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paradoja··on Spain begins disciplinary proceedings against site for violating Cookie Law
It seems so, but I guess it'll be difficult to fine businesses without presence in Spain.
paradoja··on Spain begins disciplinary proceedings against site for violating Cookie Law
I'm not him, but I can try to answer you.

It applies to any businesses, professionals with a web page, and anyone who offers a service as long as they a) are located in Spain, b) target their services to the Spanish market or c) if they have a (permanent or regular) workplace or facilities in Spain.

(It's a translation from Spanish legalese, so probably the language is muddled, sorry.)

paradoja··on Bradley Manning's Post-Sentencing Statement
Who died? Is there any evidence of that?

This article http://www.thenation.com/blog/174622/seven-myths-about-bradl... (in the myth #5) shows some evidence, in fact, of the opposite.

Even the military finds no deaths from the leaks: http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/31/59869.htm

paradoja··on UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives
I don't think it is. It seems pretty clear you misunderstood. As posted in another comment, this Tweet shows that The Guardian destroyed the hard drives at the government's behest: https://twitter.com/dansabbagh/status/369794535464767488
paradoja··on Typo: A programming language that runs in Haskell's type system
This may be near your wishes: http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
paradoja··on Typo: A programming language that runs in Haskell's type system
I think maybe you misunderstood what the language does. It is compiled not to Haskell itself, but to the type system. No Haskell code is executed when using the interpreter (well, apart from the interpreter's itself), but it is Haskell's types that are... executed? checked? It's as is you made a program using C++ templates, not C++.

Here you have some examples (although it requires some knowledge of Haskell): http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Type_arithmetic

paradoja··on Founder of Tor Freedom Hosting arrested in Ireland, awaiting extradition to USA
> is only important in the US

It may not be important everywhere, but there are other places where the origin of evidence is indeed important (e.g. Spain, in the EU). Just because in Austria it isn't you can't conclude that it's only important in the US.

paradoja··on Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1980s? Blame copyright
Calling it property is considered a misnomer by many (eg http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/intellectu... ) and in fact, in certain jurisdictions, there are certain intellectual property rights that cannot be lost by the creator ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%... ).
paradoja··on Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
Reasonable people do usually get in arguments (and are wrong) over the Monty Hall problem even when the problem is correctly stated (as the Vos Savant or Erdős' stories show).
paradoja··on Conrad Barski's Haskell Tutorial
I guess you have a little error in your code. Maybe if you copied and pasted there was an error.

For example, if you have

     let people :: [Person] people
instead of

     let people :: [Person]
         people = -- ...
that would give you that error.
paradoja··on Conrad Barski's Haskell Tutorial
It doesn't seem to be outdated. I guess you probably didn't follow correctly the instructions (or maybe they aren't explained well). The extra code given in the second example goes just after the code in the first example, starting with the same indentation. Something like:

    main = do 
      putStr "Hello World! Let's have a picnic! \n"
      people_text <- readFile "people.txt"
      -- ... the rest
paradoja··on A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
At one point you can build a steelworks and produce steel from iron and coal.
paradoja··on Snowden’s whereabouts unknown
Being left or right has nothing to do to being statist or not.
paradoja··on Snowden's destination is Venezuela through Havana
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1577180-venezuela-cuenta-otra-vez...
paradoja··on Bruce Schneier: Has U.S. started an Internet war?
It is not clear at all. That version is heavily disputed, and reflects only official US Government's view.
paradoja··on Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU
> Nothing like real data. The US has over three times more immigrants than any other country.

That doesn't take into account the population of the US. Relative to other countries, the US does have lots of foreign-born population, but is far from being the one with more immigrants.

paradoja··on Spain Is Beyond Doomed: Unemployment Charts
Firing costs in Spain are lower than in Germany: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/spain/firing-cost-weeks-of-w...

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/firing-cost-weeks-of...

paradoja··on Switzerland to restrict EU immigration
Yes.

And that has no relation with what we are talking about. If the Swiss government doesn't follow the written rules of the agreement, it is in violation of them. Saying so doesn't make one a lier.

paradoja··on Uber Stockholm throw a PR-tantrum when refused unfair advantages
If you read other comments in this thread by swedish people, they tell that other companies already do that.
paradoja··on Switzerland to restrict EU immigration
It is not.

One side may have no doubt it is a violation of the agreement, and say so. There is no problem with that.

paradoja··on Switzerland to restrict EU immigration
> I'm completely against the policy, but it's not a violation of the agreement.

That is not clear. EU officials say that it is indeed a violation of the agreement: “The measures adopted today by the Swiss government are contrary to the agreement on the Free Movement of Persons, since they differentiate between groups of member states.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9f70bc54-ad0c-11e2-9454-00144feabd...

paradoja··on Laconic History of the World
Taiwan is oficially the Republic of _China_, so I doubt they would take offense with that.
paradoja··on IF-less programming
0 evaluates to true in Ruby. Only nil and false evaluate to false in Ruby, so it'd work as intended.
paradoja··on Two years of Quicklisp
It's a package manager for Common Lisp.
paradoja··on Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
No he is not. He is accused.
paradoja··on Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
Yes there is.

Could you name one major scientific institution related to climate science that dispute anthropogenic climate change?

paradoja··on Yahoo, religion and the web
Actually, romans were usually tolerant of other religions. Yes, some religions were persecuted, but that was usually due to political reasons. Many (most?) christians were persecuted not for not following official religion but for creating unrest and speaking against Rome.
paradoja··on Why do you think people are poor?
Surely? Any sources?
paradoja··on Udacity offers new classes from this summer
Certainly not what you asked for, but maybe you'll be interested in this: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicm/ .
paradoja··on Improving your (Python) code with modern idioms
Mhhh, don't know when: Haskell

  printf "%10.2f" x
(Note the lack of parenthesis or commas)
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