting you in the crosshair of another one.
906.
by corty 6y ago
GDPR does apply. You do not need any agreement from your guests or another reason, because the data collection is required by law. But you still have to deal with GDPR requirements around deletion (after you don't need it anymore), acc
907.
by corty 6y ago
Don't know about France, but in Germany similar rules were of course introduced for the usual pretend reasons of child porn and terrorism. A short time later, minor crime investigations and then civil matters were added as reasons to a
908.
by corty 6y ago
Also, the media mafia in France is particularly strong and French politics are firmly in their pockets, a bit more so than in the rest of the world. Which means that they will hold on to as strict a suppression of free internet as possible,
909.
by corty 6y ago
Also, it is perfectly possible to make the necessary qualities of sand from coarser rocks. It is just more expensive. So the great sand shortage is just a shortage of cheap sand.
910.
by corty 6y ago
PLA is opaque for UV: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/UV-and-visible-light-tra... So should be similar to window glass in that respect.
911.
by corty 6y ago
That, and lots of companies. Everything thats old and not COBOL is FORTRAN.
912.
by corty 6y ago
Articles are more of a product that is sold, and less of a service. There is no close interaction required like in a real service business. A service customer has to interact with the service provider and therefore a longer-term ongoing rel
913.
by corty 6y ago
Fission can spontaneously go wrong in the same way all the protons in your body could just decide to decay. A reactor is not magic, just physics.
914.
by corty 6y ago
The failed ones were known to be dangerous. Mostly that big problem was kept under radar of the public, oversight failed big time or was complicit. The other big problem is, we keep running old rustbuckets and dubious designs. More than hal
915.
by corty 6y ago
66 Gray is far from moderate as a whole body dose. The 100% lethal onetime dose for gamma or beta rays (which you probably got one of) is around 10 Gray, LD50 is 3 Gray iirc. A wholebody dose of 2 Gray consequently would get you severe radi
916.
by corty 6y ago
Fukushima and Czernobyl are reactor types that lack the features to fail gracefully. If you want to see an accident in a reactor that does, read about TMI. Newer reactors like EPRs are even more graceful when failing.
917.
by corty 6y ago
Yes. But for all personal data the purposes for which it may be used is limited: generally[0] only the original reason for collecting the data or the legal basis for keeping the data dictate the uses. So anything kept for use in filing taxe
918.
by corty 6y ago
Correct but incomplete: GDPR also tells you to use appropriate measures to prevent breaches. And of course if there was a breach, your measures were not appropriate so you need to change them.
919.
by corty 6y ago
GDPR is intentionally set up to punish incompetence: GDPR 5 1 f: Personal data shall be [...] processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and
920.
by corty 6y ago
There are constraints in GDPR as to how much slack they are cut. Deletions such as this one should take days at most, and complaints have to be handled within 4 weeks, another 4 weeks as an extension if exceedingly difficult. A year for a m
921.
by corty 6y ago
None. This is a PR operation, not any real change in policy. If it were a real change, there would be text about GDPR reports to all affected users.
922.
by corty 6y ago
Well then, let me introduce you to the regularly occurring 23:59:60: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
923.
by corty 6y ago
I guess it is because people often forget that there are downsides to diversity: You are importing foreign cultures that you do not understand and are legally/organisationally unprepared for. The article is interesting because it provi
924.
by corty 6y ago
Probably because HR/legal didn't want to make a fuss and interpreted narrowly for that reason.
925.
by corty 6y ago
And Germany has the most expensive electricity on the planet (for a firstworld nation and adjusted to cost of living). Funding is drying up because renewable subsidies make power unaffordable and thus politically unviable. Germany should be
926.
by corty 6y ago
"base load" is also a statistical law of nature. Your consumers might want or need to consume your product regardless of the price. I will run my heating before I freeze to death, and I will thaw a meal before I starve. Somebody w
927.
by corty 6y ago
Only residential has fixed prices for electricity over the day. Industrial electricity has always been sold in variable prices, e.g. furnaces and other large consumers run when power is cheap and go into hold mode when it is expensive. Ther
928.
by corty 6y ago
You can sell the negative carbon as offsets to others. Lots of products are greened up by just buying offsets instead of really doing something, so there is lots of money in it.
929.
by corty 6y ago
Nuclear power plants, the only large-scale green energy source in existence.
930.
by corty 6y ago
Carbon credits most probably are a massive fraud. First it is unclear what measures each credit you buy will take to capture/reduce/limit carbon. Then, those credits are too cheap to have any plausible benefit. Even staunch fans u

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