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by lagadu 9y ago
Don't all products have the MTBF published as part of it's spec sheet (not to be confused with the marketing specs)? edit: never mind, I couldn't find the MTBF for my watch after some search.
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by lagadu 9y ago
That's because the glass that shatters is (usually) not the top layer of a touchscreen. Next time you spot someone you know with a shattered phone screen, ask to give it a try and you'll see.
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by lagadu 9y ago
That's the problem: you're optimizing for bang-for-buck. Regular shoes/trainers only go up to a few hundred $, they're cheap enough that, as long as they have a median wage in a developed country, the buyer can optimize
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by lagadu 9y ago
GDPR is far wider than that; you're just looking at it from the end user perspective because GDPR isn't just allowing the user to enquire about their data. For a company to be GDPR compliant they also have to satisfy the regulator
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by lagadu 9y ago
> Financial services is an industry struggling with a burden of legacy systems, and even paper-based processes still. This one GDPR provision alone is causing much expense and heartache. That's a good thing. If it's causing muc
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by lagadu 9y ago
That's not enough: as long as you're storing an EU citizen's data you're liable to GDPR, it's not something you can disclaim your way out of. That said, if you have no effective presence or business within the EEA t
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by lagadu 9y ago
> how much better off is society? We should ask that to the dozens of millions of Americans who have their private data for sale even as I type this after the Equifax breach. Bonus: we can literally buy it and use that data to contact th
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by lagadu 9y ago
I commend your organization: by following some good practices when it comes to data collection and storage it's already very far into the process of being GDPR compliant, it looks like all you all are missing is the documenting it part
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by lagadu 9y ago
To reverse your argument: without data protection laws we're just trusting corporations that they won't commit any transgression. Your "worst case" description is exactly the current scenario that we have in place being
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by lagadu 9y ago
They can't enforce them on other countries but they can: - Have their ISPs block access to your network - Have their banks not process payments to you And if you really want to generalize it to "laws" they can emit an arrest
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by lagadu 9y ago
You could say that having to follow tax regulations also reduces the number of people willing to enter any market. Should we also drop requirements for pharmaceutical companies to do their thing? I'm 100% certain we'd have thousan
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by lagadu 9y ago
Thus giving companies a strong incentive to clean house and make sure they have a good amount of control over your private data.
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by lagadu 9y ago
I disagree with you in the burden that GDPR places on a company. If a company takes data protection seriously handling such a letter would be a matter of minutes because they already have the processes in place. The GDPR is almost two years
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by lagadu 9y ago
Just because you're an early-stage startup (or virtually any entity really) you're entitled to not protect my data?
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by lagadu 9y ago
That's just a band-aid though: they're effectively gambling that data protection laws won't ever come in effect in the US and Canada, all the while locking themselves out of expanding into the EEA market. After the Equifax th
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by lagadu 9y ago
A slightly different point of view: I work for a company whose one of our products is related to identity and access governance and we have a large number of ExtremelyBigCorps from all around the world throwing A LOT of money at it (except
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by lagadu 9y ago
Keeping my data private has costs associated with it? What a shocker! Do you also argument against mandatory seatbelts? All they do is drive the cost of cars up. The justice system that works to enforce the laws brings the taxes up should w
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by lagadu 9y ago
You just listed why Uber is so valuable: none of the others have anywhere near the global range Uber has. Even if Uber banned in a couple European countries they're still widespread enough worldwide to be a better alternative than <
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by lagadu 9y ago
There's an exception to that: most European microstates adopted the Euro but aren't part of the Eurozone (nor the EU) and have no power in decisions made about it. Of course I concede that microstates have unique properties that b
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by lagadu 9y ago
I see, I was unaware of that.
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by lagadu 9y ago
I wasn't describing that with the intent of laundering money, I mean simply having money in a different jurisdiction and using it locally. I can use my cards from different countries (I've lived in a bunch of different places) pre
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by lagadu 9y ago
This only works for US-based exchanges though.
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by lagadu 9y ago
It's effectively the only way to do it but the way around it is fairly simple: use a bank account on another country, one that is OK with crypto along with non-US based exchanges.
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by lagadu 9y ago
"money" is a representation of value that is recognised as such by a group of people. If a few people decide that a bunch of stones are now money[0] (in other words, represents value), should they be arrested? Similarly, when a gr
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by lagadu 9y ago
I can't speak for car software as our stuff is completely unrelated to cars, but I work at a company whose software BMW is a client of and we do a lot of customization for them. I can very confidently say that of our clients (most of w
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by lagadu 9y ago
Calling it a luxury car with that interior is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. Sure it's much better than the cheapest interiors but other than the big screen it doesn't present any luxury over a normal modern mid-ranger sedan (f
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by lagadu 9y ago
No, he says the names are fake.
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by lagadu 9y ago
That's what's usually known as risk. They invested in an asset to provide their livelihood, that form of income has a set of risks associated with it, just like having a job carries a risk of losing it or how investing in securiti
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by lagadu 9y ago
Without knowing anything about the poster you're replying to, I'll take an educated guess: they're not a single-issue voter. Politics is far, far too complex for anyone to (responsibly) be a single-issue voter in my opinion.
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by lagadu 9y ago
> Work is for working; it's not a debating society, and especially not when the debating is done in bad faith. Maybe I'm biased because not being in the US most of my knowledge about it is from HN links and discussions along wi

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