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by pedro_hab 7y ago
AFAIK credit score companies get the data you given with consent to credit card companies. Otherwise they can collect data on you with other means, if they find it publicly available, for instance. But if you give your data to a pizza place
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by pedro_hab 7y ago
Selling personal data without permission is illegal without GDPR.
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by pedro_hab 7y ago
I've seen something like this with speech. - I have some accent when speaking english but not much. - Some colleagues from my home town have much stronger accents. When they speak some words in weird ways I find that american colleague
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by pedro_hab 7y ago
That's the kinda stuff that keeps me installing adblockers on computers and phones of relatives that don't know about it. My aunt's android was slow as hell and had lock screen ads, how is this possible? Be kind to your relat
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
Apple is claiming is not 30% but rather 15% after the first year. I think Apple may be right in this one, but with their track record so far is hard to give them a benefit of the doubt. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/20
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
What I don't understand is why websites hosted outside the EU, for non-EU users have the cookie banners. At least keep it in Europe, use the IP to geolocate, let the EU users deal it. Some companies have outright banned EU traffic, sou
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
Not quite true. Soviet Union tried to be self-sufficient, only importing what it needed. [1] China, Venezuela, North Korea are quite protectionist. The most notable socialist/communist countries are protectionist. It's the same as
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
I don't think it's that easy to find someone in witness protection, unless there are some other sloppy programs in the US, you, sir, are incorrect. "More than 18,400 men, women and children have participated in it, and not on
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
I got interested in what parameters they were computing, I guess cosmological constant or anything space expansion related. Anyways, cool stuff, wish they had a peak in the results.
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
Thanks, this is what I think we must do, disagree where is acceptable (GDPR), I don't like it, you do, but we should be together screaming this other one is horrible.
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
None taken. I think its an valid indicative that EU is doing worse than the US, even if you disagree with the way wealth is distributed. I think tech (FAANG and what not) is over hyped. But broad tech is also the future, people's lives
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
Scott (from the video [1]) says the same thing, Europe added regulations because it was getting all the tech downside without the upside, and should close down the market and create local alternatives. I don't know if copying China is
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
Yes and no. You can say that about basically any studies, you can shuffle numbers around to fit whatever narrative you'd like. I think the Top 500 companies in the EU not following the US Top 500 is pretty indicative.
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
I don't think all regulations are bad, but in my opinion the EU hasn't been adding great regulations, GDPR IMHO wasn't great, I think it does harm innovation and even worse doesn't add much value. If you delete your FB a
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
You are right, I've been looking into EU taxes and the Netherlands, which was dead last in the list above, has a nice 30% tax cuts for expats. The EU seems to tax quite heavily compared to the US, and also the salaries are also quite l
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
This is one more reason for innovation to keep dying in Europe. They are working on this regulations that stifle tech and are losing. The EU had 16B VC investments agains 60B in the US, the market capitalization of Top 500 companies has bee
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
Yeah, but this example worked well for me too, but when it fails it drives me mad, and it will now add a subtitle saying it ignored a keyword allowing to click on it to add with double quotes, and then procedes to ignore the quotes in some
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
I'm actually feeling google worse every day, I developed a way of searching by only typing important keywords. eg: "js unique array" Now that's not working well anymore, google is ignoring 2 of 3 keywords to give me a ge
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
And he even mentions linters (in the first Deno slide) as untrusted utilities that should take advantage of the JS sandbox and not have access to network.
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
I get a lot of this feeling that the rich and corporations have all the money needed to fix these problems around here. But the truth is that the US is a huge machine and the government already spends too much money. Amazon is nothing compa
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
Your logic is not sound, you say welfare is not so much, but if the job doesn't pay enough and you choose to stay on welfare is because it has more money than the job/raise. There are cases where welfare will double your income, i
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
When I first heard of Welfare Cliff I was shocked, coming from Brazilian public schools I realized how much propaganda is spread there. They teach how the US is imperialist and how they only care about money and some other soviet stories. T
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
I don't what to think here, I've seen a lot of europeans online "defending" this, saying its just copyright, nothing to do with memes, but even then, why would you want this? Why is this a good idea? And I've heard
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
Hiring awesome devs is hard, my experience is that you are better off keeping the terrible devs out. Some people will not add, they'll subtract, those should be kicked out quickly. I'm not talking about experience level, an intern
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by pedro_hab 8y ago
I think they meant you trust that the network will compute the transactions properly. You need to trust that Bitcoin network is strong enough not to be hijacked, as Bitcoin Gold was with the 51% attack earlier this year.
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by pedro_hab 9y ago
hehe, you are right, I can only see it now tho
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by pedro_hab 9y ago
Yes, I agree, I was blown away on how much Americans work, it makes me think is this a reason why this place is so great. It seems to be in the culture, which is better than a being lazy IMO. But also raises the question: Are americans happ
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by pedro_hab 9y ago
Well, I think those are localized issues. For instance, in Brazil its way easier today to buy a car than it was in the past. But houses are diff, the place I grew up in saw a 50x price increase. It is hard to buy houses there. To the point
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by pedro_hab 9y ago
You are right, I was a bit cynical there myself. But then again, I can't refrain from the fact that is way better today, I talk to older people and see how thing worked and it does look way better than it was. It seems that people are
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by pedro_hab 9y ago
Yeah, but this kinda proves the point, these luxuries are not luxuries anymore, they became standard. The way the world is portrait by many would make me think the rich are keeping the AC for themselves, and actually they only keep cutting

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