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by johndhi 4y ago
Having an 11 month old baby I have a few observations: 1 - parents have strong feelings on this topic and sleep is important. 2 - different kids/families seem to have majorly different sleep experiences in the first year 3 - I am skept
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by johndhi 4y ago
Do you have children?
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Nah, Cloudflare is on pretty solid ground. The data protection authorities' guidance is explicit that load balancing and security-related services are safely considered strictly necessary for websites.
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Yeah.
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I'm not quite as technical as you but what do you think of Cloudflare's explanations for why they use cookies for security and load balancing purposes here? https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-s
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Agreed, though the issue is that the very same technology can be used for perfectly acceptable and desired use cases (online shopping cart) or distasteful ones (behavioral advertising). So it's hard to set a strict standard.
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This regulator approach is pretty common in western Europe so it's hard to choose which country to exit between France, Germany, or Italy. And worst yet, each has its own pet peeve that it enforces - France with cookies, Italy with con
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by johndhi 4y ago
Agreed. Jfyi if curious, cookie law technically isn't part of GDPR. It's from an older law that was ignored for many years called the e-privacy directive.
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What if you want to support shopping carts or chat bots for anonymous users? Or what about ddos prevention? Isn't a cookie (or local or session storage) needed in those cases?
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Well put. We were given Facebook for free on the basis that they can advertise to us. We voted for behavioral advertising with our feet. Yet, we consume documentaries about how evil zuck is and love to hate him. But shouldn't we take b
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by johndhi 4y ago
I interpret cookie law for a tech co. Imo the law should be structured such that people who care can opt out of cookies programmatically, but every day people who don't care don't need to see a pop up on every site. That causes ps
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by johndhi 4y ago
The know it all tone of this article is kind of annoying. Security professionals seem to have a common trait of thinking they know better. Some good points in there, but limited pragmatism.
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by johndhi 4y ago
You know you cared about computers in the 80s/90s if you're drawn to Duke Nukem headlines
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It's an amazing garden! I don't buy the first line: "Artists’ gardens are a living expression of their creativity" and I feel like art critics are always saying bs like this with no basis, but it's a truly lovely ga
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I got some of those calls!
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Probably because of kids, right? (Currently experiencing this).
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While the headline is a reasonable point of view objectively (I didn't read the article because of paywall), given we know his past beef with WashPo, this feels like fairly obviously dirt being flung by the old anti-Tesla crowd.
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by johndhi 4y ago
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. Lol it feels a little cliched and HNish to immediately disagree, but: if I've learned anything it's that no online community is holy. Many have come and gone in my life. They are beautiful and o
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by johndhi 4y ago
Not sure I agree. You, as with most critics actually, seem to be asserting there are clear "quality" lines to be drawn between great novels. IMO we're into the realm of subjectivity here and it's really up to the reader
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by johndhi 4y ago
Based on what research is this a good idea? The US system is unique and we're entrenched. This is too big a change.
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Disagree. Every civil prosecutor I've ever worked with wants a big "story." They are driven by headlines. Taking down local mom's pharmaco is the opposite of the narrative people want to read in the paper. We like the he
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by johndhi 4y ago
Yeah. This, and also the original post (the entire legal system) is based on this adversary system of incentives to demand you did nothing wrong and fight your opponent. It makes it hard to tell what's true.
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Off label litigation is a great example of my point. Extremely muddy waters. Physicians constantly ask pharma about and explore off label drug prescriptions. This is legal: psychiatrist can tell you to take a drug approved for nerve pain fo
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by johndhi 4y ago
I actually used to work for them as a lawyer, indirectly. My view is likely a bit skewed in the other direction, but to me this is mostly evidence of how expensive and impossible it is to do business in healthcare in the United States. How
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by johndhi 4y ago
Love Chekhov. Perhaps I'll check it out! I'm curious though -- it says it's about the development of his voice. By the time he published something major, obviously, his voice was more developed. I'd like to see what his
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by johndhi 4y ago
My view: to start, spend half an hour thinking about the situations in which you feel happier or more energetic. Do you like exercise, driving, looking at a body of water, seeing friends, seeing family, etc.? Then, build a schedule where y
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by johndhi 4y ago
My wife's empty car was broken into five times in 5 years in SF (we stopped replacing the stereo finally), the license plate stolen once.
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Interesting! I have the same experience with the one time a group of teens attempted to mug me. I can remember the sneer on the kid's face as he cocked back and readied to punch me, I was holding textbooks under my right arm, standing
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by johndhi 4y ago
I also hate the smell and look and fear of spending time in SF. However, does anyone know what the solution really is? We assume it's more police and more charges brought by the DA. I'm not sure the data supports that incredibly w
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by johndhi 4y ago
The fact that a number of Walgreens in SF literally closed their doors because of shoplifting in recent years suggests the numbers ain't great.

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