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by ketzu 6y ago
The problem these attempts try to adress is that it's not a real choice: doing that would likely end your business, while boycotting would have little effect on google/Facebook. So it's a power struggle where one side doesn&#
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by ketzu 6y ago
One of the problems with this idea is, that you can do your due diligience, use state of the art security, and still lose. Also liability is interesting: According to [1] banks are not liable for contents of lockers. According to [2] banks
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by ketzu 6y ago
According to [1], one of the requirements for statutory damages is negligence. (The other two are very narrow definitions of private data and that it must be nonencrypted and nonredacted) > “a result of the business’s violation of the du
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by ketzu 6y ago
Yes I was simplifying quite a lot. But "historical" wasn't just meant as "was there already", even though it plays a huge part. As far as I know, marijuana was mostly made illegal in the 30s and earlier in the US, m
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by ketzu 6y ago
While I agree that this plays a part, as it's what made it so popular to begin with, drugs 'directly' derived from plants are quite easy to make, too.
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by ketzu 6y ago
The reasons why tobacco and alcohol are legal are mostly historical and they are basically the only exceptions. There are many drugs that kill people but keep them subdued that are illegal. It seems to me that is not the reason for which ar
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by ketzu 6y ago
Thank you for sharing this, it put a lot of things I don't like about some discussions into interesting words!
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by ketzu 6y ago
One reason I consider for that is that technical progress and inventions are much more valuable and therefore need to be a public good sooner. I don't mind disney having copyright on mickey mouse for 100 years. I do mind locking away a
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by ketzu 6y ago
What makes it reportable is that the company is running not only the service (Gmail) but also the platform (Android) it uses to monitor its competitors. That's not something most companies can do.
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This does not only concern code, but regulation, tradition, contracts etc. The mutual understanding of weeks, days, months of roughly equal lengths is baked into a lot of our things and it's not enough to change it in some header file&
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by ketzu 6y ago
According to the article by Spiegel, the psychiatrist concluded that the condition is chronic and consolidated, therefore, no second opinion is required. But according to the wikipedia article, they later got more opinions when they got the
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by ketzu 6y ago
Short summary in english of the contents of the spiegel article: Four Hessian tax investigators noted many problems. Their employer (the state of Hessen) got them psychiatricly examined. The examiner found them "paranoid troublemaking&
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by ketzu 6y ago
Based on your "also": According to the spiegel article the investigators didn't end up in a psychiatric facility, but got a diagnosis of inability-to-work and pensioned. The case for Mr. Mollath was much worse.
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by ketzu 6y ago
I can go back all the way to 2010: https://imgur.com/DsSKcFV
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by ketzu 6y ago
> You just ignored the armored vehicles and police station permanently setup at one end of the square? Apparently yes, at least I can't find them on my pictures and don't remember them (but that doesn't mean they weren&#x2
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by ketzu 6y ago
They installed it in 2018 apparently: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=620268193 wish I could have gone there before.
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by ketzu 6y ago
> A bit of an oxymoron there isn't it. How do you enforce a law without maintaining law and order. The point is just that the intent of applying the law is not maintaining law and order. Lika a policeman seeing 100 people jaywalking
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by ketzu 6y ago
My experience in tienanmen: Showing my passwort and a bag scanner, going through. Area was limited with small metal fences. My experience at the eiffel tower: Bag scanner, didn't go through (because I had a huge bag which was not allow
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by ketzu 6y ago
I went to Beijing in 2019 and while I felt the security of subway stations was a bit overdone (metal detectors and bag scanners) I had little trouble buying things: while shops wanted me to pay with wechat they accepted cash all the time. I
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by ketzu 6y ago
> "I'm going to take a bunch of selfies today so I can post them on social media and gain influence because I'm somebody." There is a huge leap from being prepared to take a slefie at a famous place to this mentality,
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by ketzu 6y ago
I would be interested in seeing an actual "risk analysis" for people from different countries. While I would like no country to have my data, if China/US were the only (and exclusive!) options, I guess the actual risk of nega
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by ketzu 6y ago
> Very few countries have banned to the extent of what the CCP did That's true, but the start of "they block our apps we should block all of them" seems to weirdly be china, but the argument is usually presented as a gener
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by ketzu 6y ago
Many countries have banned some or more services (especially uber and the like received many bans). But even if others didn't, it seems like a very weak argument to me.
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by ketzu 6y ago
> What's a comparable loss due to US snooping? The list of interventions in foreign countries by the US is very very long ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U... ), although not all of
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by ketzu 6y ago
You don't have to view source, the error message is just black on black: try to select some of the screen at it will turn up.
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by ketzu 6y ago
This reminds me of stories over the last years(?) of afghan/iraqi translators that worked for the US under the promise of citizenship that got massively delayed at least (with immense risk to their lifes). In general, the final grantin
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by ketzu 6y ago
I think calling gemini an alternative to the web has a very limited view of the web. It takes an idea someone has of what the web should be: a set of text documents. That's a very small subset of the web, not just of today. Building
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I feel similar. Projects like gemini work, because they are niche, not despite it. If it became mainstream similar forces that drive the web to what it is woule take hold.
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Personally I interpreted the remark differently. But it also may depend on the field you are in. First, publish the idea, the rough concept. You can get valueable feedback from this. Second, publish an implementation of the idea and the eva
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by ketzu 6y ago
This prompted me to look around a bit and found this: https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/ It's super interesting to look at and filter for various categories. For desktop 1366x768 wins out slightly

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