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by toyg 3y ago
The point is that the pre-existing law was already completely ineffective. This one will be no better. One can restrict consuming a resource only if one has means to police such restrictions. Unless you agree to draconian measures, like hav
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by toyg 3y ago
It was already de-facto illegal for people under 13 to have social accounts. Do you know any kids younger than that on social media? I do. This is the equivalent of paper bags for beer cans - it will do nothing to fix the problem, but it wi
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by toyg 3y ago
> we had to pay for [newspapers] despite having ads on them Absolutely. The main difference is that I could decide, day by day, whether I wanted to read newspaper A or B, or nothing at all; now I have to pledge monthly contributions to
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by toyg 3y ago
I've just tested a few (gazzetta.it, repubblica.it, corriere.it) and they all trigger without adblockers. The text explicitly mentions profiling cookies.
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by toyg 3y ago
If that's the case, several European newspapers are also in breach. The latest iteration of paywalls typically state something like "we need money to survive, so you either buy a subscription or you agree to being tracked for adve
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by toyg 3y ago
It's not just experience, the guy is still invested in a company that does the Bad Stuff. He's playing both angles.
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by toyg 3y ago
> Apple hasn’t changed its approach their wall garden in ages. The same action might be legit with 10% marketshare but lesive of market competition when at 60% marketshare. Take golden-era Microsoft: bundling a default browser was anti
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by toyg 3y ago
> They are already aware of the wealth benefits of maintaining a balanced budget. So much so that they... don't. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/germany-expects-defic... > I actually fail to
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by toyg 3y ago
They don't plan to live forever either, they cannot just sue to get their money back from one day to the next, nor do they have many alternatives for their investments. That makes Japanese debt predictable and easy to service - unlike
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by toyg 3y ago
Yeah, omitting what is arguably the language most associated with regexes seems a bit of an oversight. I guess it shows how far off the radar Perl currently is.
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by toyg 3y ago
Stats are stats and money is money. Some nuances might require local sources, but macroeconomic trends are just hard numbers.
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by toyg 3y ago
> dont much care who the creditor is Lol, your credibility just sunk to zero, sorry. Debts only matter insofar as the creditor is likely to call it in. If I have a debt with someone who will never want the money back, does the debt mat
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by toyg 3y ago
You are muddling issues and mixing them with apocalyptic sentences that really don't persuade anyone. For starters, European economies differ wildly between each other, and their public debt as has not been held by their own citizens f
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by toyg 3y ago
> 265% debt to gdp is absolute bananas. They still havent balanced their budget. The question is: do they really have to? Balancing budgets is a point of economic orthodoxy in some circles, but Japan in many ways is the proof that key
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by toyg 3y ago
> where the people speak a language that is not English How would that be relevant...? > they are basically a clone of the US I don't necessarily see this frame in the article. If you mean that it cites "american" i
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by toyg 3y ago
Companies who don't track don't need any banner or popup. > All companies are evil No, but many, many companies are sociopathic assholes that exist just to make a buck. Otherwise we wouldn't need these laws.
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by toyg 3y ago
Neither the law or the court can start any enforcement proceeding. Clearly, national prosecution authorities can't be arsed and we don't have enough citizen-activists filing strong lawsuits.
888.
by toyg 3y ago
I expect most startups "integrate" their regular revenues (if they have any) with some sort of adtech deal.
889.
by toyg 3y ago
What do you mean by "the original (now decades-old) law" ? The GDPR is 8 years old.
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by toyg 3y ago
> they ALLOW companies to continue doing shady things No they don't. But enforcement requires complaints, actions, and budgets. Remember that the EU has no police, it's down to national governments to enforce regulations. Als
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by toyg 3y ago
So the problem is that the legislator did not expect companies to be even worse assholes than they already were...? Laws are not borne in a perfect state; very much like programs, sometimes you need a few versions to see how the system actu
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by toyg 3y ago
Most people don't have the money to have a choice.
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by toyg 3y ago
I'm not denying there is a supply problem, what I don't agree with this that it'd be because of some silly obsession with protecting greenbelts. Protecting greenbelts is important, and there are alternative policies that can
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by toyg 3y ago
I call bull on that. As the first country to industrialize, and arguably the first to de-industrialize too, Britain has massive amounts of brownfield ready to be used. The problem is just that developers have to pay to clean up those sites.
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by toyg 3y ago
You have to read between the lines. Apart from the nutter OAP, 150 objections can easily be explained by occupiers actually having to contribute to the replacement. When a landlord does a big renovation program like this, they're going
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by toyg 3y ago
Maybe they meant big as in "big in Japan", if you know what I mean :D the techno scene in Paris, although undoubtedly vibrant, is definitely less renowned than Berlin's.
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by toyg 3y ago
A group of Italian intellectuals recently used a similar approach, first going by "Luther Blissett" (who was an actual footballer) in the '90s, then "Wu Ming" (Chinese for "anonymous", initially suggested
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by toyg 3y ago
I always wonder about people like Wright... how does such a brain work? Why would one invest so much of his life and reputation on brazen lies and forgeries? He's been caught so many times, surely nobody can take him seriously anymore,
899.
by toyg 3y ago
If you think wealthy people are particularly smart in Europe, I have a few bridges you can handily take home.
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by toyg 3y ago
Ah, but <insert US exceptionalism here>.

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