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by oldcynic 8y ago
Even if you can't trade the items (and you often can), they have a perceived value, and often a hard cash market value. A value that is frequently over-promoted by the game to encourage purchase of more premium currency by the naive
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> Loot boxes give you variable entertainment, but for that to be gambling you have now defined entertainment as the element of prize Variable entertainment? Then a lottery scratch card is "variable entertainment", whatever that
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When I'm on the receiving end of scripted checkout conversations or "American style" extreme joy at my purchase of a £2 coffee I hate it. The restaurant that too brightly upsells us is the restaurant we never revisit. I'
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what and supply their own biscuits? This will never catch on!
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But you make that argument like there's a fixed pot of money to go around. $25 to spend on regulation, but tough our ancestors already regulated speed limits and copyright so you can't have any more. Pity about the environment and
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Automating a factory, then redo it so the ratios are right, then again so it's more efficient, then add trains. There's also the circuit system for automating further and doing fancy things like this: https://www.youtub
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At under 7 years old my daughter was doing surprisingly fancy things in MS paint. Including finding features we didn't even know Paint had. "Daaaaaaad, crayons are boring, can I use the computer?" (I think there's a few
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In the UK they are different colours and patterns so blind and partially sighted folks can tell what they're near. They're red near pedestrian controlled lights and yellow near uncontrolled lights or crossings with no lights. Ther
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There's no court case here yet. In these 4 cases they have been reported to the regulator. For 3 of them the reports will be passed to the regulator in Eire as that's where they have an EU presence. So if it is "dismissed&quo
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When it cropped up here a while back I don't remember anything seeming problematic with FreeBSD's new CoC. What's the issue with it?
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generating a page based on geoLocation didn't start with GDPR. I've been fighting (often US) sites making "choices" for me based on geoLocation for a decade.
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If you want something a little simpler try scriptsafe[0]. Still lets you whitelist JS you want to trust, enable temporarily or for a set time. I find it rather clearer than uMatrix. In fairness to gorhill it's a couple of years since I
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The new reddit interface is horrible period. Even with JavaScript on.
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If personalised ads are so marvellous, and people are happy with them, surely they will be happy to "donate" their data in order to receive these incisive topical ads purely as they give such a better experience? My experience is
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Whilst it doesn't solve everything moving our building stock towards passive standards would save enormous amounts of energy. Some of the growth of domestic solar seems rather pointless given how leaky and poorly insulated so many of o
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Completely false. As volumes sold ramp up the company makes more profit per unit, it's almost unheard of to cut prices. Competition on the other hand can lower prices. If anything these days they tend to increase price as market shar
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It's OK but ineffectual when up against industries spending orders of magnitude more. It can never be a level playing field. You give using a phone while driving as an example. UK tried PSAs for years before ultimately outlawing it.
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From the times I've been to the US I can see how disrupting NYC taxis could be a very good thing indeed. UK taxis? Nope, happy to keep those regulations and want to see them applied to Uber etc.
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That would be the self same reason the net is starting to attract regulation. Some of that significant disruption basically involves extending a middle finger to the laws and regulations of the country they want to do business in. I might c
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IP address by itself is not enough to be considered personal data. Only if they gathered other info would it become so. My ISP can tie IP to my account and other info, so for them it is personal data. If they're not processing personal
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GDPR really isn't that much more than the previous DPA which was in place 20 years without problem. Businesses and startups were still formed. To stick to the general. Who pays for education and promotion of alternatives against indust
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Even an email isn't required. It's optional to allow resetting password. They have no real name policy and carry no advertising or even GA. The little JS they have is harmless. Looks like they have no personal data unless I elect
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"This site does not collect personally identifiable information or persistent identifiers from, deliver a personalized experience to, or otherwise track or monitor persons reasonably identified as visiting our Site from the European U
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Genuine question: So Americans actually prefer the corporate Black Mirror-esque tracking and profiling that has become endemic and out of control over what I would consider a reasonable update to the old DPA? How is it overreach and how i
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That can work for some. Paying a mortgage and rent on the new location, along with 2 sets of taxes gets expensive real quick. Some utilities have standing charges/line rental too.
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> the real problem was that nobody UNDERSTOOD what GDPR meant (including the legislators There we have to disagree. It's not like this is something new and untried. GDPR is a development from long-standing, and now very well underst
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Perhaps you were educated in Serbia? They might cover in much more depth contributions from a significant Serb scientist than other countries. From my recollection of what they covered in school it went no further than that the orbit is an
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People are buying, using, and in some cases dying because of the impression they gained from the clearly pitched marketing.
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Negative equity. £200k mortgage on a house now worth £150k. To move, first find £50k.
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Both the Council and Parliament had votes before adoption.

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