MinorTom

That isn't consent under Art. 5 (1) Sentence 1 a GDPR, only acknowledgement of a new Privacy Policy. There needn't be an option to deny it.

> - that denying is easier than accept

> - that there has to be a single "no" button, but individual "yes" buttons for every single choice

GDPR requires neither of those explicitly, this is just the interpretation by most regional Data Protection Commissioners.

> but individual "yes" buttons for every single choice

This is misleading at best - there can be an "Accept All" Button.

On my smartphone uBlock Origin adds ~10 seconds in startup delay, which is fairly annoying. Having the Adblock be asynchronous but the browser start a lot faster would be an reasonable trade-off for me.

To expand on everybody elses arguments re:"EU law supersedes local law.."

The German Constitution supersedes EU law, especially considering that some parts of it cannot be changed, but the German Constitutional Court has decided to always try to read the Constitution in a way that matches EU law. The only exception is if they believe the EU has gone 'ultra vires', i.e. significantly above their power.

A recent decision by the GCC about policy of the European Central Bank has invoked this exception and has been fairly controversial because of that[0]. This situation has been defused by now, the German government has promised to reign in the GCC.

[0] and also bc some economists disagree with the economic basis of that decision, but that's a topic for another time

The US libel laws are much more publisher-friendly - I cannot legally claim that Oury Jalloh [0] was murdered in Germany (even though he almost definitely was), whereas in the US the accused police has a higher burden in proving he wasn't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Oury_Jalloh

> "Proof of Capability of Work"

I'm not an expert on this, but:

Practicality aside this is either still really wasteful (lot's of unused compute sitting around in some datacenter) or really susceptible to attacks (e.g. "proof of the capability to rent a lot of AWS servers for a few seconds - everybody can do that, and somebody will")

If you don't agree to the EULA you don't have a license to use MacOS at all, which means you downloading it is (in many countries) a crime.

The question whether or not a EULA is enforcable is only relevant for products you bought which have software preinstalled - it is often argued under First Sale (and similar) that the EULA isn't applicable.

Eh, as a kid maybe, but my time is too valuable to waste it going through pages upon pages of scam google results (note: google is the search engine most publishers send takedown requests to, use any other search engine for piracy).

Now, a private tracker, on the other hand...

Disclaimer: Piracy is morally wrong, and if any LEO asks all I've been downloading is 1984.

Note: I'm not the person to vote for more taxes, and I agree with you in principle. It's just that your arguments aren't ones.

> Can i create a holding company, co-owned between me and next-of-kin and "invest" my money in it then let them liquidate?

You'll always have to transfer the stock to your next-of-kin somehow. This is where a tax would apply.

> Can i loan them the money?

Yes, but they'll need to pay it back someday. That makes the debt a taxable asset. (i.e. when you inherit you inherit the "asset" = the obligation, which is taxed with 50%)

> Can i gift them money?

In Germany the gift tax is the same as the inheritance tax.

> Can i store in trust?

Yes, and that's why I agree with you. It's just not as simple to avoid inheritance tax as you make it out to be.

That's up to the developer to implement, but totally possible.

> > The France 10Y Government Bond has a -0.082% yield.

> (Germany is -0.433% and the US is 1.289% for 10Y)

To put this into context: The Euro/ECB's interest rate is -0.50% and the USD/FED's interest rate is 0.25%

> this will also affect grey market buyers who cannot produce a legitimate receipt.

That's the goal - maybe you'll buy your TV legitimately next time.

They're using them, just not very efficiently. There are already rules forcing you to give up unused blocks (although they do not apply to some very old ones).

I have to disagree, in todays internet-connected world cyber attacks are not insignificant. It is not inconceivable for an large-scale attack to e.g. turn off an entire countries' electricity distribution, and that's more than most traditional weapons ever could do.

That doesn't work well with CGNAT or VPNs/Tor. That's why the latter is captcha'd more often.

rclone with anything that's paid per tb, e.g. Amazon S3/Glacier or Backblaze B2. Data storage (and retrieval!) isn't cheap, however, and the pricing isn't simple.

Interacting between the crypto space and the U.S. financial system is hard. USDC does it by being a well-regulated in the U.S. and internationally financial institution, but that's certainly not easy.

Just one example (from [1]):

> At the time, Bitfinex (theoretically a Hong Kong entity but whose location, like a Bond villain, changes moment-to-moment to fit the needs of the scene) was banking in Taiwan at Hwaitai Commercial Bank, KGI Bank, First Commercial Bank, and Taishin Bank.

> Taiwanese banks do not have direct access to the U.S. financial system; they engage via correspondent banking relationships. These banks corresponded through Wells Fargo. Wells, in the wake of publicity about the Bitfinex hack, told the banks they would no longer clear USD wires to or from Bitfinex.

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

Even if you don't care about advertising to EU visitors implementing GDPR costs money. (But since a consent-management-system is useful for compliance with California's privacy law it'd make sense to allow EU visitors as well.)

Do note that this isn't just a short link like with, say, bit.ly, but a vanity link like https://www.gov.uk/brexit-eucitizens , which means you actually need to check them for validity before assigning them.

That's true if you define Google as a link search engine, but what if you were to define it as a "solution finder"? This way it just fits into the definition.

Who pays for Windows? I certainly didn't.

The Switches USB-C implementation is genuinely broken, so this isn't the fault of the connector. A spec-compliant charger, cable and connector will never brick anything (or catch on fire, for that matter)

+ 25ct is pretty bad for EU cards and stripe does not support any other payment methods (important for the European market). I recommend you consider other PSPs like Adyen (a stripe clone; ~1% + 10ct) or Mollie, though I have tried neither.

You do realize any potential Facebook alternative will face the same problems, further entrenching Facebooks market position.

This even applies to federated social networks like matrix - a EU server can't easily send messages containing personal data to US ones without at least signing an contract with the required "standard contractual clauses" (technically an contract is always required).

I agree that that's kind of an double standard, but copyright rules including those similar to DMCA are very widely accepted in almost all countries outside the US, too, even though not all enforce them. [1]

In a simial vein I can see myself being in favor of some basic privacy rights applicable worldwide, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty

The dump needs to contain the data that is associated with your user and unless they store "user has rated Minions (2015) with 5" they don't need to tell you that. (Quite the opposite - it would be illegal for them to do so unless they also tell you what they'Ve stored exactly the way they've stored it)

Do note that nobody actually knows* if what I'm saying is true, but that's just another problem of GDPR

It collects much less information than American credit bureaus, but the SCHUFA does save what banks you have accounts with and for how long - the longer the better.

Not with Proxmox, no. You can use a PCIe-Sata card and pass that through if you have the slots available.

I do this with ProxMox and a passed through AMD RX580 and it's working fine, but the disk performance is terrible, even worse than I'd expect for the hard drive it's on. Luckily that doesn't matter much for gaming.

The Proxmox wiki has great resources on GPU passthrough, but you may have to install a kernel mod for the AMD gpu not to take the host down when the guest powers off.

I haven't been able to do this with VMware ESXi (I've tried); I forgot if it worked in unRaid or not (But it should, in theory).

CGNAT