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by lmkg 6y ago
They could have fired fewer people. It's a bad look to be firing people for lack of money while raising exec salary.
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by lmkg 6y ago
Private ownership of (large quantitities of) gold was actually illegal for a few decades in the US. This is separate from transitioning to fiat currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
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by lmkg 6y ago
I think it matters more for reading and collaborating than for writing. If you don't keep up to date with idioms, and your "fluent dialect" is three years out of date, this won't impact your ability to write your own cod
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by lmkg 6y ago
It's an old story. New executive starts the job. On his desk are three envelopes, left by his predecessor, with a post it note saying "When shit hits the fan, and you don't know what to, open one of the envelopes." Yadda
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by lmkg 6y ago
Google Analytics does not give you additional keyword information. If you want keyword information from Google search results, the best way to get it is actually buying ads for those keywords. And in fact some marketers allocate ad budget
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by lmkg 6y ago
Legitimate interest is very broad and very vague. It's the "wild card" Legal Basis, basically used to cover all of the cases that the law didn't explicitly address. The legal requirements are more-or-less "the compa
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by lmkg 6y ago
It's both. The law itself is poorly thought-out and overly restrictive. And then websites also don't understand it and do stupid things in the name of compliance, which are neither compliant nor beneficial to the user.
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by lmkg 6y ago
> AFAIK, the GDPR didn't subsume the Cookie Law, but I may be wrong about that You are correct. GDPR repealed and replaced the Data Protection Directive (DPD) from 1995. The "cookie law" (ePrivacy Directive, ePD) was an
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by lmkg 6y ago
It's not just a dark pattern, it's straight-up non-compliant. Article 7 "Conditions for Consent," paragraph 2: > If the data subject’s consent is given in the context of a written declaration which also concerns other
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by lmkg 6y ago
If you invoke Legitimate Interest, you do not need consent (assuming your Legitimate Interest is valid). There are many common misunderstandings of GDPR, and one of them is that consent is always required. It is not. To process data under G
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by lmkg 6y ago
When Google Ads is linked to Google Analytics, the links append the 'gclid' query parameter to the URL they point to. This value is how a downstream conversion, collected by Analytics, is associated with the upstream ad click from
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by lmkg 6y ago
Having seen how other companies make the sausage, I can take a guess. To Nintendo, marketing is not a "core" business function, so when the company was sorting out GDPR, no one invited them to the room and they didn't ask to
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by lmkg 6y ago
Yes, part of the Brexit agreement was the UK "domesticating" some parts of EU law by passing them as UK legislation. There is now a law called UK-GDPR, which is literally a copy-paste of GDPR, with names of EU institutions find-an
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by lmkg 6y ago
Weather Factory, developer of Cultist Simulator, has been open about the business side of their development. This includes a few blog posts about their decision to go with a publisher (Humble Bundle) instead of going alone. tl;dr Up-front a
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by lmkg 6y ago
The interesting thing to me is that this does not fully valid Rust code, e.g. not checking for borrow safety. Which would normally make no damn sense for a Rust compiler, but actually makes sense for what this particular project is tryi
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by lmkg 6y ago
Wasm itself is at the level of assembly, not the level of JavaScript. If you want to compile a GC'd language to wasm, you have to bring your own garbage collector and compile it to wasm as well. That's not a showstopper from wasm&
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by lmkg 6y ago
Out-of-the-box, no. With custom work, yes. The amount of effort is not large, and there are off-the-shelf solutions available. The name commonly used is "engagement timer." By default, GA only sends one hit on page load. If there&
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by lmkg 6y ago
Tracking individual users is how Google Analytics works. Every hit has a "client ID" to tie together hits that came from the same browser. You can trace the actions of an individual in the "User Explorer Report." Althoug
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by lmkg 6y ago
I address that in point 5. Analytics is a strategic compliment to advertising. When people can measure the revenue resulting from online ads, they buy more online ads. And at the margin, when people can optimize the return on online chann
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by lmkg 6y ago
I have high confidence that Google does not dip into Analytics data for its own uses without permission. I am an analytics consultant by profession, so this opinion is colored by the old adage about not understanding something that preven
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by lmkg 6y ago
Could be GDPR? Storing all the data on everyone now has more potential cost than just the hard drive.
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by lmkg 6y ago
"goods and services " The service of delivery is what is being passed off.
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by lmkg 6y ago
This is also the approach taking in aviation safety, and similar safety-critical systems. The pilot is treated as part of the system . Just like any other component, it's a part that can fail, and its error states can be modeled. Perf
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by lmkg 6y ago
I think it's because the human mind tends to jump over things which don't seem important, as a performance optimization. But its idea of what's not important is not well-tuned to many contexts. I think a lot of "secret t
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by lmkg 6y ago
I would hone in on pages 27 & 28 in that document. In particular, this quote: > Cookies can also be a legitimate and useful tool, for example, in assessing the effectiveness of a delivered information society service, for example of
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by lmkg 6y ago
I agree that versions aren't worth worrying about, but which edition is something I would pay attention to.
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by lmkg 6y ago
My issue with it is even more fundamental than this: it is structurally impossible for Proof of Work to become more efficient. If you find a more energy-efficient way to mine, the correct decision is not to reduce your energy usage, but r
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by lmkg 6y ago
Someone is not responsible for causing damages can still be held liable for damages if they were negligent. One could argue that by having policies but not enforcing them, Facebook contributed to the harm befalling users, especially if
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by lmkg 6y ago
> some risks I have that are not covered by the standard are not mitigated or transferred If you're compliant with a regulation or a standard, then you're not liable for failures of those standards. I think there's an im
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by lmkg 6y ago
My parse of "minimizing code" is that it's an approach to writing code, with the goal of writing less code. I would expect it to include things like terse idioms, DRY, preferring data over code, preferring configuration ove

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