h0mEDw

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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Eh, I think I have something interesting to say on this topic. I'm not making a "religious flame war", merely stating that literal and thorough implementations of scriptures cause human suffering. Please see this comment: ht
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Well, by thorough I simply meant not skipping any part. And those horrible parts of scriptures from religions originating from middle east (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) really cannot be sensibly interpreted in any metaphoric way unless by
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
True, but the only way to make it more sensible is to be less thorough. I.e. not implement certain rules that are stated explicitly in the books. Like modern Christians and Jews that do not kill adulterers, even though Deuteronomy explicitl
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
As much as I like GDPR, I have no idea why would this law be any good. Perhaps I'm not seeing something here - can anyone explain how this law is good for society?
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Ugh. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Why would you want to make it a price to pay? We choose what's legal and what's not, it's not given to us in some great revelation. Do you think people's lives would be better without privacy, or with privacy? I see litt
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Not sure what your point is. I can just suggest to see the PDF: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411935
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Yeah I meant that there's another layer to the symbolic representation of "sqrt(2)" than just the tree of operation, so that you can ask sensible questions about the value of the number. For instance a generator of decimal re
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
US needs (something like) GDPR. 2% to 4% of revenue is a good starting point for a penalty. In the absence of a penalty why would anyone running a Telco company not take the extra cash from selling data.
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Yup, it is possible. That was just a hand wavy example to show where the issue is. Symbolic real numbers need not be represented as small programs/objects generating a sequence of digits. But all of those implementations/represent
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
It's extremely counter intuitive what would happen if a computer system (a Turing machine) was operating symbolically on real numbers, not floating point numbers which have vastly different properties (for example, addition is not asso
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
You have a point, but the problem is that there's no way to not spew data out in public spaces. I'd have to cut off all of the following: - my mobile phone - my landline phone - all credit cards and bank accounts - all h
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Thanks, I'll look out for that. @tapland and @jgibson also mention that mobile networks often outsource running the infra. In any case - I agree with you that this seems like a shitty legal pseudo-loophole. At the very least the compan
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Good to know, thank you! It should be enough to harass one's provider, but perhaps a more broad approach will work.
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
This is interesting, if that's indeed the case then I'll publish my findings and encourage people to 1) fill similar requests, 2) fill requests for data deletion and ceasing of further collection. Hopefully eventually we'll g
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
I'm not familiar with how GSM networks operate. Why would I send a request to Huawei or Ericsson? Don't they just provide networking equipment? Or do they also provide services, part of which may be relevant for end user privacy?
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
See, one of the reasons why I'd prefer someone who speaks legalese to do this :) Thanks, makes sense. I wanted to make it clear I'm not happy with a response "Yeah sir, you live here and here, and your device model is X. That
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
That's what I'd do if I were in their shoes. I planned to document it and share with wider audience in case I find something out of the ordinary. For example, if they kept my location history for longer than is necessary to just r
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
Nothing fancy, and I sent it to the contact point they have in their privacy policy. You can find it on their websites (or at least I found it; in my case it was just an email but it will possibly escalate to snail mail). As far as contents
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
You guys need (something like) GDPR in the US. I believe it's a necessity.
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
For EU folks: anyone tried a GDPR request to their phone provider to figure out what do they collect and what do they store? I'm thinking any of the following are within the realm of possibilities: - Call history, including metadat
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Ask HN: Anyone tried requesting personal data from their GSM provider via GDPR?
3 points by h0mEDw 8y ago|0 comments
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
So, if I understand correctly, the source of bullshit here would be some sort of soft coercion/engineering of consent? Over something that people don't need/shouldn't need? I.e. something like working on ad campaigns for
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
I am one of those bullshit jobs deniers. Would you like to explain why your job is bullshit? Feel free to change details to protect your privacy.
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by h0mEDw 8y ago
I think the author does a rather mediocre job on explaining a point that's IMHO critically important. Here's Yuval Noah Harari explaining it much better: https://youtu.be/Bw9P_ZXWDJU?t=269 His basic argument is th