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by pluma 7y ago
It isn't. Most users aren't aware it isn't and blame the GDPR for worse user experience. Those that are aware are generally too lazy to report them.
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by pluma 7y ago
> when a cat wants to show it's comfortable with you, it will look at you and squint its eyes. Having grown up around cats I have to admit I routinely do that slow-blink myself, even to other humans. My wife thought nothing of it un
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by pluma 7y ago
This used to be a problem with legacy extensions because their APIs pre-dated the multi-process effort and forced Firefox into single-process mode. In over a year of using Firefox every day I haven't noticed any slowdowns after Firefox
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by pluma 7y ago
I think what a lot of comments are missing is that the value of a browser is directly boosted by the value provided by its extensions. I wouldn't have switched to Firefox from Chrome if most of the extensions I was using wouldn't
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by pluma 7y ago
I'd wager "low wage, low education" workers are more likely to be simply acting immorally in different ways. The "high education well paid" team is more likely to do something with far reaching harmful impact wherea
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by pluma 7y ago
BTW, this is what most feminists[0] mean when they talk of "rape culture". It's not about women being dragged into the bushes and sexually violated. It's about a widespread lack of understanding of consent. If I allow yo
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by pluma 7y ago
Sure, corporate privacy abuse is a different beast and bad for different reasons but your mistake is thinking of this as an either-or scenario. Yes, you may not care about whose audio you're listening to. But someone might. They may no
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by pluma 7y ago
It's in mangers best business interests to ignore ethics when they stand in the way of profits. They have a massive conflict of interest. That said, of course there are business ethics courses but sadly economics are generally taught a
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by pluma 7y ago
It's even worse than that. Sure, a chunk of the video's initial ad revenue will be lost over illegitimate claims but if the video is restricted, the video is basically dead. Most videos get the lion share of their views in the tim
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by pluma 7y ago
Nope, the problem is that disputes can be (and routinely are, by default) rejected by the claimants with no risks to them, again. Escalating beyond that risks a copyright strike (three of which mean your channel is gone, but even a single s
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by pluma 7y ago
American tipping culture exists in the service industry because the base wage is not livable. Yes, tips should not be mandatory. But first you need a livable minimum wage or otherwise "tipping" is not primarily about rewarding out
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by pluma 7y ago
It's possible. It's not something you normally intend to do in a new project but it's possible to use jQuery and other libraries inside React and it's handy when working with legacy code.
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by pluma 7y ago
It's wage theft. That it's legal under US law only means it's institutional. That is worse . EDIT: Because some people seem to be unaware: there is no actual crime in US law called "wage theft". It's a term th
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by pluma 7y ago
I too think my bartender should starve if they make so-so a cocktail.
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by pluma 7y ago
So what you're saying is that the minimum wage is too low.
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by pluma 7y ago
Facebook's hysterical reaction to the leak suggests the company didn't actually expect anyone to leak information about illegal and clearly unethical business practices. I mean, assuming that Facebook wants to create an environmen
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by pluma 7y ago
Your complaint seems to boil down to "if the law is so imprecise and open to interpretation, how am I supposed to game the system?". Well, this may be a surprise to some people here but the law is not intended as a system to be ga
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by pluma 7y ago
Yeah good luck searching for something unfortunately named that doesn't already happen to be super popular, though.
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by pluma 7y ago
You get confused because you're not used to it. It gets less confusing the more you see it used. There are some cases where it introduces unnecessary confusion but the same is true for any other pronoun. There are some proposed non-bin
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by pluma 7y ago
The benefit of YouTube isn't primarily video hosting. The benefit is discoverability and (to a certain extent) community.
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by pluma 7y ago
Okay, how many node package managers do you think there are for the npm registry? Bower? Nope, it used github. Entropic? Nope, federated as an alternative to npm Inc's monopoly. JSPM? Nope, it loads modules directly off the web. Pnpm?
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by pluma 7y ago
There are literally only two package managers for the npm registry right now. This is akin to apt vs dpkg. There used to be bower, which installed via GitHub directly and has been dead for ages. There are now also several experimental alter
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by pluma 7y ago
Unlike Maven Central or almost every other package registry in the world, NPM is operated by a venture capital founded startup (npm Inc). So, yeah, their priorities are very different and that leads to questionable technical decisions. A nu
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by pluma 7y ago
Recaptcha v3 is an invasion of privacy and a blatant violation of the GDPR. It's as much of a negotiation as offering someone to pay through perpetually indentured servitude is: it's illegal and immoral.
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by pluma 7y ago
Okay, so socialism it is then. Or more palatable for HN: Universal Basic Income. Not that it matters if Earth is a flaming hellscape by 2050 thanks to the ongoing pollution that will likely only be made worse by this automation.
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by pluma 7y ago
I'm probably too much of an adult to be quoting Fight Club but this reminds me of that infamous monologue about car companies comparing the cost of a recall vs the cost of lawsuits from faulty cars that kill their customers. I'm n
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by pluma 7y ago
What makes you think I'm "angry with Amazon"? Amazon isn't a person. How I feel about Amazon doesn't matter. It's like being angry at the wind for blowing over a tree. Amazon is a profit-driven corporation. Ama
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by pluma 7y ago
If they only kept the data that was necessary for legal compliance with tax regulations, they wouldn't have been fined. That's explicitly allowed. That they were fined suggests they just kept everything, far beyond what they had t
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by pluma 7y ago
Not just that. Health data is considered especially sensitive by the GDPR, so sharing it is a more serious transgression than simply sharing personally identifiable information in general.
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by pluma 7y ago
Well-regulated capitalism isn't capitalism. Capitalism is inherently self-destructive because it tends towards a monopoly and unregulated monopolies make competition impossible (especially if they're "vertically integrated&qu

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