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by morgante 9y ago
> Anonymous comments are not covered with GDPR. There is no guarantee that comments stay anonymous. Commenters can, and do, enter their real name as their display name.
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by morgante 9y ago
> IP addresses aren't PII. I personally think so, but everything I've read about GDPR says they usually now are considered in scope. Deleting comments is non-trivial. How do I verify that the person requesting deletion is the
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by morgante 9y ago
I don't think any of this is entirely clear, but from my understanding it seems like the EU wants to apply GDPR even if you don't have an EU presence. In practice, I doubt that they'd get the US to enforce judgements. But it
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by morgante 9y ago
Not logging IPs makes debugging and abuse detection much more challenging. Moreover, it is also the current default in most software which touches HTTP requests.
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by morgante 9y ago
The scope of personal data is disastrously large and the guidance is fuzzy at best. Take, for example, my old blog. It has commenting enabled and a standard Apache config (where logs include IP addresses). If I want to comply with GDPR, I h
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by morgante 9y ago
Yup. It's crazy to me that this law is going into effect without even such basic questions being answered.
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by morgante 9y ago
Laws are not code. You could have the exemption be based on the number of individuals whose data is processed, for example: Facebook can use as many shells as they want, but they'd still need to comply if they want to look at their mas
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by morgante 9y ago
You're using a non sequitur. Equifax is of course a massive data processor which should be regulated. Choosing to instead regulate every single person who even accidentally has an IP address in their logs somewhere is the overreach.
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by morgante 9y ago
The law could have easily been tailored to target large social media companies. Instead it applies to everyone , including tiny businesses who accidentally have one European visitor. I'm strongly considering simply taking down all my
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by morgante 9y ago
> Again, this applies to US companies even if it's a single record of EU personal data. This is part of why I think GDPR is a disaster for startups. It's a massive regulatory burden which big companies will be able to comply wi
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by morgante 9y ago
I had the same experience with a $700 Tuft and Needle purchased through Amazon, though I actually found it to be a bit of a hassle. Ultimately I was able to sell it for ~$100, but it took me a month—I'd have preferred if they just arra
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by morgante 9y ago
Seriously. Can you imagine trying to hire a skilled professional who has put years of effort into acquiring a skill when you won't pay them any more than a retail cashier?
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by morgante 9y ago
That is too simple of an answer, as it ignores the added utility from getting a "good deal" on the tablet. People feel good/smart for finding good discounts and they can even brag about the great price to their friends. Witho
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by morgante 9y ago
> Heck, many wealthier younger folks don't have one. This is a huge problem and I really wish more institutions would switch to email/phone services. Mail is incredibly unreliable. Last year I had a medical bill which I complet
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by morgante 9y ago
If you just invest that money in a good brokerage, you should easily be able to take it out as a margin loan when necessary.
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by morgante 9y ago
> Actual lemonade stands (run by children)? They're usually shutdown by the police, at least in the U.S. I can't tell if you're joking or just completely distorted by media coverage. I ran lemonade stands throughout my chi
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by morgante 9y ago
The marginal cases can be debated, but it's still a useful framework. Ex. Facebook obviously felt like a toy at the beginning whereas Salesforce has never been a toy.
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by morgante 9y ago
Spending more than 4% of the endowment would be highly irresponsible. The entire point of an endowment is to not decline in value over time—they should consistently spend less than investment returns annually.
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by morgante 9y ago
> You say they're the best in the business, and their business is selling to an advertisor "he bought a pair of cargo shorts three months ago" as a reason to sell me .. cargo shorts. Someone who bought cargo shorts 3 month
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by morgante 9y ago
It might be courtesy, but it's certainly not "common." Times like these are where I feel like half of HN must be from a totally different planet. Searching out barcodes is fun and common? What?
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by morgante 9y ago
> But they have taken it a step further, there aren’t even any gates... scan it with the app I consider that strictly inferior, not "one step forward." The genius of Amazon Go is that no scanning is involved. You just take th
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by morgante 9y ago
> What it seems like to me is unpaid emotional labor. Are cashiers not paid?
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by morgante 9y ago
> if you exercise your right to accept MDM on a personal device, you've made a wrong decision. Only if I share your exact same values. You cannot tell me my decision is "wrong" when I know the consequences but decide that
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by morgante 9y ago
Thanks for the moralizing point, which is entirely what I objected to in the original article. How I manage my personal productivity is my prerogative. Personally I find that I fluctuate between periods of intense focus (where hours of codi
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by morgante 9y ago
I agree that people should know the implications, but I know them and am essentially comfortable with the tradeoffs. After all, I already share much of my browser history via Chrome anyways. > And it‘s trivial to protect against this: Ju
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by morgante 9y ago
This article is far too hyperbolic. Instead of calmly laying out the privacy implications and realizing people can choose where to draw the line for themselves, it draws the line for everyone. It's my decision whether I find it worth
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by morgante 9y ago
That is a very strange and questionable interpretation of Kyllo v US. It seems like you're just out to spread FUD. In Kyllo, the question was whether the general public used thermal imaging to look at people. Even if every household ha
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by morgante 9y ago
This seems vastly overstated. I've never even bought something with my Alexa, let alone heard an ad from it.
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by morgante 9y ago
> go back home for a job I know lots of international students and the vast majority would like to get a job here. In fact, by and large most of the people I knew who returned to their home countries did so because they didn't succe
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by morgante 9y ago
Thank you for building it. It's honestly one of my favorite things to listen to on a lazy afternoon while doing chores.

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