losteric

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by losteric 9y ago
> Think transactional mailers, marketing mailers, billing systems, payroll, zendesk, etc. GDPR has explicit provisions for all of these legitimate interests (notifications, clients, employees, customers). Most of these services are awar
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by losteric 9y ago
Meth labs also create products with mass appeal and briefly high-paying jobs. Considering how social media is eroding American political discourse, Europe may be better-off in the long run even GDPR is as bad as you imagine.
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by losteric 9y ago
> OTOH, anyone who says they clearly understand the implications of GDPR for their site has either spent a lot of money on lawyers or is lying. Let alone someone who has implemented it. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont
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by losteric 9y ago
The GDPR is long but trivial to read, probably high-school level at worst. The EU website has the full text here: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE... (warning: MASSIVE page) I
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by losteric 9y ago
Google keeps their data private because they've already secured their advertising/search territory. Disclosing profiles would only undermine their competitive advantage. It seems like Facebook gave away that information in hopes o
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by losteric 9y ago
I think the most precise metaphor is: a kid walked through the front door of a public library, borrowed a couple freely available books, then the government realized those books mistakenly included sensitive information. In order to address
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by losteric 9y ago
FWIW: I think Amazon's stock vesting schedule for ICs is reasonable considering the sizable hiring bonus (iirc ~$20k for new graduates). Stock grants are intended to reflect an employee's ownership in the company, and rapidly incr
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by losteric 9y ago
yeah... focusing on "assault weapons" is just divisive clickbait and legislative bikeshedding. Regulations should keep guns out of crazy and criminal hands, period.
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by losteric 9y ago
I agree that the media is hyperbolizing gun violence, however that's a false equivalency. The "war on terror" is costly and only creates more terrorism... stoking public fear feeds back into the problem. Legislation could s
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by losteric 9y ago
The news is supposed to keep the public informed... fusing of entertainment and information, along with corporate mergers, has brought us to this unhealthy state of public awareness. Our society is becoming more paranoid because it boosts r
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>>> Today we have lost all those scientific advancements made in those times and in time we will re-discover what was already discovered & lost. >> Such as? > Pyramids, gravity, Indian temples, stone henge, the patter
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by losteric 9y ago
What is a "gravity car"? By my interpretation, all cars depend on gravity in order to move (tire friction).
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It's also very soft
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by losteric 9y ago
> Today we have lost all those scientific advancements made in those times and in time we will re-discover what was already discovered & lost. Such as? > Look around you & think of all the insane (to current humans) & inc
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by losteric 9y ago
> Science has not been able to address every single thing. In fact science is not developed enough to address anything much beyond the most basic things. Can you be more specific about what things you feel science cannot address? It seem
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by losteric 9y ago
In America, half the problem is one political party persistently working to lower taxes. The public is divided and distracted by social issues, and media hyperbole.
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by losteric 9y ago
Of course, no one can't assert that any one treatment does or does not work without scientific testing. However, we can make educated guesses about the overall success rate using other cultures. Ancient Europe had many dogmatic medicin
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by losteric 9y ago
Yes... that's what I said... finding new treatments is like finding needles in a haystack, and science is the magnet. When it comes to traditional medicine, most of the haystack is really just hay. Historical trial and error told peopl
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by losteric 9y ago
However, science does have a monopoly on proven medicine. The scientific method is literally how we understand what and why things work. Traditional medicine is just cultural memory from millennia of blind trial and error... medicinal dog
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by losteric 9y ago
That's a really poor metaphor because the fridge is the problem - you don't want people seeing that content because it's inherently "bad". If it's not on Google search, it becomes harder to find... but it&#x2
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by losteric 9y ago
"The problem isn't that someone lit my house on fire - it's that I can see the fire"
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by losteric 9y ago
There are other search engines and data aggregators. Making Google hide things just gives victims false peace of mind... The problem is still there.
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by losteric 9y ago
Well that's a red herring, what made you jump to that conclusion?
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by losteric 9y ago
Relevancy is a problem that firmly falls under Google's responsibility... and businesses must be punished for discriminating over incomplete background checks. However, I don't think the false conviction should be hidden - what if
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by losteric 9y ago
Publishing names and faces as established criminals is inherently contradictory with an impartial jury of your peers. Faces, I can see that but journalists must be very explicit... "This is the suspect who allegedly did xyz".
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by losteric 9y ago
"the web" ... all of it? That seems impratical. Immutable data structures have their place in programming, and immutable communication has it's place in society, but neither are appropriate for all use-cases.
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by losteric 9y ago
Contact the platform to demand removal. The porn industry has SOPs for dealing with this problem, I am not a lawyer but I imagine that process can be generalized and legally enforced If that someone shared it on their own website, hosted ou
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by losteric 9y ago
Address the problem, not the symptoms. The problem is at the platform level, so regulate platforms like Facebook. Search engines simply search what they scrape. * If someone feels consequences of an offensive 2007 tweet, just delete it. Pla
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Counter solution: Outlaw publishing suspect names until after they are convicted. This model is used by other nations because regulating publications prevents both short and long-term harm while still preserving access to the truth.
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by losteric 9y ago
Cooling would be more of an issue in the vacuum of space. Even my little engraving laser requires water cooling, that satellite would be covered in radiators. Don't forget the targeting system needs power and cooling too. Mirrors... Sh

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