orangeoxidation

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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> What this means in practice is that if you collect any personal data of people in the EU, you are required to comply with the GDPR. In practice almost everyone in and out of the EU violates the GDPR because it is simply not enforced. N
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> Has the productivity at the lower margin grown that much? I seriously doubt that. That's the problem. The minimum wage is a legal instrument, not just an economic process. It is designed for the lower margin to be "overpaid&q
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> This extends to everyone, not just politicians. Yeah, but insulting your neighbor will not have the police raid your home at six in the morning. This case is not business as usual, it is a widely disproportional response. Hence the out
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> In the past management has given us resources and talking points we can use with our friends and family. Wow. That feels like an overreach. 'We don't just buy your labor, but also your private opinion and tell you how to talk
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
Making it obviously and unquestionably more invasive.
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> In companies where someone’s reputation and promotion prospects depend on avoiding project failures, it becomes attractive (and safer) to deal more in the pseudo-work than the actual work. Isn't this almost all companies? Remember
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
Unions (and striking) become rather impotent when the means of production run by themselves and you no longer need workers.
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> Nobody's interests are less aligned with your own than an insurance company's when it comes time to pay out. Yup. They know having an electrician do all the work minimizes the risk of you needing to get payed out, so they wan
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
This argument seems five years late. I agree gnome Wayland was shipped too early in Fedora and Ubuntu, but it's a very smooth experience today. Or maybe this was for app development? In that case I agree supporting Wayland exclusively
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
Do they not? "At scale" is somehow often synonymous with "with less effort and care per instance", but that doesn't have to be the case. Things work worse if you scale only one part of the equation (the "custom
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> I don't find the defence in depth approach appealing, because it's never going to get you to 100% reliability. Rather than adding six swiss-cheese layers and hoping the holes don't line up, it would be better to spend mo
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
It's not possible to make this a switch the user can turn on or off (with reasonable effort). Take the alternative app store. If they are allowed you will have some with exclusive apps. Those apps are then outside the apple rules and y
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
A valid explanation, but not one I believe applies here. This ban is not only not explaining how it detected unwanted activity, it is not explaining what activity it detected. "We detected you faking ad impressions, though we won'
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
Good talk about debugging i/o in rustup: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
Yup. Before WhatsApp was bought by facebook they just charged people. This was fine and seemed fair. Same with 'pro features' or such. The crypto scheme however does not seem like a fair deal. It looks like monetizing through a ba
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
That doesn't seem to be all of it. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
This. The OP is fighting a straw man. The argument opposed is a critic of the system, not a broad attack on individuals.
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
That would be fair for radio or such. In the internet age it can heavily damage or ruin things like your job and dating prospects permanently.
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
Publishing the names of suspects and accused is just a bad practice. The court of public opinion knows no presumption of innocence and can ruin the life of someone acquitted easily. If they have to name the name they should wait until after
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
> money With built in and inevitable deflation. Bitcoin could never replace a national currency. With transaction times in the tens of minutes and with a maximal global transaction rate of 5-10 per second. The Blockchain couldn't re
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
"Everything is a remix" TikTok being a "mimic network" does not show it's not creative. Creativity is primarily a product of creation, rather than one of originality and TikTok is, in fact, inspiring to create.
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
> If you shout your friend's email in a hotel's lobby, you wouldn't blame the hotel, right? I wouldn't. But if my friend went to reception and told the staff "Hey, you know my friend in room 101? Please share the
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
> Cambridge Analytica's app on Facebook had harvested the data of people who interacted with it - and that of friends who had not given consent. This is the problem (quote from op article). Facebook collected data on people and than
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
Converting an epub to a pdf adds nothing, only "fixes" your view to specific settings (font, etc.). You won't get better math typesetting that way, if it was missing in the epub.
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
> I agree that an exceptional programmer would not only not be appreciated in a job like this but their work/code will also be misunderstood and create a huge libility for the company. Writing complicated and unmaintainable code is
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by orangeoxidation 6y ago
> I think it's ridiculous that a publisher can prevent me from using my license I'm still not over the fact we are all buying licences instead of copies.