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> The concern is the drip/drip effect of more and more regulation making those numbers even worse.

There are industries, like construction, that have a lot more regulations that this one. And small companies survive.

> What are the costs compared to the benefits?

Benefit: Citizens have the right to protect their privacy, to not be tracked without reason, to be notified when a data breach put their safety at risk, etc.

Cost: Companies need to have reasonable data governance that will increase short-term cost, but probably have a long-term positive impact on cost as bad data governance is just technical debt.
I am not sure about your skillset.

In my case, I am a backend developer. While javascript and general scaffolding is so easy to myself, creating a button and other ui elements with perfect shadow and border options resemble the dark arts. And there are so many edge cases.

For example basic dropdown is rendered differently in different browsers and are often ugly (atleast in the older versions of the browsers). One would expect something as basic as a dropdown to be fairly standardised :(

Bootstrap is rather handy in such situations as the ui is standardized across browsers.

What I tend to do is, use the bootstrap Sass version. So I can write my own layouts and pull in only the components that I need using the bootstrap Sass.

My apps are usually light on the front end and don't use too many javascript features from Bootstrap. So I hate having to load jquery, which is a basic requirement for Bootstrap. One thing that I do is, I use Native Javascript for Bootstrap[0].

[0] https://thednp.github.io/bootstrap.native/
They wanted an example of inheritance. Something like:

You need an office. You could create a new office from scratch, or you could also just put a desk in a room in your house and give it a unique address like "Suite 1". Now it's both a Room and a HomeOffice.

But if your HomeOffice exposes a method BuildWall(), which mutates the office into a collection of two Rooms, then it would stop fitting the definition of a Room after calling that method.

I don't know if there are different tax consequences for one-room vs. multi-room home offices, but that's one area where the distinction could at least conceivably be significant enough to affect whether you'd prefer to build a separate office or inherit the old room, or maybe just rent an existing office from a third party.
Based off of your comment history, I might be different than your kid. The teachers always thought I was funny, it was the other kids that thought I was annoying.

But I'm as prototypical of a case as it comes. I went straight from college dropout to an A-grade distinguished student with medication.

1) If medication doesn't work, don't berate me with conspiracy theories.

2) Several companies offer free medication programs for ADHD. Did you try that? Or are you just projecting your anti-medication decision onto others?

3) Or your kid doesn't have ADHD, see #1
Proposed, not yet effective: https://iapp.org/news/a/polands-proposed-gdpr-exemptions-spa...
You can pay someone to write blog posts. And $500 for 1000-2000 word posts is a fair price.
SAP had 22.1 billion in 2016, freenet 3.3 billion, United Internet 3.9 billion, Software AG 879 million. And that's just a few from DAX and TecDAX.

What Europe doesn't have is a Uber, running a few billions of loss per quarter.
Format 3. "Problem I had while running my business, and my solution." Engineering blog posts are very popular on HN or /r/programming. Marketing, growth or product development might do better shared on Twitter or LinkedIn.

People read it because the solution is interesting to them, but get exposed to your business as a consequence. CandyJapan's posts on dealing with credit card fraud were how I found out about their service, for instance: https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/how-i-got-credi...
An ISO audit takes how long and costs how much? Do you expect every company that handles email addresses (that's PII) to perform an ISO or SOC2 audit before accepting customers?
You get the fastest progress if you start the exercise with a weight that you can actually lift a few times in a row. Fortunately there is a way to decrease your effective weight when doing pull-ups - tie a resistance band on the pull-up bar and rest your knee against the bottom part of the loop. Start with a heavy resistance band and progress towards light and finally none.
Why the scare quotes around "fix"?

People have clearly described the severe life limiting impairment caused by ADHD, and these have fuck all to do with "submitting to authority".

People with ADHD are more likely to have a drug or alcohol addiction; less likely to complete education; less likely to have a job; more likely to die in accidents; more likely to die by suicide.

Taking medication is a small price to pay to fix that.
The 1 percent stealing every resource from the 99% and eating babies for breakfast. I still see this kind of comments often enough.
But that's true regardless of the hypothesis. An alternative is always possible.
> Under the terms of the GDPR, user benefit is not required. I can log any PII I'd like as long as the user's given consent for it to sit in that log, or for it to be used in some process that reads from that log.

Read my comment again, it does not say a user benefit is required. What it says is that you need a specific purpose for processing PII. A user can only give you consent for a specific purpose. What is the purpose that results in his PII ending up in an immutable log file? Asking for general consent without a specific purpose does not work with GDPR.

> That's the other part of the problem. A healthy regulatory system needs some way to say "well, you think I'm bending the rules, but I'm actually compliant in this complex way you hadn't considered". If a GDPR regulator just doesn't know much about software development, and thinks that any rollout-induced delay is undue, how do I argue against that?

If you feel you are being treated unfairly you will probably argue through your lawyer. As a technical person I would love it if the GDPR is black and white. It would allow me to know if I comply or not but real life is hardly black and white. So instead of being upset with things I can't change I will just do my best to comply.

PS: I don't understand the downvote.
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The data protection officer does not have to be a full-time role. It can be part of someone's other duties, or performed by a contractor (Art 37 ¶ (6): https://gdpr-info.eu/art-37-gdpr/).
Ive looked carefully through he comments here and nobody is making any false equivalency In the terms you describe, or denying what you say about the US overall.

I don’t see why an article or subsequent discussion about a horrible crime committed by US soldiers, subject to an attempted coverup by the US army and limply prosecuted afterwards needs to also say how nice the US is otherwise. It doesn’t matter how nice it is otherwise. It’s got nothing to do with the issue at hand, any more than if it had happened in any other country.
It doesn't have to be a blog, but agree that SEO is a huge benefit of done correctly.

Blogs that look stale or infrequently updated have a negative buying effect for me.

But create a couple SEO pages like a How To guide, FAQs, etc. and it's a short term investment with long term benefits.
It's not hard to understand. It's only hard to understand if you've built your business around slurping people's data and using it without consent - something that's already mostly illegal in the EU.

A lot of GDPR is not new. It's just clarification of existing law.
If you want to acquire users from google search its absolutely required that you have fresh and frequently updated content with links from other reputable sources to even be considered to be displayed on a search result.

If you don't care about acquiring users from search as you have other means then yes a blog may be a complete waste of time.

If your site already has some crawl-able content and your already receiving some traffic from google, rather than create a blog your time is probably better spent doing the following:

creating more content pages to help google understand your site

creating a sitemap

decreasing the load time of your site

spend money on google ads

get high quality back links
Also, sorry, I was taking terminology from the GP. The real term for this is cross-correlation—with autocorrelation being the application of the above operation onto a single function; i.e., taking ac(f(t), g(t)) as defined above, the autocorrelation of g is really defined to be ac(g(t), g(t)).
I suspect the amount of alcohol you need to drink to keep these pathways ‘excercised’ is probably a lot less than even moderate drinkers drink.
I think a better explanation is that taxes on revenue favour vertical integration.

Imagine a product that requires building widget A, then turning that into widget B, then turning that into widget C. If we have the following companies:

C: revenue $6m, purchase costs $4m, other costs $1m

B: revenue $4m, purchase costs $2m, other costs $1m

A: revenue $2m, purchase costs $0, other costs $1m

then taxes are paid on $12m.

If we instead have:

Alphabet: revenue $6m, purchase costs $0, other costs $3m

then taxes are paid on $6m, even though the same amount of stuff is being made with the same efficiency, same profits, etc.

Whether this is relevant for tech giants is another matter. Software tends to be quite vertically integrated (financially speaking, at least).
Everything you do with customers is legal in nature - what do you think governs your relationship if it's not legislation?

Your repeated scare mongering around GDPR is fucking tedious, especially since almost everything you've said about it is false.
Long ago I learned the language of accounting and everywhere I go I make friends with accountants. Firstly they are the "other nerds" in the organization - they do speak their own language and have their own "reality". Secondly the accountants always know what is really going on. Yea you might hear some financial info at a company all hands, but the real dirt is always buried in the books, and it isn't always pretty. The people in finance can keep you up on company heath from a perspective that few others have.

This having been said, you need friends in finance - because even with a glossary in hand, the reality of any companies books will differ from a generic high level understanding. Honestly, asking a lot of questions is going to be in your best interest because it is going to get you closer to the truth faster.

Think of it this way, your a programer by trade, but every business you have ever worked in is somehow different from the last, and you bring your knowledge (programing) to the companies domain and somehow manage to make it work. This is NOT any different.

However were talking about money, and NOTHING in these matters should ever be taken lightly - again having finance friends will work to your benefit here as well. Most finance and accounting folks that I know have always been happy to walk through code that deals with money - your rubber ducking them to some extent but your also vetting your understanding of their domain at the same time.

There is one critical thing missing in your question and that is the word "taxes" - it may or may not be relevant to what your trying to do but you should be asking (and several times at that).
I find most people can learn anything, it's just a matter of what order they learn it in. If you try to learn how to read before knowing your ABCs, you'll have a hard time. But a kid who has been watching ABC videos for 2 years will pick up reading almost "naturally".

In CS and engineering, I find that concepts are hard when you don't have the basic building blocks.

It's really important to know the building blocks intuitively, and not simply on the surface. It's not enough to know something enough to pass a test. You should know it well enough to not even worry about the test.

A good rule of thumb is when you can't absorb a concept, find the prerequisite concepts, and learn those well. So something like image processing, you should know your (Fast) Fourier Transforms, your memory management and pointers.

Once you know all the basic concepts intuitively, the more advanced things just seem to emerge naturally.
The cost of compliance will fall drastically. My company (Aptible) started in HIPAA and is doing a lot with GDPR. They are very similar in a lot of ways, including the emergence of new systems of record for privacy and security management data.
Clean = Money you don't have to hide for the tax office.
Has a counterxample to Betteridge's law of headlines been found?
Do you really think the US government bears no responsibility for the actions of the US government 50 years ago and the consequences today? Would you extend that to other governments too? In what circumstances would you not? What Cut off period do you think is right generally?

For example do you think the US has no responsibility towards Pacific Islanders whose islands are now lethally radioactive due to nuclear tests 50 years ago, and can reasonably wash its hands of any problems arising from that today?
In my very first comment, I indicated that ADHD was ruled out at age 5.

It isn't a conspiracy theory and I am not anti medication. I was being attacked by someone taking my remarks very personally and twisting them out of shape, which appears to also be what you are doing.

My point is that some kids benefit more from a nutritional approach than from medication. That doesn't mean medication does nothing. But it does mean that it is possible that some people would benefit more from other approaches and may not get the opportunity to learn that if the first thing done is medication.

It isn't saying drugs do nothing. It isn't saying you should never take drugs or you are bad or wrong for taking drugs. It is saying that if a nutritional deficiency is a factor, drugs won't fix that. Nutrition will. In fact, many drugs are known to deplete nutrients and thereby can make things worse over the long run.
Right. The general rewrite would be a loop with a switch and state functions that returned a state? (i was going to say state functions that called back to a step function, but I guess that'd still build a call stack).
First...the containment wasn't particularly successful, things were botched at every level. And still the radiation exposure was at worst minimal.

Also, I don't see how comparing "what did we expect/fear" with "what actually happened" is an out-of-bounds question. Quite the contrary, it should be the question to ask, particularly when it comes to formulating future policy. After all, that's how we got aviation accidents down to levels that aren't statistically significant.
I also don't understand the downvote.

I need a specific purpose for processing PII, but that doesn't mean that I need a specific purpose for each individual place that PII ends up going. If my web server or database end up incidentally capturing the data in transit, that's not a violation, any more than it's a violation if I copy the data onto more sheets of paper than are strictly necessary.
My experience from being involved in a couple of them (though obviously not quite on the scale of Microsoft) is that people underestimate both the difficulty of running bug bounties and the average quality of submissions to them.

When I worked at Mozilla on the MDN team, for example, there was a lot of inevitable spamming of "security" bugs which basically boiled down to "MDN is a publicly-editable wiki and hosts code samples" (MDN also goes to some trouble to do that safely). The current bug bounty exclusions are still pretty broad as far as I can tell, and thankfully will automatically throw out a bunch of the worst of the spam.

Same thing happens still with Django. I've considered writing up something with similar exclusions to Mozilla's policy just because it would save time dealing with meaningless reports (though Django would get a few categories the Mozilla policy doesn't, like "it's not a vulnerability if the only person you can CSRF is yourself").
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> However the potential decrease in loneliness and potential resulting friendships may negate the health negatives somewhat.

What if those relationships actually make you feel more alone?
> In the modern US political usage (and Wikipedia), neoliberalism refers to Reagan and Thatcher rather than Clinton.

In modern US political usage (I'm not really concerned about Wikipedia) it refers to all of those (and not just those individual figures, but to large swathes of both major parties in the US, particularly in 1980s and 1990s—and similarly often both ruling and major opposition parties in much of the West); there is a reason that there was much talk of a neoliberal consensus in that time period, and to a lesser extent since.
If you want to work you should work. In terms of benefits from a master's I'd say you get a bit of financial bonus and your resume gets passed over less often.

But if you're going to be working at startups, it's way more important to just know what you're doing (i.e. get jobs under your belt). My advice is: If you think the master's is helping you do that better than work, then keep at it, otherwise, start applying / interviewing and see where it takes you.
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Interestingly, they planned to lift the evacuation order like 5 years ago for a large part of the zone. But the local government asked to postpone it by 4 years so that there is time to rebuild the infrastructure, which was completely washed away by tsunami. Regardless of all the nuclear stuff, people would've been living in absolutely terrible conditions with no electricity, water, transport, convenience stores, schools, hospitals and so on. And now they have all of this, but people are still slow to return. There's a lot of interesting stuff being built in the area though (J-Village, etc), so maybe they will eventually.
No country or society exists without some aspects of authoritarianism, and there are far more than two types of authoritarianism, so this doesn't help me much.

How much more liberal does (say) Sweden need to become before it meets conservatism, and what would that look like?
Really depends on the topic and if you're able to write something that will be interesting for readers... or not
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Well yes, if you've built a business around illegally using personal data you may need to get a lawyer involved.

It would be better to get the lawyer involved when you start your business so you know you're complying with the law.

And almost everything in GDPR comes from existing laws (IN UK the data protection act and PECR), so if your breaking the law under GDPR you're probably breaking the laws that exist now too.
There are a lot of businesses that market and sell in the EU, or that recruit or hire contractors in the EU. GDPR affects not only your CRM, but your marketing and sales stack, your HR stack, and any other part of your business that might touch personal data.

With a good system of record, you can track and manage all of the rest of the information and issues raised in the letter.

That said, in a large company with a lot of legacy systems, it may be tough to extract the actual data itself (or even know if your system of record is complete).
If you want to acquire users from Google search you can always just run paid ads too. Much easier than writing evergreen content.
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You could have, you know, stopped and waited for the car to start moving. As cars do when blocked.

A post elsewhere hear said it already, but it’s my experience too: cyclist break laws constantly, due to apparent feeling of entitlement to keep moving fast, regardless of the traffic, lights etc. the thought of just stopping safely for a few seconds didn’t even cross your mind in the situation.
> I do think it's a shame that Python doesn't have general TCO. It's said to be unpythonic because it means there will be two ways to do things.

The usual complaint I hear is about stack traces, not “two ways to do things”, which Python rather often provides anyway.
> Cost of living alone eats an incredible amount of your budget unless you’re very well to do,

this has not been true for a long time by now. If it were true there would be no mass market for tourism and no budget for so many people to buy iphones every year or two. By far we all earn way more than what we strictly need to live, even in your first jobs in your twenties.
Bunch of software sweat shops I know offer ICO launch services including white paper writing, app/client development and a complete marketing and shill package
>This isn't 1960 where there is one medium that connects 75%+ of people.

Was it ever like that though? Even in 1960?
So perhaps the author shot a lot of anecdotes at you and a few stick, but another author could have done the same job with half as many pages. Again, I'm not against storytelling or anecdotes.
Ephemerality sounds like JIT but for apps. Seems the necessary stuff to run the app will be downloaded dynamically and cached locally to run later. Though, why cant be this done in the current setup? What are the limitations that fuschia overcomes in this regards?
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Rich people dOnt always buy premiUm products in every single category of products. This was somewhat of an insight I learned when working in the FMCG industry.
That's precisely correct.
I'm sorry but no, it's the exact same subject. It's country A prosecuting a website in country B because they did something that's illegal in country A but legal in country B. The US does the same for copyright laws. Or is it OK if it's team America thats acting as world police?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems hugely wasteful to require apps to be downloaded for every use.
> HIPPA prevents gossip. That’s about it.

I agree that HIPPA is technically very weak.

But let's also agree that preventing gossip about private health info is a good thing -- a definite step in the right direction.

Laws are about building and reinforcing the culture we want to build. In that light, HIPPA is a long way from a failure: it sets the standard that "health care privacy is to be taken seriously, and as a society we believe it is important enough to legislate", if nothing else.
Well, they really are hoarding as much money as possible, rewriting as many laws as they can to help themselves do it. And with rich people like Peter Thiel making comments about wanting to use blood from young people the eating babies part is getting closer.
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From what I have read, the thinkers of the American and French revolutions seemed to be influenced by Rome rather than Athens.
Kind of a corollary to the No Free Lunch theorem: No vice is entirely without upside. eg. Alcohol was a safe form of calorie storage before refrigeration.
Exactly. Because one time there will be such a surprise object in your way.
What if you were a peasant? Did your life get worse?
>> If so, then they really separate companies, not just different on paper. Their ownership of the different companies will eventually diverge from each other and the companies will need to compete with each other to satisfy their owners.

You don't get it... the tax man proved not to be that smart to send the bill to the parent company. You may want to google: "What is a shell company?"
Blog is always the best way to get leads whether you are a business owner or a developer/other professional, provided you love writing.

I use my blog to promote my skills and for last couple of years my site and blog helped me to earn some good contracts/gigs. Even my current job is due to my blog which someone read and contacted me.

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