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> People don’t even seem to punish the offenders by shifting their spending habits

Well, if that was viable, we probably wouldn't have needed such high fines in the GDPR. Two scenarios:

A) It's hard to move away because of dominance, e.g. Google. You either have to buy an offensively expensive iPhone, or root an Android phone. Even then living without the Play store is hard. Moving e.g. email providers takes years nowadays regardless of the provider. Google Search and Maps can be replaced in theory, but it's quite a chore - Google didn't get big on bad products.

B) What spending? How do you stop spending on something you aren't paying for with money? Yes, ad and tracking blockers, but for Joe Bloggs that isn't obvious. And Consumers weren't paying Equifax directly, otherwise they probably would have been bankrupted.

> Has GDPR meaningfully changed enforcement of rights?

We don't know yet. (I'm assuming this isn't a rhetorical question.)

On the one hand, the fines now have business impact. For example, before the GDPR, the UK's ICO could only hand out a laughable max fine of £500,000. On the other hand, ICO has been toothless, only handing out the max fine once. ICO was severely underfunded, so this is almost by design.

Germany is pretty privacy conscious, but unfortunately data protection is also handled on a state level. So there are 16 data protection agencies and one federal one (Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden, the federal one being the BfDI). From experience, that kind of bureaucracy doesn't help with speed.

While this isn't enforcement, it has had some meaningful effect. Having worked for a big multinational, there was a lot of money and hours spent on GDPR compliance. This reduces e.g. data retention, which could help limit damage in future. Before that, data retention was basically endless.

We've seen some minor cases, but being a lawyer, I'm sure you know we're at least a few years off the really big cases, especially if the European data protection authorities need to work together.
I agree, I thought it was good too. It drifted from the book, but sometimes in a good way. I liked the scenes with the navigator in the tank. The Voice amplifiers were kind of corny.
I think they could focus on the worm/human internal struggle through actions made over the course of millennia. First movie being the plot that turns him toward the worm. Second movie being the gradual steps towards the worm and inhuman choices. Third movie being his death. (Forgive me if this is wrong somehow importantly. It’s been a while.). But you’re right on it being a big challenge.
No it's not. (j/k, sorry)

As a testament to this, I usually check the comments before clicking through to an article. As a result I virtually never click through to the article -- I just end up reading all the reasons it's wrong.
I think the confounding factor is that the tax would move the market whether or not foreign buyers are an issue. The price drops are also mostly at the top end of the market, which benefits wealthy buyers.
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i was about to poo poo this idea but yeah, for non-removal this would be good
So let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly.

You're positing that the proof supply and demand is not applicable to the housing market is that a private investment company has greatly increased demand beyond what the housing supply can support, which is driving up prices.

And the fact that demand exceeding supply is driving up prices is proof that supply and demand does not apply to the housing market?
If their goal was to destroy our society, they certainly got quite far with that. Since 9/11 we have abandoned American optimism, openness, and sense of a positive future in favor of ideologies that more closely resemble the paranoid reactionary beliefs of the terrorists.
> I've been getting blocked very often for searching more obscure things

Me too! It seems like nearly any time I go past the second page for results they think I'm a bot.
Happy you see it being useful.

That's a valid suggestion. I pulled the images from Unsplash (free to use), and needless to say, there's not really an endless assortment of pictures there, so I did with what I found, sadly. It is definitely something to improve upon, maybe I will get someone to do the photography for some of the topics, or alternatively go for a design. In reality I am not exactly fond of the execution of the categories - in the end they're sort of a filter, so I could have simply created a "super-page" where you could have those interests listed as filters, and could have found users sharing more than 1 category. On top of that, currently the platform has a fixed amount of categories, and it does not allow users to add themselves to any other interest, which is a bit limiting and unfortunate. Because of that, in the future I might redo this section entirely, which could help fix the issue you raised at the same time.

Thanks for the feedback!
> Unfortunately, I had to remove that feature because Google began submitting random dictionary words. Hundreds of thousands of them.

That sounds insane. Is that actually true or is there an exaplanation of some sort?
I’m definitely curious as to what they think in Hollywood about making a series out of it. They’re clearly out of ideas with all the reboots and sequels/prequels.
Google's engineers have no clue what they are doing. They should be fired, honestly.
" it's a command". Oh please... Stop hanging yourself on petty trivialities and learn to have a damn conversation you basement dweller -_- this community is so inept
Mosquitos in Bali seem to be more of a problem inland (eg Ubud for tourists) than on the coast where most of the resorts are.
Except there is no fire truck that’s coming. We still need to convince our governments to take action. And how can we do that if we individually are still throwing kindling on the flames.
Ranger (command line file manager) also has a :bulkrename command. Useful.
Well, for one thing, minification makes debugging production issues needlessly difficult.
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> The fact that he says something like "a Google administrator tracked down a rogue employee and made him stop" makes it clear he's paranoid (or malicious).

Or sensationalism. (it did land a top spot on HN)
Presumably you'd want Google to index pages, just not try to discover pages by brute forcing the URL?

Is there any way to do that in robots.txt? Someone did mention adjusting the crawl rate in Webmaster Tools -- would the author need to do this for every search engine?
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You should try https://lineage.microg.org/
It isnt exceptional to ask for a source, no need for sarcasm.

It is exceptional to expect or require sources for well-known ideas to be attached to every comment that alludes to or evokes them. None of us needed sources to understand the point that the OP was making.

can you extract the most relevant quotes from each and attach to your claims?

The trend here is that it will not be good enough for you. You asked for sources and got them. Now you are expanding your request. What's next in your list of demands after he extracts the most relevant quotes from each?

I'm baffled that you have made it this guy's job to hunt down and feed you primary sources because he wrote a comment that assumes some baseline knowledge.
Lovely response, thx.

The philosophy of edbrowse, plus some light computing history, is in a beautiful article linked from that page.

http://www.eklhad.net/philosophy.html
He can submit a sitemap to Google if he’d like a particular structure crawled.

Sounds like his issue is mainly with Google, not other search engines, so it’s not an O(n) problem he’s got to solve.
Is the company for-profit or not-for-profit? If not-for-profit, are the contributions tax-deductible? What percentage of the payment is actually the cost of planting the tree and how much is administrative overhead?

I couldn't find the information to any of these questions on either Treespond's web site or on their parent company Treepex's site, but they seem like the most basic questions to ask about a company that is taking people's money for some social good.

Also: Don't forests re-grow naturally after a fire? Do they really need to be replanted by people? How much faster does a forest re-grow if people plant tiny little trees there?
Why is Sandberg getting more negative press than Zuckerberg? Because Zuckerberg's halo fell off a long time ago but people continued to believe that Sandberg was a saint until recently, and people love exposing hypocrisy.
Nope, you clearly stated that there is no such thing as a bad neighbor, and anyone perceiving one has a defective moral character, that there is “no mystery here.” You want to complain about generalization, that’s another thing, but so far the only generalization here is yours, that the parent’s experience can’t be real.
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At its best HN is critical and discerning, which are necessary qualities for raising the discourse to a higher intellectual plane (otherwise this would just be Reddit). At its worst it is cynical and contrarian. Those are flip sides of the same coin.

HN is like UChicago. Cerebral, academic, rigorous and always ready to shoot down sloppy thinking.

Quora is more like Northwestern. Intelligent, emotionally savvy, and projects a sense of polish.
I liked that movie too. Only thing I didn't like was the interpretation of 'wierding ways' as an acoustic weapon.

I always imagined it to be a super capable martial art.
Maybe people should just grow up and stop being children? If you get offended and flustered at such a simple question then you need to get out of your delusional, nerfed bubble world. I'd love to see people try survive for a week in nature if something as simple as being asked "what do you do for a living" sets off their sensitive anxieties -_-
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I like to use Akka in places where I can't or don't want to introduce operational complexity in the form of external messaging infrastructure.
The price of freedom isn’t the WOT or trillions for wars - it was 9/11 and accepting what a few handfuls of men could do in a one-off in a free society.

We can win every tactical battle, but we lost strategically.
If there is one thing spending time in SE Asia has taught me is that the value of human life is just different in some places.

Good or bad, from scooters to skyscrapers. It’s just different.
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Frankly all I need my phone for these days is running Firefox.

Locked down computing via proprietary apps is getting less and less appealing by the day.
No. You are suggesting that we should trust Apple (why?) and upload all our data to their cloud. By why cannot we just keep our data on our phone without sharing them with anyone.

Nothing stops Apple from becoming a new Google. And nothing stops NSA from installing backdoors in Apple's data centers as they did with Google.
To your last point, it all depends on the location. Somewhere in Ohio, you might have $100k or $200k of house on $10k of land. Where I live, I'm at about 50/50, if insurance's adjudication of replacement cost is accurate.
This sounds to me like someone is simply using GoogleBot in their request headers whilst probing.
Where did I say anything about type 1?

And even though most type 2 diabetics aren’t (yet) on insulin, the advice they get does nothing but ensure they’ll be on insulin soon enough.
Curiously, I've seen similar posts in various hacker blogs a couple of times. It's typically a very stereotypical hacker, running his own website from a machine that he personally administers, that runs only free software. Because his (and, unsurprisingly, all of them are men) other hobbies are very specific and rare, and he's very competent in them, he getting a reasonable amount of search traffic, but never a lot of comments.

I've never seen anyone who doesn't fit this stereotype posting analysis of URL hits. It's kind of seems that only this kind of person (which I actually like a lot — these guys are very fun when you have common interests) would be so anal about this.
The claim was that it started with the full URL and progressively removed them. If it were reversed I would buy the autocomplete bug. I fixed something like that a few weeks ago at work.
I was assuming a pure core of Scala, its true I should have been more explicit. Arbitrary side effects and IO make it impossible to reason algebraically/equationally about your programs.
I have always thought of MZ as probably a huge jerk who's laughing all the way to the bank with all his privacy violations. So this kind of stuff from him doesn't surprise me. Not excusing it in any way shape or form, though.

But I bought into (some of) the stories about Sandberg who can have it all, be a good, confident executive and generally good person, and not be a grade A power-hungry ahole. So it's more of a disappointment that Sandberg's no different from the rest of them, because I actually used to admire her and look up to her. Now it seems like it was all a carefully manufactured story that the media just lapped up without actually doing any research. (But the same media has exposed them now, so kudos)

The thing that really shocked me is that these two executives who are Jewish, were pushing anti-Semitic tropes like George Soros funding everything (tropes that could hurt them and their families). In that, they pushed the White Nationalist agenda for their own monetary gains.

Again, cynics will say, that shouldn't have shocked you. But I'm the eternal optimist.
Much of what you're describing as the first and second movie is covered in Children of Dune. God Emperor is set several thousand years later, and would correspond to your third movie. The interim period is incredibly dull -- the boredom and stagnation of total societal stability is, in fact, an important theme of the book.
It would lead to a surge in noise and quarrels on the site, so we're not going to do it.

Getting downvoted doesn't feel good, but it happens to everyone. What works is to look over your comment as objectively as you can and try to find what might have evoked a downvote. If you find something, correct it for next time. If you don't, remember there's such a thing as a misclick.

Usually—not always, but at least 2/3 of the time—it's fairly obvious to a neutral observer why a comment was downvoted. Try to be a neutral observer in your own case.
Don't forget about 20% transmission losses.

I guess it'll depend on the climate, the COP of even the best heat pumps drops to 2 or worse in colder weather. I think I can agree that if it's a very mild climate and you frequently get a COP of 4 or better, then that could already beat a furnace in per-BTU gas consumption.
> He went on to explain that every time there was an accident, no matter what the cause, the final action was to review the checklists to see if that cause could be prevented.

Isn't this principle similar to TDD? For any bug, first, add a test that fails, then make it pass.
The essay is missing a couple of sections:

3.6 Social Peace

When large swathes of the work force suffer falling income sure to competition from immigrants, anger will rise to dangerous levels.

3.7 Maintenance of Social Capacity for Self-Governance

Rule of law through government institutions, rather than by an elite of cronies through hired thugs, is possible only under certain conditions. Foremost of these being: 1) Engagement of citizens in government, going beyond the minimum of showing up at a polling booth every four years, and 2) Sufficient education to understand what's being voted upon.

Though both of these are questions of degree rather than Boolean propositions, both nevertheless remain requirements of existential gravity for any free society.

The election of 2016 shows just how imperiled 3.6 and 3.7 have become here in the United States.

The author, writing back in 2010, lacked the 2016 evidence.
Foreign cash investment in real estate is a major cause of high rental prices. But the data on this and investment companies like Blackstone Group is spotty and difficult to follow [3], on purpose.

That's not true. Zoning is the big problem: https://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B... or see Zoning Rules! by Fischel.

Blackstone's investments only make sense because of artificial supply limits. Remove those, and their whole strategy is destroyed. The situation really is primarily about supply and demand.
Cool idea. Kind of like the boss as a service idea, but with peers.
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Seattle's housing market has stalled too, with no tax introduced.
You definitely are “painting with a broad brush”

As someone who has also spent a lot of time in a college environment I disagree that students blindly accept new positions to suit what’s around them. In fact, I would say a change in opinion shows they were not only able to take in new information, but also make the personal decision to change firmly held values that no longer make sense.
You can return a `X-Robots-Tag: none` header for the inner URLs. It's a thing I throw into APIs I write, just in case Google manages to find it.
That suggests it’s a cultural meme in self service.
Until the music stops. See how much those condo's sell for during the next downturn, if you can even sell them.
Large previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972448
I have to say I just don’t understand why anyone would willingly pay the kinds of prices for housing that I see people paying. It seems like the consensus is that you should pay 2.5 times your household income on a house; I see people around me paying 5 times or more. That’s bonkers. We paid 1.25 times our household income and we’d never have considered more. I’d rather live in a double wide than put that much of my income into a sunk cost like that. No way. Everyone is just behaving in a totally irrational way and I don’t get it.
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Because it was awful - wooden acting and laughable SFX.
And on the flip side, you can assume some level of inflation which makes that 30 year bet on your income less crazy. Sure, I don't expect to make 200k+ in inflation adjusted dollars for 30 years, but I might make that much after inflation devalues the dollar.
Maybe I’m missing something, but what is the advantage of maintaining a separate oauth provider (sso-auth)? Since they apparently need to support just google creds, why not let sso-proxy talk to google directly? Why do they need to maintain a separate token infrastructure?

The other (related) question is how the token refresh works - is it tied to the underlying refresh token generated by google, or is it something completely independent?
I think, the reality is that lots of people just downvote, because they disagree with an opinion and don't feel like arguing their position. So, if this explanation would only be visible to you, I imagine you'd get lots of "explanations" just saying that you're wrong/dumb/etc.

This could be a decent solution, though, if their explanation would need to be public. Basically leave a comment in order to downvote (with an indication that this comment was made in connection with a downvote), and therefore then also the ability for others to vote on this person's reason to downvote you.
What about transferring Chinese users' cloud data to a Chinese company? Is it a part of commitment to privacy too?
The same reasons why hospitals don't produce their own medical supplies period? A hospital is a hospital and specialized in doing what hospitals do: Treating patients.

Manufacturing IV solutions is something that requires a clean room laboratory, with its own set of stringent requirements and doing it cost-efficient means doing it at scale.
You can change that to DDG with a click, if you want.
Israel intervention in US elections ‘vastly overwhelms' anything Russia has done
Googlebot does sometimes submit search forms in an attempt to discover new pages, though I'm surprised to hear "hundreds of thousands". Either that's an exaggeration or it was over a very long time period.

As other comments mentioned, he could have easily prevented this with robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
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You posted this comment using a network whose fundamental tech was developed in a government project. You posted it using a device descended from an original which was built as part of a government project, based on theories developed with no immediate profit motive.

Would you like to re-think whether it's possible to invent and develop important new things without immediate profit motive?
I think ignoring or suppressing our tribal nature en masse is part of the problem. We evolved in an environment of small, closely related communities, and develop in groups and out groups. Without a sharply defined in group, everyone becomes part of the out group, meaning we default to distrust until proven otherwise. It's sad.
The facts are a keystroke away, plain as day, shouted for years upon deaf ears. People who ask you to Google for them these answers aren't arguing in good faith. There's nothing left to debate, the details were figured out a long time ago.

At this point, I'm convinced that there are zero climate skeptics who really want to find answers; it's all willful ignorance or malice. It's comically stupid how the obvious truth is met with so much resistance. The desire to preserve the status quo is the strongest force in civilization.

On one side you have 99.9% of scientists saying that we're screwed. On the other side you have 0.1% of scientists paid by oil megacorp lobbyists saying it's fine. Hmm... what should one conclude?

On one hand you have politicians and the ultrarich saying everything is okay. on the other hand, the same politicians and rich people are quietly buying safe houses and building seawalls and preparing for doomsday. Oh and the military is training for and developing technologies to deal with the new scenarios. Hmm... what could it mean?

We're boiling alive fast enough that we can't handle it, but slow enough that we won't do anything about it. The last two people on earth are going to die arguing about why it's so hot.
It seems that Polar might be a natural complement to Zotero, or at least it would be cool if the two could talk to each other; right now, I use the Zotfile plugin to extra PDF annotations, but I would much prefer to use Polar to do my studying.

If I had imagine a way in which the two could work together, it would be for Polar to be able to read from the Zotero library.

Are you guys on speaking terms with the Zotero team?
It isn't that simple and it's unnecessarily inflammatory.

A diet with a healthy amount of carbs from fruit, vegetables and grains may never trigger T2 diabetes in a healthy person.

That same diet could kill someone with T2 diabetes who isn't managing their condition with medication.
This looks a lot like bearer-bonds to me. Anyone knowing ("bearing") the key and having the means to use it is effectively the owner, except that ownership can be copied because digital. Pretty dangerous...

Perhaps the legal response here should be dismissal.
That, and how it seemed like Paul made it rain in the end. He was a man playing god, not an actual weather god.