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by taysic 8y ago
Those things are voluntary. I've known landlords who've given cheaper than market rate rent to people or were sympathetic to their situation. Those are similar to what you've listed. > A-list actors use their status to dra
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by taysic 8y ago
In effect but not enforceable means its not in effect in a way that matters to anyone.
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Ok but we have to trust this person that they don't store IP information. There is no way of knowing for sure. And there is no obvious way to detect a lie on this.
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by taysic 8y ago
What reason could anyone provide? (even that a company like fb still has your data) Or that a company sold it illegally? Or that random targeted ads you are seeing are the result of data from any particular company?
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by taysic 8y ago
Because they don't know anything about EU authorities and have no reason to trust that they have the interests of US small businesses at heart? To them, this could potentially be a money grab with no pain to their constituents. It&#x27
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by taysic 8y ago
This law may be not a big deal and not heavily regulated and not impact US small businesses at all - but many don't want to be the first to find out. After the dust has settled for a few years, then I'll make a conclusion if it ha
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by taysic 8y ago
There is almost no solution to regulatory capture - more gov to solve it does not work in practice, particularly because after these commissions are founded are idealistic principles, the public stops paying attention and often doesn't
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by taysic 8y ago
In theory, but surprisingly not in practice. Often the most innovative ideas come from scrappy businesses without tons of funding off the bat. Look at healthcare insurance - not a lot of newcomers, despite some very high profit margins.
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by taysic 8y ago
That almost never happens. It's not in the gov's interest to tank successful companies that employ a bunch of people - and large companies are in the best position to give personal feedback to politicians to customize the process
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by taysic 8y ago
I'm not against all regulations - some can be useful - they just need to be implemented with great caution - ideally in a way that is very easy and clear to implement. In theory I don't see how regulations could avoid security bre
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by taysic 8y ago
It's dangerous to assume there isn't such a thing as pointless regulations that actually harm consumers by making a useful service/product more out of reach.
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by taysic 8y ago
The point is newcomers have a disadvantage against any type of regulation they need to comply to - simply because they often have less funding/resources than a giant company. This happens in practice all the time.
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by taysic 8y ago
I’m going to bet a huge portion of websites do not delete data again upon backup. It’s the simplest implementation. Data deletion usually does not matter to the flow of business unless in specific cases.
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by taysic 8y ago
"The individual can be assured that their personal data will not be restored back to production systems (except in certain rare instances, e.g., the need to recover from a natural disaster or serious security breach). In such cases, th
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by taysic 8y ago
'user account deletion was already possible.' Do you not use backups? How was this done within 10 minutes?
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by taysic 8y ago
Here's an explanation I saw once before of how the wealthy save money by donating to their alma mater: 'So what an individual can do is offer to donate, say, 10% of his company to a charity. Let's say that the company did rea
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by taysic 8y ago
That's not really how it is now as some localities are massively subsidized by others.
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by taysic 8y ago
Having free money after a lifetime of working that you feel you contributed to seems different from having it available before you've worked before.
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by taysic 8y ago
> There's still one annoyance left: you do need to keep track of accounts/users who have deleted data, so if you have to restore from a backup, you can't restore any data belonging to users who have deleted their data with
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by taysic 8y ago
I don't think big companies will back out of the EU at all. In fact, they now have a big more of a competitive advantage because they have the money and time needed to get GDPR right over a smaller company. And transparency about how t
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by taysic 8y ago
It wouldn't be a win-win if it results in less services being available in the EU - maybe services that are niche, that don't have the time to adapt to regulations, but would otherwise be useful to some of the people in the EU. Is
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by taysic 8y ago
As someone who also rejected a company because their drinking culture seemed like a big part of their identity (and I don't drink), it depends. In this case, I could sense it was big enough of a contrast to who I am that it wasn't
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by taysic 8y ago
Is 400k really for a lot of engineers? How many years of experience?
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by taysic 8y ago
Texas still has deed restrictions that prevent corner stores in residential neighborhoods, density restrictions, buffering ordinances, historic preservation sites, lot size restrictions, and other things like work similar to zoning laws.
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by taysic 8y ago
Your argument is not very clear to me. They may very correctly realize that when you take how large the demand is + how much land is up for sale + how much could possibly be built on it + which neighborhood they want to remain in... the cha
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by taysic 8y ago
I think they (correctly) feel that there is just so much demand that the middle class would quickly buy up available properties and they would be highly unlikely to hit prices affordable to the poor by market forces. This is simply because
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by taysic 8y ago
The reality is when people buy a property, they buy a neighborhood too. That's true all around the US. You have the right to veto a liquor store popping up next door. You have a right to veto a lot of things. But naturally its a grey a
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by taysic 8y ago
What's the insight? Historically those areas in the southern Mediterranean have been harder to defend / had more diversity / immigration / general variables. Is this what you're referring to?
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by taysic 8y ago
A number of landlords skimp on maintaining their buildings when they have a number of people on rent control. The buildings become quite dated and unkempt. However Prop 13 does make the business sustainable for those receiving very little r
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by taysic 8y ago
That's how I heard it. Turns out Berkeley got rent control in 1972 while Prop 13 was passed in 1978. But generally you're right. It's still my understanding that landlords of multiple units who have tenants in rent control wo

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