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In practice almost everyone in and out of the EU violates the GDPR because it is simply not enforced.
Not because it's impossible to hold foreign companies responsible, but because the authorities aren't even trying (except the very occasional headline grabber).
That's the problem. The minimum wage is a legal instrument, not just an economic process. It is designed for the lower margin to be "overpaid" over what they could get from the market otherwise.
It basically says "everyone working should get at least this much of our collective production". This is what we have decided our society should work like.
Our collective productivity increased much faster than minimal wage, making the minimal wage worker much poorer by comparison.
Yeah, but insulting your neighbor will not have the police raid your home at six in the morning.
This case is not business as usual, it is a widely disproportional response. Hence the outrage.
Wow. That feels like an overreach. 'We don't just buy your labor, but also your private opinion and tell you how to talk to your family'.
Isn't this almost all companies? Remembering one's success and other's failure better seems to be human.
"Jim really fucked the project up" vs. "Our project was a great success" (junior dev Jim getting no mention).
Yup. They know having an electrician do all the work minimizes the risk of you needing to get payed out, so they want it so.
But the insurance doesn't care about your additional cost, since it's your cost, not theirs.
They don't go "cost of professional < additional risk * potential damages", they go "additional risk * potential damages > 0".
Then again, electrical work can be life threatening, so the potential damage is rather high.
I agree gnome Wayland was shipped too early in Fedora and Ubuntu, but it's a very smooth experience today.
Or maybe this was for app development? In that case I agree supporting Wayland exclusively isn't a good move today. But if you write an app you should really get QT, GTK, SDL or similar to do windowing for you.
> Text campaigns are most likely to be effective when they:
Are sent by a school and even staff member who students know and trust
Add meaningful and novel value above and beyond existing outreach and support efforts like giving students real-time information on the status of their financial aid applications
Provide content that is personalized to the student and where they are in the college application and financial aid process
Scaling it would be convincing more school staff and schools to make a similar effort.
The positive effect was not caused by "getting a message", it was caused by "getting personal advice from someone you know". They scaled the wrong thing.
But those layers are not part of your own work, they are external tools. Yes, it would be great if one of those would just catch all the bugs, but that's not happening.
So you have to choose either one single slice of Swiss cheese, or you work a bit on your plate to be able to add additional safeguards.
> Sure, a lot of the bugs in that C code are findable. But so what? However many bugs you uncover, you're unlikely to find them all, and even if you did then how would you know? So isn't fixing bugs in existing C codebases just throwing good money after bad?
Bug free is not achievable, in no language. But good enough, secure enough, functional enough are achievable goals.
For many existing code bases (especially for projects with clearly defined scope) good enough is easier achieved by fixing up C code compared to a rewite in a different language.
Was it a different language from the beginning it might have been cheaper overall, but at some point the rewrite will just consume more money to reach the same state.
Take the alternative app store. If they are allowed you will have some with exclusive apps. Those apps are then outside the apple rules and you have to have to hit the switch if you want them. So you loose out on the app or on all your apps being apple rule / account / payment compatible.
If there is no alternative store you will get all apps the apple way.
Apple is providing a real benefit here. Of course they are also leveraging their semi-monoplostic position to "extort" money and to distort competition.
This ban is not only not explaining how it detected unwanted activity, it is not explaining what activity it detected.
"We detected you faking ad impressions, though we won't tell you how we (believe we) know" is very different to "We detected you (or your app) doing something wrong, stop doing it and you will be fine. We won't tell you what you did wrong".
The crypto scheme however does not seem like a fair deal. It looks like monetizing through a backdoor under false pretenses. Exploiting the unsavvy rather than dealing in good faith.
This is especially bad as signal was 'the app we trust' for many of us.
In the internet age it can heavily damage or ruin things like your job and dating prospects permanently.
The court of public opinion knows no presumption of innocence and can ruin the life of someone acquitted easily.
If they have to name the name they should wait until after conviction.
With built in and inevitable deflation. Bitcoin could never replace a national currency.
With transaction times in the tens of minutes and with a maximal global transaction rate of 5-10 per second. The Blockchain couldn't replace the banking system of single mid-sized town.
It's not money. It's at best "digital gold", but more realistically it's just a ponzi scheme.
TikTok being a "mimic network" does not show it's not creative.
Creativity is primarily a product of creation, rather than one of originality and TikTok is, in fact, inspiring to create.
I wouldn't. But if my friend went to reception and told the staff "Hey, you know my friend in room 101? Please share their mail with the stranger in room 301. Thank you." I very much would.
This is the problem (quote from op article). Facebook collected data on people and than shared this data to third parties without their consent. That friends gave consent to this has no relevance. They don't have the right to do so and they didn't do it themselves. Facebook did - on the request of CA (or rather that 'researcher'), with the approval of friends.
Writing complicated and unmaintainable code is not the hallmark of an exceptional programmer.
Rather it is writing simple code to solve simple problems and writing understandable code to solve hard problems.
Code other's cannot wrap their head around is not good code and even the clever author will have a harder time debugging, re-factoring or adapting it. Chances are it would be a liability even on a solo project.
I'm still not over the fact we are all buying licences instead of copies.