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by pluma 8y ago
They didn't chose it based on privacy. But they have an expectation of privacy. The post office doesn't read your letters, so why would you expect Facebook to read your messages? It's difficult to understand for the average p
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by pluma 8y ago
I guess they "trusted" WhatsApp. "Dumb f##ks", right?
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by pluma 8y ago
You don't seem to comprehend the fact that in the scope of the GDPR they can't sell to "some Chinese company" without your consent. If you can only explain why selling is worse by creating a scenario where the selling
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by pluma 8y ago
Does that really surprise you?
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by pluma 8y ago
Weird. I remember a time when maps were printed on paper and somehow worked as references without a satellite connection. I also remember having used Google Maps to look up routes between two places while I was underground and GPS didn&#x27
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by pluma 8y ago
> I don't get people getting mad because a private corp is doing something with their own software. Maybe it's because they created a situation where it's nearly impossible to avoid "their" software because it&#x
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by pluma 8y ago
There's a difference. But in practice the difference doesn't matter. As a user you expect a reasonable level of privacy unless the software explicitly requests your consent for providing certain information or explicitly asks yo
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by pluma 8y ago
%s/sell/monetise/g You know what they meant. Google is milking users for all data they can derive from their activity and creating value from that. It's not so much the use of the data that's the problem as the leng
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure, but let's be honest: this isn't true for everyone working for Google (or whatever Big Bad you want to talk about). Tons of developers don't give a toss about ethics and just prefer to stay with their unethical employer
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by pluma 8y ago
Being neither an experienced drug user nor American, I misread that similarly (Department of Motor Transport ?) before remembering that DMT is a drug because I saw it in the title of a documentary on Netflix. I don't know if my life h
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure but now you need to account for orphaned addresses. So in the scenario described you'd either end up accidentally purging the marketing addresses by cleaning up the orphans or you'd send marketing material to old addresses. T
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by pluma 8y ago
> following 3D Lissajous curves The only problem with that is that it creates predictability, which is what you want to avoid. That said, my entire argument was that it's not helpful to imagine swords as having been specifically des
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by pluma 8y ago
Well, if you deploy them close to the targets, they don't need much flight time to deliver the charges. The idea is that instead of packing a truck with explosives (which create a large but very localised detonation) you just deploy a
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by pluma 8y ago
> Mosquito net That's addressed in the film. > EM pulse weapons That's not actually a thing. > lasers Aside from being impractical, this is bringing a knife to a carpet bombing. The video is about the potential of autonom
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure, but how many of those techniques involve intentionally damaging the opponent's sword? The emphasis in what you said lies on "and counterattack simultaneously". If you overcommit into a block enough to damage the opponen
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by pluma 8y ago
Yes, it's codifying ethical standards into law. I take it you think the US banning slavery was overreach because it made certain business models illegal? You may disagree, but the basis of the GDPR is that privacy and control over your
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by pluma 8y ago
Same reason he said he won't be the first person on Mars? He understands the risks and isn't willing to jeopardize his vision (nor his life).
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by pluma 8y ago
Yeah, I think point 2 is still relevant, but intentionally damaging the opponent's sword is pointless. Ideally the fight doesn't last long enough for the accumulated damage to matter and focusing on damaging the sword is a worse s
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by pluma 8y ago
> For swords, I gather that key features are 1) notching or shattering other blades, and 2) resisting being notched or shattered by them. You're thinking of theatrical fencing. All that cling-clang-cling makes for great visuals and
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by pluma 8y ago
Personally I hope the outcome will be a strict interpretation: * opt-out by default * dismissing means opt-out * users need to be able to dismiss banners (at least per session) Along with a lenient interpretation of consent-by-default for &
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by pluma 8y ago
Chrome is analytics, not ads, but the two go hand in hand.
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by pluma 8y ago
The reason I didn't adopt Inbox (for Android) initially was that it only worked for GMail whereas the regular GMail client also worked with 3rd party mail accounts. I was also extremely hesitant because of Google's history of cann
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by pluma 8y ago
I think "desktop" in this case just means "not optimized for mobile". It's a [[desktop] [[UI toolkit] for Web]], not a [[[desktop UI] toolkit] for Web]. I guess "A UI Toolkit for Desktop Web" (as opposed t
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by pluma 8y ago
You say "anti-business", I say "consumer rights" (and more importantly "human rights"). As a small business you can comply with the GDPR fairly easily unless you have no regard for anyone's privacy to begi
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by pluma 8y ago
So? They're not published there illegally, arXiv (AFAICT) is non-commercial and publishing similar content elsewhere does not retroactively make the existing content illegal.
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by pluma 8y ago
IANAL but the way I read it, scientific, research and teaching resources are (to a degree) exempt.
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by pluma 8y ago
As I understand it, Article 11 (the "link tax") is actually fairly tame. It only requires reimbursement for "use" and explicitly permits linking and citations. The term "use" is a bit ambiguous but it seems to
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by pluma 8y ago
As far as I can tell, this is the actual text that was voted on (A8-0245/2018): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2F%2F... EDIT: The final text will apparently be published here eventually: h
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by pluma 8y ago
I have no idea how you think those two are even remotely related or in the same category. Oh, and by the way, as long as you show something to EU visitors (even an error page telling them to GTFO), you need a privacy policy.
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by pluma 8y ago
"On the one hand, I'm a libertarian. On the other, I'm not an anarcho-capitalist." Well, yeah. It's called nuance.

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