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by johndhi 4y ago
I needed a blogging platform for my hyper simple website and I may have found it. Was annoyed I'd have to pay to have a custom domain but seeing it's a one time payment and not a subscription, I am probably on board. Personally th
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by johndhi 4y ago
That's Orwell for ya. Journalism background.
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You know what's funny? Literally any use of any technology that requires transfer of any EU personal data to a company that has any presence in the United States, is currently illegal for anyone in Europe. But we're playing this s
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by johndhi 4y ago
Cloud Act is a UK thing. How does this relate to Denmark?
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May never get sorted.
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by johndhi 4y ago
Interesting point. Perhaps true. Certainly their intent is to have their cake and eat it too, but you're probably right that isn't going to play out. I think the problem is the complexity of running an international software busin
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by johndhi 4y ago
I mean, duh. The law obliged companies to turn over internet related data to law enforcement and not tell the data subject about it if law enforcement asks in the right way. This can be said of all data Amazon or any other tech company coll
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by johndhi 4y ago
A lot of interesting responses. I sit in a ton of different department meetings and I find most departments (most people) don't set clear agendas or define terms up front. This is the fault of the meeting organizer (hopefully there is
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by johndhi 4y ago
Everybody acts like tech companies get tremendous value from analyzing PII. Almost all of tech (perhaps excluding fb) mostly just collects pii because it's easier to do so than not, and because everybody else is. If it were banned in a
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by johndhi 4y ago
In my experience as a lawyer at tech companies: -bad lawyers creative an antagonist relationship with their internal colleagues in sales and contribute to distrust -good lawyers spend a lot of time learning stuff about their clients (engine
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by johndhi 4y ago
Kinda. The jury is the "fact finder" so only they can decide someone is or isn't guilty. However, a judge has the power to dismiss a case before sending it to a jury. They can say, essentially, this case is easy to decide so
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by johndhi 4y ago
I'm a USA lawyer so not hyper familiar (we have no such distinction here) but a barrister is licensed to put on a funny hat or wig and actually speak to/interact with a judge. If you're only a solicitor (you can be both) I be
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by johndhi 4y ago
I'm a lawyer. This makes some good points not everyone realizes but I'll add some caveats: This is way more relevant in common law countries (US and UK) since in other countries judicial decisions are a lot less important. Also,
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by johndhi 4y ago
... what? I don't think so
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by johndhi 4y ago
Congress wouldn't ratify 99% of court decisions even when the text of their bill is very clear l. The argument you make in the last sentence of your post is very weak.
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by johndhi 4y ago
I, for one, wish the EPA (or some body) were empowered to do more than it does, but I also (to some degree) respect the logic of many conservative judicial opinions. Just sayin.
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by johndhi 4y ago
>The purpose of SCOTUS isn’t to rule based on what the desired outcome is, it’s to rule based on what the law explicitly does say This is actually a modern take that was essentially created by Justice Scalia. I like the take ("textu
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by johndhi 4y ago
I'm not sure this is a greater risk than currently exists with in person interviews.
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by johndhi 4y ago
I agree that writing is hard but the problem described in this post isn't my problem. I've been writing every morning for about 3 years now. My own expectations for how much and what I will write seems to cause the most pain for m
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by johndhi 4y ago
I am also a lawyer. I don't know - I have a lot of sympathy for your points but your experiences are so generally described that I can't really evaluate whether I agree with you. You are leaving out the vacuum created by the regul
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by johndhi 4y ago
If I were trying to very simply estimate pct of tweets attributable to bots[0] based only on tweet content I'd do these things: -find (near) duplicate tweets reposted many times -look at responses to famous people -look for certain ve
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by johndhi 4y ago
I hate the stupid argument that "white collar crime" is just as bad. No, hurting a company's profits isn't as bad as stabbing someone. These are very different things.
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by johndhi 4y ago
As a writer myself, I thought the advice was quite practical. He's giving different ways you can approach writing an ending. He isn't writing the ending for you.
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by johndhi 4y ago
George Saunders is funny. I highly recommend reading his commencement speech and I REALLY highly recommend reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. The latter because Russian literature is amazing.
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by johndhi 4y ago
Don't really care about stupidly drafted privacy laws being violated. They do nothing for me.
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Wow. Kinda want to plagiarize this response to bring it full circle
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by johndhi 5y ago
I've worked in healthcare law for a few years and I think the problem boils down to how it's regulated. It's super, duper complex with lots of paperwork. The complexity is too great to run a small practice, the Medicare/
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by johndhi 5y ago
this isn't that far off from how some european systems work. for example, in the UK[0], if you lose a lawsuit, you have to pay not only your attorney's fees, but the other party's attorneys fees. It gets very expensive. As a
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by johndhi 5y ago
For those advocating e2e encryption instead, is that even possible with most cloud services? How can you encrypt Salesforce data, for example, and still have Salesforce perform all of the necessary operations on that data, if they can&#x27
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by johndhi 5y ago
For those suggesting e2e encryption of data in Cloud services, how is that possible? How could you, for example, run Salesforce and have Salesforce only see encrypted data? Seems extremely complicated or impossible -- isn't the point

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