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by hnbad 2y ago
> taxpayer funded I don't understand the reflexive nature many people present in jumping this kind of framing. Of course it's taxpayer funded. Everything is taxpayer funded. Even when it's not literally paid from taxes col
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Strictly speaking Australia doesn't seem to have jails, although some "Community Correction Centers" serve the purpose of jails (i.e. holding suspects before trial): https://vanessaash.com.au/whats-the-differe
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by hnbad 2y ago
Pet peeve of mine but technically prison is for convicts, jail is for those yet awaiting a conviction but who aren't trusted to show up to court if allowed to roam freely. That the jail system (in the US especially) has essentially bec
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As an autistic geek who is angry at the world, I'd like to point out that he didn't exclusively refer to autistics but specified autistic geeks .
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> Tell me what is happening now is not exactly how Greece and Rome fell. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Ancient Greece was a loose coalition of city states, not an empire. You could say they were short-sighted by being more con
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> There's a lot of pearl-clutching about social media, algorithms, and "data", but you'll find far more people in tech (including FAANG) who are actively working on privacy technology, sustainable development and so o
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I'd argue you've got things mixed up, actually. Humans are social animals. We are individually physically weak and defenseless. Unlike other animals, we are born into this world immobile, naked, starving and helpless. It takes us
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> the most basic tenet of capitalism is that when there is a demand, someone will come along to fill it. That's the most basic tenet of markets , not capitalism. The mistake people defending capitalism routinely make (knowingly or
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You'd have a point if the Democratic party ever acknowledged any of that. Instead the party line has been "things are actually fine the way they are and we're on the right track". Alas, being the adults in the room doesn
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I know this goes against your deeply held beliefs but race is socially constructed. I've heard Americans refer to Italians, Turks and Slavic - and even Roma people - as "white" but tell a German that and they'll look a
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> WTF? The Democrats are the ones with concrete offers to ease people's suffering. Literally. Stuff like Medicare for all. No. Democrats have concrete offers. The Democrats don't. The Democrats had several opportunities t
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Because classified records don't always come with expiration dates on their classification status for obvious reasons - even if records are classified for a speficic reason you'd probably want to make sure that reason doesn't
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by hnbad 2y ago
You'd think the threat of having your bank accounts frozen and armed law enforcement officers showing up at your door were the most significant factors in making people "less averse" to paying taxes. I doubt reducing the barr
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by hnbad 2y ago
No offense but this is a good demonstration of a common mistake tech people (especially those used to common law systems like the US) engage in when looking at laws (especially in civil law systems like much of the rest of the world): you&#
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The US has the death penalty, all implementations of which have been demonstrated to qualify as cruel by most people's definitions (e.g. the chemical method is not in any way based on science but rather pumping the victim full of overd
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Case in point: the US has literally threatened to invade The Hague if any US citizens are ever arrested and put on trial there. Even if the US were a signatory, nobody involved would dare risking it.
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by hnbad 2y ago
Given Trump's claims about moving people to Guantanamo (which is unfeasible on so many levels), this sounds like an opportunistic move by El Salvador. The law professor cited seems to be judging the offer based on the current legal sit
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by hnbad 2y ago
I think the problem is that most people think nothing ever happens, or to put it bluntly "It couldn't happen here". Harris literally offered nothing - when pressed she even said that she wouldn't have done anything diffe
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by hnbad 2y ago
I think "unstable" is the right word. You can argue that far more appalling things happen in places like Russia or China, sure. But this doesn't feel like a controlled assumption of power. It doesn't even feel like Trump
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by hnbad 2y ago
While this is true in principle, it's worth adding the caveat that EU countries have also been pushing for backdoors to encrypted communications in order to expand law enforcement access. Of course while this contradicts the stance on
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I'm very glad to hear that the goal this time isn't growth and not to try to expand/pivot into other avenues at any cost. As a triple backer it was gutwrenching to see a company producing such a great device desperately chase
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by hnbad 2y ago
I'm not sure what the Department of Energy's qualifications are (I know they're in charges of nukes so maybe also bioweapons?) but I don't see what relevance the FBI's opinion has.
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by hnbad 2y ago
If you're arguing that landlords should have to get written consent to post a tenant's name on the mail boxes and door bell, then I agree. If we're talking about tenants doing it themselves, then there's no privacy issue
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by hnbad 2y ago
That's again false. It is also nonsense. The original ePD was issued in 2002 and implemented by Germany in an update to the TKG in 2004 (and in an update to the UWG if you want to be pedantic). This precedes the GDPR by 12 years. The G
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by hnbad 2y ago
> Moreso it could be argued that this is needed for making the site work (legitimate interest). If you process the UA to "make the site work" then yes. One example for that would be a site that has the purpose of showing the vi
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If you're collecting the data for fraud prevention, that would be covered by "legitimate interest" which does not require consent. The problem with ads is that they don't want to only do fraud prevention, they also want
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The user agent string by itself is not PII. The user agent string in context can be PII. Here's an example you might be familiar with from a business setting: sometimes you can't disclose the identity of certain customers but yo
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The ePD is intended to be replaced by the ePR but the ePD has already been implemented in several countries so it's a good abstraction of those implementations if you don't want to look at the specifics of each one individually. &
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An address is already PII, whether you pseudonymize it with apartment numbers or not. Also I think in practice the bigger concern with IPs is that the IP itself is PII at the time you collect it, so you're always processing PII even
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by hnbad 2y ago
As with all legal questions (IANAL): it depends. Can you demonstrate legitimate interest for "using" those parts of the IPv4 address? If yes, then no. The IPv4 address combined with a timestamp identifies the typical person almo

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