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The issue is that after Google and Facebook has abused users' data for so long and made so many tens of billions of dollars from that abuse, they're now allowed to keep that money, so they have a huge head-start on anyone else who can't abuse users' data anymore.

The law is needed, otherwise everyone would continue to abuse users' data more and more. So that's clearly not the solution. The ideal solution is fining both Google and Facebook for all the money they've made from that abuse from at least the past 5 years, to level the playing field.

People say that capitalism is the "worst economic system, except for all the others", and that's true. But one of the main issues with capitalism and why it gets to be so broken in the end, is that when companies abuse their powers, the punishment almost never fits the crime. If it did, I think capitalism would be a much more optimal economic system. I think this is by far the biggest issue.

As an example, Intel made tens of billions from anti-competitive moves against AMD, and it was only fined $1.4 billion, a fine that's still under dispute even a decade later (Intel has yet to pay it).

Samsung, and other memory makers have been caught at least once in the past, and now again, doing price fixing. But the fine was and likely will be again much smaller than the profits they made.

Then we have the big banks, which also made a ton of money from screwing people over, and again they were fined at "record levels" but still much less than they made in profits.

This is how the incumbents keep getting ahead of the others, even when stronger regulations pass - they never have to truly pay for the crime they did in the past, and they get to keep 95% of their profits from that crime. That isn't how things should work - the governments should take all of the profits they made from the crime and the fine should be added on top of that. If a company grows 10x in size in a decade from abusing some law and consumers, then the governments should absolutely take back 90% of its size when it's punished later. That's the deterrent.

Now in regards to privacy, the laws weren't that strong before, and I don't really believe in punishing people or companies for laws that didn't exist, which is why governments need to be much more vigilant from the birth of new industries, and not wait until they are mature and most damage has already been done.

Maybe my solutions are a little too extreme, but I do believe more needs to be done compared to what governments are doing now. We can't just let companies get away with almost all the profits they made from abusing consumers.

Also, there need to be stronger anti-merger laws. That's for sure. We almost never need to let companies merge, and if they do merge, that almost always ends-up not being in the consumers' favor. If some companies can't compete on their own anymore, then so be it - let them go bankrupt. The rest will either become stronger, or new entrants will appear. I think that's still preferable over allowing them to "survive" under a bigger company. Let the creative destruction flourish in the market, as it's supposed to.
Well, he wrote more than six lines.
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WTF, This is really insane. You gotta kidding me
Yea, atmospheric drag does most of the work to slow the boostet rocket. Which makes it all the more counterintuitive to my brain that the economics and engineering doesn't make sense for deploying some kind of chutes to shave off velocity.

Every kg in fuel you need to burn to land, you need to lift off the pad. From what I found through some Googling, a F9 booster uses a little under 1,000kgs to do the hover burn. I would imagine some lightweight aero surfaces would be more weight-efficient at decelerating the rocket than the 999th, 997th, 996th, (nth) kg of fuel.
I'm on a Note 3 (great phone, 5 years old) with a Snapdragon 800 vs your Snapdragon 805. Seems we both have 3GB RAM.

I do notice that links in FF are harder to hit accurately compared to Chromium - am guessing Chromium increases the hit area on buttons or uses some intelligence to look for the button closest to a touch... because it seems like it's just being forgiving on my sloppy touches (as opposed to FF being inaccurate). Admittedly a better UX in that respect regardless.

Otherwise I don't have any of these issues, FF is completely smooth for me. I wonder if you have some other software causing a problem, maybe FF add-ons?

(EDIT: I'm also on LineageOS 14.1 which is based on Nougat so maybe the sibling comment about Oreo is onto something)
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That’s why I would think that no matter what you do you’re probably still technically exposed so not to worry.
My work firewall blocks your site because it's under "Games" category.
I don't know if I am alone in this but I find that listening to audio books puts me right to sleep within a few minutes. There is something soothing about listening to a steady spoken voice on a moderately interesting subject, typically some scientific field other than my own.
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> [...]Can someone make a good argument as to
> why the fines should be paid to a third
> party (the state) when this issue is between
> the service provider and the customers?[...]

The same reason you pay speeding tickets to the
state instead of personally to each person living
on the street you sped on, or who could otherwise
have been directly affected by that specific
occurrence of speeding. Or the same reason health
inspection fines for restaurants in the US are
paid to the city or state, not everyone who's ever
visited the restaurant.

There's no concept in the GDPR that the violation only exists between the site and the users whose privacy it violated, where are you getting that idea from?
Firstly - I yet have to get solid definition of "personal data". Is it my name or is it "1.8m tall guy in green T-shirt who is head of team X"?
Definition is so blurred (or so board) you can virtually classify any data as personal.
Is visitor's IP address a "data"?

If yes, you can't have a web server log.
I used Zapier in about 2 months and had the same conclusion. It is still easier and to write a few lines of code (Node.js in my case) to expose a REST API, extract some fields and make a POST request to another service with an authorization header.
The benefits of using Zapier as an intermediary service makes no sense for me.
>If you provide services to users in the EU

All websites provide services to users in all countries unless they take positive steps not to. Framing this as a conditional, or a counterpoint to parent's claim about enforcement outside EU borders, is bizarre.
People are granted free speech because they are considered valuable, unique, irreplaceable, self-conscious entities.

A corporation is a piece of paper registered for $100 that can be destroyed without penalty. It is a tool for achieving an objective, just like a computer. Many people join together to make Wikipedia, but we don't grant that website free speech...
You can most certainly do that...Unless you've been incompetant with your data organisation and scattered PII where it really has no business being. In which case, how about sorting out your poor data practices before worrying about how you can optimise your shipping costs?
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Sorry, which are the Big Five? Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon... Apple?
You should open source the software / code. Maybe someone not in the EU could use it to start small side project..
Yeah, and since this one was removed by the author, it was probably the case too.
And all of those are allowed (usually) due to normal "business-as-usual use" (fraud/spam prevention).

And as said, a personal blog is except by definition...

(edit: they are allowed, not excempt due to normal-use)
A CEO who got his start from selling books, probably has more than average attention to literature and writing. Such people should typically be able to write. I'm not surprised at all by this.

Further, such people also have more attention to philosophy. And have more grandiose visions of the world.

But I find it surprising he was able to succeed so well, compared to your typical bookseller.
You're right. On that note, it's best to never leave your house. It's just not worth the risk. How can you be sure that debris won't fall out of the sky? Do you have a crystal ball?
That's probably gonna be the approach for most people, but when it does get some traction, would be great to have a checklist to start from.
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> It is what it is.

Sounds pretty Zen to me. :)
I agree. It seems like people are mostly just looking for a reason to whine about the EU.

There are lots of good reasons to whine about EU. I think the GDPR is not one of them.
If the blog has ads on it, is it still defined as "purely personal"?

If the answer is "I'm not sure", why take the risk?
>The vast majority of regulations

Your mistake is assuming that the idea being sold internally under the heading "compliance" is required by, or even tangentially related to, an actual regulation.
The end of the sentence was "not a recent development to require compliance with law even for products or services that are free".

Free doesn't mean you are exempt from complying with law, that is all I'm saying. I did not comment on how this one applies to EU citizens even for foreign services.

In this regard though, it is similar to US law requiring foreign banks to go through special steps when they are dealing with US citizens so that's not anything new either. Money being involved or not in my opinion is not really significant (I actually think that private data is more important and needs more protection than money) but that was not the point of my comment.
>With comments, it's easy. Somebody wants you to post the comment, which is why they submitted it. No extra consent needed...

No, that's the point - consent is required for that. And for the consent to be explicit, some are advising it needs to be a Modal blocking dialog that prevents the user from using any other part of the website before dealing with it, and that demonstrates the user did actually scroll through all the privacy terms, not just ignored them and clicked the checkbox.

> This is a dumb argument, it's his personal blog, it's controlled by him. That including how much JS and social media trackers to stuff into each page.

That's fair. I know I've personally been deleting Google Fonts and Adobe Typekit and hosting my own webfonts instead as a result of this. I'm still figuring out how to best replace Google Analytics, and looking to remove any Twitter & YouTube embeds I had in old posts that could possibly track visitors. (I agree that is all a good outcome of GDPR.)
I thinking of the David Miranda case, for example. If you talk to the Intercept at all in any way prior to going through customs I think you can expect to be delayed while they take a closer look at you. Its not really paranoia if they probably are out to get you ;)
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It does try to convey something in words in the next chapters, no?
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We go by the definition of "if it can be used to build a profile, it's PII". So your example is PII. If you want to store that information, anonymize it and you might actually don't have to do much to comply with GDPR.
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I'm sure you've already investigated this route, but I thought it worth pointing out that this sounds like sleep apnea.
Tough luck. Really, it's no excuse not to handle PII properly.
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OK, some fair comments there.

For me the article's negative was that it focused on one edge case reason to not use IDs, when there are others.

While everyone makes mistakes I'd hope that using an array's size instead of its value is nigh on impossible to end up committed, let alone deployed to production.

As everyone makes mistakes for me the main reason for not using numeric user ids is because you're much more likely to accidentally expose an API or query string param that can be used to look up other user ids. When that happens being able to enumerate ids makes for a massive data breach, whereas a GUID stops that.

(There may be some reason why you'd be forced to use numeric IDs in a data store for performance at scale reasons but I imagine that's relatively rare.)
Well, as a german, where this happens often enough: If a law gets truck down by the Federal Constitutional Court ("Bundesverfassungsgericht") as being in violation of the constitution, this universally can be seen as a bad job performance for the lawmakers.
They know the law was in violation of the constitution, still they agreed upon it. It's their fucking job to make sure laws are not in violation of the constitution.
This clearly justifies a strike.
Agomelatine is being studied as a sleep regulator since it acts on melatonin receptors, but it's primarily used as an antidepressant. Interestingly, I see that there's no tapering needed when discontinuing this, so it may not hurt to ask my doctor if it's worth trying.
I've tried modafinil once for an exam. It helped with concentration, but not focus, if that makes any sense; i.e. I procrastinated as much, but was super effective about it. I've tried mild amphetamines (Ritalin) as a freelancer, and I ended up practicing my handstand half of the time. There really is no drug that replaces emptying your mind of worries (seeing a shrink for the big things, and putting aside the small things), knowing what you want to do, and doing it.
Such a shame the subtitle of the article is all about quantity.
Quality of life far outweighs quantity, but this subtitle probably serves better as clikckbait.
Oh man.. you need to talk to those who have worked with the stuff..

The amount in household products is essentially zero and one drop of the pure stuff and you are gone..

this stuff is
nightmare material, i know, i have worked with and around it.

70% pure accident..

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"If I made a small site that saves some user data"

Then you already had a ton of legal obligations, you were just not aware of them, since only now everyone is talking about the GDPR.

"FB fucked it up for everyone"

A lot of the things people are complaining about right now were already illegal, before the GDPR. People were just not caring about it.
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He mentioned nothing about where he's from though.
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The real crime here that it wasn't funny at all. But imposing fines for telling bad jokes and spending tens of thousands of GBP of tax payers money is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
Facebook runs a low-support model. At the same time, they offer a lot of perks to their developers. I haven't been to their HQ but from my experience with other companies I would guess that a significant part of the people working there (20-30%+) are working in maintenance, security, hospitality, cleaning, restaurants, etc.

Keeping large offices running smoothly and in nice conditions takes an enormous amount of manual work, a lot of which other employees never see (much of cleaning/maintenance is done over weekends and at night).
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You are not going to get rid of bullying at school. You may be able to make it more subtle, but not eliminate it entirely. It’s the basic pissing contest with which social dominance hierarchy is established. Those on top get the best looking girls (who come to them voluntarily), and more dopamine in their bloodstream. This mechanism is rooted in evolution and goes all the way back to crustaceans. You are not going to be able to eliminate it, period.

So I think as a palliative measure, legalizing sex work is long overdue. Some sex is better than none at all.
Was he running the blog as a business? If not it's a personal thing, and GDPR doesn't apply.
OK. I'll bite. Starting from your list of "straightforward compliance" here are a few things which a small business owner cannot figure our without an expensive lawyer.

1) Define "unless you have to". Am I allowed to keep business correspondence with a bad customer? With a prospective sale? With an old customer who may come back some day?

2) Define "data". Is the IP address any user sends to my site in order to simply access it "personal"? Does that mean I can't have logs? How about backups of those logs? Do I need to change the tools I am using that already generate logs? How straightforward is that?

3) Can I have analytics of my visitor base in order to optimize their experience? To understand churn and conversion rate?

5) Can I have statistics in my apps in order to understand and optimize their usage for the users?

6) Keeping data secure and allowing users to see and delete it will simply require other tools. That is not gonna be cheap or straightforward in any way.

Now I am not saying this is impossible. I am just saying that it's expensive and difficult, especially for a small business. NOT straightforward.
HTML is a markup language, not really a programming language. So I'm going to say no but I'm sure there are those smarter than me who can be more definitive.
VAT is actually pretty easy to deal with as a non-European business. The combined work to handle VAT for all of the EU is less than the work to handle sales tax for a single US state.
I don't know and they don't disclose it. It's the vast majority of what they pay for physical security, building maintenance, cleaning, hospitality, etc. This happened across all industries. A few decades ago, janitors and cleaners worked for the company, now they're outsourced to keep them out of scope for unions and to be more "flexible" (i.e. hire and fire at will without negative press).

The NYT has a great article on that, not related to Facebook but it shows the general trend: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...
Actually make that not really* a straight up NOT
Personal data is any data that can be used to identify the user, so yes "1.8m tall guy in green T-shirt who is head of team X" is absolutely personal data[0] (see specifically "an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;").

In general, and especially if you want to play it safe, any information the user gives you about themselves (this includes things they don't explicitly give you such as IP address) is considered personal data.

[0]https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
There are already examples companies which have folded overnight after losing creds and having everything deleted.

Removing root is not a trust issue - it’s a security surface area issue. You increase the number of audit points and attack options by at least an order of magnitude (1 admin : 10 devs).

In a small shop this might be acceptable, however in a large org it’s plain old insane.

If you believe that devs require root then that’s an indicator that your build/test/deploy/monitor pipeline is not operating correctly.
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I was always against the idea of memory foam pillows. I thought they'd be too hot, they would feel "odd", they'd swallow my face and suffocate me... To cut a long story short we stayed in an AirBnB a few months back that had them and they were an absolute revelation. My wife and I ordered some there and then and they were waiting for us when we got home.

You can pay a fortune for a name brand one but ours are just no-name pillows from Amazon. I think the pillows in the AirBnB were from IKEA, IIRC.
Then those websites should stop using Google Analytics, which DOES violate their users' privacy unless there is informed consent about what it's doing.
I work at a company that stores highly confidential PII. Statements from doctors and the like are just some of the documents our system handle.

We're not that concerned. The general consensus is be responsible with the data, make it possible to actually delete something, and show reasonable effort to implement the directives or have a reasonable plan on how and when to implement it reasonably. It's not a big deal as this is how it should have been done in the first place. Only not it's formalized into law.
It's not a bubble by any stretch of the imagination. Facebook pays a lot because they have to pay a lot to get quality people to want to work at Facebook.

Compare this against companies like SpaceX where the median compensation is quite awful for the industry made even worse by the area (compensation is well below $90k in most cases). This poor compensation is made even more peculiar at a glance by the incredibly high standard of employee they have. But they have these incredibly well qualified people lining up outside the door wanting to work for them.

Of course refuting my argument is companies like Netflix. I don't entirely understand why they pay so much. But at least just taking examples like Facebook and SpaceX, compensation is mostly just based on supply and demand - rather than massive ongoing bubble of inflating salaries.
Incels don't want to use prostitutes, because sex workers have the right to say no.

Also, incels are prepared to murder other people. Why do you think sex work laws are a deterrant?
Probably closest you can come to this in real world is Switzerland (maybe some nordic countries too). Very strong middle class (although there is no minimum wage codified in law), salaries disparities ie in IT vs normal people is much much smaller (meaning even a guy filling shelves in supermarket gets decent wage, if you get 3x his wage you are probably in top 1% earners). There is even a law enacted recently that highest earner in company (ie CEO) can't have salary more than 20x the lowest one (at least that's how I remember it).

It has far-reaching consequences where whole population has high standards of living which transpills into high overall happiness, low criminality, and there is no predatory mentality to screw other people over just for one's own benefit (that I can see massively in eastern europe where I come from, and many other developing countries all around the world).

Really, Suisse could be model in many things for rest of the world, if only their mentality would be more 'transferable'.
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> personal data is any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer’s IP address.

From the Wikipedia article about GDPR [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
If you want to explore the topic from first-hand perspective instead of reading these stupid articles spend a week in 4chan's /r9k/ board.
Yes, I used to also work optimally during the night. Then I started to actively go to the Gym at 7AM, this took about 6 months to fully get used to, but now I go to bed around 10/11PM and feel much more active during the day. Even in the weekends.

Depending where you are located, I can recommend some weed oil to kind of force yourself to sleep, take it one hour before you want to sleep and you will have a hard time staying awake.