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by vsl 8y ago
> turning a profit (which has never ever happened) "Never ever" as in two profitable quarters? https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/tesla-still-isnt-profitable-...
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by vsl 8y ago
It is one rubber-stamping, always done, step from becoming law. Closed-doors tri-dialogs always reach a compromise in practice. The parliament always rubber-stamps the outcome (“always” as in there was one case of compromise rejection
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by vsl 8y ago
Err, no, you really don’t understand the EU legislative process at all. This Directive, once approved by EU parliament in the spring (this is just rubber-stamping, it extremely rarely goes the other way), member states will be required
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by vsl 8y ago
No. They are (well, briefly were) distributing it under new terms, which meet all their obligations under the plain MIT terms . You fundamentally misunderstand how licensing of copyrighted work works. Read the text of the MIT license and
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by vsl 8y ago
"MIT license for other people" is not the MIT license. It's no longer Open Source.
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by vsl 8y ago
Worse, it makes it not Open Source . One of the corner stones of both free software and Open Source is non-discrimination against persons, groups or fields of endeavor. Eric Raymond explains: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8106
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by vsl 8y ago
Well, not anymore.
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by vsl 8y ago
Give me a break. Not everybody that disagrees with you is a racist. Landlord that prefer to not have couples with children aren’t racist. I too am confused how targeting may be illegal under a law that forbids discrimination and discriminat
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by vsl 8y ago
But they do: they are textbook example of unintended consequences of well-meant legislation. GDPR is becoming that on steroids: the only thing that changed was for the worse: some sites outright banned EU visitors, the rest started using ob
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by vsl 8y ago
I want to do business with them, though, and am prevented from doing so because I live in EU.
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by vsl 8y ago
Sorry, but that’s a preposterous analogy. Seeing targeted ads won’t harm me in any way. I don’t give a damn about this sort of tracking. You may feel differently, but I don’t, and am perfectly capable of evaluating the risks and benefit
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by vsl 8y ago
GA has per site unique cookies. It cannot very well build profiles that the conspiracy theories accuse it of. As for the quotes terms, the same are there for any personal information (in my EU-based account at least) and you grossly misread
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by vsl 8y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/technology/the-culture-wa... https://www.google.com
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by vsl 8y ago
> problem because they're going to try again and again to pass it, one way or another. Err, this simply means that EP didn’t rubber-stamp the proposal, as happens most of the time, but that the plenary will vote on it in September,
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by vsl 8y ago
That’s an incredibly dishonest put-down certain sort of people use. For one thing, it’s not exactly easy to move to another country, not since World War I. You can’t simply pick a country and move to it - and you full well known that when y
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by vsl 8y ago
It may not be only that, but it sure as hell plays an important role. I am EU-based developer, the majority of my customers are in EU, and I pay a US company 8.9% of revenue to avoid the crippling VATMOSS bureaucracy - because it’s cheap
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by vsl 8y ago
> 2. The MP-5 is just as "military" as the G36. What the grandparent meant, I'd think, is the difference in the round. H&K MP5 uses 9mm Luger, pistol ammunition with significantly lower energy, range and penetration th
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by vsl 8y ago
Even if it did (but that’s rubish), it would have nothing to do with GDPR - which isn’t your personal magic bullet against anything you might not like.
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by vsl 8y ago
Notwithstanding the rest, being suspicious just because of VirusTotal output is paranoid. It’s a cesspool out there, most AV is total crap (and some, like Bitdefender or F-Secure, are truly something) and false positives from them is every
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by vsl 8y ago
That's more about CYA. The pharmacist would risk a lot by giving out the medicine without proper prescription. They may know it's OK, but they won't risk an overzealous prosecution, for example.
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by vsl 8y ago
> How is the EU particularly undemocratic? It is democracy on paper only. For a functional democracy, oversight is crucial. That requires press attention so that people are aware of how their representatives follow their will. You neve
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by vsl 8y ago
Agreed. It definitely plays a role. So does NATO. So Internet. But you all too often hear the false claim that EU made Europe peaceful, so the above jab should be seen in the same lights: equally inaccurate explanation meant to iLlustrate t
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by vsl 8y ago
> it basically never happens that something is decided at EU level that one (or several) countries strongly disagree with That’s straight up delusional. Latest example I cared for: the guns restriction imposed on Czechia against its will
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by vsl 8y ago
Thanks for calling me racist because I think EU should follow its own rules.
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by vsl 8y ago
Yet the folks who make this assertion about EU helpfulness are all too happy to ignore the correlation with NATO.
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by vsl 8y ago
> Consequently, I haven't heard of any notable incidents where Pilot Assist caused an accident. It may be, but is not necessarily “consequently”. That Volvo is not cool to write about plays a role. You don’t read about boring daily
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by vsl 8y ago
Emergency braking is designed to lessen the impact, not prevent crash. See manual. This is mostly for avoiding crashes into a car that suddenly stops in front of you, I.e. in lower speed city traffic and jams. For this, detection within a f
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by vsl 8y ago
The warnings are shown on the behind-wheel display every time you engage Autopilot. Unmissable.
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by vsl 8y ago
Well, no. Mercedes had to pull Drive Pilot (notice the name...) ads that actually claimed, unlike Tesla, to be self-driving... about a system significantly underperforming Tesla’s. Tesla is outlier mostly in the disproportionate amount of f
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by vsl 8y ago
So speeding is the manufacturer’s fault too? Informed by the car, non-compliant driver... Oh, and Tesla does disable Autopilot if you ignore the hands-on-wheel warnings.

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