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jtmcmc
9y ago
MC likely acts as a data processor on behalf of it's clients - therefore from a GDPR perspective consent requirement rests on their clients which would be data controllers. that being said - MC and other reputable ESPs have for awhile
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9y ago
This is really more like they don't want to deal with deliverability issues and higher than average complaints
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GDPR still is an opt-out mechanism. Though work for google I don't think it will fundamentally affect them that much...
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9y ago
this is in part due to the lack of legal requirements around parental leave in the US (don't think that I'm apologizing for this behavior - but I do think that is one contributing factor)
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9y ago
I think there would be significant challenges to do so. I think this is one of the reasons why google's health care initiatives in the US failed so horrifically and one of the reasons why their deepmind NHS initiative is with the NHS a
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9y ago
sorry if i was unclear. if a company is storing medical history data that falls under HIPPA which is serious. If a company just has data about you that is not medical data then there is no legal requirements as to who can have access to it
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9y ago
yeah but all the employees probably have common stock not preferred so they are in fact getting screwed.
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I think this is aimed not at ambulances but at like all those assisted care ridership services that exist. I assume they are going to need a large fleet of improved accessibility cars though (for wheel chairs, walkers, etc..)
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9y ago
I would bet they have put access restrictions on these because violating hippa can be a felony whereas in general there are 0 legal requirements to restrict access to internal data to a company generally.
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There are likely amortized fixed costs per user + as other people have stated opportunity costs that make your 2-3 dollars have negative value to the company vs. you as a free user.
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it's interesting that sidewalk labs doesn't seem to care but toronto does.
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9y ago
It's funny because the point of the long now and the 10,000 year clock is to encourage long term thinking and planning which leads directly to thinking about these tough long term problems rather than the next election or next quarter.
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9y ago
This is from the SNAP S1 not the dropbox S1
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9y ago
an S1 isn't an IPO it's a preliminary to an IPO.
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9y ago
entrenched building zoning and building restrictions that mop up massive amounts of economic potential in rent (see the housing crises throughout the major cities of the US)
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9y ago
This is really great. I'm excited to read these fully unpaywalled later. I'm interested to see how they'll test this in humans PET or fMRI scanning perhaps possibly before/after depressed patients taking antidepressants&
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9y ago
yes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27001627
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9y ago
the journal industry (NPG, elsevier, etc...) are the very definition of rent seeking. They add basically no value on top of the work. Also the very idea that it's ok to gatekeeper off knowledge that was paid with public funds because y
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9y ago
sounds like a good use of a basic income
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9y ago
You say you are yet you make a strong definitive claim above that seems at odds with it.
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9y ago
sounds like a real reason to build more housing nearby...
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9y ago
but much like the bay area I'm sure a loud minority of people in boulder will express their demand for all of the above with constant density while being continually outraged that it doesn't seem to be working out as they expect.
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9y ago
100 times this
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9y ago
sounds like the softbank purchase could do this. That seems to be what softbank was doing with Uber as well.
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9y ago
Wow drug testing. Jesus.
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So tech I meant colloquially to mean software tech. The overwhelming number of companies you listed there are hardware companies which would also suffer significantly considering the amount of hardware good/fb/etc... Use. Amazon w
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honestly an advertising bubble is terrifying to me. most of the major tech companies revenue is generated from advertising and so are many many many other tech companies and then a huge number of companies which AREN'T advertising make
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9y ago
There are lots of homeless in San Diego and LA, however, they don't have the same level of density that SF is nor the same level of social services. >I don't think most addicts or mentally disabled people have the wherewithal t
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yeah but before that he was a super fucking famous ML researcher.
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For many reasonsons. Some include the fact that homelessness isn't an issue that arises at a city level it's something that arises at a national level and was in part caused by federal decisions such as the privatization and defun
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