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gdhbcc··on Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
Vatican for example
gdhbcc··on Ask HN: How many of you have been impacted by a layoff?
Happened just this year, was informed in a Wednesday, had an interview for my new job on friday and the acceptance the next Wednesday. Overall the total time I didn't know where I was going was about 1 week + the 2 weeks or so it took to negotiate the contract and get it in my hands.

It was ok, got decent severance and ultimately I'm quite happy to have moved on to greener pastures

gdhbcc··on Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks
By that argument you could justify any restriction of peoples freedom.

Ultimately if the state chooses to provide such services, then it must accept the costs that come along with it.

gdhbcc··on The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (2013)
There have been several points in time where the earth was on average 8° higher.

Furthermore your claim on "clouds will never form" is plainly wrong, and more likely than not, the opposite of what actually happens in a 8° hotter earth.

Climate change is happening, no real doubt about that, but the mindless apocalyptic claims that are parroted around need to stop, because not only are they wrong, but they also decrease the credibility of actual legitimate claims.

gdhbcc··on Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
Actually I used to work for the company that makes it. It changed names some years ago and is now called "Unit4 Business World"

Small world

gdhbcc··on Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?
I don't need arguments in favor of it, you need arguments against it. The burden should never be on me to justify my freedom, but on you to justify your oppression.
gdhbcc··on Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
Depends on the place I suppose. In Portugal it was primarily because of religion (many time out of fear that they had secretly kept their Jewish religion, rather than actually converting to christianity).

It doesn't really make sense to talk about the expulsions in the 1500s as being motivated by race, given that there was no meaningful difference in race between the Jewish and Christian populations in the area, and they had widely intermingled.

While I have read plenty of accounts of riots and expulsions that either explicitly or implicitly state their reasons as being motivated by fears of new Christians still Secretly practicing Judaism, I haven't seen a single account naming race or some ethnic distinction as the cause.

gdhbcc··on Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents
This looks like a GDPR breach. Does anyone know where i can find the details for the dropbox GDPR representative?
gdhbcc··on European Court limits right to be forgotten to E.U.
It means large companies and organizations will be able to do it, but you won't.
gdhbcc··on Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts
Their need to make a living is not a legitimate excuse to brainwash me.

If they cannot find an ethical business model, then they must go out of business.

gdhbcc··on Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill
That was an utter and complete failure in every sense of the word. And in any case the reasons behind it had nothing to do with a desire for democracy
gdhbcc··on The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925
It's a decently common surname
gdhbcc··on Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
Why not simply use replication as a measure? Have your studies been replicated? How many other studies have you replicated?

Would both help solve the replication crisis, and resolve this problem.

Of course then you might have 10 000 studies replicating the same easy to do study... which is why the "score" should be reduced based on how many other times that study has been replicated.

gdhbcc··on 150 years of data proves it: Strongmen are bad for the economy
Not only is the study in itself flawed, the data on which it relies on is flawed as well.
gdhbcc··on Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city
Because we had a government owned company with a monopoly that the EU forced us to sell. So now we have a private monopoly instead of a public one.
gdhbcc··on Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judge Rules
I dispute your assumption that the courts need to be able to compel behaviour. At best they need to be able to compel inaction, but they should never be able to compel action
gdhbcc··on When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right
Humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years with no vaccines. Let's not be needlessly fearmongering when it comes to their necessity.

In this day and age, given the quality of medical treatment available to most of the population, any outbreak of diseases can be handled in a much better way, and with less comparative casualties than ever before, regardless of the use o vaccines.

Vaccines are useful, there is no doubt about that, but they are in no way a necessity without which we cannot live.

gdhbcc··on Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
But you have. It means even if you refuse your passwords elsewhere, only the website that was compromised is compromised.
gdhbcc··on 33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured
Could not agree more.
gdhbcc··on F-Droids statement on their ban of Gab
What's a free f-droid alternative?
gdhbcc··on Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides
Is having too many cats a problem though? Looks more like a bonus to me
gdhbcc··on France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
Portugal is generally not connected by train anywhere else.

Last I checked we didn't even have more than one or 2 routes to Spain by train, due to different gauges, and spain has different gauges from france.

If you want to go from Paris to Lisbon by train expect a whole day of travel if not more, with multiple changes

gdhbcc··on Europe Built a System to Fight Russian Meddling. It’s Struggling
The eu is the biggest meddler in national elections
gdhbcc··on 81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent
Until they stop being.
gdhbcc··on California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
The law should be a programming language. The fact that it's not isn't a feature, it's a bug.
gdhbcc··on Partnering with publishers for a better journalism experience
Because the best way to tell if someone is being true to their stance, is to see if they apply it to those they hate as they do to those they love.
gdhbcc··on Bitcoin's energy consumption 'equals that of Switzerland'
This is not a bug, it's a feature.
gdhbcc··on Bitcoin Rally Fuels Market in Crypto Derivatives
If I try to buy a macbook in cash in Portugal, that is illegal. I will be fined for it.

Does that mean the euro is not a currency?

gdhbcc··on [dead]
Sure it is, there's plenty of reasons to be skeptical.

From concerns regarding their safety (see the quality control issues with Chinese vaccines), to nefarious government intervention (such as unethical medical trials) to concerns about espionage and data collection ( see the CIA and their vaccines as cover for spying in Pakistan and Afghanistan).

To say "there is no reason to ever question or be against vaccines" shows a disturbing ignorance and naivety on how the world works

gdhbcc··on Police push legal boundaries to get into cellphones
And they are welcome to do so, so long as I am made whole at the end of the investigation if no evidence is found.
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