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Unlimited SMS plans have been a thing in western europe for the past 15 years, at least. People switched to whatsapp because you can send pictures, not only text.

Why does that page not contain tornado cash under the government takedowns?

They can fight in an american court. The issue is the cloud act which was passed explicitly to fight eu companies fighting in eu courts us govt data requests.

Snowden showed 10 (!) years ago that american tech companies share data with the us government even when that's clearly against the law. That, in my book, is abusing my data. EU courts agree with me and are limiting how much data can be shared with us-based businesses.

Most of these articles single out TikTok when they apply to all big tech companies. Clearly the call should be for better privacy protection laws that protect all citizens from all present and future tech companies.

The US also kidnapped people in Europe to send them to torture camps in the middel east. The US military was also caught buying location data from muslim prayer apps, we can guess how that data was used.

Technically US companies are allowed in China as long as they follow the local regulations (which probably involves following Chinese National Security Letters etc). What OP proposes and the EU is doing is to allow anyone in the market as long as they follow strong privacy laws. Existing apps can defend themselves in court and only get banned after a sentence from a judge.

It's interesting to read this article from March [0] and then check the tiktok's coverage on the news after that.

> Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok

> The firm, Targeted Victory, pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children.

> “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger,’ ” one campaign director said.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...

> Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok

> The firm, Targeted Victory, pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children.

> “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger,’ ” one campaign director said.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...

It's more complicated than that, for now it looks like courts will decide on a service by service basis.

The CLOUD ACT was passed explicitly because Microsoft argued that data hosted on European servers was out of reach of the US government.

They're horses raised for meat. When a horse is registered the owner needs to declare if it will be raised for meat consumption or not, that has implications about the type of medicines that the horse can take.

That's a feature. The UK can ask the US to request data to AWS about UK citizens without breaking any law about spying on UK citizens. Now they can filter all citizens that ticked "muslim" or "arab" in one of the many gov forms, cross reference with fb/twitter/insta for signs of extremism and flag them as suspicious individuals.

Also it's incredibly annoying when a language uses `<=` for something that's not a comparison.

Julia was right in allowing developers use unicode for variables and operators, so if you want ≤ you simply use that directly (or type \leq in your editor).

I'm using the Zalando one. It only took a couple of hours to get it running (first time running it) and integrated in graphana. Includes incremental backups to S3. It really feels like a cloud independent managed database.

In my latest project I skipped the managed database and started using a postgres operator. So far the dev experience and performance is good.

Kubernetes is fairly simple:

* You describe what type of state you need (Deployment = one or more Pods running your container, Service = expose the deployment) * Kubernetes runs a control loop that reconciles the current cluster's state with your desired state

Nodes are the virtual machines on which everything runs, you don't need to interact with them unless you have special requirements (e.g. GPU instances). In that case, you annotate GPU instances with some type of label (like `has-gpu=true`), then in your deployment you add a node affinity saying it needs to run on nodes that have that label. Kubernetes will schedule it for you if there's any node matching.

If the US had serious privacy protection rules there would be no data to sell to russian companies. Obviously that also means there would be no data to pass to 3 letter agencies, so probably we won't see them any time soon.

It's the CLOUD ACT. An EU entity's data stored in the EU can be requested without going through an EU court, which is insane.

Apple was part of PRISM.

That's what the EU is doing and it's a great approach.

As a US business, they are required by law to share any data they have with the us governement. They were also part of PRISM so they have 0 credibility about protecting EU citizens' data.

FAANGS took part in illegal surveillance programmes in the past and they are required to share data with the american government. It doesn't make any difference if they're state owned or not, their complicit.

In my experience americans love to talk about diversity, but hate spending time with people of a different socioeconimic class.

So something like the London tube, where millionaires sit next to people that have been unemployed for the past 2 decades sounds like hell to them.

It's incredibly difficult to open a bank account in a "stable" country from a developing country, but anyone can open an account on Binance and then transfer the crypto to their own wallet.

It only happened once, so hardly "every now and then".

DAI is not fully algorithmic but is backed (in part) by USDC. RAI is backed by ETH which is a currency that is not linked to RAI in the same way that UST and Luna were.

There are plenty of GraphQL server libraries for other languages.

Because they're using Google Fonts their website is breaching the GDPR [0].

[0] https://blog.runcloud.io/google-fonts-gdpr/#why-using-google...

They explicitly say the data is de-anonymised because otherwise they wouldn't be able to directly contact users.