zucan

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by zucan 8y ago
It appears to be an issue with expectations for some people (including me). "Burger" is associated with a certain flavor, texture and appearance, so when I eat a veggie burger my subconsciousness is disappointed because it's
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by zucan 8y ago
Society cares about working products, not the tech behind it - I don't see calls specifically for making critical software open source any time sooner than the year of the Linux desktop. Regulations and fines are proven tools, and even
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by zucan 8y ago
>With the GDPR in place, you theoretically now need to get consent every time This is false. There are multiple ways to justify processing of personal data, and your example would fall under data processing necessary to perform a contrac
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by zucan 8y ago
> Enforcing your moral values inside the company and even worse, using the company's power to force them to the world - only to abandon them when it hurts profits - is perverse IMO. The same could be said about executives and their
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by zucan 8y ago
Not analyzing IP addresses to deliver more relevant results seems pretty aligned with that whole "respecting your privacy is our main selling point". I gladly add another word to my queries if that keeps DDG from taking a step tow
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by zucan 8y ago
If I install an extension that sends agrees to a website then yes, it's the same as using a cat as a proxy, because objectively the request for consent has been fulfilled without irregularities. It's even mentioned in sentence 2 o
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by zucan 8y ago
If the customer does not respond to your requests to accept your house rules you deny them service. GDPR is quite clear that "silent agreement" does not apply. GDPR Recital 32, sentence 3: "Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inacti
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by zucan 8y ago
The important difference is that the only "license terms" for paperback copies are laws designed to protect publishers, whereas digital licenses can be as arbitrary as a publisher chooses to as long as they don't conflict wit
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by zucan 8y ago
Same thing as WhatsApp. VC pay most of the bills until the network effect has cultivated the userbase to a size attractive for a buy out by a bigger fish.
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by zucan 8y ago
Is it really a problem with the specific implementation (GDPR) or rather with the general idea that a person should be in control about their data?
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by zucan 8y ago
"opt-out as default" in the context of GDPR means that all EU citizens have to be considered as not having given consent to usage of their personal data until they explicitly do so. See Recital 32, Sentence 3: "Silence, pre-t
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by zucan 8y ago
If compliance is impossible, it's probably because your business model is incompatible even with the spirit of GDPR - the notion that a person should have control over their data and other entities should handle it with care. If compli
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by zucan 8y ago
Is it that unappealing for US citizens to get a STEM PhD? Especially in the US the private sector ought to offer enough jobs at the PhD level and pay to make the PhD worthwile.
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by zucan 8y ago
The toxicity comes from the focus on competition and the lack of repercussion when misbehaving. A guild kicks you out if your negativity annoys too many or the wrong members, whereas matchmaking has an infinite supply of teammates to abuse.
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by zucan 8y ago
Vendors don't put the 50% off sticker on it to make those happy who would have bought the item anyway. They put it on to trick people who would not pay 50$ for the article into doing so.
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by zucan 8y ago
You can fool many users into thinking they gave consent when they haven't. At least these won't resist further.
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by zucan 8y ago
I can't find a section of GDPR requiring these individual toggles for each "partner". From my understanding a website owner could just as well list all partners and give the user the option to consent to processing by all par
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by zucan 8y ago
> Collecting PII is NOT illegal, as far as I can see. Nor can it be illegal. Article 6 [0] is phrased negatively, making collecting PII illegal unless x or y. These points cover all the use cases the lawmakers deemed valid; a real-estate
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by zucan 8y ago
Both nudity and violence have their respective filter in the store preferences and one can also blacklist tags and individual products.
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by zucan 8y ago
An underground data center would work if hurricane safety is your top concern. In any case a location on land is probably cheaper to rebuild.
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by zucan 8y ago
In a European country with restricted access to guns most likely, where the police doesn't need tanks and machine guns to keep a situation under control. Also most people travel by train or car so they only get searched when they go on
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by zucan 8y ago
Picture a shopping mile with a train station at one end. Many people will arrive by train, do their shopping and then want to return to the train station to get back home. You can also reduce the number of bikes needed by doing timed redist