kahnpro

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by kahnpro 7y ago
Sounds like you completely misunderstand what a police state is. A police state does not require the police to be concerned with upholding the law. In fact there is usually a departure from the rule of law in police states. As the other com
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by kahnpro 8y ago
Why would a bank take deposits at all then? I'm not saying you're wrong. It just seems like something is missing from the picture in your explanation. When I opened my bank account, I deposited say £5000 cash. What does the bank d
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by kahnpro 8y ago
From the perspective of a website developer, Google has a monopoly.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
Because those features can involve uploading your browsing history to 3rd parties... does Microsoft check locally against malicious site lists, or does it upload every address you visit in order to tell you it's safe?
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by kahnpro 8y ago
He's missing the point entirely. User interface programming is hard . And time-consuming. The discussion about client Vs server side is simply talking about where to shift this burden.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
In most cases the king didn't fund his own infrastructure, he convinced the people to pay for it.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
For one, it's easier than ever for the public to go all lynch mob-y on someone today and cut them off from society or otherwise ruin their life.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
He lives in the Netherlands.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
You're not a business systematically or regularly storing and processing personal data. Pretty sure GDPR doesn't stop you from e-mailing random people for personal reasons.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
The manufacturer should not be giving such unrealistic instructions in the first place. Everyone damn well knows that people will treat this like full autopilot. And everyone damn well knows that if you give people the chance to be a bit la
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by kahnpro 8y ago
Given that embassies are not actually foreign soil, if the offense was bad enough, US authorities will simply storm the place and make it stop. But that's a drastic action that won't happen before many other options have been trie
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by kahnpro 8y ago
Without a government they can start to take this authority themselves in much the same way that local warlords do. Gradually by force, because they have power and you don't. A small / weak government can't do anything to stop
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by kahnpro 8y ago
And the insufferable genius often produces shit code anyway since he has no concept of how to work together with other humans / write code for teams.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
No, Google. Just no.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
That's great if you're working as an actual freelancer. But most that I've seen don't get such freedoms. Another good test is, are you allowed to subcontract your work or not?
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by kahnpro 8y ago
Honestly, most contracting developers are actually employees, and this position is just used as a way to skirt tax and labor laws. The abuse here isn't from the court, it's from devs and businesses. Devs don't care simply bec
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by kahnpro 8y ago
Not so sure about the US, but having seen how contacting developers are working in Canada and the UK, I would say that contracting devs are almost always acting as employees. In many tech companies you can't even tell the difference be
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by kahnpro 8y ago
On the contrary I think that without any regulation, Google and Facebook are able to completely entrench themselves and take advantage of us all in the process.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
If your business model is based on something that will violate the GDPR, like streetlend selling user data to advertisers, then should you really be opening that business in the first place?
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by kahnpro 8y ago
This is usually how laws work. They specify minimum and maximum punishments for various offenses. What part of this is a problem for you?
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by kahnpro 8y ago
On the contrary, such companies don't deliver value. Their sole purpose is to extract value.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
Can we get Twitch Vs AlphaGo? I would pay to watch that.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
They shouldn't. But criminal penalties? Jail time? Are you kidding?
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by kahnpro 8y ago
The fact that this is a criminal offense is what is right and truly fucked up.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
So far I haven't had any problems with mine, purchased 4 months ago... knocks on wood
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by kahnpro 8y ago
What's really scary about self-driving cars is that defects can be global. One software bug can make every Tesla go into casual murder mode on a similar piece of road.
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by kahnpro 8y ago
If you have things on the deduction side that the government doesn't already know about, you can submit a self-assessment or an amendment. Deductions themselves should be simplified. You bring deductions up as if it's a problem bu
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by kahnpro 8y ago
There's no reason why they can't. If you're an employee and/or a student then everything you do should be reported to the government, taxes should have automatically been withheld, and the government should be able to fi
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by kahnpro 8y ago
iMessage?
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by kahnpro 8y ago
Then Google needs to close its Canadian offices, and stop providing services to Canadians.

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