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by marco1 8y ago
You can keep both. You probably have not told your tax consultant that Paddle acts as the merchant of record. That means you don’t actually have any relationship to your customers when it comes to taxes. That’s Paddle’s role. Instead, your
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by marco1 9y ago
Setting `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` to `1` in Firefox’s `about:config` is actually a pretty reasonable choice for all browsing, and balances privacy with preventing your favorite sites from breaking.
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by marco1 9y ago
Yes, I agree with you. And plain old arrays or switch statements are the simplest format that I know, understood by developers of (almost) any background.
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by marco1 9y ago
Can understand that reasoning, and often do the same. Though it's important to keep in mind that quality is not something that can only be achieved by paying any random party some amount of money. Developing and drafting things in th
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by marco1 9y ago
Totally aware of that. Reviewing individual translations again, and repeating this from time to time, is definitely something that can and should be done in the future. So there's obviously an easy fix to the problems you outline,
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by marco1 9y ago
Translations. Say, the English one is the official and legally binding one, and the Chinese and Spanish translations are only for added convenience, without any legal effect.
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by marco1 9y ago
It's a whole different matter, though. Using automatic machine translations is still not what is done here, and you can't compare human translations with that. Regarding legal expertise, I or anybody else could go through this wit
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by marco1 9y ago
Of course we know gettext. But gettext is less portable and less user-friendly, especially for users who use PHP only casually. That's also the reason why some of the largest PHP frameworks don't primarily use gettext for translat
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by marco1 9y ago
Thanks! What you wanted to say is this proves that terms of service, just as a privacy policy, can be generated from templates and be used in practice, right?
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by marco1 9y ago
Yes, I should probably have implemented it in Haskell, at least. But seriously, the language to choose was definitely a question. I was considering JavaScript instead, to make this more accessible (to virtually every web developer). But I f
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by marco1 9y ago
The price was not really what prevented me from using it. I just had different use cases and an open model in mind.
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by marco1 9y ago
Oh, interesting, didn't know that. > Some browsers require third party cookies to use the P3P protocol to state their privacy practices. Which browsers should this be today?
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by marco1 9y ago
Thanks! Well, the preferences on this subject will probably vary. For me, server-side has been more helpful in practice. And you really don't have to embed PHP into every project or site that you do. You could build a small internal se
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by marco1 9y ago
Not really, actually. I took a quick glance at their homepage during research. But seeing that they're commercial, not a free project, and requiring sign ups and upgrades for most things, I wasn't really interested in exploring th
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by marco1 9y ago
Yes, I'm the author of this. Thanks for these interesting questions! (Happy to answer other questions as well.) 1) Yes, I consulted with a lawyer for the version in one language which became the basis for this project. Though this ha
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by marco1 9y ago
Yes, P3P has been an approach with similar concepts and goals, though with much more vision but being less practical or pragmatic. This project here does not fall into the trap of believing it could change how privacy works on the internet,
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by marco1 9y ago
Thank you! This could have been implemented in any language, of course, but server-side seemed to make a little bit more sense than client-side and PHP is still more or less ubiquitous. I think there have indeed been small attempts to do th
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by marco1 9y ago
Right, that's the disclaimer that has been put up there, both for the safety of the authors and for the safety of any potential users. I hope that disclaimer is not deterrent. It's simply the truth: For legal purposes, you should
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by marco1 9y ago
You're right, for demo purposes, an additional form that just sends all its output to the script would probably be helpful. Will definitely consider this going forward. Thanks!
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by marco1 9y ago
Exactly. Thanks for the explanation!
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by marco1 9y ago
As SamBam noted, this does not use machine translation but relies exclusively on the good old approach of hand-crafted translations done by humans. As you said, one should probably not use machine translation for any legal-related stuff, at
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Show HN: Write your Privacy Policy once and export to multiple languages(github.com)
112 points by marco1 9y ago|43 comments
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by marco1 9y ago
CSS won't be much more efficient: https://github.com/delight-im/HTML-Sheets-of-Paper It just comes with different problems. But in the end, it's obvious that LaTeX documents will look better because LaTeX is
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by marco1 10y ago
Where did you get that from? Not Google or XE, obviously.
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by marco1 10y ago
According to your pricing page, there's an offer for 50 USD instead of 100 USD of setup costs, though.
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by marco1 10y ago
Pricing seems to be about 48 USD for setup and 31 USD per month for the service [1]. Is that correct? Edit: The currency, the naira, lost quite a bit of its value last June [2] when the central bank allowed for it to become (more) market-dr
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by marco1 10y ago
But there's a catch: They may not name it "Signal", probably.
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by marco1 10y ago
No doubt, but this is not about facts (I'm even sure they're both true at the same time!) -- this is about attitude.
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by marco1 10y ago
Google Play Services was a hard dependency. People complained about it all the time and asked to remove it. Now they have finally done what users have asked for, and what is the reaction? "Who the heck needs this?" Well, that&#x27
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by marco1 10y ago
Here's their stance on federation: https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

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