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dathinab
8mo ago
Theoretically a lot of that is true for the US. It's just that - both parties have undermined the separation of power, and expanded power of the president repeatedly for many years (e.g. with granting special privileges to the presiden
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dathinab
8mo ago
it's too spontaneous for that it it's "just" a training exercise or test they could have announced the closing weeks or month before it happening massively reducing the cost fallout from it not that the current administr
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dathinab
8mo ago
it's in general highly abnormal which kinda makes it normal to not have a explanation because anything abnormal enough to cause something like that is also likely something kept secret until it's done (Like large scale operations
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dathinab
8mo ago
that link shows the wrong blocked airspace in my case (it shows that some areas above the border in the desert are blocked off, which makes sense to fight drug smuggling by drones without risking mistaking drones with aircrafts) but he arti
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dathinab
8mo ago
speculations are it's either related to ICE or drug cartel investigations The former has a long history of not cooperating with local authorities (also in ways I personally think are sometimes quite malicious but that is off topic). Un
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dathinab
8mo ago
The law is both in wording and spirit pretty clear that - any civilian has a right for free speech, and protests count as that - any civilian has a right for due process There is nothing murky about that. There are just people pretending it
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dathinab
8mo ago
yes, but also this means that major security features don't work anymore creating a higher risk for the bank and Russia prepared for this for years after the sanctions related to the annexation of Crimea and Russia kinda,nearly cut ful
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dathinab
8mo ago
yes, but in many cases that is because this payment method predates "modern" online payment and they "just kept it around" depending on what you buy "a lot" can be close to non or close to all In the end it has
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dathinab
8mo ago
the only way to legally search a house, car or force companies to hand anything over is with a judge signing it off the article isn't clear about it but it implies that this was not approved by a judge but DHS alone, this is also indic
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dathinab
8mo ago
This isn't about the payment network. The EU already has their own payment network, too. It's about card payment and even if things ending up in your network they first going through visa. And it's about online payment (PayPa
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dathinab
8mo ago
> This is about cross-border payments within the EU. no it isn't for bank to bank payment your statement might be true but this isn't true for EC card payment and most online payment _all_ EC cards either use the Visa Payment n
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dathinab
9mo ago
> The three problems frameworks solve (or claim to) [..] Simplification [..] Automation [..] Labour cost and he misses _the most important problem frameworks solve_ which is correctness when it comes to programming most things are far mo
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dathinab
9mo ago
IMHO it's more like a disclaimer, if you hide it people will sooner or later still find out either if they do research (it was public), or randomly later. That then creates a situation of a "breach of trust" that "they w
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dathinab
9mo ago
The really crazy thing is you don't need to know more then basic (non Hollywood) physics to know how dump this is 1. every gram you need to send to space is costly, a issue you don't have at ground level 2. cooling is a catastroph
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dathinab
9mo ago
the thing is a lot of recent legal preceding surrounding X is about weather X fulfilled the legally required due diligence and if not what level of negligence we are speaking about and the things about negligence which caused harm to humans
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dathinab
9mo ago
> point of impracticality to run a website only if your site insist to use any of the widely used Ad networks through there are Ad Networks which base ads on what is on your site instead of who visits and the popup you link is _not_ a GD
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9mo ago
needing consent and informing the user are two distinct concepts I think you did need to explicitly tell the user about it. But I think (not fully sure) they did relax that recently so just listing it in you Privacy Policy or similar should
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9mo ago
the site didn't exist from day one, the exceptions do (but some informational requirements have been slightly relaxed recently I think)
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dathinab
9mo ago
> It'd be nice if the law included an explicit exception for local cookies for routine site operation purposes. it does have such exception, always did (as long as the cookies are not used for tracking or other non essential things
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9mo ago
> Cookie popups. Enough said. except a lot of the things related to cookie popups isn't GDPR but other (misguided older) laws furthermore setting a (proper 1st party and HTTP only) cookie to remember you opted out of tracking doesn&
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9mo ago
> Keystroke obfuscation can be disabled client-side. please never do that (in production) if anyone half way serious tries they _will_ be able to break you encryption end find what you typed this isn't a hypothetical niche case obfu
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dathinab
9mo ago
Interesting Side Note: bleached/chlorinated chicken The things which makes this a no go in the EU is ironically not the chlorination per-se, but the fact that chlorination is needed. Like basically the EU thinks the way the US allows f
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dathinab
9mo ago
> violation of the free movement of banking services Isn't the same as freely moving the jurisdiction under which a company exist. It also mostly applies to cash/legal tender but most wealthy peoples wealth is only in small am
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dathinab
9mo ago
the proposal itself, and my comments, say no tax will be on country basis, that doesn't block standardized stock options. It just means that on monetization events taxes you pay on stocks might differ (they anyway will depending on whe
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dathinab
9mo ago
this isn't fully true yes you company needs to be rooted in a specific country, and sure moving company roots between countries is still not always trivial (anti capital flight laws are a thing). But that isn't really in conflict
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9mo ago
> cat and mouse game of companies finding loopholes in the regulation and regulators rushing to but here is the thing, most "loop holes" in this kind of law technically aren't loop holes in this kind of laws (but loop hole
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dathinab
9mo ago
there are already regulations in the EU which say - ADs need to be clearly recognizable as such - bunch of other things related to deceiving users and customer protection - the risk this enables in combination with target ads to trick a use
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dathinab
9mo ago
it's not paranoia chips with backdoors which would allow exactly something like that (or many other things) have been found more then once in recent years AFIK through a fancy personal car stopping working is the least relevant target.
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dathinab
9mo ago
yes but it's more complicated like if you look at original reasoning why capitalism is a good match for democracy you find arguments like voting with money etc. _alongside with what things must not be tolerated in capitalism_ or it wil
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9mo ago
> interesting that TV is regulated soso, it's mostly that freely accessible channels need their content to be in a certain ~PG/age protection range (and in many countries that also changes depending on the time of the day, not
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