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by piokoch 8y ago
"they weren't sure that they would be able to remain in the EU if they left the UK" - to be more precise, they were 100% sure that they will never be allowed into EU, Spain would never agree for this, as this would open path
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by piokoch 8y ago
How about "data accuracy" - you are obliged to make sure that data you store are accurate and be able to prove that you've asked users to confirm that data are accurate. How about the duty to export user data on request? How
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by piokoch 8y ago
"That list would make many at Mises scream bloody murder" - I would say only those who don't understand what Capitalism is. The common misconception is that Capitalism is the system where people are free to do whatever they w
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by piokoch 8y ago
Laudate omnes gentes, laudate Domine!
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by piokoch 8y ago
That always amazed me. Why people keep torturing themselves applying Java to the usecase where Java is clearly not a right technology. I've watched very interesting talk by LMAX people and half of it was about how to overcome garbage c
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by piokoch 8y ago
"letting me spare the class the possibly excruciating and definitely not fun experience of downloading and configuring Python and an IDE" Aren't you afraid that class participants will have a hard time configuring later Pytho
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by piokoch 8y ago
That's true. I think Poland is the only country where Napoleon is (was?) perceived as a hero - for a good reason, he was the enemy of Poland's enemies. The rest of Europe considered him to be someone more like Hitler of his times
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by piokoch 8y ago
Salary transparency. Let's imagine you have a brilliant employee, you want to pay her or him twice more than others, because that person truly brings that much value for your company. Do you really think other employees would say - yes
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by piokoch 8y ago
For years Greenpeace and other "eco" organizations were fighting nuclear energy and now we have what we have. I understand that using solar or wind sounds sweet and in some places on the Earth it might even make some sense if we l
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by piokoch 8y ago
I think becoming a bank was a big hassle and being a bank is less profitable than core Microsoft or Google activity. Having said that, PSD2 regulation in EU might change all of this - any institution will be able to do banking operations on
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by piokoch 8y ago
The ways of Netflix are strangely resemble 1940-1950 communism times when people could have been jailed or executed for seemingly innocent joke that some party member managed to interpret as an insult to the Beloved Leader (be that Stalin,
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by piokoch 8y ago
"They also decided which books made it into the bible, and which ones were "apocryphal" That's a bit far fetched claim. Apocryphal books are apocryphal for a reason, they didn't make into the canon as they couldn&#x
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by piokoch 8y ago
Actually, despite the media buzz, there were about 20 morons with "white Europe" banner, quickly kicked away by organizers, but for some reason media loved presenting their photos, not the remaining 60k of people of all age (0 to
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by piokoch 8y ago
Yes that's what is most annoying that many companies by default assume opt-in to their spying activity, despite GDPR regulation saying that all consents should be opt-out by default. As a result, after clicking on 21 pop-up and opting
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by piokoch 8y ago
Smartphones at school are really, really bad idea and they should be banned, here are the reasons (real stuff I saw with my own eyes): - Kids play games during the break and that really affects their ability to concentrate during the lesson
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by piokoch 8y ago
Yup, second that, this was pointed out by Joel Spolsky in the context of MS Office having so many options that are almost not used, so it should be easy to create competing product that would cover the most popular once. The crux of the mat
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by piokoch 8y ago
"People in the States and generally speaking in Western Europe tend to forget how much communism (Bolshevism as it was called back then) was seen as a threat after WW1." Because it really was, Europe was pretty lucky that Soviet a
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by piokoch 8y ago
I would say there is push lately to picture UK situation in very black colors and I believe many of those claims are not really justified. Firstly, inflation is not going up, at least I couldn't find any evidence of that. Secondly, loo
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by piokoch 8y ago
That might help, however, for some reason I don't understand, this proposal hasn't created an outrage similar to the one we had seen before ACTA. EU "wisely" has chosen voting time to be in the middle of FIFA Soccer Worl
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by piokoch 8y ago
Yes and I think because of that 'legitimate interest' clause companies like Facebook will be allowed to work as ususal. I am not big Facebook fun, but I understand that they business model relays on selling targeted ads, so they h
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by piokoch 8y ago
Hmm, I thought that too. I assumed that all banks, cell phone operators, etc. that I use would have to ask me for consent to sell my data, track me. But that did not happen, they just send a note with all those GDPR information what they do
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by piokoch 8y ago
To be the advocate of the devil: Facebook might claim that presenting targeted ads to users is their core business - if they stop doing that they will have no source of income. From what I understand GDPR it allows data processing if this i
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by piokoch 8y ago
Is it legal in US to use electricity at home for business purposes? In some countries that's against contract with electricity provider, as they have different tariffs for business.
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by piokoch 9y ago
That's something most people think and do. The problem is that they assume that all this targeting will work in future as it is now. My wild guess is it will not, it will get much clever, it will be able to figure out if a given person
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by piokoch 9y ago
"its connected straight to the prod db" I can't believe what I am reading. Why is that? Why use customer data for dev purposes. Why not work on some mock data?
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by piokoch 9y ago
If that were so simple. What if your software gets deployed on an application server? If you upgrade, you need new support contract, this costs money plus leads to possible deployment/config changes, for instance going from JBoss 5 EAP
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by piokoch 9y ago
True, the only issue I see here is that big company will manage to adjust to GPDR rules or cleverly trick users of the service to allow for all they want (I guess the number of users who does not agree for changes in terms and conditions th
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by piokoch 9y ago
I have gone through the article, suprisingly, there was no data to backup claim that "the ticks are comming". Is that a real threat or just a mere speculation? I couldn't find the name of the author of the article, just to ma
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by piokoch 9y ago
First of all that research is correlation study, so equally well we can argue that increasing number of homicides in some area made people to buy more guns to defend themselves. Secondly, this research looks only on guns vs. homicides, I wo
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by piokoch 9y ago
Yes, this is happening. You can buy equivalent of Herceptine (cancer drug) for 25% of Roche's original price. The active substance is the same as in the Roche's drug. The problem is that you can't buy it in any European count

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