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paradoja··on German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals
This is the "Pay or okay" model that some sites in Austria and Germany have ( https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-beginning-end and other updates from NOYB talk about the issue).

I've also seen a Spanish site with this, but as far as I know it has only been accepted by Austrian and German authorities (and challenged recently by some courts).

paradoja··on Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
Also Verdi https://tech.verdi.de/ .
paradoja··on Squeezing a Sokoban game into 10 lines of Haskell
It'd be 2 characters no? `head x` vs `x!!0`.
paradoja··on Bad UI is causing people to get scammed
Verifying that it works in Firefox in Linux (with Gnome and with Sway, in case that matters). Thanks a lot for this!
paradoja··on Google Analytics Opt Out
If GDPR is a concern, it has to be opt-in, so it wouldn't be compliant in any case.
paradoja··on Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3
> The "--force" / legacy option can't tell a difference between "broken solution that will work for you" and "broken solution which won't".

But probably it doesn't have to. "--force" implies that the user wants to go on and manage the consequences of what happens. Typing it requires actively adding that flag, which is a conscious decision on the part of the user. If the user wants to check by themselves if it works or not, that could be their prerogative.

paradoja··on A Lesson in Acceptance
In the Spanish-speaking world you can find the endings -e, -@, and -x. Depending on the area/organization one or other can be used (also, differing ways of pronouncing them; I'm a native and barely have heard any one pronounce the -e versions ever).
paradoja··on Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
This seems to ignore the Snowden revelations. I don't think most of the world trusts US companies qualitatively more than they trust Chinese companies for these kinds of apps.

Also, the discussion was about national security and you are giving different arguments here. How is this related to national security?

paradoja··on Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund
I'd think that it's cheaper not because it's risky (specially since Amazon says it inspects the item), but because it's second hand. Trying to pass the risk to the user is probably not what most people would expect.
paradoja··on Near 90% Mortality Rate in Intubated Covid-19 Patients in NYC
What is your source on this? This opinion seems to be against what experts continue saying.
paradoja··on Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage
Well, that's not a defining characteristic of English but of most (all?) living, dynamic languages. I have seen it with the languages I speak or have tried to learn (Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese...).
paradoja··on Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients
Having a German (as parent poster) and Spanish phone for many years, I have never had a robocall. It's really surprising to me that this is a problem at all.
paradoja··on Why I'm still using jQuery
Getting a

> Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

trying to access https://youmightneedjquery.com .

paradoja··on Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution
Fixed link: https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2019/04/appeals-...

There was a :wq at the end (too much vim everywhere ;) ).

paradoja··on Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors
This is true for quite some studies for bike commuters. The risk of accident is probably higher than getting public transport or walking (I don't know with respect to using a car; but that's less common in most places here in Europe), but the improved health conditions are worth it on average.
paradoja··on Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup
Maybe only the ones they had an easy excuse to remove?
paradoja··on When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)
Handlers are already ignoring the caution signs, though, just not for (at least) one product, TVs.
paradoja··on How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
It is my impression that corruption measures usually indicate corruption available or actively done by normal people without power (eg. bribing officers to get licenses or similar things).

Corruption by big corporations and similar things is usually another thing (although if things are corrupt in the low level, they will for sure be in the higher levels).

paradoja··on Facebook Lies
I guess the problems started much earlier, and that court decision was actually a result of such issues.
paradoja··on Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
I don't think I agree with the grandparent, but usually swing voters don't change their political views, but rather political parties adapt their programs (or rather, propaganda) to appeal to them. So I don't think that's a good example.
paradoja··on What is property based testing?
It's like QuickCheck, but instead of testing random values, it tests all values in a certain range.

For example, if the function takes an array of 128 bit values, it's test all the possible arrays of length 0, 1, 2... up to the length you want to test for.

(Actually, not necessarily all, but all that an exhaustive generator generates; the generator would normally go through all values, but it potentially could only test some values, but would not select them at random).

paradoja··on C++ Has Become More Pythonic (2014)
There's a comment by Fabio Fracassi ( http://preshing.com/20141202/cpp-has-become-more-pythonic/#I... ), member of the German delegation for the ISO C++ committee, contending that view. At roughly the same time that Python has been getting this features, many other languages have also been getting them, and usually without crediting Python influence (but rather other languages').
paradoja··on Who owns Route 66? (2010)
There are other bubbling wines that are not called "champagne".
paradoja··on Welcome To Extremistan, Please Check Your Career At The Door
Marx was about something else, mostly. You should probably read a bit more of (or on) him.
paradoja··on Wu-Tang Clan Offered $5M for New Album Only Available as One Copy
In that there is no way to argue that the artist lost sales due to the copies, thus, no harm made.
paradoja··on CoffeeScript 1.7.0
I guess: -2 % 6 = -2, but -2 %% 6 = 4.
paradoja··on The sum of all the positive integers is not -1/12
Just add 0 in front of the second sum. 0 + x = x, so it is the same.
paradoja··on I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made
You explicitly said "Communism in the formal sense". You were wrong with that.

Most ideologies and political or economic ideas have had their names subverted to mean something different by opponents (democracy, republicanism, communism, anarchism, capitalism...). That doesn't mean that if you speak in the "formal sense" you can decide to use whatever meaning you prefer.

paradoja··on I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made
Nope.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is not communism. Not even for Marx. It is the state before communism, in which the proletariat makes changes in society so that communism may take place.

paradoja··on Sweden 'a close partner' in NSA surveillance
What? Do you have reading skills?

The message you are answering to doesn't take a political position, it just says that the previous one has some facts wrong.

That said, I don't think you're either pro-eastern bloc or not. There are many political opinions one can have, and many aren't easily divided into pro-eastern bloc or not.

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