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by swores 3y ago
Great comment, thanks! (I've sent a quick email suggesting it be added to https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights :)
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by swores 3y ago
> Cookies for functionality that's necessary, i.e. expected by the user, are completely legal without any consent or notification. No that is not the case, though it's easy (and common) to mistakenly think that - in part due
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by swores 3y ago
The "legitimate interest" part of GDPR is just horrifically abused by so many companies, who act like it's a magic two words which allow them to collect personal information without consent because they said "ooooh we re
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by swores 3y ago
A cookie like that doesn't need to contain any personal information and therefore does not need a user's consent to store under GDPR. As a cookie it does need the user to be notified (ePrivacy Directive aka its 2009 "cookies
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by swores 3y ago
It's not tofu's fault, but it kind of is tofu's problem imo, since it seems to be a common view. Until a couple of years ago I had pretty much the same view as GP, that tofu was bland with an unpleasant texture and I couldn&#
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by swores 3y ago
We do in fact have down votes, you just need 500 (I think?) karma to be able to use it. When you see comments that are not "dead" but are greyed out, they've been downvoted more than they've been upvoted.
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by swores 3y ago
They didn't dispute that, they suggested a line of logic for the behaviour. It being a reply to your comment doesn't automatically mean it's an attempt to prove your comment wrong.
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by swores 3y ago
Most people: no. Some people: yes. If Tiger Woods was the only way Nike could think of advertising then they likely would've considered him worth keeping, but when they have so many alternative good options for sponsorships it tips the
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by swores 3y ago
Glad to see you deleted your other reply that was just rude. I'd agree with the other person (and even if I agreed with you, I'd still point out that your language and attitude are quite against the HN guidelines, which are worth
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by swores 3y ago
Since they didn't say that, no they probably don't think that. Just like me saying "I don't work for free" doesn't imply I think that my salary is also the exact net cost I have as expenditure for doing the wor
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by swores 3y ago
Certainly among his existing fanbase (and others), there will be some who believe his denials and claims that there's a conspiracy against him, and there will be others who despite believing the accusations think there's nothing w
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by swores 3y ago
The way they wrote a full sentence, that seems to be about Postgres, before introducing the word "Postgres" in the second sentence, does make it appear like they were confused and thought this thread was about that. (As the other
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by swores 3y ago
That comic is about what file types people choose to put what types of information (e.g. PDFs don't often get used for memes, and gifs don't often get used for scientific research papers). It's not even trying to make a point
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by swores 3y ago
Customary (and extremely welcomed by the many postmen & women I've had the pleasure to know, my father having worked for Royal Mail / CWU) in England as well as Scotland (and I'm sure in Wales/NI too - probably elsew
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by swores 3y ago
If "signed contract" is your requirement then we can agree that no politician has ever lied in their campaign promises, because they don't make them signed contracts... that seems irrelevant? The lie was that we save that muc
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Unprecedented Microsoft leak reveals plans for new Xbox systems(axios.com)
32 points by swores 3y ago|10 comments
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by swores 3y ago
Not that I can imagine it happening, but in a hypothetical where neither side had nukes how would a war between China and EU nations play out? Your comment seems to suggest that the combined militaries of EU states isn't a match, which
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by swores 3y ago
Is there an example area where the UK actually is in a better situation thanks to Brexit, or has agreed a deal with anyone that's better than the previous situation? Taking this Horizon story as an example, the fact that we've rej
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by swores 3y ago
Democracy isn't a magical word that automatically makes every decision made democratically good, nor does it stop being democracy if people are lied to and tricked into voting against their own interests.
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by swores 3y ago
Your comment was not clear even with context. I read it the same way as the person who replied to it.
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by swores 3y ago
More info from the university involved here: https://www.qmu.ac.uk/services-for-business-and-industry/sme...
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'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' – research team(bbc.co.uk)
21 points by swores 3y ago|20 comments
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by swores 3y ago
Well you said "most people" without clarifying whether you meant that generally (the way the other commenter assumed and so replied) or whether you meant "of people who know it, most of them..." In internet comments, if
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by swores 3y ago
Well if that were the situation for all companies, the answer to why pay is the same as it is now - even if it doesn't provide so much of a moat, they have a business need for certain code so they pay in order to have and run that code
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by swores 3y ago
Would the world definitely be a worse place if the laws were amended to say "any software developer owns equal IP rights to the code they create as part of their jobs along with the company, so either party can do anything they want wi
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by swores 3y ago
I've only managed small businesses not large ones, but personally I'd be fine 9 times out of 10 with a developer who asked to open source a project they had built an mvp/poc of, but that never got approved to be used at all.
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by swores 3y ago
It's possible to criticise multiple things!
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by swores 3y ago
I'd say the biggest problem, both during Elizabeth's reign and beyond, is the fact that the royal family can still influence actual laws as they're being made, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news&
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by swores 3y ago
Coming in the same week as > Anti-monarchy protester suing Met chief over coronation day arrest > Exclusive: Republic’s Graham Smith seeking judicial review of lawfulness of arrest as well as damages https://www.theguar
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British TV ‘allowed monarchy to censor coverage of king’s coronation’(theguardian.com)
14 points by swores 3y ago|11 comments

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