discoursism

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by discoursism 9y ago
I mean terms of service are not that hard to read. Facebook's TOS is only 4k words long. It is not particularly dense or full of legalese. I have written source code comments a tenth that length for a single function. That is not many
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by discoursism 9y ago
No less an authority than Danny Baker . . . the comedy writer, born in '57? Or else who? How would he know about this?
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by discoursism 9y ago
This is silly. We do not know that the overall construction methodology had anything to do with the bridge's collapse. Does the Nipigon River Bridge's collapse show how cable-stayed bridges can go wrong? The author is a history pr
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by discoursism 9y ago
Which tech corporations have complained about this tax?
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by discoursism 9y ago
90% of billions and billions of dollars is still billions and billions of dollars.
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by discoursism 9y ago
I agree we are not using the same definition of data discovery. In my use case, you know a priori which user provided the data, you just need to plumb the information through to all downstream systems. This seems sufficient for GDPR as I un
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by discoursism 9y ago
Hrm, did you expect me to design the output of an entire industry in an HN comment? I didn't say it was easy to do. But it is what must be done. My goal was not to provide code, but an outline, a very rough sketch, rough to the extent
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by discoursism 9y ago
> we have no idea which overheads are actually going to prove justified and which are just throwing money away Life is risk. I contend that if you make a good faith effort to comply with this law (i.e. consult with a lawyer, once, to dev
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by discoursism 9y ago
> For a letter like this . . . our lawyer is the first call I'm making /shrug It's your money. You could do that, or you could even light it on fire if you wish. It's no skin off my back. If your company is profitable
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by discoursism 9y ago
> How do you automate personal data discovery, especially for already existing data? You attach an owner id to every record, and make sure all your systems can dump all information they store according to owner id. To the extent existing
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by discoursism 9y ago
Hopefully if you are a company that small, you haven't had time to develop multiple data warehouses. You can write up a script to query your single warehouse to get the necessary data. You won't create a unique response for each l
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by discoursism 9y ago
You probably need a lawyer to help you write the document the first time, and to update it when you make new partnerships or develop major new pipelines for data. You probably don't need a lawyer every time you receive such a letter.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Ha. With my friends, if we have one of these "we don't know" scenarios, and my friend tries to take out their phone to look it up, I tell them to put that goddamned thing away. Knowing is not fun. Reasoning is fun, asking aro
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by discoursism 9y ago
There are a lot of private parking garages in NYC. Are those all government mandated?
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by discoursism 9y ago
And if it's your car, and you want to claim that it's not you, they ask you who it is.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Don't forget that cars are much less than 50% here, and bus commuters are among the people that stand to benefit.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Unless you are disabled, moving between adjacent floors is pretty easy with stairs. And lots of types of disabilities that would prevent the use of stairs would seem to make these risky or impossible to ride. All in all, I'm pretty hap
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by discoursism 9y ago
*in languages without tail call optimization.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Mostly agreed, although it's hard to judge. I wouldn't want to be the one that always has to pick up after everyone else either.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Measurable results are all well and good, but it can be helpful to know how the baseline was established. Measurable results aren't "portable" without a well-established baseline.
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by discoursism 9y ago
According to the ruling, the CEO wouldn't be liable personally unless the violation is willful. Which, having been adjudicated in German court, it now would be. If the CEO becomes personally liable then found in contempt, he would have
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by discoursism 9y ago
> For the same reason naval battles in the real world weren't always fought by ramming ships into other ships. If a single ship could wipe out a whole enemy fleet via ramming in terrestrial naval battles, every real-world naval batt
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by discoursism 9y ago
Obviously, everyone is entitled to enjoy what they want, but this movie was difficult for me, even by Star Wars standards. If we can just destroy entire enemy fleets by jumping to lightspeed with one ship, why are not all battles fought tha
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by discoursism 9y ago
Yep! It was probably overstepping on my part to say that the entire benefit depends on that argument. I should instead have said that the tradeoff does not seem good to me.
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by discoursism 9y ago
My biggest object to the functional options argument is the step where NewServer(..., Config{}) is considered bad for some reason. As far as I can tell, the entire purported utility of the thing is based on avoiding this obvious ap
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by discoursism 9y ago
I see that there is a claim that such an email exists. I don't think this has actually been established yet. Even if this email was sent, I expect that either we'll find that in context it wasn't exclusionary (e.g. the group
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by discoursism 9y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=comcast&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHBF... ? I mean it may be true that they will some day go out of business. In fact it's all but certain. But I don't think you could really say it&#
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by discoursism 9y ago
I am not one who espouses a utility perspective on diversity. The research I've seen, such as it is, does not seem compelling. I care more about the justice aspect.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Yeah, I'll be surprised if that can actually be shown, but I guess it wouldn't be the first time I've been surprised.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Is it? I'm not aware of any company in the history of the United States that has failed because it tried to increase its workforce's diversity. Would you mind providing an example?

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