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by lmkg 6y ago
It's not specific to programming, though. For example, even after completing new buildings, I've never seen a school reduce the number of "temporary" portable classrooms they use to teach classes.
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by lmkg 6y ago
I'm fine with a broad range of judicial discretion. Human judgement is a necessary part of the judicial system. I am not fine with someone being sentenced and jailed for a crime they were not found guilty of, which is what you'r
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by lmkg 6y ago
We have the Rule of Law for a reason. If there's an issue with the system where guilty people are going free, then fix the system. Letting people take justice into their own hands is a cure worse than the problem, especially when those
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by lmkg 6y ago
My advisor for my math degree told me straight-up "You don't really understand a math course until you take the next class in the series." I'm really glad he told me that, because it sharpened my perception of how well
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by lmkg 6y ago
In the context of web analytics, first-party vs third-party usually refers to how the user is identified , not to where the analytics status is hosted. Google Analytics uses first-party data for its tracking. Third-party tracking builds a
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by lmkg 6y ago
The phrase "Data is the new oil" dates back to at least 2014, so it seems rather appropriate.
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Apple will require apps to have “Privacy Labels” summarizing data collection(pcmag.com)
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by lmkg 6y ago
You probably meant "collusion" but what you wrote is, in fact, quite true as well.
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by lmkg 6y ago
I view Privacy Policies as a type of a labeling law, like the ingredients lists on all of your food. Even though only a small fraction of people actually read it, it's still doing its job and its important that it's there. Some pe
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by lmkg 6y ago
> that can track people as they go from one website to another Note that even in Google Analytics, this requires extra set-up, has limitations, and tends to be pretty fragile in practice. GA identifies users by a first-party cookie and t
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by lmkg 6y ago
Apple/Webkit already has a proposal along those lines. https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...
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by lmkg 6y ago
It looks like a lot of the slowness from the slow extensions is from parsing and executing JavaScript. Are there opportunities from the browser side to make extensions faster? It seems like re-parsing the same JS on every pageload is an opp
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by lmkg 6y ago
> * I can refuse to use a specific tech company's product* This is less true than you might realize. Consider that if a friend of yours is on Facebook, they might upload photos of you and tag your name, allowing Facebook to build a
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by lmkg 6y ago
The Irish data privacy regulator recently did a sweep of 38 Irish websites, reviewing for cookie compliance. Two-thirds of websites were found to be relying on "implied consent" and 37 were found to set unnecessary cookies on land
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by lmkg 6y ago
> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method
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by lmkg 6y ago
Programming via graphs is common in big-data machine-learning as well. Apache Beam and Tensorflow are both programmed by creating an execution graph object, and handing that off to the runtime.
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by lmkg 6y ago
But churches are open, subject to certain restrictions which also apply to secular businesses. The question is which set of restrictions they should be subject to: those for concerts and movie theaters, or those for grocery stores.
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by lmkg 6y ago
Infrastructure-as-config?
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by lmkg 6y ago
There is a privacy benefit to adding friction to spreading personal data around everywhere. At the margin, some services will decide not to bother processing non-essential personal data just to avoid the paperwork. And really, that's o
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by lmkg 6y ago
Under PECR, a cookie being essential means necessary to provide the requested service , not necessary to stay in business. If the user wants to view a news article, and you can serve the article without using analytics cookies, then PECR d
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by lmkg 6y ago
This sounds like exposing internal implementation details. You're pushing some complexity onto the caller, and breaking up the uniformity of the interface. Sometimes the caller will want to manage that complexity for the reasons that
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by lmkg 6y ago
The big advantage I could see is that it runs C#, which has broader application than ActionScript. My impression is that Silverlight's whole packaging & delivery model was envisioned to be more wide-spread but didn't take off.
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by lmkg 6y ago
I admit the purpose does not have to be practical. But the principle of Data Minimization still applies. If she can personally enjoy the pictures without posting them to Facebook, then that purpose does not cover posting them to Facebook.
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by lmkg 6y ago
What specific Legitimate Interest necessitates processing of personal data in this particular case? Taking care of the children? If there's a way that she can reasonably accomplish that without posting to Facebook, then it's not c
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2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf](sigact.org)
297 points by lmkg 6y ago|33 comments
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by lmkg 6y ago
The part of GDPR that covers this in depth is Recital 32. https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/ There's a lot of detail, but the most important part is this: "...inactivity should not therefore constitute
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by lmkg 7y ago
> Not sure about Rust Rust has made a point of being parser-friendly, to support tooling. The entire reason the turbofish ::<> exists is to avoid ambiguous grammar. (This operator seems to vex people, I don't get the hate.)
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by lmkg 7y ago
You can't fix irrationals by changing base. But, there are other approaches. Continued fractions give very approachable representations for common irrational numbers like e and sqrt(2). While π doesn't have a good continued frac
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by lmkg 7y ago
It's more fundamental: People seem to have the intuition that the decimal representation of a number is a number . I don't know if it's because decimals resemble the ntural numbers or what, but decimals seem to have a primac
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by lmkg 7y ago
The subjunctive and conditional are complimentary. In the construction "If X then Y," X will be in the subjunctive and Y will be in the conditional. The conditional also comes up on its own in lots of places, but the subjunctive r

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