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by hnbad 2y ago
Don't confuse ruthlessness for competence. Israel does a lot of things because it knows it can get away with them. Israel is also known for spreading blatant disinformation. Occam's Razor suggests they were unprepared for the Oct
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There is a difference between using infiltration to gain intel and engage in surveillance (although this still caused moral outrage when Snowden leaked details about US intelligence services infiltrating foreign companies in allied countrie
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Where do you think the line should be drawn? Arguably if your client is IDF your devices are more likely to exclusively end up in the hands of military personnel whereas if your client is "Hezbollah" (whatever legal entity acted o
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This isn't entirely hypothetical. There was for example a US-German joint venture of the respectivel intelligence agencies that produced compromised encryption/security software. The primary market were of course hostile foreign c
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by hnbad 2y ago
I'm assuming the "documentary" was the movie The Imitation Game staring Benedict Cumberbatch. If that's an intentional mistake, I'd guess by "French" they meant Austrian (as Hitler was born in Austria).
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> It's not even a "left vs right" issue; no one thinks the system is working right now. That's true but as always the difference between left vs right (populism) is not what is being said but what the proposed solutio
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by hnbad 2y ago
The UK's healthcare system isn't failing, it's being failed. There's been a constant cycle of defunding the NHS because it is bad and the NHS becoming worse from a lack of funding. The obvious end goal is full privatizat
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by hnbad 2y ago
FWIW in other countries you not only get paid sick leave by law but also paid leave when your kid is sick (only for one parent usually but the idea is that it doesn't matter whether you're sick yourself or have to care for a sick
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by hnbad 2y ago
> For whatever reason The short answer is that your organs are mostly asymmetric and the esophagus connects to the stomach on the right so by laying on your right your stomach acid flows to the sphincter connecting your stomach and esoph
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I don't see how that fixes anything as your browser is transmitting PII simply by fetching the iframe content. The sandbox only limits what they can do client-side, they still get to see your IP and user agent.
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by hnbad 2y ago
This is apparently an unpopular idea but you're right: human nature is based on cooperation. Even under "free market" systems people do things that are not optimal market decisions because they are naturally predisposed to he
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by hnbad 2y ago
Marvel films, which (like much of big budget Hollywood at this point sadly) at this point are infamous for their exploitation of cheap unorganized effects artists, are probably a bad example for something being "not shady". HN act
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"Profit" means you're overpaying (i.e. the amount of money you exchange for goods or services exceeds the cost of providing them). Failure to operate at a profit (even if it may be indirect in cases like VC-funded disruptors
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by hnbad 2y ago
Exploitation and profit are the same concept just different framing. The distinction between shady and non is usually more about who is being exploited, to what extent they're being exploited and how transparent the business is about t
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Ignoring the ethics is literally antithetical to good engineering. Alas it seems to be the default for operating a business.
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by hnbad 2y ago
These require consent if, for example, they involve the use of a third-party service. Setting a first-party dark mode cookie does not require opting in even if it's "non-essential". It does however require disclosure. The jur
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by hnbad 2y ago
They're also violating the ePrivacy directive with any consent dialogs that don't give at least equal weight to the "Reject all possible and continue" option or hide it behind extra clicks. Sadly the ePrivacy implementat
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FWIW this is more of a concern if you expect the case to go to court. In the US most "criminals" accept plea bargains without a court ever seeing the case. So statistically you can likely "act on your feels" as long as t
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by hnbad 2y ago
I have mixed feelings about this given that the organisation's only explicit stance is being in defense of free speech, the freedom of the press and opposition to censorship. This tells me nothing about who's behind this, who&#x27
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by hnbad 2y ago
This depends, though. The EU does not have laws covering everything that national or local law might cover in its member states. In many cases the EU court of law is more like the US Supreme Court in that it is more about establishing wheth
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by hnbad 2y ago
They didn't retroactively change the rules. They retroactively found a contract invalid. I'd file this under "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" as it sounds like Apple tried to talk Ireland into giving it special tre
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by hnbad 2y ago
To be clear: Germany also heavily subsidized a lot of other large companies, especially in the automotive industry during the pandemic but the politicians involved were mostly smart enough to hide this behind grants with tailor-made require
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by hnbad 2y ago
If you're suggesting the government should not be able to exert violence because corporations aren't, I'm listening but I suspect you haven't thought this through.
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Germany has PostIdent: you are issued a code, take it to the closest post office, hand them the code (originally this involved printouts) and your ID card and they scan your ID card and enter it into their system where the issuer of the cod
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by hnbad 2y ago
Given that KYC is part of anti money laundering laws is the main audience for this service people who want to do money laundering?
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The problem with DNT was that there was no established legal basis governing its meaning and some browsers just sent it by default so corporations started arguing it's meaningless because there's no way to tell if it indicates a g
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by hnbad 2y ago
If they use the consent modal to gather data about you when you try to "opt out", they're already deliberately violating the law more than they would by simply not having that banner. We're not talking about something th
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by hnbad 2y ago
It's not a warning label, it's a request for consent which means they are legally required to ask you for permission and allow you to refuse them. Most implementations are actually violating the law by making it more difficult to
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by hnbad 2y ago
I think the best UX for async actions with optimistic UI updates would be having an (attention-grabbing?) indicator when an action is added and then another when it completes as well as indicating the number of pending (i.e. unconfirmed) ac
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Oh, absolutely. I just got caught up by the lyrics to Fort Minor - Remember the Name .

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