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by pluma 8y ago
That one is actually because it's two different words: "people" is the plural form of "person", i.e. one person, two people, as a group "people" (pl. "peoples") is a group of people as a unit, e.
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by pluma 8y ago
How likely is a man reading Cosmo to care about tampons vs cups relative to the average man? How likely is a Cosmo reader to be a cis man? Alternatively: How likely is a Cosmo reader reading an article about menstruation to be interested in
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by pluma 8y ago
Unless you're trans. Or you're doing the family shopping and aren't grossed out by hygiene products.
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm loving that the privacy policy linked on text.npr.org links EU users to a URL on the non-text version which is again just showing a prompt. The actual text-only version of the EU privacy policy is the one linked from that prompt, n
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by pluma 8y ago
FWIW the cameras on public transit (which have been the norm in Cologne for at least a decade I think) are legal (under the old data protection laws anyway) because the recordings are automatically destroyed after 24 hours or so. I think th
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by pluma 8y ago
I guess this demonstrates a prime example of one of the biggest differences in the US: In the US, corporations are people. In the EU, corporations are legal persons but don't inherently enjoy the same rights/protections as natural
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by pluma 8y ago
Not able to answer that question but the Auskunftspflicht also covers police surveillance footage. Personal anecdote: I was involved in a student demonstration once that ended with the police recording every individual separately in additio
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure, but note how it also says "negligent". Ghostery is a privacy browser extension. They should be using something more sophisticated than a process so prone to human error when handling user data.
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by pluma 8y ago
Theoretically yes. Practically you need to be rather verbose in certain cases (e.g. you need to specifically name which articles of the GDPR you're using to justify collection) while also being told to be concise. The general advice I&
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by pluma 8y ago
FWIW while you're right, that's awfully shortsighted unless you're a mom & pop shop with no intent of ever expanding beyond your backyard. A lot of devs hanging out on HN are working for companies that have at least some
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by pluma 8y ago
The GDPR is about EU residents, not citizens. You don't need to be a EU citizen but you do need to be in the EU at the time.
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by pluma 8y ago
IANAL You do need explicit consent if you're trying to sneak something in the user wouldn't expect. So if you sign up for cat pictures but the service sells off your data to a dating service, that's surprising and requires ex
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by pluma 8y ago
In the grand scheme of things this sounds like one of the more boring version bumps but I'm sure a lot of people are going to be really excited about this.
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by pluma 8y ago
tl;dr: under GDPR terms, anything is "personally identifiable" if you have the means to resolve it. Technically, writing "John Smith" on a piece of paper can become anonymous data if there's no way to determine who
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm German and I have no idea why you think the refugee crisis would pose a "very real problem to the housing market". The housing market hasn't changed much. There's plenty of vacant housing in Germany. It's j
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by pluma 8y ago
Do you even remember what LED bulbs were like when the traditional bulbs went the way of the dodo? The reason CFLs were popular wasn't that the EU mandated them, it was that LED bulbs at the time were utter rubbish. If anything the ban
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by pluma 8y ago
Did you actually read the regulation you linked to? It defines a standard for the quality classification of cucumbers. It doesn't require cucumbers to be straight, it just requires them to meet certain criteria to be declared a certain
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by pluma 8y ago
React has an amazingly small surface area and really is quite easy to learn, compared to pre-existing libraries with similar goals. What makes React seem so daunting is the rest of the ecosystem: Webpack, Babel, Redux/MobX/MST&#x2
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm fairly confident it will be illegal starting May 25th.
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by pluma 8y ago
If you think the term "organic" is silly: in German the word that's used means "biological".
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by pluma 8y ago
Also, "probable carcinogen" doesn't mean what most people think it means[1]: > Group 2A: "Probably carcinogenic to humans" There is strong evidence that it can cause cancer in humans, but at present it is not con
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by pluma 8y ago
Only for outside use. They are still legal for use in greenhouses. I'm not disagreeing that this means they acknowledge the potential harm for bees, but it's not a "total ban".
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by pluma 8y ago
If a simple typo was enough to trigger the honor-killing, it's disingenuous to look for anyone to blame but the murderer himself. If a German doctor texts someone "Ich verabreiche Schmerzmittel an meine Patienten nur in Massen&quo
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by pluma 8y ago
That title is atrocious, though. The cellphone didn't kill anyone, this is basically an "honor killing".
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by pluma 8y ago
Thank you, Facebook, for not restricting this feature you were legally required to implement to only the users you were legally required to offer it to. That sound better?
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by pluma 9y ago
Switzerland is not part of the EU though.
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by pluma 9y ago
Well, Clinton unlike Trump isn't president.
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by pluma 9y ago
Recently? Dan told people to consider not using Redux as early as 2016: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...
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by pluma 9y ago
FYI here's a variant that eliminates the `impossible` function and instead uses an assignment to the same effect: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=const%20enum%20Scre... This is what uglify makes of that:
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by pluma 9y ago
Not just that, the initial Flow example can actually be translated 1-to-1 to TypeScript (without using enums at all): https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html#src=type%20Ap...

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