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by wlll 8y ago
> The worry is that they start to become impossible (or at least impossible without massively increasing the cost and complexity of the system). That's not really a worry. Governments are well aware that people need cars that they c
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by wlll 8y ago
The only way to drive in a way that would have replicated the results of the VAG tests would be to not touch the steering wheel. At all. For VAG this wasn't a case of the test not being quite the same as regular driving, it was VAG del
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by wlll 8y ago
> especially for diesel There's another way of looking at this, and that's that maybe diesel just isn't clean enough for consumer cars?
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by wlll 8y ago
And now the car manufacturers have got caught cheating, so they're going to have to (I guess) face some penalty, and stop selling cars that cheat the tests. People might want big, fast and safe cars, but they don't get to have the
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by wlll 8y ago
VAG deliberately programmed around the tests (a defeat device). It's not that VAG sent a car to the test but the test just didn't test regular driving VAG deliberately changed the results for cars under test.
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by wlll 8y ago
Well what do you suggest then? I mean, the current regulations seem to have caught a number of car manufacturers faking test data and presumably they will be punished. I think we can agree that the goal is to reduce dangerous emissions, but
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by wlll 8y ago
> however I wonder if anyone will criticize the regulations instead of shaming auto manufacturers. What's wrong with the regulations? It seems that they're designed to prevent cars from spewing toxic shit into the atmosphere, s
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by wlll 8y ago
Crytek recently (and it may still be going on) sued Cloud Imperium Games (CIG, the people behind StarCitizen) for switching from Cryengine to Lumberyard. The details are few and far between, but the possibility or being sued by the vendor w
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by wlll 8y ago
Well, I'll buy one in three generations time then ;)
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by wlll 8y ago
If you find the video where they make first contact you can see one of the divers has a reel that will have had a line attached, and they discuss how to secure it.
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by wlll 8y ago
One more benefit they had with the mine was that they knew where it was and had it mapped. As far as I know no-one knows where to drill above ground to get to the chamber.
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by wlll 8y ago
They are (or were) planning for the possibility of the group having to stay down there for months to allow the rainy season to pass, while being re-supplied by divers.
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by wlll 8y ago
> what can they do? Make the case thicker.
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by wlll 8y ago
I have the same situation. When I take my glasses off and move stuff close to my eyes (really close, like around ~4cm) it's like looking through a microscope.
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by wlll 8y ago
Startup idea: Wedding air. Get an air compressor and bottle the air at the wedding. Sell bottles of the stuff so people can catch a whiff of the big day later.
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by wlll 8y ago
Wait, I think I'm starting to see what happened, correct me if I'm wrong. 1. Someone requested you delete their data from your system. 2. You did this and logged their request. That seems legit and pretty much un-jerk like. How di
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by wlll 8y ago
Why don't you just delete all their data and not record it? Then you can legitimately respond that you don't have any of their personally identifiable information. Also, you're going to either need to suck up the admin time
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by wlll 8y ago
Sorry Dan, it was a comment born of a lack of time, frustration and lack of judgement. I'll try to respond better in the future.
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by wlll 8y ago
Personally I've bought a total of 0 products from adverts ever (pretty much since ~1999). Adding an ad blocker a few years ago this trend is likely to continue, though now my web pages work better and my privacy is enhanced :)
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by wlll 8y ago
The only thing that could be called a "threat" that I saw (and I may have missed some instances) was: > I would like you to be aware at the outset, that I anticipate reply to my request within one month as required under Artic
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by wlll 8y ago
> even if the claimant has no use for a lot of the information they are requesting. It's not about wether the information is useful or not, it's about seeing what a company has. If I get some unsolicited comms from a company th
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by wlll 8y ago
Perhaps this is because I'm not an American, but my life doesn't revolve around "supporting the economy". The economy is supported when I go round living my life, not the other way round.
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by wlll 8y ago
I've not given them any data, and not signed up for an account, so I wasn't affected by this breach.
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by wlll 8y ago
Yeah, but if you hadn't seen those ads, and not watched those movies, would your life really be worse than it is now? > Consumers aren't going to search for something they don't know exists in the first place If a consumer
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by wlll 8y ago
No, you fucking moron.
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by wlll 8y ago
> How do I pretend to be from the EU? 1. Move here and get a job, I have no idea what the visa system is like for wherever your country is, but if you work in tech that's a good start. 2. Get a VPN
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by wlll 8y ago
I feel like you need to explain how China's great firewall (I assume this is what you referenced) is the same as the GDPR? One prevents people in China from accessing stuff the government doesn't like, the other prevents companies
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by wlll 8y ago
I feel freer now companies are limited with what they can do with my data. I hope that preventing companies exploiting data will lead to more interesting business models than "provide distracting trinket and harvest data". I don&#
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by wlll 8y ago
I reckon that the number of websites I regularly visit is small enough that whitelisting them over a few days will get most of them. HN, Reddit (for the articles), a few work sites, a couple of news sites. Everything else I'll just se
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by wlll 8y ago
That's a great idea, I'll give that a go!

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