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by kartan 8y ago
> they simply don't get punished, except with a small fine, so they keep doing it. It's disgraceful. Violent thieves (robbers) get punished. Non-violent theft is treated more lightly unless is done on a big scale. This gives cr
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by kartan 8y ago
> and also to be curious about why they were not hired. A GDPR button lets them indulge their curiousity and start digging in to interview notes etc. If your company can not show the candidates why they were not hired, you are doing a v
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by kartan 8y ago
> manually reviewing WASM You should not write code in WASM. You should not review WASM. In the same way that most Java developers don't have a clue how bytecode works in the JVM.
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by kartan 8y ago
The missing point is that other languages have bigger/more specialized ecosystems. For the networking effect to exist, your network doesn't needs to be just big. But it needs to be bigger than the rest. That's why people don&
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by kartan 8y ago
> that Disney is increasingly having in the children entertainment business. This is one of the evils of Copyright as it actually exists. Companies own culture. They own every story and character you grew up until after the day you will
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by kartan 8y ago
> Yes, that's the problem with Monopoly It is the problem of it "as a game", but it was the original goal design. It is a lesson on how capital can accumulate and leave people without options. Monopoly is derived from The
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by kartan 8y ago
> What if we need to scale this to infinite numbers for millions of clients? I worked for a company where an internal tool for, at the moment, a dozen users was designed to be more scalable than the actual product. The product was used,
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by kartan 8y ago
The Issue report is not very well done. > Autoplay restrictions on the web have long been inconsistent and served only to impede legitimate use cases. This is judgmental, and it is not backed up with any data. Has it really "served
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by kartan 8y ago
> "They are the fuel that powers a new form of technology infrastructure that is being built on top of the foundational internet protocols." I can't get my head around this sentence. > Bitcoin and Zcash are stores of va
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by kartan 8y ago
> Also, why is Amazon launching this for just dogs? My cats are offended that they were left out! They have the data of what is what people buys. They have that info for all kind of products. If it for dogs, it makes sense that it may be
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by kartan 8y ago
> I used to manage plenty diverse global team of engineers To have Chinese engineers in China, Brazilian in Brazil and Mexicans in Mexico is NOT diversity. That is the contrary of diversity. That is to have homogeneous teams. I have wor
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by kartan 8y ago
When I see the animations I can't stop thinking about a Turing machine. How it works in a similar fashion, copying symbols to keep track of the program while generating the result in the process. It will be nice to know if you can buil
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by kartan 8y ago
> sure they can work the young guys harder, If you are NOT a good manager, that is all that you care about. Did you fail to plan the rest release? Developers will do extra hours. Did you miss understood the requirements? Developers will
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by kartan 8y ago
> Small tech owners can't fight such litigations. Yes. This I think is a downside of the law. Some small owners are going to have a more difficult time. But this is true for any regulation like food safety regulations, construction
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by kartan 8y ago
If you are a bank and a client asks you to delete their data. The bank will still keep it for the tax agencies. If a tribunal gets asked to delete the personal data of the accused, they will keep the data. There is a principle of public int
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by kartan 8y ago
You didn't took into account that rich people can use more of their income for investments, to leverage and to spend more time to use marked fluctuations in their favor. Your example looks correct. But I don't see how is the commo
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by kartan 9y ago
Internet exists in the physical world. You can use extradition to put CEOs in jail. You can use commerce treates to enforce USA to make them comply. You can ban their IPs. You can make Apple, Google, or whatever the platform that allows thi
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by kartan 9y ago
> Theology majors may represent a greater proportion of believers in pre-marital sexual abstinance than do business majors Or maybe Theology majors have a higher pregnancy rate and "need" to marry more often. ;) Any theory is a
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by kartan 9y ago
> I wonder if I could live with myself if this was my job. You are in the company, you have a job to do, everybody else is doing it. Other people share your concerns, but in the end, you have a feature to deliver and you don't want
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by kartan 9y ago
> The simple (and inevitable) solution is to break up Facebook. There was a time when anti monopoly laws were taken seriously. That you are the number one social network should not be used to also become a big player on advertising, sell
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by kartan 9y ago
> at least not until now. They have it to finish before the GDPR enforcement date (25 May 2018) - at which time those organizations in non-compliance may face heavy fines. So, all companies big and small need to have a good data governan
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by kartan 9y ago
"The researchers next hope to follow a group of people for a longer duration to determine if sitting causes the thinning and what role gender, race, and weight might play in brain health related to sitting." This is just a prelimi
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by kartan 9y ago
> Without actually showing some statistics on the pension payments and how the overall budget breaks down, I can't help but feel manipulated. The article links the lack of public services to high pensions. It´s painted as if there w
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by kartan 9y ago
> I heard Portuguese from South America and from Portugal are different - maybe that could be a reason? I came here to say the same thing. Spanish from one country is "wrong" in another one. A lot of people doesn´t understand
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by kartan 9y ago
> "my body, my choice" "consenting adults" -- all that goes out the window when it's sex for cash? it makes no sense. This is true, only if individuals have a good education, job opportunities, a broad enough saf
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by kartan 9y ago
> Don't buy plastic disposable water bottles if you live in a developed nation I´m playing with semantics here. But some parts of USA hardly count as developed states. As a country, the USA is overachieving in a lot of measures, but
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by kartan 9y ago
> Given the expense and difficulties of complying with these rules and enforcing them To know what data do you have and to able to manage it is not difficult nor expensive. It is a short-term cost for long-term benefits. The fact that mo
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by kartan 9y ago
> a bunch of off-the-shelf Canon telephoto lenses stuck together on a metal frame That's an interesting remark. It's hard to beat mass production. As number produced skyrocket to the millions, it's difficult that a custom
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by kartan 9y ago
> Cynically, or conspiratorially, I think everyone is making a huge deal about this because it's manipulation that's not happening through the officially-controlled and sanctioned channels. Cynically, it is cynism to devaluate
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by kartan 9y ago
> but a little top-down pressure can go a long way "The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experimen

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