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scoom··on Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
That's because Americans are a massive bunch of snowflakes offended at the mere thought of people having different views from them.
scoom··on 310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved
China's building new coal plants to met increased demand.
scoom··on The tragic end of Telltale Games
You mean like this: https://www.sovereign.co.nz/life-and-disability/pages/income... ?
scoom··on Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
You talk as if the GDPR was a win for privacy. It wasn't. It was poorly drafted legislation by people who had no idea what they were doing.
scoom··on Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
Something to torpedo tech everywhere. Yay!
scoom··on Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market
> Use the interview to weed out fakes.

My time is actually more valuable than this. There are signals available to them to show they take original work seriously and are bucking their cultural trends of cheating academia to get worthless degrees.

scoom··on Former Google chief predicts the Internet will split by 2028
AMP is the version of every news site that takes 10 seconds to redirect me to the real version if I'm lucky.
scoom··on Former Google chief predicts the Internet will split by 2028
And chrome accounts.
scoom··on Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market
By and large if a paper is published from a Chinese University, you ignore it.

Sounds like we should do that with the students as well.

scoom··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
If GDPR didn't make you block the EU, this will.
scoom··on Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
I can't wait for AMP to die. Too many broken sites and translating urls away from google's attempt at taking over their hosting.
scoom··on Notes on the Go2 Generics Draft
Its wonderful how much Go wants everyone to repeatedly develop container data structures. That way everyone gets their own artisanal bugs.
scoom··on I don't want to learn your query language
Great, so force SQL to 'join' things that aren't tables and 'select' things that aren't rows.

SQL wasn't built for querying every possible data store.

scoom··on Bye bye BetterSlack
A binding agreement? Why would he sign one of those?
scoom··on Bye bye BetterSlack
Using slack was your first mistake.
scoom··on What Cyber-War Will Look Like
Who needs any of that? Just remove people from the voter registration of candidates that disapprove of you in their country.

Oh that already happened?

scoom··on Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
The opt-out, is to navigate away and not use their service. Which matches the GDPR - if you need the data to create a contract - like 'we use your data in exchange for your use of our site' then you can keep it.

> there’s not a lawful basis unless advertising-cookies are suddenly the enabling technology behind downloadable containers.

Yes they are. Advertising cookies are how those downloadable containers are provided. That's an enabling technology. It wouldn't exist otherwise in the technology ghetto of the EU.

scoom··on Why Can’t Europe Do Tech?
GDPR used "privacy" to get passed, but it sure doesn't protect it.
scoom··on Why Can’t Europe Do Tech?
They picked GDPR instead.
scoom··on 'Acoustic attack' report on US diplomats in Cuba is flawed, neurologists say
History proved Bozo correct.
scoom··on Tesla stock sinks after Musk gives tearful NYT interview
Not at all. This is what you get if you demand a leader have terrible work/life balance.
scoom··on Ask HN: Had anyone already had to deal with the GDPR fines / abuse?
Silencing it.
scoom··on Ask HN: Had anyone already had to deal with the GDPR fines / abuse?
Users always can decide what cookies can be stored on their computers - Europe is braindead on this issue.
scoom··on Julian Assange's Chances of Extradition
Russians poison him as an asset at the end of its life.
scoom··on Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
Video is not an improvement over text.
scoom··on A biologist who believes that trees speak a language we can learn to listen to
This guy seems to have copied his thesis from an M. Night Sham movie
scoom··on Will the European Union ruin the internet?
> GDPR was about telling the consumer what is being done with their data and about transparency, so at least it was for the people.

If you say so. Seems to be more about threatening small players with risks well beyond anything reasonable.

Their intention doesn't mesh well with the law as created. I'd say the biggest outcome is the number of services the EU has lost from the GDPR.