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> where congestion is a substantial externality

It is, however if you tax people based on congestion they cause, shouldn't you refund them based on congestion they receive?
Just to be exact, I think the MEP you quoted is Guy Verhofstadt[1], who is of Belgian nationality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Verhofstadt
Not that I am advocating this approach, but regulations that are more about liability and transparency (towards journalists and shareholders) might help.

Liability means that mistakes are (hopefully) punished more proportionally to their effects, which allows one to scale measures as the business grows. Meanwhile, the transparency means that any potential issues are easier to spot, making it possible for suits to be brought. Note that transparency towards users has been shown to be rather ineffective, similar to how no-one reads the eula.
This sums up EU laws in a nutshell.
They're also in the logo of https://media.ccc.de - At CCC events, the podiums always have a maneki-neko, whose constant movement is used by the video technicians to verify that the feed has not frozen.
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Techcrunch isn't an European company though, and IIRC they have no obligation to serve European customers so a "wall" is probably allowed. Even if it was european, I don't think the GDPR makes websites obligated to be accessible for everyone.
Not Walter Bright, but I'm pretty sure it minimizes the chances for new bugs. You do a dumb conversion that tries to minimize the actual code changes, check that works ok, then start making larger changes.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/23/rub-a-dub-dub/

> 1. No New Features, not even small ones, would be added.

> 2. At any time, with any check in, the code would still work perfectly.

> 3. All I would do is logical transformations — the kinds of things that are almost mechanical and which you can convince yourself immediately will not change the behavior of the code.
I don't think GDPR is flawless, but at some point if we don't do anything, privacy violations are going to become so common place and so entrenched in the online economy that we can't fix it anymore.

At that point, the discussion would be all about all the "jobs we would destroy" and "businesses opportunities we would shut down!", and heavy lobbying would make sure it gets nowhere.
I have the expectation that this works if you do it remotely. I imagine your other colleagues would find it weird or unfair if you were the first to leave office every day. Especially since they won't know you're getting paid less, unless you make a public announcement.
Well, they also state how odd it was how the proceedings were conducted, what with Zuckerberg being able to pick which questions to answer.
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https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2018-05/mark-zuckerberg...

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2018/05/22/facebook-zu...

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kritik-an-Zuckerberg...

interesting cause i read it as 'zuckerberg didn't say much of any substance'
I think they're intentionally putting severe restrictions on business models that are built around paying for a consumer service by analyzing and sharing consumers' personal data instead of taking money. You're viewing this as a bug in the law; Europe views this as a feature.

There are certainly cases where one can make access to the service conditional on consent: for example, if the service is to analyze your resume/CV and give you feedback on improving it, or even job leads based on it, of course you'll need to consent to them collecting and processing the personal information on your resume. But you probably don't have to consent to them selling that data or using it to target you with ads going forward. They don't want that business model to be easily and broadly viable in Europe.
> Requiring consent as a pre-condition of a service is frowned upon under GDPR.

No, it's not. Requiring extraneous consent as a precondition of service, that is, requiring consent for some processing as a precondition of provision of a service that does not depend on that processing is an indication that consent is coerced rather than freely given, and hence not effective consent, under the GDPR. But what that means on concrete terms with complex interdependent services (and whether it is a de facto ban on such services, because instead extremely granular services and granular consent is required) remains to be clarified, probably through practical enforcement. If one views, for instance, what Facebook was offering pre-GDPR as a service, then “consent for what the service entails or no service” is not extraneous consent. If you view it as a cluster of distinct services, that becomes different. Whether the monetisation model of “free” services is essential or not is another question, and it's quite possible that GDPR will result in a lot fewer free-of-charge services available in the EU.
I think quora and co is more about having an account and not about any sort of data consent per say.
I believe you can still store non-personally identifying information, that is to say if you cannot store that User X is a male of 40 years of age and that user x read the article, you can still store that a male of 40 years of age read the article. Probably you don't know User X gender and age under those conditions though.

But assume you have to store some personal information about User X and you do know gender as part of it. Or have code to derive gender at data saving time (This part is tricky by my reading, you have to be able to sort of sandbox the ways that you can get personally identifying info out so that you can show regulatory agencies that you're not pulling it out to do stuff you shouldn't. If you're pulling it out to enrich data before saving, but that data is still not personally identifying the user I think it is probably ok (I'm on shaky ground on this part)

User X as a user of service with login has to allow you to keep their login information or service cannot function. User X says you cannot save my reading history, meaning it cannot be associated with them. But at the time of reading it you save reading activity (this example is of course contrived and silly) - userType: 'requestAnonymous', haslogin: true, age: deriveLikelyAge(User), gender: returnLikelyGender(User), articleId: current.articleId

and so on and so forth. You still have quite a lot of valuable analytics, and you do have some other analytics about the user that has to be saved anyway - which is they have opted out of data collection schemes 1, and 3, but not 2,4,5.
That's because the ethics of what Facebook (and by extension, all online companies) do is a relatively new question and business model. Morally questionable maybe, but it's taken e.g. the EU over ten years to finally start realizing what's going on - bit too late if you ask me. Moral grey area, and legally anything happening to actual Facebook users - who agreed to the terms & conditions - is fine.

The non-facebook users (and by extension, anyone being picked up by any analytics tooling or other 3rd party) is a different matter however.
The regulation, after all, did not have as a goal to break up monopolies, but to protect user data.
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> It's like the music business - you don't have to be the Beatles to have a very good career.

I think you're too humble here. The quality of D is no lower than the competing products backed by huge corporations.

I also vaguely remember using Symantec C++, it was a refreshing alternative to the competitors of the time, and I had very pleasant experience using it.
I feel much more sorry for the citizens of Sweden than I do for that "poor lady" who made a point of looking like Zuckerburg's tool. If Cecilia Wikström was my elected representative, I'd start investigating how to expatriate.
The habitable zone doesn't mean "anything inside supports life, everything outside doesn't".

It specifically means "the light from the planets sun is in the range to support surface-level life".

If a distant moon in our solar system has a liquid ocean that A) doesn't mean it's water or anything else sane and B) that habitable zones are poorly defined.

Liquid oceans generated by orbital- or geothermal activity aren't covered in the habitable zone definition and aren't very useful as they usually require a parent body to provide energy to heat the ocean (jupiter for example) but just not enough to boil it off the moon.
Thinking on the run here, but: the reason big companies have an advantage here is that they grew big before regulations, and their current size can deal with the regulations easily; while small companies don't have the resources to deal with the regulations. So how about a levy on these larger companies that goes straight to small companies to help with the regulatory burden of such regulations?
If worst comes to worst and EU tries to break up Facebook — and it seems likely they might — what would be Facebook’s best path forward?

Theoretically, would it send a stronger signal to US regulators if Facebook simply shut down all operation in the EU? A pop up message to all EU citizens along the lines of “You may no longer access Facebook from within the EU due to X Y and Z from your government. As such, all of your data is unavailable for download and no longer subject to GDPR privacy regulations.” Would that be safer for Facebook in protecting its child companies (which presumably make up a large part of its value) in the US as an effective way to grandstand? Eventually the EU would have to come up with a compromise solution then, too, right? I can’t imagine everyday citizens being happy with the EU if they perceive they’ve blocked them from Facebook.

I’m not saying I would be on Facebook’s side (I definitely wouldn’t), but the sheer scale of Facebook as a global company makes me question the effectiveness of current antitrust law.

I’ve never seen a trade war between a company and a government. And I don’t want to.
Parsing RSS is hardly a problem. Even jQuery has builtin support.

If you want a replacement for the Google Feed API, use Feednami.
I think that's only a temporary thing.

If people actually start writing software from ground up where it's easy to handle GDPR requirements, such as user deletion, giving users access to their data, etc., then it shouldn't be hard to start compliant and stay compliant.
I was about to back to Halogen Lamp, and I was hoping there are improvement to Halogen Lamp then anything else.

Are there any Consumer LED Products, that offer High CRI 95+, may be with less UV since that should be less indoor, Long Life, Little degradation on CRI and Lighting over time, and more importantly NO / Zero flicking?

I have been asking and thinking, assuming all our electricity is green and cheap, why would I want a LED over Halogen Lamp? All the problem I have, which I absolutely hate and drive me crazy are colour inaccuracy and flickering. Both of which are non existent to Halogen Lamp.
In my mind the bill needs significant representation from both sides to be bipartisan, but not necessarily equal. Unfortunately this had that.
Same here in the UK. Nothing positive about Zuckerberg so far, so I'm not sure what media the parent is reading.
And a bad one at that. The first question I heard when I put on the livestream was something along the lines of: "answer yes or no to the following questions! (...) Will Facebook delete all fake accounts before $date and prevent all new ones from being created?", with the MEP putting on a stern look.

Zuckerberg is smart enough to show up and pretend to get a verbal beating, but I wish he would just point out to the governing bodies that if they want something they should pass laws. The GDPR is a start, but Facebook is not in the business of selling data under the table. They will get the consent they need and I'd be surprised if the percentage of users that make use of their right of access and to be forgotten is relevant to them.
Please no. If you're going to call me at least have a real person do it. I hate getting phone calls enough as it is.
You are also likely still getting paid more. 80% of an offer for someone who can negotiate 20% of the year off is still likely to be more enticing pay than anyone working a tonne of free overtime.
I don't know about that, French media at least seems to point out a lot how empty Zuckerberg answers were, and indeed criticizing the format of the session.

But deputies are painted as informed and not mincing their words, which is exactly what I would expect of my deputy.
> "they were able to charge him with a more serious crime"

Isn't charging defendants with overwhelming charges part of the problem?
Do explain. Also, unlike e.g. Intel who got a huge fine from the EU for price deals with OEMs, Facebook didn't use dirty tricks to gain market share.
Do you think that the GDPR has really changed anything for either Facebook or its users? Do you think that anything changed in the way data is being handled? All i see is a bunch of highly paid law firms writing up 200 additional pages in terms and conditions to shield the company, but nothing really changed as far as daily business is concerned.
Decrease the cost of compliance by communicating super-clearly.

- The UK ICO's Guide to the GDPR is a good step. Kudos to those who got the budget passed to do that. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

- Produce clear example cases before things are litigated. That way, you don't run into the problem of "Well, nobody really knows how things are going to shake out and people are trying to stay in the middle of the pack in terms of compliance" (Which is what I heard from an entrepreneur at a panel at Slaughter & May)

- Hire someone to write The Manga Guide to GDPR Compliance, in the style of https://nostarch.com/mg_databases.htm Or in the style of http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1585.

- Post video courses with the same sort of content.

Part of the problem here is that law firms have a strong incentive to publish SEO-optimised content which proclaims that compliance is difficult and confusing and that you should hire an expert law firm.
I would suggest that something like a virus can probably "survive" far higher temperatures (though to my knowledge none that do are isolated atm) but they would require leaving that environment (for example via the water steam) to replicate.
He's going to find himself in for a shock. The platform he chooses to store data on is irrelevant, if he's processing that data then GDPR applies.
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The Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin more eloquently broke down their plan during his hearing in where he stated his primary goal is reducing the spurious regulations added to small/medium banks follow the crisis, while leaving the regulations for the large ones (most of which caused the original crisis). Which is exactly what this bill does by excluding big banks from the new reductions in regulation.

He provided many examples and cited data showing how the number of small banks has drastically shrunk since the regulation has passed, and directly related to it, causing the US banking market to further consolidate.

Ironically, there are now 5 major banks who control most of the market now largely as a result, while competition from smaller firms has declined drastically. So much for ending "too big to fail". Like most well intentioned democratic policy during the last decade intended to punish the larger banks for their destructive behavior, if anything they've come our stronger. Not to mention the bail outs with completely neutered terms in terms of bonuses and other potential disincentives for bad behavior.

It's one thing to say you want to restrict the power of banks to manipulate markets and generate risk, it's another to actually do it.

The fact this bill only benefitted small firms and kept the major banks under check sounds completely consistent with the Mnuchin's promises during his congressional hearing. He's on of the few Trump cabinet that seems highly competent and well suited for the job. I'm happy he has stuck around.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?421858-1/treasury-secretary-no...
The subway never had a communications-based signalling system before, yet its functionality is waning compared to recent history. Will CBTC actually deliver the benefits you describe? Possibly not, if the system is afflicted by some unidentified other problem, i.e. falling speed limits.
Wait untill they watch a video of a breakdancer or a "snake girl" ...
Well, he seems to have made one friend:

https://twitter.com/CeciliaWikstrom/status/99898468946035916...

(Zuckerberg posing with a Swedish MEP, all smiles.)
In that case compliance and regulation should be run similar to the way the SEC runs it. There is a threshold and if you report AMU over say 5mn you are subject to tier 1 compliance, then tier 2 and so on.
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Use the Reader view.
Having the great majority of the customers IS a monopoly. And also trying to buy the rest is (e.g. instagram, whatsapp).
She is clearly pretty naive but that grilling is fairly harsh imho. At least on twitter she seems to have become the symbol of how the entire group of EU politicians messed up.
> For years (since the demise of Google Reader) I’ve been using feedly.com (which is free) as the source for my RSS feeds but I never actually use the web client. I use native clients that integrate with Feedly.

Interesting, I also migrated to feedly but I do use the web application on the desktop, though the feedly app on my phone. On desktop, the webapp works really well for my purposes — which is mostly going through all updates (all sorted by oldest, "j" for next), and once in a while opening one in a full browser window ("v") or sending the page to instapaper.
When you say all desktops, are you including Windows and OSX in this?
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> His brother John, working at the movie visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic, found it useful for editing photos, but it wasn’t intended to be a product.

John Knoll is a name that may be familiar to people who stick around after the credits; he was ILM's supervisor on Generations and First Contact, all the Star Wars prequels, some Harry Potter movies, as well as some of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. His name comes up a lot in behind-the-scenes interviews etc. with directors about effects.
You may ponder longer on the name. As the comments in this thread show, not everybody is happy with your capitalizing on a word that for centuries was at the center of Buddhism.
Requiring extraneous consent as a precondition of service, that is, requiring consent for some processing as a precondition of provision of a service that does not depend on that processing is an indication that consent is coerced rather than freely given, and hence not effective consent, under the GDPR.

But if the service does depend on that processing, then you don't need to ask for consent at all, so why would you? In practice, the statement is true.
Just my impression: if this was Google, then yes. It is very hard to replace Google at this point in time.

Facebook is on its way out. Due to the network effect, Facebook will stay relevant for a long time. But if Facebook would leave the EU then it wouldn't take long for other social networks to take its place.

Facebook is relevant because everybody is on Facebook. Not because it is such a great service.

Personally, I am way more worried about Google.
Considering that GDPR is only in full effect after May 25th 2018, there is nothing to talk about in regards to its effect right now.
To keep things clean one could keep the trigger code in a file separate from any migrations and then create a migration that references the trigger source so that one doesn't have to go digging through the migration files later to read the trigger or update it.

I think some folks above may literally have meant they put the trigger code in the migration file itself. Or I'm way off base.
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> Just do not ask for an unbounded amount of time.

Right. Lots of people ask "will you be my mentor", which is such an unspecified question that it is effectively the same as asking for an unbounded amount of time.

Asking a specific well-formed question or asking if you can meet with someone for a specified period of time are bounded requests. I'll bet there are other more creative types of requests we can come up with.
Shut down the EU company entities, move all operations back to the US. There is no need to show a warning message to its users, EU laws do not apply to US firms. Also, despite what EU lawmakers may say, a purely US-based internet company is not required to comply in any way with EU laws even if they have customers/visitors/users in the EU.
It all depends on what you are doing with RSS. If you subscribe to feeds who barf out 1000 new articles every hour, then a proper filter-system is a basic neccessary, and machine learning can help there. But I don't know whether this reader is using it for this.

Reading the github, it's seems also kinda questionable why they use multiple databases and services. That gives the impressioen that selfhosting this reader will be a pain. I guess I stay with Tiny Tiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/) for the moment.
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I imagine US regulators would be on Facebook's side there. The US can't really tolerate a world where the EU purports to reach inside American borders and forcibly reorganize American companies.
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They are not European, but they have European "partners" (read: advertisers and ad-networks) siphoning off data from their EU users. They are not just a site that happens to be available to the EU.
It is on MacOS. And read my comment again - I agree that expecting users to tinker with httpd.conf is ridiculous.
"There are only a few comments in the version 1.0 source code, most of which are associated with assembly language snippets. That said, the lack of comments is simply not an issue. This code is so literate, so easy to read, that comments might even have gotten in the way."

I also find comments do get in the way when they state the obvious, unless they add to the understanding of the code in some way it is best to leave them out IMHO.
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Its advice that is useful if you interpret it as "keep an eye out for things which will help you actionably do X". But its also a category of advice I find personally frustrating, so I'm just trying to accelerate the process of finding those resources.
Eudora had this awesome feature that detected if you were about to send a flame / testy short reply, and warned you against it. I seem to remember a “spicy pepper” icon? It saved me from embarrassment more than once. I hope the modern email client maintainers can rescue that bit of functionality.
Why do rich people want to pay more taxes? Why not directly invest in improving the situation of the poor? This way they remain in control of how money is spent. Tax money will just be spent for more wars.
> I'm not sure what media the parent is reading.

Um, Der Spiegel apparently.