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by sievebrain 8y ago
You are correct sir, however the EU commission believes it doesn't actually have to follow the gdpr at all! They were called out on their non compliant website shortly after the law activated and announced that for "legal reasons&
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Browsers already offered standardised UI for accepting or rejecting cookies. The EU didn't care and now every website has its own totally non standard popup that can't be scripted or automated away. It's a disaster that shows
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by sievebrain 8y ago
There are a lot of zombie startups in the USA too. Look at how many valley firms never make a cent yet somehow go for years without dying.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
It's a wider issue with feminists and arguments, not specific to computing. Look at the interview of Jordan Peterson by Cathy Newman. Newman constantly misrepresented and lied about what he was saying in the interview itself, right in
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by sievebrain 8y ago
That happens to men all the time too. Is there anything worth reading in these essays that is genuinely unique to women? Because so far it sounds like damore round two. The only form of unarguable, gender specific discrimination I see in co
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Yes. Read a conflict of visions by Thomas Sowell. It explains why people separate into these two camps across time, place and culture.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
They're equivalent. People strongly encourage things they prefer. It would be a very Kafkaesque judgement that one can strongly encourage a certain gender to apply and not violate that statute. Of course, it's also the outcome I&#
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by sievebrain 8y ago
This does imply the TSA are breaking the law given the story above about how they "strongly encourage" women to apply.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
The dark ages usually refers to the periods from about 200-1000 AD. The middle ages are usually from about 1000 AD to 1700 AD. And the dark ages aren't called that because human nature was "dark" during that time. They'r
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by sievebrain 8y ago
The replication crisis is larger than the social "sciences". Microbiology is also affected, and I've even seen evidence that occasionally computer science is affected, though to nowhere near the same extent and for different
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by sievebrain 8y ago
And what does the word "brotopia" and "brogrammer" even mean? Is there anything to these terms except feminists being sexist and insulting?
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by sievebrain 8y ago
It does happen. Both the largest supermarket chains in Switzerland are cooperatives. However, small competing firms in a market where people vote with their wallets is already pretty democratic. The voting takes place at a different level -
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by sievebrain 8y ago
That's not many companies actually but rather a tiny minority of firms that are exploiting their ability to make unusually huge profits to get investors despite poor and risky terms.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
They already know that and don't care.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
How can you possibly describe a chart that your link admits is the opinion of one academic "pretty standard and unsurprising"? The idea that you can even estimate percentage of world GDP 2000 years ago is laughable.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
How exactly do you even measure the GDP of such an ancient empire? Economists can't accurately measure GDP of western economies today despite huge armies of statisticians, even China's true GDP is a mystery, so I'd have to as
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Companies pay if they want the services of the courts to resolve disputes. They don't get it for free
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I'm reading the sequel now (Homo Deus) and I agree that so far I'm disappointed in his output. It starts by arguing that humanity has essentially conquered famine, disease and war. The first two are arguable but they are technical
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I think you should read a book on the history of the British empire. The point you're responding to is basically correct. The idea of the "noble savage" as it was once called is a fantasy. The countries invaded and conquered
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Police protect people, by and large. Corporations don't benefit much from services of the state. Fire services would be a better example but they are often funded out of local rates rather than national corporation tax. As a Brit I wis
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Yes but newspapers are basically random hearsay on paper. The web is not necessarily less reliable and can often be more reliable. Dieticians lost trust because they kept changing their advice about what to eat and clearly aren't relia
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Haha, great answer, I'm impressed at how you aren't backing down on this. Three times with legal action in all cases sounds terrible though, glad you were ok.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
No, it's getting quite common. The pence rule, they call it in America. I've been on the pointy end of a false accusation by a woman in my team who was upset I insisted on supervising and double checking her work (which was extrem
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Pay higher referral fees. Or did you think Firefox used Google search for free?
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Not a joke. Google don't define search as web search but rather "search of any kind of data source you can imagine". Thus Amazon is a search competitor because people often go straight to Amazon and type in what they want rat
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Your comment is still false. Google allows Android forks with their services installed. You just can't break the API, which makes sense, otherwise apps from the store wouldn't reliably work.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
They needed each other. YouTube couldn't survive without Google's money and engineering ability, and Google didn't understand how to quickly iterate in social products.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I guess the issue is the definition of problem. If the law reaches a point where you need AI augmentation to understand it, that's a good sign it's being applied to problems it can't actually address or which may not even exi
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by sievebrain 8y ago
It does matter yes. Journalists have inordinate influence on politicians, if an outlet (much more likely the guardian in this case) is making nonsense claims about bots it can easily lead to legislation, especially if it lets politicians fe
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I'm not sure it's true though. Look at any polls about trust in the media. It's been falling for a long time. People are becoming aware that journalists are systematically unreliable and it's having an impact.

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