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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Why is state outsourcing the job they are getting paid taxes for and expecting private sector to do it for free ?
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
> The EU needs to show that the social contract is non-negotiable, By raising new consumption tax ? Its not going to work. Thats not how you fund socialism lol.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
I am big believer of AnCap and we should see few successful ancap societies in 10yrs. French Polynesian Floating Island may even be completed before 2020. https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism https:/&#x
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
> A list of URLs can potentially identify a person's religious beliefs, sexual orientation, political views etc. But can he be identified ? I believe if its too difficult to identify using even "religious beliefs, sexual orie
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Lets say I have a bookmark file which contain list of urls. It is associated with one user account. Its likely associated with one person but I cannot identify that person. There is no other information associated with the user account. Is
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
I am just reading off internet too. So I may be wrong. In large indirections (or nesting), there is risk for both depositer and CB. Depositer would have to trust more banks in the chain. For CB nesting means harder to be KYC/KYCC/
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
No because to really hold USD, your bank would need its own account on FedWire [1] (USD's Real Time Gross Settlement) in which money is legally guranteed. Alternatively your bank can have an account with a bank (called Correspondent
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Not all private data is stored for commercial reasons. People themselves want to store their lives, make use of advancement in IT and improve their lives. Now what about those data ? If its stored in a computer connected to internet then it
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
The biggest issue to user's privacy has traditionally been data breaches. Peoples lives and most intimate details is going to be stored as bits. Get used to it. Whether for targeting purpose (Facebook) or personal reasons (Strava). W
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
The aim would be make govts scared of losing tax dollars and get more bang for buck. So switching even state would work.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
True but lets take it as punishment for not voting with feet before. Get out while you can, its only going to get worse.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Politics is just the process of mind killing. Its unlimited democracy and people's habit to collectively decide about everything possible. When everyone gets vote on everything, manipulating others (and yourself) can result in real gai
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
it's not easy to tell your shareholders you're going to ignore it. It can be if there is too much risk or uncertainity. It can be even easier if there is anti-business characteristics to the policies. I would say EU classify as
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
There's zero consent here no matter how you cut it. Thats not true. You implicity consent to usage policy of that website which then gave permission to FB. Ofcourse GDPR makes it illegel but until May 25 its not.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
If Facebook tracks me outside of Facebook's website because that other website has tracking code or a like button (which I didn't click) and I don't have an account on Facebook, I'm not ok with that. Then your beef is
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Its not about Google but user. This infringes on user's freedom. Google just happen to be a provider of the banned feature.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
I see so now are literally extorting.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Expanding on this, official guideline on consent [1] gives 2 relevant examples. TLDR: you cannot offer no, degraded or higher-priced service if consent is not given. I would say this is effectively banning targeted ads as revenue stream. IM
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Your explaination is incomplete. Its based on anti-monopoly laws being reasonable which you have yet to prove.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
How does license help ?
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Which many wont. Yet business still have to provide same service as someone who has. Cost remains same but now profit reduced drastically. Thus its not economical to provide to EU. IMO this demands more attention from HN: https:/&#x2F
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New GDPR guidelines effectively bans targeted ads (Nov 2017)
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
From recent official clarification (dated 28 Nov 2017) http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/document.cfm?doc_id=48849 [Example 1] A mobile app for photo editing asks its users to have their GPS localisation activa
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Unless the business can show that private data is necessery for good service which it is as data brings more revenue, and more revenue enables good service. So a user would have two options: 1. Disagree, pay with money, 2. Agree, pay with p
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
You are debating different thing. The debate is, can a business deny service, or offer degraded service instead, if no consent is given. Nothing I have read suggest otherwise. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN&#
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
> uses a more power efficient mining algorithm Thats axiomatically impossible. Its the amount of energy required, not nhashes/etc, that disincentivize an attacker from rewriting history.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Private Data is necessery for Ads. Ads are necessery for Revenue. Revenue is necessery to provide Service. Whats the problem ?
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
And this is 'capitalism' done right. Part of governments role is to create a 'level playing field' for business and stop a handful of larger/international companies having a non business advantage. States do not e
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
Ah yes I misunderstood from " The fine represents 4.9% of Qualcomm's turnover in 2017. " as mentioned in the official press release. I know its offtopic, but GDPR calculates based on global revenue.
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by wtfstatists 9y ago
When calculating fine why does EU considers global revenue rather than from EU ? Nations are supposed to respect each others decisions. Both are USA companies and USA is ok with this practice, why does EU disrespect USA's stance ?

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