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That's the opposite of totalitarian, btw, if we're interested in words.

That is not even remotely true. GDPR expressly affords revoking consent—and deleting any information gathered—at any time.

One interesting thing is that “25% more work” is taken at face value.

In my experience, that 25% does not equate to 25% more productive in any non-assembly line job.

Americans are busier, spend more time at work, and don’t get any more work done.

> laptop ready local development experience

The experience, definitely something I’m looking forward to, needs a lot of improvement if your laptop has an Apple logo on it. Hopefully some part of the team is working on that :)

“Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.”

Smugness is certainly a fact, but so is that brexit will leave the UK economically worse off in pretty much all respects. Especially the poor.

Looking up any symptoms at all on the web is pretty much the worst possible thing a health anxiety sufferer can do.

As it is, nearly any symptom you put in will bring up the possibility of cancer, so it’s all just noise.

Being able to connect disparate symptoms that the patients don’t connect themselves is a good thing.

Snooping on searches isn’t necessarily the greatest way of achieving that given all the privacy implications, but it may be reasonably effective.

That dissection is pretty poorly made. First, the author “paraphrases” Applebaum’s use of “vicious and spurious”:

> I can’t directly say the allegations are false.

Then, a few lines below, the author quotes Applebaum as saying:

>> I want to be clear: the accusations of criminal sexual misconduct against me are entirely false.

I’m not taking sides here (it’s important that possible abuse is brought to light!) but this lawyer is straining his credibility.

Where does the money from the higher wages go?

A better dialysis machine might be portable?

“Move somewhere less expensive” (= rural) is terrible advice, and I’m not sure how it gets bandied about so much.

Ignoring the often prohibitive costs of moving itself and possibly needing to buy a car for local transport, for example, the last thing an unemployed person needs to do is move away from the available jobs.

> No one wins.

This assumes that all costs stay proportionately the same, _and_ that there is no other competitive advantage than price.

If the data is generated by or concerns the users, then they have ownership (degree varying on jurisdiction).

Antibiotic resistance is the biggest health threat we face.

If we can reliably cure it (let’s say immunotherapy advances or whatever), it might not be worth the risk of side effects from preventive manipulation.

My email client just shows the name…

And in any case, “nobody complained about it” isn’t actually a valid legal defense.

Freedom requires transparency.

That’s what free means. Not “companies free to do whatever they please”.

FWIW multilingualism isn’t just for the privileged, by a long shot (though I don’t know what the sample for the study was). Lots of people in third world countries are bi- or multilingual.

Don’t be persistent. Just don’t.

> the users don't own the data, so they have no say in how it is used.

That statement requires proof, preferably in form of recent case law.

In either case, the TOS states: “You further agree that you will not use personal information about other users of this Website for any reason without the express prior consent of the user that has provided such information to you.”

Viking seems much more limited—and is US-based, which creates its own problems.

IVPN does look interesting, so I’ll have to re-review them… I’m still on Freedome’s trial, and it’s been working stellar including comparable speeds. Exit nodes in certain countries are also an important factor in my consideration, admittedly.

It’s less work if you need to use multiple locations for geocircumvention, at least.

I’m happy to pay somebody 5/mo to handle that + patching etc. etc.

No, kids don’t really start school pre-equipped with English skills. In fact, most preschooler shows are dubbed.

The previous exposure helps some, especially those who can already read the subtitles, but more important is that when they actually start studying English, they’re also exposed to more grown-up shows—which do come subtitled.

Or that’s how it was. Nowadays, of course, it seems that kids move pretty seamlessly to content without even subtitles (think youtube and whatever it is the kids use).

You’re conflating two things: the polarization within the Congress and outside it.

Before, when people didn’t have access the way they do now, the small connected elite of politicians and other decisionmakers were able to coerce and smooth out issues for their constituency. Now, for better or worse, the people’s views are being enforced more directly.

There are two distinct things here:

1. Bike lanes, which are part of the road; and 2. Bike paths, which are often adjacent to the pedestrian sidewalk (and are often not structurally separated)

There’s movement in Europe toward the former, though I think historically the latter has been the case. It has its own problems—especially when not structurally separated—because in the city, bikes are much closer in speed to cars than pedestrians.

Also, people occasionally get out from the other side of the car too.

The solution is merely to put the bikes far enough from parked cars, not a specific side per se.

As would the roads without the maintenance that everybody always seems to completely forget about.

Alternatively, run a fallback data store.

Only if you completely ignore the direct and indirect effects of salary on the employee.

Which an alarming majority does, but still.

Right. Any data is useless until and if you know what to do with it.

If music is the biggest generational gap when I’m 200, I’ll be pretty content with things.

The language around ‘good faith’ and ‘best effort’ seems really dicey. Leaves a lot of room for legal trouble if someone wants to cause it.