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by nickpp 3y ago
No idea about that, as I am in the EU. What kind of advice did you hear from American lawyers?
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by nickpp 3y ago
Not that uncommon, I'm afraid. Check out the GDPR threads: there is a huge difference between the people who discussed implementing it with lawyers and the general public.
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by nickpp 3y ago
New, 15" MacBook Air.
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by nickpp 3y ago
It seems to me that "extinction" is humanity’s default fate. AI gives us a (slim) chance to avoid that default and transcend our prescribed fate.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Advanced Installer: 20 years old, still getting regular releases. https://www.advancedinstaller.com/version-history.html
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by nickpp 3y ago
What was the actual, documented, damage on the "user privacy" issue though? The only effect I know is targeted ads which seems like a net benefit to me.
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by nickpp 3y ago
I love smoky old churches. Sadly so many of them (especially in off-the-beaten-path places) were constructed with wood and various accidents (candles, short-circuits) burned them to the ground. Not the same even if fully reconstructed...
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by nickpp 3y ago
Was the potential harm well known and accepted before showing it existed? How?!
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by nickpp 3y ago
There were preciously little regulations in the 1900s though. Don't you think if cars were invented today they would face a whole lot of regulations?
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by nickpp 3y ago
I am curious, do you think SkyNet, if it's really "SkyNet", can be blocked within the confines of the country in which it appears first? And if it's not SkyNet but just an awesome tool like ChatGPT is today, do you think
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by nickpp 3y ago
The most interesting fact about GDPR is that it doesn’t apply to governments.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Fascinating story of how Dow fought a dumping competitor: "In 1905, German bromide producers began dumping bromides at low cost in the U.S. in an effort to prevent Dow from expanding its sales of bromides in Europe. Instead of competin
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by nickpp 3y ago
Google’s Bard is not available in the EU, afaik.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Isn’t it enough to just switch the region to US, download the app, then switch back?
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by nickpp 3y ago
Maybe I am biased as an app developer myself but I want VSCode engineers to have telemetry from me so they can see how I use the app and improve it. Same when Apple asks me for iOS, iPad, etc.
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by nickpp 3y ago
As a parent and a very crappy multitasker I try to be 100% present into what I am doing: spending time with my kids&family or working. Mixing the two doesn't really work for me and context-switching is also very costly.
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by nickpp 3y ago
But isn’t the inheritance tax (for everything over $12 mil until 2026) even larger than the capital gains tax? And it applies to the whole value, not only the increase in value.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Please feel free to present the alternatives.
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by nickpp 3y ago
The most visible difference inside the EU is a significant degradation of the user web browsing experience.
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by nickpp 3y ago
If freedoms are maintained due to resources how comes China and Russia aren’t the freest countries around? They have more resources than anybody.
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by nickpp 3y ago
The fact that they don’t seem to learn from the disastrous results of current regulation is even scarier.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Interesting. In what way ostracized? Can you give some examples?
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by nickpp 3y ago
Read up on the Law of Supply and Demand. I evaluate countless products every day, with an incredible diverse offering from huge box stores to tiny mom&pops and farmer's markets. I have never heard of somebody being made to buy thos
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by nickpp 3y ago
The chance to become the trillion dollar FAANG is what motivates those unicorns into existence. Without the latter the probability of getting the former decreases.
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by nickpp 3y ago
The harder it is to create a startup in an area, the less competition you’ll have there. Things like regulation and labor protection laws have the unfortunate side effect of discouraging founders to embark in the "startup adventure&quo
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by nickpp 3y ago
Also, how easy is it to fire people in France? If it’s difficult then startups will be much more reluctant to hire in the first place, and founders to embark on the whole startup adventure which necessarily implies a lot of hiring/firi
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by nickpp 3y ago
Executives lost to competition due to cut comp are much harder to replace than regular workers. Sucks, but it’s the reality.
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by nickpp 3y ago
As someone who prefers to focus on the product, post GDPR, here are some technologies which are just safer to not have, even on a non-ad-driven website, unless you like spending time arguing with lawyers and bureaucrats: 1. Analytics 2. Thi
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by nickpp 3y ago
Private markets are just fine with long term visions. Job's Apple and Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla come to mind. But, of course, free markets also decide whose visions to adopt. And that is unbearable to leftists who want nothing
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by nickpp 3y ago
Yet, "inefficient" as they are, free markets are the only system we found for this purpose. And it's being proved every day, over and over again. If you know of another, please do write about it here.

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