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by madez 9y ago
"Privacy Browser" from F-Droid shows the text just fine.
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by madez 9y ago
There are tons of rules that are not immediately enforceable, but are still in place and make the society better. Make it illegal, find and punish people who don't follow the rules, and things will be better. Many people are not willin
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by madez 9y ago
Pointing out risks is not a conspiracy. A conspiracy would be a claim that it happened without evidence. The risk here is real, however, and must taken care of, just like we do with so many other risks.
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by madez 9y ago
Facebook is an enabler for individuals to successfully undermine our democratic mechanisms. It shouldn't feel nice to work for a company that has to explain itself in front of the government. The employees of Facebook should be aware o
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by madez 9y ago
YC does not need to sell anything. HN is a service offered by YC: a news and discussion platform service.
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by madez 9y ago
The Mastodon website works great without JS, unlike Twitter. Nice!
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by madez 9y ago
And it's rightfully unpopular. General public expectation does not define ownership. As long as the owner doesn't try to impersonate the Nissan car company, there is no problem.
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by madez 9y ago
The example with the halved memory space isn't a good one. There might be a real net benefit to society by using up less resources.
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by madez 9y ago
Yes. "Obey our rules or stay out of our market" seems like a reasonable thing.
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by madez 9y ago
Well, not so much if the companies are really willing to. They can block traffic coming from European IP addresses and require a legal document saying that the customer is not European.
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by madez 9y ago
Thats how all other engineers are working, except software developers, particularly in certain big companies in the US. It's reckless to not be careful and deeply think of your actions consequences as an engineer, because you yield so
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by madez 9y ago
While the commission is not directly elected by the people, it is indirectly. That is in accordance to how many governments are formed. Every country can send just one member of the commission. Decisions are made by majority vote. Every mem
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by madez 9y ago
Why is the economic and technological rise of China a problem?
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by madez 9y ago
Interesting link. Thanks for pointing that out. > Guarantee that a significant part of that technology is European I wish they instead wrote "Guarantee that no significant part of that technology is not European".
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by madez 9y ago
If one can let go of nationalism, one can see that the EU is about independence. It's not about your governments Independence, though, but of the Bloc as a whole. After all, national governments are just a tool in a big machinery. Tool
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by madez 9y ago
I think this is good news. Advanced technologies like chip production must not be the domain of only part of the world. Also, I hope the EU would also take a similar stance so it would be possible to buy European chips. That the US sees thi
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by madez 9y ago
I'm baffled. Why the downvotes? See for applicability: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ Also, in the case of HN, YC offers a service. Just like a forum is a service, this discussion and news platform is a service.
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by madez 9y ago
That is incorrect. You don't need to specifically target the EU. If you handle data from European citizens, the GDPR applies to you.
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by madez 9y ago
Well, it seems we agree that the EU can make a law theoretically-legally affecting non-EU entities. Can that law be enforced? That depends on whether YC has a representation in the EU, or people from YC plan to visit the EU in the future, o
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by madez 9y ago
It's visually an empty page here, too.
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by madez 9y ago
> My point is that absent some measure by the US government, EU laws are not applicable to companies without business presence in the EU They are applicable if they say they are applicable. Effective enforceability is optional to applic
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by madez 9y ago
Any jurisdiction can "tell you things" and judge you, even if it's not your own. Admittingly, without cooperation with your jurisdiction, the EU jurisdiction cannot enforce a meassure if you don't have any presence under
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by madez 9y ago
> But if Tarsnap were located in the US, it would not be responsible for collecting that information from Canadian users. Responsibility is not defined by gut-feelings, but by law. So, with a suited law, Tarsnap could also be bound in Ca
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by madez 9y ago
But countries decide who to punish for what. One thing might not be unlawful in your country, but in another, and that other country can try to go after you. That fact is rather boring and well-established. What matters is how the other cou
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by madez 9y ago
> These are good laws, even if those without actual driving experience may not understand them. No, they are not. You didn't even touch the arguments I gave. If there is a risk of collision with the car behind you, then not you but
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by madez 9y ago
Did they have any before?
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by madez 9y ago
> In most states, braking for animals in a way that might endanger others on the road is illegal. If that is true, then that is a very bad law. If something appers in front of a car I'm driving, the first thing I do, before anything
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by madez 9y ago
That is unnecessarily aggressive. Also, besides the snarkyness, it is a bad argument. What you write seems to be an appeal to hypocrisy. To see that, the following analogon might be helpful: One doesn't need to personally comprehend ev
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by madez 9y ago
Sadly, Pi-Hole is not integrated into Debian. I feel uneasy running software not from the Debian repository. I hope Pi-Hole will be packaged soon.
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by madez 9y ago
Yes, I read the responses and take action upon them. The last time I quit my bank account to move to a different bank. Also, I'd recommend sending another request some time after quiting your contract with the company, just to make sur

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