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I'm not totally sure that's allowed under GDPR. I know you can't say "consent to data collection or you can't use the website" [1]. So I doubt "consent to data collection OR PAY or you can't use the website" is acceptable.

[1] unless the data is needed for the website to work

I have a hard time reconciling this comment. If you gave each homeless person a house/apartment, in what way wouldn't you have solved homelessness? Are you saying many/most of them would abandon, destroy or otherwise not use those houses?

Taking full responsibility would be liquidating his assets to make all customers as whole as possible, even if it leaves him destitute. Lack of responsibility/consequences for the capitalist class is the root cause for many of the social problems we have today.

It's not OK that we hugely reward taking risks to capital and then largely isolate the "risk"-taker from the consequences of failure when they materialize.

Emulation is legal. Freely sharing roms of copyrighted content isn't. You can dump a cartridge you own and emulate it on a device you own.

Maybe not in wealthy countries. In Argentina hacked PS2s are still pretty commonly used, and repair shops service them (OK, maybe not anymore? I left six years ago). Jail-breaking absolutely extends the lifetime of consoles.

I don't like this argument. It's true that without copyright we would not have the current status quo, that much is obvious. But what we could have instead if everyone was allowed to remix any content and create things freely based on other published works is unknown and unknowable.

It is not obvious to me than having copyright is better than not having it. It would be better for some people and worse for others.

The failure that is being talked about is the fact the we reward risk-taking much more than we reward effort. No one is saying there was no risk involved, rather what we're saying is the proportion of how much we reward risk vs. how much we reward effort is skewed in favor of risk. And the magnitude of this skew is unhealthy to society and leads to results that I (and others, clearly) don't consider fair.

To that I would add that the only risk we're rewarding in this way is the risk to capital. While we do pay more for jobs that are more risky in terms of safety, it's close to impossible to become a multi-millionaire by risking your life in your job. I would say that kind of risk is higher than the one taken by entrepreneurs, but entrepreneurs and investor have an easier (though not easy) path to getting outsized rewards for their risk.

It's OK to reward risk, and it's OK to reward effort, and it might even be OK to reward risk more than effort. But by how much more?

Everything that happens or is done in public is political, and the more it affects the public the more political it is. C̶l̶i̶m̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ The climate emergency is a deeply political topic as it affects basically everyone.

I was trying to be flippant, which is fun for me but obviously not very helpful, so let me rephrase my answer.

I agree there is a non-zero amount of grains that is healthy to consume, but your answer doesn't say anything about what that amount should be, and as such just states something that is pretty obvious. It would improve your answer a lot if you stated which quantities you are thinking of, and even more if you include sources.

From your original comment I honestly was not able to tell that your recommendation was to eat cereal daily in the amounts recommended by the back of the box.

Even more pedantic: The right amount is 0. I did include that case in my answer.

That's a vacuous argument. It's true for literally anything.

an excessive consumption of water is bad, drinking the right amount of clean water is solely beneficial

an excessive consumption of eggs is bad, eating the right amount of eggs is solely beneficial

an excessive consumption of toxic sludge is bad, eating the right amount (0) of sludge is solely beneficial

The question, of course, is what is the right amount and is it more or less than what most people eat.

Thanks for this, I had a pending action item to look for something like this for my robot.

On a spin-off topic from this project: it says on his website

> The Apache-2.0 license is a very permissive license and a lot of work is being shared for free here, so I trust people to not take advantage of that and sell Valetudo; especially not as their own work. Please don’t disappoint me. Thank you.

I really don't understand why people pick licenses that specifically allow for things that they don't want to happen. It's specially baffling when the author is clearly aware of the limitation!

One thing that I have noticed about Spanish natives in my five years of living in Spain, is this frequent comparison with every other richer country.

By almost every measure, life in Spain is great. Public transport is great, but you compare it with Japan which is the best in the world. Security is great, but you compare it with Luxembourg. Unemployment and salaries are... OK, above average at least, but you compare it with Germany.

Spain has issues, but every other country does too. There's a reason "eramos felices y no lo sabiamos" is a Spanish expression... I really wish people here would appreciate how good they have it.

Wouldn't manufacturing tend to move to the next cheapest place, rather than to the USA? Not that I know where that would be, maybe India or Latin America?

If they stop calling it "buying", I would consider it an improvement.

In general, I'm much more concerned with private actors than state actors. I'm aware of multiple ways in which companies use information to try to extract money from me, and they actively make my life worse in the attempt.

I have a much harder time thinking about how giving states access to my information has been harmful for me. I can think of potential harms, if the state started doing religious or ethnic persecution(not trying to diminish the chance of this, but not a problem today) so I'm aware of potential threats. But other than that... What exactly should I be worried about?

Living in Spain, I love trains and take them over airplane when it's an option. However, trains are often around twice as expensive as flying for may routes. I know nothing about trains, but intuitively I would expect the opposite, and I really wish it was more affordable, specially high speed rail.

What do you mean by install their own software? What are people installing on their Kobos? I bought mine just because Kindle doesn't have ePub support[0]. Now I'm curious what else I could do with it.

[0]I know about Calibre. I'm not willing to jump through any hoops for ePubs. This should be basic functionality on any ereader.

That's one issue. Another more complicated issue is which country's legal authority does the owner of the data have to respond to. If the answer is USA, then the data can be requested by this government regardless of where it's stored...

> You could also say that the user is opting in to loading a font from google when he actively sends the request to google.

Consent is not consent unless it's informed consent. If the user was not made aware of the request in a clear way before the request happened, he did not have a choice. If the person (and by person we mean the human being, not their browser) did not make the choice, then he did not consent. There's no "technically" about it, the question is only if the person knew what was happening and was given an opportunity to opt in.

Different places have different definitions of good service. For me good service is a server that is there quickly to take my order, brings food at when it's ready (bringing all dishes at the same time unless requested otherwise), realizes when I'm looking to pay the bill, and otherwise is nowhere near the table. Being able to answer questions about items in the menu is also good, though I don't often need this. In my (very limited) experience in the US, I found that servers talk too much (making suggestions or even small talk), they keep showing up asking if I need anything, refilling my glass unprompted, and felt generally phony in their demeanor. I found it very awkward and would not define it as "good".

That said, I have occasionally had bad service in Europe, usually in the form of it being very difficult to flag a waiter when I need something.

I use notepad++, but it nags me for updates more often than I would like. If I only need a quick dirty note, notepad is still better.

Oh, same name so these are almost certainly related. I didn't know about that.

Reminds me of Masa Crítica in Buenos Aires, a monthly event where lots (probably around a hundred, maybe two?) of bikers would pedal from the city center to the outskirts, to show support for the rights of people using bicycles.

> Lack of targeting data makes it financially impossible until a company reaches a certain size.

This seems to be a premise you are working with, but as someone with my feet in Europe, it just is not true. Lack of targeting data may make it a bit more expensive to market goods, not "financially impossible". I see ads from small companies all the time. Some are even related to my interest, specially when they are located close to things related to the ads.

> He asked me a data structure question and asked me solve it on the white board, but then he got busy with his laptop.

It's bad that he didn't tell you this, but it's expected of an amazon interviewer to write a more or less accurate transcript of the interview. Almost certainly what the interviewer was doing on his laptop was writing down your work.

Well, and free housing and food. Possibly clothes. And some modicum of entertainment. Then we don't need UBI.

Aren't inspectors more expensive than gates? You don't have to pay a salary to the gates.

I've often wondered, with enough knowledge to actually know, what would happen if renting housing was made illegal. I imagine prices would drop precipitously, maybe to a point where everyone can buy?

Yes, you understand correctly. The minimum amount to withdraw is an amount that would cost 1000 USD to buy. When withdrawing that amount, you would get 350 USD