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by mseebach 8y ago
When a new law is enacted, it's not prudent analysis to assume anything about how it will be enforced based on the previous law, especially not when fines were increased 25x - GDPR is not a minor clarification of a few bits and piece
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by mseebach 8y ago
I've seen an estimate that credit cards are actually slightly cheaper overall for the economy than cash, when you factor in everything. The physical infrastructure to deal with cash is not cheap.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Your second and third paragraphs seem to be at odds with each other? Negotiating (whether pre or post) and forming coalitions is exactly what you'd expect proper representatives to do.
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by mseebach 8y ago
To see why this isn't necessarily the case, add to your list all the text editors launched between 1992 and 2008 that are no longer around ("being around" defined as being able to install and run on whatever OS you're us
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by mseebach 8y ago
Approval voting seems like a great way to make sure we only ever elect bland, inoffensive candidates with carefully focus-group calibrated opinions and policies, whom once in office, should they care for reelection, will steer clear of touc
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by mseebach 8y ago
A device that can launder stolen phones regardless of security settings is still something to keep in limited circulation, even if you can't pick it up and walk away with it.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Your parent argues that you probably can't make this illegal without fundamentally changing what it even means to own something. This is actually a very analogous situation to DRM/right to repair etc: when you've bought a dev
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by mseebach 8y ago
First, "non-zero" is an extremely high bar, especially for mere "contribution". Knowing that there is non-zero contribution tells us nothing about whether it's a problem we should care about. Second, there is massiv
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Something about how the accents of colonies tend to become fixed in time It's about isolation. Colonies tend to be far away and difficult to travel to and from. So the american colonies only had what they brought with them, and a
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by mseebach 8y ago
No, it was a quip, basically intended to mean "forget about minute to minute popularity and read a book that is well respected by practitioners in the field and has stood up to the test of time". And I didn't mention the auth
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by mseebach 8y ago
You should definitely use HSTS, but I think this is about catching those people entering "website.com" in their browser, where the default behaviour (having never visited the site before) is connecting via HTTP. You want those red
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's not a religious text or anything (I suspect that the proselytising tone comes from the fact that at the time it was written, it's recommendations were still a bit controversial, especially in the kind of organisations likely
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by mseebach 8y ago
Barrier to entry typically means something something physical or formal. Needing to build a billion dollar fab is a barrier to entry in the micro chip business, needing more than a decade of training is a barrier to entry to being a doctor.
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's an extremely large and diverse field. There are plenty of us who aren't celebrities and don't care about celebrities (except to the extent that it is caused by deep expertise). Just like you ignore reality TV celebrities
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Put yourself in the shoes of a junior-to-mid-level JavaScript developer, writing a new application for the first time. > But how could you do better, Junior Developer? Who was there to guide you? The Senior Developers, too, are lear
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by mseebach 8y ago
Yes, there's ambiguity, but there's no reason to introduce new ambiguity where none existed before by trying to reason about these words in terms of midnight (possibly for the benefit of computers), when that was never where these
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by mseebach 8y ago
Yes. At high (sub sonic) speed and high altitude, you get close enough to the speed of sound that this starts to matter a lot. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/35408/what-is-t...
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by mseebach 8y ago
Both the words "today" and "tomorrow" ("morrow" being related to the word "morning") are defined in terms of the day, not whether it's before or after midnight. "Noon tomorrow" spoken a
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by mseebach 8y ago
Never mind that your average week often features a couple of meetings on Wall Street, with lawyers in DC, at the factory in Alabama and the research centre in Raleigh. Then a charity dinner in Boston and a round of golf with the chairman of
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Otherwise we'll have to start posting all press releases for the latest Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini. Or... Tesla? Or any other car that is technologically novel, typically along some axis of self driving and/or electrical
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by mseebach 8y ago
GIF is only 256 colours, so the renderer optimises the living daylights out of the palette to make things look vaguely uncrappy. Any ad inserted would have to only use those colours (which are then very different from GIF to GIF). That&#x27
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by mseebach 8y ago
Mildly interesting literary reference: In Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (light spoiler), in the orbital world, they never, after 5,000 years, get to refined microelectronics. It's not an important plot device, so I wonder how gamed out
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by mseebach 8y ago
> the humourless suits win again I think this is misguided. Clearly, there are plenty of humourless prudes, even amongst Us, the Blessed T-shirt Wearers. To wit, the "campaign" to remove the 418 code did not originate in a corn
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by mseebach 8y ago
The scene is great in Stockholm, anchored in Spotify, King and a good representation of games companies (EA has a decent representation if I remember correctly). My knowledge of Oslo is limited, but from what I have heard, thing are a bit s
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by mseebach 8y ago
The "GDPR is easy" brigade is very keen on telling people that it's easy to just read the actual text, so let's try that. Just having read the GDPR doesn't count for "expert knowledge", it's just know
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by mseebach 8y ago
Can you cite the definition of "large scale", please?
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by mseebach 8y ago
> It's just a role, take your CEO, and now he's your "Data Protection Officer" Congratulations, you're uncompliant. Thanks for playing "GDPR is easy". > (5) The data protection officer shall be desig
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GDPR(xkcd.com)
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by mseebach 8y ago
> looking to optimize affluence and patterns, hopefully for more efficient lines and service, with the help of consumer data and recurring habits, or offering convenient service Oh, so the exact same reason Facebook tracks you. Except,
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by mseebach 8y ago
Track the fact that a journey took place, but not who took it.

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