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by scoom 8y ago
That's because Americans are a massive bunch of snowflakes offended at the mere thought of people having different views from them.
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by scoom 8y ago
China's building new coal plants to met increased demand.
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by scoom 8y ago
You mean like this: https://www.sovereign.co.nz/life-and-disability/pages/income... ?
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by scoom 8y ago
You talk as if the GDPR was a win for privacy. It wasn't. It was poorly drafted legislation by people who had no idea what they were doing.
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by scoom 8y ago
Something to torpedo tech everywhere. Yay!
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by scoom 8y ago
> Use the interview to weed out fakes. My time is actually more valuable than this. There are signals available to them to show they take original work seriously and are bucking their cultural trends of cheating academia to get worthless
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by scoom 8y ago
AMP is the version of every news site that takes 10 seconds to redirect me to the real version if I'm lucky.
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by scoom 8y ago
And chrome accounts.
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by scoom 8y ago
By and large if a paper is published from a Chinese University, you ignore it. Sounds like we should do that with the students as well.
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by scoom 8y ago
If GDPR didn't make you block the EU, this will.
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by scoom 8y ago
I can't wait for AMP to die. Too many broken sites and translating urls away from google's attempt at taking over their hosting.
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by scoom 8y ago
Its wonderful how much Go wants everyone to repeatedly develop container data structures. That way everyone gets their own artisanal bugs.
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by scoom 8y ago
Great, so force SQL to 'join' things that aren't tables and 'select' things that aren't rows. SQL wasn't built for querying every possible data store.
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by scoom 8y ago
A binding agreement? Why would he sign one of those?
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by scoom 8y ago
Using slack was your first mistake.
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by scoom 8y ago
Who needs any of that? Just remove people from the voter registration of candidates that disapprove of you in their country. Oh that already happened?
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by scoom 8y ago
The opt-out, is to navigate away and not use their service. Which matches the GDPR - if you need the data to create a contract - like 'we use your data in exchange for your use of our site' then you can keep it. > there’s not a
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by scoom 8y ago
GDPR used "privacy" to get passed, but it sure doesn't protect it.
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by scoom 8y ago
They picked GDPR instead.
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by scoom 8y ago
History proved Bozo correct.
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by scoom 8y ago
Not at all. This is what you get if you demand a leader have terrible work/life balance.
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by scoom 8y ago
Silencing it.
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by scoom 8y ago
Users always can decide what cookies can be stored on their computers - Europe is braindead on this issue.
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by scoom 8y ago
Russians poison him as an asset at the end of its life.
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by scoom 8y ago
Video is not an improvement over text.
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by scoom 8y ago
This guy seems to have copied his thesis from an M. Night Sham movie
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by scoom 8y ago
> GDPR was about telling the consumer what is being done with their data and about transparency, so at least it was for the people. If you say so. Seems to be more about threatening small players with risks well beyond anything reasonabl