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by hnbad 1y ago
> Without consent, under these laws, the ads can only be useless ads that no advertiser wants to pay for, which means they either can't sell the ad space at all, or have to sell it for $0.0001 CPM hoping that like, Coca Cola will wa
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by hnbad 1y ago
You know where Kaliningrad is but you couldn't find Denmark (aka the country that includes that big piece of land next to Canada that Trump and Vance have been talking about annexing) on a map?
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by hnbad 1y ago
East Germany had a strategy for dealing with political opponents it referred to as Zersetzung . The FBI had a similar operation for political movements like the Black Panthers that's widely known as COINTELPRO. Both of those very evid
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by hnbad 1y ago
The early Web 2.0 era was still heavily riding the idea of the Semantic Web, which is why it saw the rise of a lot of metadata standards and "microformats". Most of these rapidly died when it became clear that there are stronger c
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by hnbad 1y ago
You also can't have capitalism without bureaucracy. There's no such thing as stateless capitalism because states allow for capital to exist. Without states, you'd have to justify your claims to your peers and anything in exce
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by hnbad 1y ago
Under German law, the BGB ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch , German civil law book defining most private laws) provides very specific and concrete provisions for liabilities and duties in most business transactions and commercial exchanges of good
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by hnbad 1y ago
> In fact the law pretty explicitly disallows dark patterns like that. Yes. For "cookie banners" the law in fact forbids hiding "Reject all non-essential and continue" to be given less visual weight than "Accept
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by hnbad 1y ago
The law is fine. The industry has just decided that dragging its heels and risking fines is better than actual compliance. Most of the "cookie management" scripts that people use aren't compliant . EU law requires "Acce
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by hnbad 1y ago
The problems are actually not the oversight but the motivation: the point of outsourcing is cost-cutting, not finding equally talented developers elsewhere. This is especially evident in manufacturing: China can produce extremely sophisti
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by hnbad 1y ago
If you're trying to hit quotas rather than find out the truth, that sounds like a feature.
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by hnbad 1y ago
> This is true is all systems. People will never be equal in society, because the things that need to be done vary radically in difficulty and the number of people realistically capable of doing them - and those close to the top will alw
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by hnbad 1y ago
It's explained in the Wikipedia article linked in TFA. If the family was picked at random, a GG family is twice as likely to have resulted in us finding out one of the children is a girl as a BG or GB family (and a BB family would be r
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by hnbad 1y ago
> Most people do that to obtain one suitable mate, and have a few offspring. I'm not sure most people get a medical degree to "obtain one suitable mate and have a few offspring". I think most people do that to be a medical
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by hnbad 1y ago
Have you read either of those books? The only reason anyone ever read Mein Kampf is that the party literally gave it away and people were expected to own a copy to demonstrate their loyalty. Few people read it at the time, even fewer were i
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by hnbad 1y ago
Same legal basis of the argument, but much flimsier logic. Unless you're specifically talking about "Nazi symbols" when you say "Nazi stuff" because those are covered by a specific law originally intended to suppres
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by hnbad 1y ago
The "dictatorship of the proletariat" is mostly Marx doing what we would now call "being an edge lord". It's supposed to be a contradiction of the "dictatorship of capital" or rule by the owning class. But
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by hnbad 1y ago
This article and some of the comments suffers from a misunderstanding about the German court system. The court did not rule anything unconstitutional - it only declared it as such in its ruling about the specific case. The decision can be a
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by hnbad 1y ago
I would like to know where you draw the line for "working democracy". The German Democratic Republic had elections, it even had political mechanisms that allowed other parties to participate (which the East CDU made plenty of use
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by hnbad 1y ago
Is that how you think about fixing software bugs too? "You're saying the existing code is broken so we should fix it by writing more code?" EDIT: Regulations are simply laws. Laws structure legal (this includes financial) int
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by hnbad 1y ago
The local merchants' profit pays for that. That profit comes from sales. For local merchants this likely means sales to customers like "you". So it's your money paying for those things via local merchants. If your conc
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by hnbad 1y ago
> Most software developers I have met have this kind of disdain for their users familiarity and ability and act like they are above that. This is absolutely true. For what it's worth, "so-and-so department, room 123" is on
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by hnbad 1y ago
I don't think it's accurate to say that anyone messed up with Smith or Marx. Smith didn't anticipate modern finance capitalism and his musings apply perfectly well to earlier iterations of capitalism - though he'd probab
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by hnbad 1y ago
It's not so much that only criminals use cash, it's more that crash makes it incredibly easy to evade taxes. The archetype is a cash-only restaurant: it's trivial to both launder money by claiming more sales than you actually
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by hnbad 1y ago
What he calls inevitabilism, Chomsky referred to as "manufacturing consent": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent Sure, Chomsky was specifically talking about how the underlying systems of US m
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by hnbad 1y ago
> I'd be more worried about the guy Or you could realize what those guys all have in common and be worried about the systems that enable them because the problem isn't a guy but a system enabling those guys to become everyone&#
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by hnbad 1y ago
`Date` is based on the original Java `Date` class and its API was mostly copied verbatim, explaining a lot of the quirks and silliness. While JS can't remove things easily because that would break the web, a lot of work has gone into a
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by hnbad 1y ago
Don't ever look into where the money you make with "passive income" comes from, I guess? Passive income just means other people are working for your income. At some point, someone has to be poor enough to have to do the actua
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by hnbad 1y ago
Sure, because status matters more than finances. Getting rich may be extremely unlikely if not outright impossible. Looking rich to your peers (and "feeling rich") on the other hand may just be a few years worth of small affordabl
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by hnbad 1y ago
Whatever you put aside is not going to be enough to prevent complete financial ruin if shit hits the fan. You might be able to cover smaller emergencies like an appliance breaking or your car needing repairs but literally just giving birth
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The funny thing is that this likely isn't even people like dang intentionally yanking that post. The design of how community self-moderation works and the makeup of the site's demographic makes it easy for this to happen without a

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