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by obscura 7y ago
From what I read, these are only useful if you're sick and trying to reduce transmission. While they're better than nothing, they're not better than proper masks. [1] Isolation, social distancing, covering your mouth/nos
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by obscura 7y ago
There's way too much simplification and generalisation here, IMHO. "Choose tools that are simple to operate over those that promise the most features." Doing this very much depends on your requirements, doesn't it? What
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by obscura 7y ago
Long equations break out of the content box. E.g., view/5e33c093981ec41bc6b279b7
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by obscura 8y ago
It seems to me that you expect a lot from a short opinion piece written on a personal site.
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by obscura 8y ago
Odd - I'm not in the US and I can view it. Here's a link for you: https://openload.co/f/FFCGebcsLxY/Paul_Allen_on_Gates%2C_Mic...
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by obscura 8y ago
I stated my view rather strongly. Thoughtful annotation is fine; annotation that means little to anyone but you or messily underlining the body text isn't very helpful, IMO.
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by obscura 8y ago
> So while some may find annotations distracting and annoying, there are some that can find those same annotations to be pointers to a fuller understanding of the material so annotated. The problem is that there's no guarantee that
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by obscura 8y ago
Perfectly correct. However, my comment was not about the approach to learning - hence me labelling it a digression.
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by obscura 8y ago
To digress from the main point: the suggestion of writing in (physical) books makes me cringe. Once you do so, they become absolutely worthless to anyone but you. Trying reading a book that someone else has underlined and/or annotated
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by obscura 8y ago
If the laws didn't apply to them, they would just ignore them. The fact that they haven't proves otherwise. The GDPR has been discussed for well over 2 years. It came out in 2012. Before then, it was being discussed publicly. Its
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by obscura 8y ago
The GDPR was proposed in 2012 and has been heavily discussed since then. It was adopted in 2016 and as of 25 May 2018 will be enforceable. Anyone who uses the data of EU citizens should have known about it. They certainly had plenty of time
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by obscura 8y ago
And even where it is a right, it's not an absolute right - it has to be balanced with other rights and may be limited by laws.
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by obscura 8y ago
Ha ha, I've also cursed Wired for all their ads, particularly at the beginning of the magazine. Them and the subscription card, though at least it can function as a bookmark.
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by obscura 9y ago
If you look at just the space you're using, then sure, Dropbox is expensive. But if you look at the extra services on top the of the fundamental sync/store service, perhaps it isn't. Determining the value is subjective - it d