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by rmc 10y ago
It's not sure where the data comes from. OpenStreetMap, of course, has a way to tag and store survelliance cameras[1]. There are some maps already using this data on a map: https://kamba4.crux.uberspace.de/ [1]
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by rmc 10y ago
> Why would nodes in the IPFS network voluntarily act as a load balancer for my VPS? (a) People currently downloading and viewing the site. Like bittorrent, the more popular a site/page is, the more people will be seeding it. (b) Th
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by rmc 10y ago
Have you ever read the marketing material from those companies? Because they do talk about their mission to host your content.
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by rmc 10y ago
> True, it's time to make a change and start educating family and friends about this issue and the alternatives. You can't just educate everyone. The law need to change to make this sort of thing illegal. Personal data should
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by rmc 10y ago
This is why we need the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Article 8 covers personal data, and can blocks things like this.
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by rmc 10y ago
Humans perceive and classify race. No-one's disagreeing on that. "Race is a social construct" means that it isn't based 100% on biology or genetics. Traffic laws are also social constructs. Yet we can build machines to f
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by rmc 10y ago
> I would not be surprised if a face recognition NN worked better on Europeans rather than Chinese, for the prima facie reason that they have more variable facial features and other aspects like multiple hair colors other than black To
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by rmc 10y ago
What about 5 year olds? Lots of them have trouble typing in properly.
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by rmc 10y ago
> that legitimizes DHH firing Basecamp employees who vote for Trump Except that democratic voting systems are set up to make to make it impossible to prove who you voted for.
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by rmc 10y ago
> In Portugal, it seems to be coming from the rental market. In the sense that there's been an increase in tourism and the increased demand for short-term accommodation is being fulfilled with properties which were previously for l
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by rmc 10y ago
> Yes, consider the outrage if conservative would fire someone on political viewpoints. What do you think all those "Religious Freedom" bills are? Fire the (out) gays.
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by rmc 10y ago
Thiel is also a YC partner.
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by rmc 10y ago
I don't think it's anonymous, and AFAIK you don't store random files, so you can't store child pornography unless you request said files.
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by rmc 10y ago
In Ireland they are called "runners"
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by rmc 10y ago
Rather than the OSMF doing everything, and having one official geocoder, or one official routing engine, instead there is an ecosystem of software and 3rd party companies around OSM who provide that
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by rmc 10y ago
With legisilation, we can change the market. In the Fight Club example legislation can make C be ten times as big, and change the equation. For Yahoo, legally mandated fines, or restrictions on what they can do in future[1] could make the
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by rmc 10y ago
As well as giving money, it's also useful to become a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. You get voting rights for the board, which helps set policy directions, and (possible) licence changes.
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by rmc 10y ago
> Facebook isn’t bound by German law (unless they operate in Germany, which they do) If you're not in the USA or Canada, and use Facebook, your agreement is with Facebook Ireland Ltd, and bound by Irish, and European, data protect
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by rmc 10y ago
> I'm not convinced German constitutional protections are weaker than the 4th Amendment. Here's a report from the EU commission about why the US constitutional/legal protection is much less than the EU (and hence German)
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by rmc 10y ago
> What I meant was that, if the license's meaning was disputed in court, the court should agree that it meant what the company intended for it to mean. And my point is that sometimes what the company intends/wants is illegal.
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by rmc 10y ago
> German data law is very strict Technically this law is European-wide, not just Germany. It's from the EU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Basically the EU's Bill of Rights). Article 8 lists your p
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by rmc 10y ago
> Suppose a service requires data transmission to operate, either intrinsically, or it just chooses to require it No services really requires data transmission. It's just the owners have decided to run it that way. > I expec
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by rmc 10y ago
> The TOS does need to express the desired purpose and to hold up in court if required Why? What if the "desired purpose" (desired by the company) is illegal? Then such a ToS/contract is not, and should not be legal. W
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by rmc 10y ago
Not everywhere is Libertarian
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> Why should the government intervine between consenting adults agreeing on a contract willfully? Isn't this the definition of tyranny and why we oppose things such as the war on drugs? The idea that contracts between adults are s
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by rmc 10y ago
I don't think dense legalise in a click through can count as "consent"
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by rmc 10y ago
Extreme non-techies will say "WhatsApp is broken, use this app instead". People who read the news will know it's about the US companies wanting to spy on your data (remember Germans don't have US 4th Amendment rights), a
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by rmc 10y ago
One aspect of European data protection is "freely given, informed consent". You can only do what the user has consented to. If a company loudly says "We'll never share it" and the ToS says "We can share it&quot
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by rmc 10y ago
Facebook are quite free to consolidate all user data in the EU. And then be bound by EU laws. Which would of course limit what they can do with it. And I suspect it's commerical use, not consolidating, that Facebook are more concerned
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by rmc 10y ago
Thankfully companies under EU law won't be able to do that.

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