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Terrifying
EDIT: NB In case it is not clear I personally don't think that there are meaningful e.g. IQ differences between the (in my opinion totally arbitrary) groups of humans that people divide other people into where those groups are based on external characteristics.
> Somehow I'm reminded of the debate over corporal punishment in schools, where pedagogical effectiveness takes a back seat to more primal ideas about punishment, conformity, and order. People used to be beaten for being left-handed, remember.
Can you provide some context to justify comparing microagressions with beating people with sticks?
This sounds like a good question that should promote a good discussion and would probably end with a cohort of people far better equipped to argue the case for science in a way that shows how the science vs religion debate is not even worth having rather than people who engage pointlessly in a a faith based discussion.
1. Explain that the 'hack' does not actually fix the problem. This is absolutely the engineers responsibility. In your example Alice does not say that. This has always been sufficient.
2. I make a habit of sending emails or keeping minutes confirming such meetings and the details of who said what.
If everyone breaks the law then the prosecutor has the ability to arbitrarily imprison anyone.
But I guess that the average lawyer knowledgable on GDPR issues would struggle to sort an array even in O(n^2) time so what do they know...
I.e. all things are simple to those that understand them!
There are quite a few lines of work where this might not be a bad idea. E.g. also Police and government employees in general.
I have actually read some of the resources AND been there whilst customers received advice from lawyers. From what I had understood this model looked dubious.
I have not seen a discussion of this that didn't just end up in talking about morals. Even excluding this I really only wanted input from experts - answers from actual lawyers about GDPR have surprised me compared to what developers had assumed about it...
NB If I had a customer that proposed this model I would still insist that they consulted with their own legal advice before proceeding!
EDIT Either way I definitely don't want to trigger another conversation on the ethics of script/tracking/ad-blocking. I am wondering if this subscribe-with-your-data model is legally compliant with the GDPR. This is not a moral question (or at least I am not interested in a moral answer).
Good luck though.
This is just not correct. There may be a systematic reason why they are making a mistake (e.g. a miss-pronounced word) in which case increasing the confidence intervals does not increase the accuracy. Check out the concepts of accuracy, precision etc from physical sciences.
Also men do this...
You will never get the big websites that monetise with advertising on board with client side analytics. That would need e.g. server side analytics or DRM on the client side app. Either way I wouldn't touch your app and nor would most that block adverts - and the big websites would probably not be that interested either.
Maybe with reproducible builds you could have a trusted build that people could build at home that also signed the requests with the analytics data. I don't think that the technology to do this exists yet.
We basically seem to both agree with the original GP. Things just got a little confused.
This alone keeps me using i3.