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by kodablah 8y ago
> This is one of the less appreciated clauses of the GDPR One wonders if this clause should have instead been its own, separate, narrowly focused legislation and enforced specifically as such.
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by kodablah 8y ago
"Goal accomplished" - traditional media and anti-big-web-tech
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Why doesn't Amazon give a shit about GDPR? I would assume perceived toothlessness. A better question is why should they? Or else what? Is that "what" absorbable by them to not eagerly spend a bunch of money and be shown
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by kodablah 8y ago
Onion (née hidden) services are easily hosted from any computer, even behind a NAT/ISP due to how it publishes its descriptor and relies on reachable relays for rendezvous. It's easy with the Tor executable and a torrc file, there
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by kodablah 8y ago
s/hidden service/onion service Pedantic, but is the preferred nomenclature today.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Considering the blatant abuse it was very much necessary. Disagree > Planting notions is[n't] really doing much?! No, especially considering the scope, cost of compliance, and downsides of government interference. > The idea
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by kodablah 8y ago
We're going to have to disagree that forcing countless companies to review things, many of which were unnecessary, and planting notions is really doing much. It actually seems very easy to overstate those benefits. It also seems equall
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Well, GDPR is a massive win and has helped tremendously. Disagree, has done little and costed lots. It is a massive loss and has hurt tremendously, especially with the mandate/precedent it gives for passing other ridiculously larg
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I don't see how the EU as an institution is bashed for this. I think people are seeing a general trend of internet laws and bashing their creators. One could argue that this stage of the process is where bashing should occur. When
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I always saw the intention of the GDPR as legislation [...] Instead [...] The more rulings we have like this, the better. How many examples do we need to recognize that legislation like this on the internet, well intended it may be, do
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by kodablah 8y ago
I've worked on the most popular apartment (i.e. multi-family) price optimization software in the past. Those market prices are used in the forecasting models (they are even obtained in some cases by teams calling complexes manually and
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by kodablah 8y ago
Need is determined by the customer. You might be able to explain to them that they don't need it on their way to a competitor. May not be fair or rational, but redundancy and its peace-of-mind has real benefits in most systems compared
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by kodablah 8y ago
And how do they fail over when the server dies (at least the non-user-app part like their DBs)?
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Some day I would like a powwow with all you hackers about whether 99% of apps need more than [...] Close. But I also need it HA w/ automatic failover, auto-SSL certs (meaning I might need to give my DNS provider creds depending up
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by kodablah 8y ago
They aren't used much in the US. I'm a bit surprised they aren't used more for storing/communicating keys. An app I was contemplating would use them to pass around ed25519 keys (public for others, private for yourself AE
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by kodablah 8y ago
You have less choice as your transitive dependency tree becomes larger while leveraging the popular libraries in the ecosystem.
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by kodablah 8y ago
It's not just complexity, it's compilation time/effort. I personally see no problem with it and am also happy my build.rs script can automatically do logic like code generation at build time. However, I completely understand
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by kodablah 8y ago
I'm not sure we'll change each other's minds here. I'll just make one more quick point: > There definitely can be better solutions. I totally agree. I just divorce the ideal/utopian/theoretical from the actu
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by kodablah 8y ago
So long as it's recognized that, as the problem is continually forced into the public light, lots of people may think that 'get used to it' is an acceptable answer when weighing all options.
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by kodablah 8y ago
They aren't ignoring facts, they just already accepted them dozens of articles ago. Questioning coverage frequency has nothing to do with the facts and definitely is not a sign of ignoring them.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Too often, discussion on nuance of a specific topic devolves to general politics. Fear of government oversight for me applies specifically to internet laws being bandied about. > I haven't seen a better solution to the menace of Fac
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by kodablah 8y ago
I'm not hearing anyone dispute these facts. Media-driven fervor is rarely devoid of facts. Rather, with story choice and interspersed op-eds, the narrative becomes clear even if not untrue. For every fact-based article, there are doze
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by kodablah 8y ago
> There is no merit. It's for capital Sounds like a self-contradictory position to the vast majority that consider capital as merit.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> This is just political posturing. This is often the case as I see it due to the differences between the perceived methods of teaching/learning history and the actual methods (coupled with the differences in value too). Once reason
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by kodablah 8y ago
Also Texan, we learned slavery was the primary motivation and the discussion concerning states rights was based on the outcome dovetailing into a pattern of federalism henceforth.
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by kodablah 8y ago
As with modern elections and surely the civil war, people tend to over-value publicly visible campaigning (and the subjects thereof) as reasons for outcomes they don't understand. Since justifications can't easily be quantified, a
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by kodablah 8y ago
Or increased availability of traffic information allows people to avoid it easier by waiting or changing routes.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> it makes no sense for Germany to compete with France and the United Kingdom [...] A better plan would be to establish a new pan-European [...] I am an outsider, but this sounds like a naive perspective. Competing locally has survival-o
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by kodablah 8y ago
That some believe pre-2016 leaks were not political shows more about their bias than Wikileaks's motives. That motive matters now and didn't then shows similar bias.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Exactly as you state (though maybe not intend). Those cheering him on didn't care about the reasons, lack of curation, content choice, etc since they were ok with who was maligned. Once those cheering him disagreed with who was hurt, i

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