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by wsy 9y ago
If you believe the world to be deterministic, I think you have to remove a lot of terms from your language, such as 'learning', 'illusion', 'rationalizing', 'purpose', and 'social'. It is ha
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by wsy 9y ago
The last part of your question is easy to answer. Before you start processing personal information, you need to ask the affected persons for consent. So now you know how to identify them. If you want to get away without consent, you need to
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by wsy 9y ago
There is cost the individual user of an open source project has to consider, and there is cost the community of that project as a whole has to consider. So from your perspective, just keeping the old version might be "the right thing t
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by wsy 9y ago
Usually it's a mix. Then you try to spend as little effort as possible on the chores, and focus you energy on the part you enjoy. If you literally don't enjoy what you are doing at all, no productivity optimization can help you.
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by wsy 9y ago
Bertrand Russels 'In Praise of Idleness' describes it perfectly: it is sufficient to work just so much that you have enough money to spend the rest of the day with whatever you enjoy, without considering its usefulness and even le
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by wsy 9y ago
So why didn't you convert your USD to Bitcoins, move, then convert your Bitcoins back to CAD as you needed CAD?
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by wsy 9y ago
If you already trust the accountant, he can set up a conventional database, and you can look stuff up there. Much simpler and cheaper. A blockchain-based shared ledger is only useful in case the participants don't trust each other. In
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by wsy 9y ago
You actually do, because now you want to send data to Google Inc., for which you don't have the consent of your customers yet. They only agreed to sending it to Amazon. You can't make them agree to any future changes of your Priva
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by wsy 9y ago
That has the big disadvantage that if you switch from AWS to Google Cloud, you need to notify all of your customers about the changed policy and ask them for consent again. I have not seen any Privacy Policy yet which lists the service prov
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by wsy 9y ago
In EU, you need to write something like "...share data with third-party service providers..." already if you use AWS, because customer data will not only be held at your premises, but also held by another company (Amazon). It seem
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by wsy 9y ago
As you I don't see why someone should be proud about anything inherited. It can be a gift (or a curse), but it is certainly not an achievement. That being said, for me the Jewish tradition is immensely powerful, even though I'm no
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by wsy 9y ago
This is a spin that Google itself wants to give this law, but by European law the search provider must weigh individual vs. public interest, and if there is valid public interest, keep the information online. See e.g. here for more backgrou
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by wsy 9y ago
Would you care to elaborate which European values exactly have been shaped by of dictatorship experience, in your opinion? The only one that comes to my mind is shared with US: that power must be distributed among several institutions so th
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by wsy 9y ago
This incident happened because after WWII Germany distanced itself from all practices that were misused by the Nazis. If at all, it is maybe representative for Germany's reaction to its own Nazi history. It is surely not representative
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by wsy 9y ago
I fully agree that this highly depends on the groups to which you belong. Personally, I have not experienced a malus for not having a Facebook account, but I know of occurrences (e.g., a student learning group organizing their communication
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by wsy 9y ago
> You should better ask why the mass of people registered on it to let this happen. Social networks gravitate towards oligopolies(+), because people go wherever everybody else is. Even in Germany, there is a social price to pay for not h
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by wsy 9y ago
Yes, that is a legitimate complaint. I was only referring to the remark about credit scoring companies which I believe to be wrong
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by wsy 9y ago
German credit scoring institutions collect data on behalf of banks, insurances, etc., and you need to consent that they send data to the credit scoring company. So you are actually consenting. If you never give consent to any such party, th
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by wsy 9y ago
If this was a scientific experiment, then what you consider 'very reasonable explanation' I would call a lot of hand-waiving to explain away the difference between the theory and the experimental outcome. He gets away with it beca
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by wsy 9y ago
If you document your architectural decisions and their rationales well, you don't need to repeat the same conversations over and over again. This also helps newcomers to understand why the existing choices were made. While I understand
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by wsy 9y ago
Any delay is money, so Facebook doesn't have an incentive to comply early.It makes more sense for them to appeal until all legal options are exhausted, even if it is clear that they will lose the lawsuit.
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by wsy 9y ago
This is not even about persons using their website. This is about persons not using Facebook who are still tracked by Facebook on _other_ websites.
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by wsy 9y ago
Your example is obviously unrealistic, but even when buying it, it rather supports my position. Imagine a regulator indeed pointing out where you can optimize your algorithms and thus save energy, money and achieve faster query processing.
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by wsy 9y ago
If you read Quine and Kuhn, you will find that natural science results also cannot really be disproved, only disagreed with. It is a bit funny to see anecdotic evidence given to support the claim that empiric research is superior. Shouldn&#
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by wsy 9y ago
Two options: a) use a reasonably short retention period, e.g. 6 weeks b) if you key your entries in Kafka, a new entry with the same key will overwrite the old one. That way you could overwrite PII content with an empty message.
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by wsy 9y ago
If wasting electricity becomes such a big problem for the society as misuse of personal data already is, sure, let's introduce regulations on that, too. In some European countries, there are regulations already on how to insulate new b
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by wsy 9y ago
The most efficient mitigation is saying no to any additional obligation, and most probably also to some current obligations you already had accepted. Thinking about the issue in terms of time-efficiency will likely not help. It takes as lon
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by wsy 9y ago
Conservative people always emphasize that equal opportunity is all a society needs, and there is no need to worry about the actual outcome. And now they find themselves in a minority position in one area of the US, and ask for affirmative a
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by wsy 9y ago
When viewed separately from an emotional and rational point of view, IMHO this tension can be resolved: - as a rational being, you should protect yourself against threats. So it is perfectly fine to fight your enemies. Important: their moti
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by wsy 9y ago
That is easy to answer: when and if Google puts a big ADVERTISMENT label on top of all of their search results, then they can do whatever they like. Otherwise, consumers should be protected against fraud. And pretending that you show what

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