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> You reject the relevance of higher CO2 Levels in the past because it's too long ago.

I reject his weird concern-trolling, regarding a category of "starving plants" which are necessarily extinct and have been for many millions of years. Since they do not live anymore, it makes any "more CO2 makes them happier" appeal ridiculous.

> apparently [evolution is] too slow to accommodate a rapid rise in CO2 Levels

Evolution "accommodates" rapid changes that harm a species via DEATH AND DISRUPTION. As we are both members of the supposedly-dominant species right now, surely you'd agree that generally has more risk than reward, and that we'd rather not have population die-backs from famine or economic losses from cities built in the wrong place.
>> optional ability to overlay an empty full size block so the image cant easily be right clicked and saved

> Not sure what you mean, but as soon as image loaded it turns into good old image, so you can do right click

I believe he wants the opposite of that, putting a div over the image so it cannot be right clicked and saved.
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I've lived on a remote island and now live in a big city surrounded by more cities. Your question doesn't make sense to me. It's like asking which group of people have better health, people whose first names are longer than their last names or the other way around.
I like this comment (with the nice explanation of the experiment):

http://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/miniboone_confirms_n...

Author's take:

"The simple collecting more data and making the result stronger from a statistical standpoint in these cases does not help convince your peer: as I said, this is systematic in nature, so the problem has to be attacked by other means."

On one side he is "an experimental particle physicist who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC" but also writes "I am not a true expert in these matters so my comments would probably be deceiving or plain fallacious."

For him, it seems there is still a need for some other kind of approach before something more specific than "the apparent excess was consistently measured through the years" can be claimed.
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An open source CI project shutting down its forum because it can't ensure the proper handling of the personal data of its members is neither terrifying, nor a tragedy, it's the law working as intended.

People clueless about privacy and privacy abusers are no longer welcome to the data of EU citizens.
> Similarly, if you use .ars, you're taking up that namespace from the perspective of your internal users. If at some point it turns out that there is some resource under that name that you want to access, you're going to have a hell of a time rebuilding your infrastructure to not use that name.

No, you're not, because an internal management network does not have a gateway out to the internet. The management VRF does not talk to the global routing table. There would be no way to access a public .ars website even if you did not take its namespace.
You don't have to be a customer for GDPR to apply to you, they just have to collect PII from you to be considered the data subject and now the organization need to follow GDPR.

If you collect data from me when I visit your website, even without me buying anything, you have now collected data and you need to comply.

The use of the word "customer" in this context is incorrect.
> If you want none of your personal info on the web, I have a suggestion: Don't participate in forums, social media, etc.

If you don't want to get robbed, don't leave your home.
Telegram wants to introduce a feature where they request access to your address book, request access to your photo library, search your photo library using CoreML for photos that appear to be indecent, and start sending them to all of your contacts. Telegram is really adamant that this is an excellent feature and they refuse to remove it when Apple denies them over it.

Or probably something else. But you get the idea. Telegram could have tried to introduce behavior that violated Apple rules. Or they could have snuck existing rules violations past Apple in the past and Apple finally noticed.
Because that's how laws work, they apply to everyone.

Then again what you say is a misrepresentation and biased idea, what proof do you have that GDPR will disproportionately impact small organizations ?

Have you read the actual annoucement posted here ? asking because it does not say that it is shutting down but that it is moving its community discussion from a self hosted discourse forum to a third party hosted subreddit because discourse lacks the ability to properly address GDPR request and lack of time to do so.

Of course GDPR also applies to FB, Google, etc. Have you followed the discussions 5 years ago when GDPR was in the making and witnessed the intense lobbying from silicon valley against strong protection ? Probably not.

Are you aware of the noyb.eu[1] initiative, Max Schrems again, currently targeting google, facebook, whatsapp and instagram for their "forced consent" (more to come) ? La Quadrature du Net a french internet rights organization is currently working on 12 class actions targeting google, facebook, amazon, apple and microsoft, etc.

[1]: https://noyb.eu/
[2]: https://gafam.laquadrature.net/
We should handle companies that have >1M data records differently from smaller companies.

Most countries handle private persons with larger income differently, e.g. they need to pay more income tax.

Most countries handle startups differently, e.g. they don't need to pay taxes in the first years.

Most countries handle farms differently than other corps, e.g. they give subsidies to them.

Most countries handle people with no income differently, e.g. they get social security payments.

Most countries handle banks differently, e.g. they are regulated.

Most countries handle health companies differenty, e.g. they are regulated.
Not a snarky comment, but have you had to share this code with other developers? If so, how did you find getting them up to speed without shared conventions?
I see many stores with fees for using foreign credit cards. Like ~1 USD..

Or I guess the seller pockets the fee.
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Overreaction as usual!
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Have what as an exemption? Not applying GDPR to small-time open source projects? Being open source doesn't suddenly make it fine to mishandle users' information.
JQuery is a great tool, it got a lot of buzz and people started to abusively use it out of its nominal scope. This does not say anything about jquery, only about people.
React is having a lot of buzz, and the same abuses happen in places where it is nowhere needed. Same cause, same symptoms.

You can replace jquery/react with any technology or concept, OO programming, functional programming, MVC, blockchain, machine learning, and every technology or concept having its momentum is or will be misused in some way at some point.

This happened, is happening, and will always happen.
I used to visit /lit/ and /ck/ until a bit more than a year ago. I don't anymore because the /pol/ scum made it their mission to pollute the other boards with their vitriol. I visited those boards a couple of weeks back and /pol/ has basically succeeded in killing those boards' culture. Lots of people have left and you are not one or two threads away from a vile racist comment. /pol/ has basically destroyed 4chan culture in all of the boards and all that's left there now are a bunch of disgusting racists.
On the other hand, you could think of it as a moral-compass-as-a-service thing. If you are running on Google cloud, it would be a strong signal that you don't do questionable work for military.

That may seem as something that's not worth too much, but on the other hand there's a lot of popular opposition to this kind of thing and companies are starting to notice. Consider this: https://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/new-deutsche-bank-policy-e...
Can New Zealand really kill every rat, possum and stoat?
Not exactly. GDPR only applies to the EU. China isn't going to rewrite its laws to make the EU happy and mirror GDPR, neither is the US.

It's more accurate to say that when an industry doesn't self-regulate, the EU over-regulates and shoots themselves in the face. The US and China will race even further out ahead accordingly.

In the US I can easily unleash a large user data hungry AI at will, experimenting all day long with anything and everything I can come up with. I can screw with people's data in countless ways, without their permission. While this haven exists, I can rapidly learn and come up with technology and services that tech companies in the EU can't risk attempting and won't bother to contemplate.

To the point: you can still push every edge of the AI revolution in the US and China, to see what's there. That revolution is heavily built on user data. In the EU, you're in a straight-jacket at the very beginning of the revolution (one that is guaranteed to only get tighter), many years before we've even seriously begun experimenting with the fertile soil. They're fucked, the world will be dominated by AI that comes out of either the US or China, or both.
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Private and general aviation have a different set of regulations. Small and large aircraft have a different set if regulations.

I’ll let you figure out the rest.
the gTLD local is already registered and can't be 'stolen'. DNS servers should never route a query for that domain.

you even get a link to the RFC when installing kubernetes with the default domain name (which is local). I sadly forgot the number, so cant cite it.
Yes there is.
If your email address is in the contact list harvested by facebook when people register on the website, it is linked to your shadow profile and can be used to show the lack of explicit consent and existence of your shadow profile.

It's the path currently explored in a class action against facebook for forced consent and we'll see what happens.
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Looking at givewells analysis, they don't seem too focused on office supplies, but rather whether the charity did any follow-up studies, how far it scales and what it costs.

But the follow-up studies seem far more important, than the per unit cost of mosquito nets.
A lot of the global images of clouds (like this one [1]) are actually made from infra-red images, as making a visible composite is difficult. This means that they can only see high, cold clouds, so you only really see storms.

For example, the GOES-17 image shows large amounts of cloud off the western coast of South America. This is completely missing in the composite video, as it is very close to the surface and so almost invisible in the IR (it is close to the same temperature as the surface). About 2/3 of the globe is cloud covered on average [2].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wLYHyCiIyQ

[2] - https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/7197/2010/acp-10-7197-201...
Depends what you like. I prefer my Git hosting suppliers to have better than 50% uptime.
Can you link to the official repository?
last time I checked you had to find something on github that mostly were incomplete and the best components were jQuery wrappers
What websites are shutting down ? I have not heard of anything like this yet.
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Gdpr doesn’t have a clause for voluntary, required or accidental sharing.

If a user publishes on your forum he has disabilities, congratulations, under gdpr you just leaked user personal data of the worst kind.
https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
I have a team of 4 devs working for me. It took them a week to get up to speed with and work with full efficiency. Everyone knows JavaScript. It's nothing new, we're just using it without any added syntax. Everything is familiar.
Can you provide examples of websites shutting down due to GDPR ?
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I've been spending hours and hours the last few days working with react/vuejs/react native/native script+vue. It's hard picking a stack for staticish sites/pwa/pwa+e/spa/mobile! Throw in moving from .NET/IIS to .NET Core and tinkering with Node.JS/Express and your head is going to be spinning like mine (let alone worrying about authentication, API first, SSR)

Right now I'm moving an old webforms project to .NET Core + MVC / Razor and am going to try building out some components in both react and vue to see how it goes.

As for some links:

Here is slightly old .NET/MVC5 article:
https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/dotnet/asp-net/a-real-w...

Vuejs for .NET/MVC5:
https://medium.com/corebuild-software/vue-js-and-net-mvc-b5c...
https://medium.com/@hyounoosung/integrating-vue-js-2-0-to-ne...
https://medium.com/@disjfa/using-vue-js-in-existing-websites...
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What if some used quoted another user without the quote function? Or took a snippet from a user as forum signature?

Those are easily handled but still if you are a hobbist it’s just too much hassle.
The owner says that he doesn't have time to review GDPR-related requests; that's fine. But I wonder if he would receive a US court order would he treat it the same way? What if he received a letter from NSA? A DMCA request? What if someone posted something illegal on the forum, would he ignore that as well?

It seems like he has no time only for legislation from EU.
I only know about some US newspaper closing EU access and this guy's forum.

I'm sure we'll get a separate thread for each site that's closing, to emphasize how the (advertising) world is ending, one just needs to wait.
You point people to the privacy policy. The Nightmare letter is mostly bullshit scaremongering.
YANAL and this advice looks like it's calling for bad things to happen.
I disagree. Not all projects need a two tiered approach. For simple webapps a server-side, template-driven framework like Rails, Django etc. will make life much easier. You introduce a lot of added complexity when you go with an API + SPA
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Funny enough it doesn’t mention their brutal treatment of whales.
Es2018 all the way. Web workers, classes, Isomorphic code, generators, async await, etc with a splash of Babel
Devs have never been happier. Everything just works and online documentation is Rich and plentiful.

Plus as I said, core logic works on both server and client and we have offline support as an added bonus.
How are they complying with eg US COPPA, which carries a penalty of $40,000 per infringement?
Well, drone.io?
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It doesn't have to be lawyered.
The GDPR exists because everyone has been a dick because they know they can get away with it. By default the mentality is take take take. Now the business models built on that are being trashed. If someone keeps burgling your house they need to go to prison. Simple as. Time is up for this way of thinking.

It is not difficult to be compliant. Most people don’t bother because they are drama queens or hiding what their business is really based on and the latter is usually not ethical by any manor and deserve to be shoved off a cliff.

People will have to do some real innovation instead of selling off data and working out how to attract people into a product that exists only to do that really.
You haven't read it, i presume. The implementation requires a lot more than that.
> why there's no way to flag an individual comment.

Click on the comment time stamp, and you should find a flag link beside the favorite one

Not sure that this is what you meant
> Also Canadians do not like minority governments. Proportional representation is not that popular on Canada.

Proportional representation doesn't need to result in minority governments. Proportional voting is very common in Europe but minority governments aren't.

Just means parties need to find common themes on which they agree, and compromise on some their more controversial goals. Finland has had up to six parties in a single government to make sure tough decisions can be passed.
Real life example: https://caniuse.com/#feat=urlsearchparams if you need to support IE11 then you can't use the URLSearchParams object. Your best bet is still a jQuery library.
Well if you know that Facebook is bad, why did people even register in the first place? Or put their whole life onto it?

It's ok if the privacy law only gone against stuff like analytics or horrible facebook buttons that even collected stuffs from people who clearly weren't users. i.e. tracking
especially tracking outside their "domain"

however GDPR goes against all and anything. I mean if I go to a supermarkt I can't just tell the supermarkt owner to shut down all his cameras until I leave the store, he would basically just kick me off his market (which actually is his right in the EU). However the EU somehow made a solution that actually even goes against their own market principles just to have extreme amount of Privacy in the internet (only in the internet, their own institutions can still collect data, i.e. in germany the ard has tons of data about everybody)
and this is my problem with the GDPR, it's a law from people who actually just want to hurt the big us internet companies. The law also was made by a lot of people without any clear technical background (there were some, but they were a minority)
$ ping google.com
PING google.com (172.217.7.206) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from iad30s10-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.7.206): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=0.676 ms
To be honest, that applies even to programmers

At one point solving the same problems ever again it turns into a chore. There must be some new challenges to have things interesting (either at work or outside)
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If you voted for democrats, you did the ballot box wrong. Bill Clinton made the problem worse. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=74583

He explicitly didn't want people to be able to defend themselves! "Requiring the Federal Government to provide a free attorney to anyone who wants to contest a forfeiture action would overwhelm the judicial system with frivolous claims."

"Raise the standard of proof in forfeiture cases to clear and convincing evidence." He didn't want that.

Really, why is any democrat voter complaining about this? It's their own fault.
Even before GDPR, one could receive a DMCA request, an US court order, a letter from FBI, a letter from NSA. It didn't prevent people from creating websites though. GDPR requests are definitely less scary than a letter from NSA or an US court order: nobody will put you into jail for non-compliance, kidnap you or send a drone to you.
It would take some serious "skill" to plug in a PCI device and not have it grounded. There are at least a half dozen ground pins in the interface itself. I don't see what tying the GPU to ground again is meant to accomplish - it's not adding any shielding to the system as a whole.

DC continuity is not a good measure of impedance as you move into higher frequency RF signals. Wires that look like low-impedance connections can easily become accidental antennas.
I was in Berlin recently and not only did public transport ticket machines not accept cards, they didn't even accept notes. Coins only. In London you just tap your credit card. And many smaller cafes and shops didn't accept cards either. Or if they did, only the Maestro ones that don't really exist outside Germany.
You paid 20 euros, Danish taxpayers paid the rest. The 50k people in the Faroes are subsidized to the tune of 100m a year, which comes out to over $2k/person/year.

Update: Math fixed. That's actually less than I thought...
My only advice would be to stay consistent, find patterns and genralize stuff. I do see the irony of making a framework of my own in the process of doing all that. I just embrace that. Everything is exactly how we want it and we know each line that executes on the machine. Makes development a breeze. There is nothing that react can do that vanilla js can't with reasonably same amount of effort. But stay open-minded. What helped me was that I worked with angular first to see how not to do front end (angular.js). I also regularly check out how react, angular, Vue, etc handle the same problems that I have. That usually gives an inspiration.

In the end it's hard to believe how fast JavaScript can be even on smaller devices.
That NYT article received 166 votes and 198 comments [1], and was on the front page for about 13 hours [2].

Sometimes stories drop off the front page if they have more comments than votes, as it signals a flamewar, which makes for boring reading at best and leads to uncivil behaviour or trolling at worst.

It would be pointless for HN to try and "censor" things that the community wanted to discuss, as people would just find out about it and discuss it elsewhere.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17192601

[2] http://hnrankings.info/17192601/
I'm not super familiar with GitLab besides self hosted instances. Even then I prefer the simplicity of gogs. So what do you feel are still be innovations GitLab has but GitHub lacks?
Hi,

It is correct, that the web development team is located mainly in Leipzig.

In regard to the Front-End-Stack I will get back to you on monday.
The EU could have sent a man to Mars with the money used on GDPR ...
This Microsoft is quite different!