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Turns out I had him down as a "politician" because I conflated him with the Greens politician who was doing elaborate flow charts on Brexit on social media. Incidentally I also forgot his name too. I saw he's only listed as a
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I'd say that's a gray area. Several of these schemes have been found in violation (Heise's implementation of it got them sued for example and they had to modify it). The bigger point here is that ONLY European websites have b
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If they harvest massive amounts of copyrighted and suspect data and send the worst parts of it to strangers over the Internet, everyone calls it "ML" and "training" and investors give them billions in funding but when I
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Never heard of her. The only actual example I can think of is Schrems and he didn't fine anyone, he merely dismantled the shoddily constructed EU-US privacy law circumventions (Privacy Shield etc). And I had to look up his first name (
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This seems unironically the best answer. There are a lot of laws that are seemingly universal like patents, copyright, privacy (right to your own likeness etc) but the details can vary widely internationally and even between EU countries. A
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In other words market cap is assumed to be representative of the company's "actual value" (i.e. whether it is a good investment, profitable, whatever) and the other variables are meant to correct for factors the market cap pr
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Well, exploiting their resources for hundreds of years, then granting them "independence" while keeping a financial and economic stranglehold along with ill-fated financial "aid" projects offering cheap loans to build an
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To that point, HN commenters are also directly incentivized to say certain things because of the way the voting works. You can get a lot of upvotes just by seeming profound (especially if you have a reputation) or "rational" witho
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The article suggests that this may have in part been due to the falling sea levels. Europe extended much further to the North to the point that Great Britain was surrounded by land. The gap between Europe and Africa was also close enough to
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That's technically correct but not entirely true. The ePrivacy directive and GDPR don't literally require cookie banners but the former requires disclosure of specific information and the latter requires consent for most forms of
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Usually when a big corporation gleefully announces a change like this it's worth checking whether there's any regulations on that topic taking effect in the near future. On a local level, I recall how various brands started making
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> I don't know how much that specific thing should be factored into healthy lifestyle choices. I'm pretty sure the average human is not healthy , even in the societies analysed, especially if you factor in injuries, disabiliti
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It's odd that the paper goes to great lengths to talk about protecting your penis from insects but at the same point seems to ignore women completely - all the illustrations depict men. Having met women (shocking, I know), bust size ca
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As far as I know the subtractive style was in use in Rome but the purely additive one was more widely used until the Middle Ages. There are also examples where multiplicatives are used but the only thing I can find on Wikipedia is an exampl
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German actually used to make heavy use of French loan words for everyday objects. There was a very intentional shift in replacing loan words with Germanic words around the 1930s (really starting in the 1920s I think), I think you can imagin
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de.vu always rubbed me the wrong way because it kinda looked/sounded like DVU, a far-right political party that eventually merged with the neo-nazi NPD (which, fun fact, recently rebranded itself as Die Heimat - Homeland). To be fair
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Are you American? Because that sounds like such an American idea of how the world works. To answer your question: most malware actors can be traced back to Russia, what exactly do you think "sending the cops" after them will accom
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The problem with renewables is that most people talking about replacing fossil with renewables don't understand how the grid actually works. What we need the most is better storage technologies. PV, wind and hydro are highly variable w
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I thought it's widely accepted that the Tesla stock price is heavily inflated relative to the company's actual performance and that Elon Musk is increasingly considered a liability as his vaporware marketing (e.g. the various blat
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> I can imagine a declining population, a younger generation, that does not want to reproduce, neither working off the available work. Luckily the future does not depend on what you can or can't imagine. And no, even if that imagina
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This shouldn't be surprising given that even orthography and names were often not standardized consistently for most of history. For example, Adolf Hitler's grandfather was called Hiedler , not Hitler and the spelling change wa
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I recall there being a clock face puzzle in The Seventh Guest but I couldn't tell you if it involved that fact.
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In retrospect, most of these "technological post-scarcity utopianism" predictions fell flat because they did not account for enclosure. For example, automation may increase worker productivity but that doesn't benefit the wor
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There are incremental approaches but they would require states to promote co-operatives and there are simply no political incentives for politicians to do that. E.g. government grants/loans, subsidies, or allowing workers to preferrent
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That hasn't really changed though. He's just decided to manifest "Twitter is a video platform" into existence. The controls are still total ass though.
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> Communism Fun fact: prefiguration, a practice popular with anarchists, is essentially a form of refactoring rather than a rewrite. Arguably the problem with Soviet/Maoist communism and the French Revolution also was that it merely
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect Beyond the Wikipedia definition, I've heard the term used to describe the phenomenon of people looking at an ugly codebase with tons of special cases and expectat
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TL;DR: > In 1943, someone came up with the idea of selecting a war weary bomber from each group and providing it with the means of clear identification—additional navigation lights, pyrotechnics, and a wild unmistakable group-specific pa
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The problem with "liquid democracy" is that it's unappealing to those who would have to implement it because it takes away their power (and financial prospects in the form of lobbying). It's the same problem as with tryi
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At the risk of derailing this thread further: > dancing in celebration Yes. It's called revenge and it's ugly. Do I need to remind you what happened in the US when the killing of Osama Bin Laden was announced? Or the Israeli tr

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