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The US has a ton of leverage, mainly over China. NK can destroy Seoul with conventional bombardment (they have something like 7,000 artillery pieces that will take longer to find and destroy than they will to go through most of their shells). They don't have enough nukes to get past American missile defense. If we don't emplace missile defense around Tokyo, then I suppose they could nuke Tokyo, and that would suck, but then what? then KJU dies. And the thing KJU most wants: to live and rule, but mostly to live.
Would this be true from space also? Where there's no atmosphere and light pollution.
Precisely this. The Internet was born out of the dreams and efforts of many nerdy people who had no reason to do it other than it could be done, and nobody had done it before.

That reasoning drove the majority of computer technology progress during the 1980s and 1990s. It wasn't until AFTER the birth of the World Wide Web did mainstream businesses start to really look at monetizing this new market, and in a symbiotic way hackers and nerds and geeks started crowing about altruistic philosophies like decentralization and how information "wants" to be free.
I tried to use Firefox on Android recently. It felt like my phone was about to melt; I wasn't able to stick with it.
What bothers me about GDPR is that you can’t make consent a precondition for service. Maybe user data is my business model. Or maybe I’m a US company and I don’t want to have to deal with issues of Europeans accessing my site. Why should the GDPR be my problem if I’m not in the EU. Don’t like it, don’t use it. There’s too much over reach here.
Or every independent software developer who isn’t doing anything nefarious with your data but doesn’t have the resources to implement a bunch of new, EU mandated features.
The pci DSS is well speced and reasonable.
From what I've seen, it's partially like in the US - each EU member has its own data protection authority which imposes those fines, but they are closer linked than the US states' laws. I can definitely see some EU countries slacking off on enforcing, or being less/more harsh than the others.
What is a good primer and checklist on this law?
> but I've not met anyone who confuses the Internet with ARPAnet.

Now you have! :) Unless you don't count online interaction.
So if you're a startup owner who happens to not be well connected, or have a bad lawyer, you get hit with the full $20M fine, while a huge corporation that is politically well connected gets fined proportionally much less?

There's no good way to frame this for a small business. Are you seriously suggesting that the mere benevolent feelings of a judge or board and how their mood is that day is the only thing standing between a startup and bankruptcy? If you're saying a small business should never be fined that much, why isn't that the letter of the law? Why does the court even have the option to completely destroy a startup like that?

> So where does this ludicrous assumption that everyone is always going to be hit with the maximum fine from here on in come from?

Where are you getting this ludicrous assumption that the law won't apply the maximum fine? If you don't think they should be able to, why isn't the law simply sensible, and should apply a lesser fine?
I couldn't tell you the cost of tide pods, or ricearoni.

Can I please have 1% of Bill Gates' net worth now? I'll happily pay marginal rate tax on this.
Isn't "webhosts that cheerfully ignore DMCA complaints" a large, well-established industry?
By detaching the passenger module you can effectively give passengers a longer flight.
I use Ting on both T-Mobile and Sprint. I assume this will just improve the underlying network.
Actually, I realized we don't even give local admin. I forgot. Unfortunately, no editing.
This feels like a GTAV radio ad.
I know it's a parody, but it's not a horrible business idea, and some agencies do similar with their clients. Many models etc you may follow in Instagram really have an agency that schedules posts that aren't even from that day to keep social engagement up, they have post scheduler and mix in day to day content. The pictures of people with their feet hanging out of a helicopter or tent, etc, are largely compositions. It's a big business. CNBC, I believe, did a special on this. It was fairly mind blowing.
Except the gdpr goes well beyond common decency.
Seems to me more common on Twitter, moreso as a way of shortcuts to figuring out who (most followers) and what (most retweets/favorites) to pay attention to.

It sort of makes sense there, but it still would seem lame to me for the average person to publicly admit to caring about FB, Instagram, and Hacker News likes and engagement (obviously everyone does at least a little privately). I'm not hip though. Is this still the case or not?
You will like it until the day those "Arrogant Americans" have effectively banned you from most of the internet, with the exception of the largest sites, and those based in Europe.

If you want the GDPR to have jurisdiction over American companies, American companies will simply refuse to do business with you.
So the GDPR actually CANT protect people, and it is murdering businesses and thereby taking food and shelter away from people.

That is literally a disaster. I wonder if this kind of thing is why the EU is crumbling.
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It is misleading to say that "China is getting more free speech," as this phrase conjures notions in the west of unregulated political speech: by anyone, to anyone, for any purpose. In fact, the policy line that has been set forth in China is quite clear, and it does not lead in such a direction.
How do people feel about 'dead mans switch' and AWS gear fitted in Locomotives since the 1920s?

Because from where I'm sitting, the only real difference here is the physical engagement on the part of the employee in confirming alterness.

The Japanes 'signal intent' methodology appears relevant here too.

Consent to be brainwaved? Sure, thats a thing. But if we put this into the realm of consented use, Is this really worse than mechanical checks? If so, why?
EU can sue American companies without getting US government approval/ involvement as long as they have operations here.

>Or do you think they'll be successful in pushing enforcement out through the target's customers and vendors, similar to US extraterritorial application of its financial laws on banks?

At least somewhat of a deterrence. As if American KYC & AML laws are completely ineffective.

>My personal guess is that everyone with shady business models will move offshore, and the EU will play a marginal game of whack-a-mole trying to coerce them through their vendors and customers, especially payment processors, similar to American enforcement of online gambling laws. I expect the GDPR to be effective on large companies that want to portray themselves as respectable, and ineffective on everyone else.

Implying the big companies aren't the ones with the 'shady business models'? My view is that this is specifically made for the big companies.
I was actually disappointed it's not real. If services like this were widely used, eventually it would devalue the likes and social personas and everyone would just start ignoring it.
I think the invention of Python 3 was an unhappy thing. It seems true that "there are still a lot of companies on 2.7" and it would be natural that they think "the last decade of Python work isn't really useful".

The basic incompatibility between Python 2 and 3 comes from Unicode strings. The design of Python 3 might be adequate ten years ago when there are many character encodings in the world. However, they began to converge to UTF-8, you know. It would be rational now to use byte strings transparently overall just like in Golang. What people wanted would be a modernized Python that is compatible with Python 2 and it would have been feasible.
> I prefer concatenative programming languages

I can see that point. Concatenative languages are languages people also (like APL/k/j) cry about when they see code in it; they are usually terse as well (words are usually kept short) which is indeed why I like it. When I encounter a new board, I first port a Forth.
They can arrest the CEO if they step foot on EU soil.
I'm not a citizen of Pakistan.

I don't live in Pakistan.

My servers aren't in Pakistan.

Pakistan can't force me to comply with their laws just because a Pakistani national uses my site.

Same thing with EU laws.
Is it scaremongering to assume the maximum fine? Of course - years of legal precedent for current DPA clearly demonstrates this. If the track record showed hundreds of small business people rendered destitute thanks to half million fines it wouldn't be, but it doesn't. It's a maximum not a fixed penalty as one would typically get for a parking offence. If they're not fining anyone £500k why are they going to suddenly fine everyone £17m?

Even TalkTalk were only fined £400k for the most ridiculous incompetence leading to 4 breaches in 18 months and failing SQL injection 101. They make profit in the tens of millions yet still didn't hit the maximum (They should have in my opinion). I think at the time that was the largest penalty yet issued.

Same goes for other data protection bodies across the EU - there will be few instances of maximum penalty under current data protection. I'm sure some countries have never imposed the current maximum.

nb It's not a ridiculous law - I'm fully in favour of it, as are many others over here.
Not enough. You also need a screenshoot of the form they completed and you need to keep it on file.

There is so much info I read on this today I closed the article but it said that their ticked-box consent and IP is not sufficient.
GDPR is an easy one because it's fairly ambiguous and doesn't yet have precedent
You build them on your machine, or on the hub (straight from github), and then you don't need root to run them.
> You've simply recited the fallacy. You've framed the very debate in terminology that assumes you are correct.

I'm not sure what this means.

My claim is that educational programs designed for the top 1% of students are not well-suited to educating the next 10%. And vice-versa. (E.g.: A Chicago math student is often not well-served by the sort of "calculus for engineers" courses you'll find at state college branch campuses. Also, a college senior struggling through their Calculus requirement is not at all well-served by Chicago's honors mathematics program. Neither approach is better in an absolute sense; but in each case, one is clearly better relative to the particular student.)

This is not some sort of tautology. It's a serious pedagogical hypothesis with decades of empirical research probing its truth value.

> They are showing up to civil war reenactments with tanks and planes.

I can't speak to Purdue specifically. In the cases I know about, the very explicit purpose of these alternative degree programs is to build a department by admitting students that the name-brand program rejects, or who fail out of the weeder courses. The "old timers" aren't in a huff about it, because they had no interest in admititng those students to their existing programs in the first place.
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That's part of the fun. It is so ambiguous and vague that nobody is clear on the specifics.
I'm not sure I understand how this is relevant.
You're talking out of your ass. There's way more than right to delete.
That one can expand macros does not make them non-existing. The programmer writes the macro forms, not their expansions.

If you actually look into the R5RS document, you can see that chapters 7.1.3-7.1.6 define the syntax for that particular toy version of Scheme.

Lisp usually has three syntax types: function applications, built-in operators and macro operators.

That you can implement some constructs by expanding them to LAMBDA expressions says nothing about the syntax of Scheme or Lisp. Lisp users don't develop in pure lambda calculus. Each built-in operator and each macro operator are adding syntax.

One can reduce arithmetic to lambda expressions - this does not mean that Scheme has no arithmetic operators. R5RS documents arithmetic and not their lambda variant. Same as R5RS defines the syntax for DEFINE, COND, IF, CASE, SYNTAX-RULES, ... That's what the progammer sees, not LAMBDA.

Take any real world Scheme, like Chicken Scheme -> lots of macros have added syntax. That's what the programmer uses, not lambda calculus.
I found big difference in the way my sleep goes, if I leave the phone outside my bedroom, ie. in the kitchen.

If my phone is even on silence mode but on the night stand, I wake up and want to check on it immediately.
The counter/antidote also seems like it could be a good business idea. Seems like there'd be value in helping people navigate social media in a healthier, less depressing ways.
errrr, some phone numbers can take you to call centers and you can end up talking to random different people every time
Are you going to purge all your logs of IP addresses, since those are considered personal information too? Also if your website is ad supported in any way, are you sure they are in compliance, or will you get nailed because your ad provider wasn't completely compliant?

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/gdpr-web-server-logs

"All of these logs contains personal information by default under the new regulation. IP addresses are specifically defined as personal data per Article 4, Point 1; and Recital 49. The logs can also contain usernames if your web service use them as part of their URL structure, and even the referral information that is logged by default can contain personal information (e.g. unintended collection of sensitive data; like being referred from a sensitive-subject website).

If you don’t have a legitimate need to store these logs you should disable logging in your web server. You’re not even allowed to store this type of information without having obtained direct consent for the purposes you intend to store the information"

Are you going to either 1) completely disable logging on your webserver or 2) ask for consent just to use a default Apache/Nginx logging configuration? The law makes no technical sense.
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I have a Nexus 6 updated with the latest OS version and FF. I spend about 90% of my browsing time on HN, LinkedIn, and a couple of miscellaneous other news sites. I observe the following problems:

Loss of UI, where the only thing I see is either a white or black screen. Swiping up or down as if to scroll or refresh "peels back" some of this to reveal the web page underneath, but it doesn't become functional unless I end the app. This affects all tabs open.

Terrible latency acting on navigation, where I'll press a link which has clearly been detected (an outline appears around it) and...nothing happens for seconds. Doesn't matter if I have one tab or a dozen open.

Terrible detection of which link was pressed. Sometimes it's bad enough that a link more than halfway down the page from where I touch is activated. This doesn't happen in any other app I have, even when it's happening on FF.

Poor download times. The bar indicating progress will occasionally stop at about 80% and pause. Sometimes when it pauses it finishes after a few seconds and other times it simply freezes.
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Try a sunrise simulator alarm. It will gradually turn on the light 20-40 minutes before the wakeup time, relying on your body to pick it up and wake up more naturally.
People already take it.

People already get sick.

Tax payers already pickup their healthcare bills.
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Companies absolutely should have free speech rights. A company is a group of PEOPLE who have joined together to sell or promote a product, service, or policy.

Should a union be denied freedom of speech? Because a union is a corporation as well. What about the Sierra Club? Should they be silenced? They too are a corporation. Should a teachers union be allowed to speak, but Khan Academy denied the same right? Should organizations advocating free WiFi be allowed speech, but Comcast be denied the same right?

The “companies are not people” tripe being parroted since Citizens United is a naïve and dangerous road down which people are attempting to travel. At the core of the issue is the right of free association. Free association is fundamental to free speech and a free society. Profit motive is irrelevant because profit is just as valid of a goal as “better schools” or “better public policy” or whatever the cause might be.
Based on the other sleep link posted here [1], this article itself warning people about sleep might be the thing harming people's sleep and health.

It's fine to tell people who are doing other things instead of sleeping that sleep is important. But many people don't sleep that well/long and I think this message about getting 8 hours of sleep is very harmful to them, since it causes anxiety and insomnia. It seems many people and cultures naturally sleep around 6.5 hours not 8 hours, so people should not worry if that's how long they sleep.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/20/cant-sl...
As far as I know, there is just 1 swiss psychiatrist in the WHOLE WORLD, who is allowed to LEGALLY PRESCRIBE LSD

> VICE: You're the only person in the world with this permission to administer LSD for therapeutic treatment, right?

> Peter Gasser: Yes, correct. Interestingly, my friend Dr. Peter Oehen lives nearby and he does the same thing with MDMA. He got permission for MDMA treatment with compassionate use. And Dr. Torsten Passie [a psychiatrist in Germany] is trying to get permission to use Bromo-LSD for treating cluster headache, but he has not been able to get permission from the German authorities.

See "Meet the Only Doctor in the World Legally Allowed to Use LSD to Treat Patients" :====>
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppxx97/meet-the-only-doct...

Now, prove your allegations of FUD.
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Sure, no big deal.

Adjacent HN article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954079 . `Health dangers of sleep deprivation:
"If you're not sleeping enough, "you will be both dead sooner, and the quality of your (now shorter) life will be significantly worse"`.
I don't know how close he was to being jailed, but Washington Post (MSM) wrote "Now it will probably land Meechan in prison." [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-intersect/wp...
... and one guy with no sense of humor.
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Graphs of load generated by humans doing their thing typically look like that.
Massacaring and redistributing the assets of another civilization is one way to make your own people wealthy, but depending on how you categorize Native Americans, I’m not sure that the Homestead Act actually increased the number of “middle class” people in North America.
A related thread that you might find useful w.r.t to anti-small business biases in GDPR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16909945
Burning Man is volunteer driven event. Virtually everyone managing anything there signed up to do that free of charge. The entire idea is about army of free workers coming out to essentially self-manage.

There are only few things organizers are actually involved in: getting permits from BLM, arranging porta potties, artists grants, website, center stage, coffee serving and volunteer signups.
Yeah, we already know our job is harder than yours, you don't need to rub it in.
I don't imagine a European country arresting an American for something that was done in America that is legal to do in America would go over real well with the US government.
Are people dying from data being collected for website analytics?

It’s a false dichotomy to compare the risk of DEATH from bad food safety to the annoyance of getting a targeted ad whilst enjoying an online newspaper article for which you didn’t have to pay.

Elevating data obtained while surfing the internet to the level of food safety or building codes is ridiculous.
Government is not on your side. Remember that, for all countries, for all times, for all peoples. Government protects itself first, at your expense, by helping those who can help it accomplish that said goal. If you can't help it to that end, you're nothing, literally. It truly couldn't care less about you, your liberties, or even your very life. Government can and does completely destroy people's lives, regularly, for having committed no moral offense of any kind, having caused no harm whatsoever to anyone anywhere in any way, but instead for having violated nothing more than a statute granting random behavioral power over you to some overfunded, distant, and uninterested regulatory agency.

This explanation might aid those who're confused about why a community strengthening, environmentally positive, socially worthwhile website like Streetlend would shut down in response to this huge collection of laws that was sold to us as actually helping us.
Any UK examples? I haven't heard of it though it's not really my field. If you are worried you can always set up a ltd company which is quite cheap and quick in the UK (like £40, same day - company bank account longer).
Nope, law enforcement groups get a special carve-out. They can collect whatever.
This is exactly the Zen moment that fixed my lifelong insomnia: lying in bed relaxed with my eyes closed, even if I'm not asleep, leaves me feeling worlds better in the morning than fretting about not being able to sleep. It's something that happened when I forgot about it completely. Once I realized I could literally just lie in bed for 8 hours and be OK, I was able to let go.

It's like a trap that closes tighter about you the more you struggle, and releases if you allow yourself to relax

Once I really got that, sleep became regular and uninterrupted
In the US, I've always found it humorous that there is no legal penalty for lawmakers continually and knowingly violating the constitution. The worst that happens is they get their bill struck down in court, then their state's legislature can vote in the next law.
You are correct. Accidentally went there once when I was supposed to go to whitehouse.gov. Needless to say, there were images of many interns...
So you did the research and found out that England probably won't endorse a law to the fullest extent. My point is that a simple tech guy building a company won't know that statistic and how it relates to their specific case.
Sorry for asking this,What is "their data". Ipadresses, page visit history ?
So if France Gall[0] created the website she would have been stripped too? France is a relatively common name[1] in France.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Gall

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_(name)
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I think a Fed judge can order--US based--Verisign to transfer the name back. At least they were able to...
The GDPR gives authorities various ways to deal with corporations that are breaking the regulations.

When a corporation is compliant and only has minor infractions, they will (most likely) write a sternly worded letter.

But if you're constantly and repeatedly or willfully ignoring or breaking the regulation they definitely won't leave it at a simply tap on the fingers.

Plus, I don't think any regulatory body is looking for bankrupting a corporation. They will obviously size the fine according to how much the corporation has in turnover or profit.
Did animal cruelty laws not exist in the 70s?