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by mftrhu 3y ago
> Maybe someone like von der Leyen had a word with the current Italian government, which has caved on other issues as well. Von der Leyen can have as many words with the current Italian government as she wants, but the Garante per la Pro
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> They couldn't even get the bloody cookie law right. What are you talking about? > Good luck banning a text interface. Christ, we could probably proxy it over morse code. Yes. You could. How many people have the know-how to do t
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by mftrhu 4y ago
"No-one cares about privacy, they just pretend they do" is a dismissive non-argument. "You don't care about workers' rights, you care about worker equality" is word games: you are just re-defining what that
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by mftrhu 4y ago
You keep on conflating data protection agencies with governments . They aren't the same thing - the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali is an independent administrative authority - and even the GP pointed that out.
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> If you're saying that Italy is truthful about their reasoning but China isn't, what sort of process is being used to determine that? I don't know. What sort of reasoning lead to your initial claim?
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by mftrhu 4y ago
There is indeed a problem with the way all these models are trained, and too many people want to pretend that colour can be laundered out < https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 >
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> If you didn't want people or AI to learn from your code, open source was not the right option. There's nothing wrong with other people using - learning and creating derivative works of - one's open-source code, provided
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> All because... the person who did it first wants attribution? They want their name to be included in some credits.txt file that nobody will ever read? Yes, and yes. Those would be the terms that person publishes their code under. If yo
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by mftrhu 4y ago
... what does the Vatican City State have to do with this decision from the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, an independent administrative authority of the Republic of Italy?
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by mftrhu 4y ago
How is it the same? Is it because both sentences contain the word "claim" in them, do you disagree about the Garante acting to enforce an EU directive, or what?
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by mftrhu 4y ago
Are there any incentives for companies to not collect data about their paying users? Who is even doing this?
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by mftrhu 4y ago
We already have food stamps.
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by mftrhu 4y ago
... they are.
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by mftrhu 4y ago
Fractal wrongness. Fascinating.
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> What did transgender people do before the treatments and therapies? How did they live in their original state all their lives without our medical interventions? What did diabetics do before treatment and therapies? People with asthma,
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by mftrhu 4y ago
Or it could be much lower, as Pfafflin, 1998, the 2015 USTS, Wiepjes, 2018, and Danker, 2019 all seemed to find.
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> The treatments I'm familiar with, especially those that are assisted by prescription drugs, are quite new and unsupported The treatments you are familiar with have been around since the thirties . Research on them started with th
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by mftrhu 4y ago
No. Here's a paper which is frequently misquoted by people failing to read its open-access text in its entirety, and relying on third-parties often creative interpretations of it. It has been discussed by its author - Cecilia Dhejn
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by mftrhu 4y ago
If you have a Decathlon nearby, you could try theirs. The basic Wedze thermal underwear - very much not fancy, 100% polyester, but warm and more than OK to wear indoors - is only €6.99 for a pair of pants or shirt. They also carry more
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> Curious what the power draw is with an older Thinkpad like this while idling and under load. I have an X230i running Debian, and I got it to idle - screen on, backlight low, no browser open, Emacs and Syncthing running - at around 8 W.
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by mftrhu 4y ago
Intimidation is the act of using threats - direct and indirect - humiliation, embarrassment & co. to make other people too fearful to perform actions which they would otherwise be free to engage in. For that, speech is usually more than
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> If you think you are more powerless than a serf 500 years ago because Bezos has more money then you, then you are the one who gave away your power for no reason That's not at all what GP was saying - I quote, with emphasis added:
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by mftrhu 4y ago
No. They keep whatever actual wealth they might end up creating - if and when they even manage that - and the only thing that trickles down from them is their ego. I prefer not being subject to their whims.
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by mftrhu 4y ago
Are they, really? How did they end up not having enough cash on hand to cover minor emergencies, then? How are they going bankrupt over healthcare costs - even when insured through their job - while having to worry about not being able to
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by mftrhu 4y ago
"The law" is a thing that is going to be interpreted and enforced by a human judge, one who is likely going to frown upon a landlord's creative interpretation of it. A judge's job is not to apply the law to the lett
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by mftrhu 4y ago
I'm just confused. I mean, I suppose one could argue that - "you cannot whether you will like something unless and until you try it" - if one was in the mood for a stupid argument : people can and do have opinions on, say,
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> Patronising is thinking you know you don’t want kids without having them. You don’t. You have no idea what it’s like. ... what?
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by mftrhu 4y ago
As someone wrote elsewhere, "please stop spewing unconfirmed politically motivated conspiracy theories."
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> No sir, you are. You're absolutely fine with rampant sexual misconduct in our schools and pretend none of your politically inconvenient crimes have occurred while "the other guys" are evil for demanding their children be
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by mftrhu 4y ago
People also seem to forget just how the Nazi got started [1], and who they also targeted for extermination [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings#The_burning... [2]: https://en.wikipe

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