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The best advice if you intend to market something globally, and either comply with or avoid GDPR regulation -- either way -- is to hire a lawyer or a firm who has actual GDPR expertise.

My understanding from reading the GDPR text and multiple law firm and FAQ summaries is that GDPR applies to marketing specifically to the EU. The text of Article 3 is clearly stating that GDPR doesn't apply to everyone in the world, and doesn't apply for the sole reason that EU residents purchase something globally. But, the wording is also vague, GDPR has been widely criticized for it's lack of lack of specifics.

Personally, I currently believe that if you do not mention EU, do not market to the EU specifically in any way, and do not track or separate EU related data from global data, then GDPR may not apply. Marketing globally may not be sufficient to require GDPR compliance. But, it might also be easy to cross that line by doing something as simple as using Google Analytics, where it shows you behavior per region, so might be considered tracking EU activities. I don't know where the line is, so hire a GDPR lawyer.
> you can see that in today’s China where every form of political jokes (even in private online conversations) is prohibited and actively acted against.

I wonder how you managed to “see” that, since it’s not true at all. If you know Chinese you’ll be able to find political jokes pretty much everywhere on Chinese language websites, especially forums. Some words may be banned by forum software but people just use homophones. Also not surprisingly, no one actually gives a shit about political jokes in private conversations, unless you’re a foreign journalist or known troublemaker or something, I guess (source: done that multiple times within Chinese borders).
I said nothing of the sort. Since I went to great trouble to avoid any hint of that in my post, I suggest you re-read my post and apologize.
That’s a misconception. Monty from xiph.org explains it well. see https://youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM
I'm having exactly these problems, with exactly these companies: CVS and BC Anthem. Doctor writes prescriptions; some are limited in doses, some delayed, some with no copay, some priced barbarically, and some flat out refused. Then the doctor's office has wizards that help advocate and sometimes that works, sometimes there's a delay, and sometimes never.

In all cases, the patient suffers. They are already facing a medical condition, maybe serious, plus stress from missing work and home life, stress about the future, stress for paying for it all, and then along comes these sharks who will double it all with more stress and worry and anger. Then on top of that they don't get all the types and amounts of medicine their doctor actually wants, based on science and experience, so they will get inferior treatment in every way.

Yes we need to cut the price gouging. Adding friction at this interface is not the way.
>They also have the ability to override the policy.

From my understanding, they do not. At least not outside of a certain margin of error, since the payer (for example a state government or employer) would then blame the PBM for approving payment something it wasn't supposed to approve payment for, and hence seek reimbursement from the PBM or cancel its contract and go with another PBM.
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WoW! i totally love it the syntax sugar is beautiful. and seems to have good oo support, struct, protocols and http stack. It would be interesting to see some opengl examples though.
Right, yeah I agree paranoia isn't the right word. I don't know what the right word would be though. While he must have been aware of being monitored by his government, I suspect it would still have come off as paranoia to the people who knew him or knew of him, justified or not.
Potosi is so synonomous with wealth that the word literally means "a fortune" in Spanish now. Like another poster touched on, this came at immense human cost.

https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/potos%C3%AD
A patient was on Humira then went on medicare. Medicare would not cover Humira and this patient had to go on Remicade.

The difference? Humira is able to be given by self at home. Remicade requires an infusion by a nurse.
There’s a lot of power in refactoring, but I’ll allow that some of it is counterintuitive. Anything counterintuitive requires state of mind and experience to line up and that’s quite hit or miss.

When that awful Design Patterns book was off the hype train but the new devs had heard about it and asked if they should read it, I would tell them No, read Refactoring twice instead, because it tells you why and when to use this stuff, which is much more valuable. Like feature work, if you know why you are doing something you can often reason out the gaps in the “what” on your own.

We sort of take a bunch of XP processes as a given and forget that this was Agile for most people at the time of the manifesto. Scrum pretends it’s separate but is essentially useless without half of XP.
That’s a common explanation, and it’s true at low sampling rates. However, we can fairly provably sample at greater rates than the human ear can perceive. A lot of the actual difference between vinyl and more recent digitized recordings is different decisions made during production, most notably performing volume compression to increase perceived loudness, which definitively reduces the nuance of the final product (but also leads to higher ratings for singles).
No. We are not display-bound. There are tunable lasers and optical parametric oscillators commercially available that will output a specific frequency under computer control, throughout the visible spectrum. There are also frequency comb laser devices that emit a picket fence of frequencies, spanning the visible spectrum, each with a precisely known frequency. Tunable laser sources exist from the far infrared to the vacuum ultraviolet.
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I'm on 12.1.2 on Mojave. Weird!
I can't read the article, since it doesn't work on Safari with content blocker enabled, but it's pretty clear that a doctor is free to prescribe whatever they want. The patient is free to obtain the prescription also. The third party payer is also free to object to paying for something it believes should not be paid for under the agreement between the patient and the payer.
Did the course use a particular text? As an oil painter I'm interested in rigorous color science, but I have no affiliation with a university.
Can confirm, have heard # in programming referred to as hashtag by young students.
> Procreation isn't limited to marriage.

True, but the fact remains that the fertility rate is below the population replacement rate as well.
The engineers who I have seen game these systems inspire a mix of anger, jealousy and admiration. I can never decide if those of us working hard and trying to make things better are dumb or if the people exploiting company policies are.

I watched a new hire recently lynchpin himself into a critical part of the software, make larger then life promises about new “cutting edge” tech in presentations, constantly post articles in Slack, and finally stop showing up or being online much at all other than to do some lip-service and make the occasional PR. I am a little envious of how little he does and how much praise he receives for checking all the boxes with higher ups.
It is in this context. Directors like 24 FPS because it is more arty than 60 FPS, but really it is strictly inferior. Even if you prefer a lower frame rate for weird aesthetic reasons, just shoot at a high frame rate and then cut every other frame so people can choose.

It's like, nobody thinks 1080p is better than 4k. Or that 8 bit dynamic range is better than 10 bit. So why do some directors think that 24 FPS is better than 60? Art. Right.
Well, a marquee (not necessarily the HTML element per se but the design element) is often used on news sites/forums, at least amongst those I visit currently - it's used there as a news ticker.

I could go on and argue that it's far more common than a toast (which I barely see at all. Than again I don't like PWAs and try to avoid browsing from mobile when I can). But the sites I visit are not remotely representative at all, so I could well be wrong. I guess the sites you visit are also not remotely representative.

IMHO, The fact that <marquee> was added and supported for so long (despite 'deprecation') is the best indication there's some demand for it, a better indicator than our browsing habits. Marquee is definitely more distinctive than <toast> is from other elements and better supported. So IMHO there's a much better case for including it compared to <toast>.

P.S. The browser provided date pickers are so poorly designed and inconsistent I wish they didn't provide them at all. It's something I always override when I have time to do it.
i don't call my girlfriend my customer, it's a completely appropriate metaphor when speaking about culture-level aggregate effects. you should reflect on why all of your responses in this thread boil down to attacks on a perceived outgroup instead of engagement with ideas.
It’s always “different this time”. Uber still hasn’t proven it has a sustainable business model. It’s marginal profit is still negative with no signs of bring cash flow positive. During the dot com boom the first time, you also had companies going public with no profitability and crazy valuations.
That's really no different from a child figuring out how far it can take various mischief before pissing off its parents. Why wouldn't corporations do what children do?
> Facebok

It's funnier when they don't proofread.
I am happy with DigitalOcean.
Do they agree that future generations will be dealing with a hot ass climate in 200 years if we don't turn things around?

You'd have to be incredibly selfish to not consider that a crisis.
Selling a dollar for 80 cents, i'll have unlimited revenue this year :)
From some cases in which I've been interviewed:

- A very large online footprint associated vaguely with the story.

- Knew the reporter socially.

- Knew the reporter through previous contacts. (Emailing the publication can do this.)

- Chaining through other contacts -- "oh, you should talk to ...".

That includes a decade or three's experience. Today with social media the task is much easier.

Various public filings (court records, consumer complaints to gov't offices, to watchdog groups) can also trigger journalist follow-ups, depending on the case.

The reporter very likely talked to 10x the people cited in the article -- one reason good journalism is hard. As with high-quality video and audio production, it's what's left out that makes what's left in much better.
lol. That's when you start looking for a new job.

I'll never understand why, in such a hot market, people put up with such B.S. Every single company is looking for software engineers. you're leaving money on the table by not being on the market.

I've switched companies every 2-3 years and with a big salary bump each time that I use as leverage to negotiate the next.
This is a pretty straightforward antitrust case, right? They're leveraging their position as one of the largest employers in the US to gain a unfair competitive advantage for their digital currency if they pay their employees with it.
I take it that you aren't a fan of pan and scan.
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure I see any connection between generalizing about every member of a group, and using the term masses.
Oh, yes, IPv6 saves you from worrying about addressing, which is a huge headache in IPv4. I agree with that and IPv4 address conflicts are a personal frustration. IPv6 doesn't save you from "fancy routing" and mostly does not save you from "nat," though. That's what I was responding to.

I'm hesitant to use IPv6 because it is not merely IPv4 + more addresses, it's IPv4 + more addresses + a very clever design that hides the L2 vs. L3 distinction by relying heavily on multicast groups + a replacement for ARP + a replacement for DHCP + etc. etc. etc. I know I shouldn't be using IPv4 in 2019, but I don't have a better option. I'm not excited about clever systems, hiding, the assumption that multicast works reliably, losing the last few decades of monitoring and debugging tools, happy eyeballs, etc., and I'm not willing to subject my users to the resulting outages simply because it'll save me the headache of thinking about numbering.
Did you consider treatment at the Dead Sea in Israel? From what I've read it has helped many people that are dealing with psoriasis and perhaps in the long run it might be cheaper than buying medicine?

One example story (but you can find many more I'm sure): http://www.papaa.org/articles/dead-sea-personal-report
> But today’s protection times — life plus 70 years — are absurd. No investor would even look at a business case where the time to pay-back was that long.

This is something that should resonate with the HN crowd. The heart of the problem is that the law treats big media and the independent artist the same way. Instead of the flat 5 year copyright term for every piece of work, I think a system that works better is that after 5 years, the copyright on an item can be annually extended by an year using a small fee - say the original sale cost x 10.

The independent artist can renew the few items he has created easily at this small price. But Big Media houses, who own the copyright of tens of thousands of items will have to release any items that no longer sell and do not directly compete with their current offerings.
I see. Has it been challenged ? I think a European citizen buying certain kind of products (pharma for instance) and then ending up in a marketing or adtech database means GDPR would apply (because of the monitoring for retargeting purposes for instance).
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Apparently it was both. The WAF was used to SSRF the metadata service which would have exposed the role.

Why a WAF role needed so much access to data is something that's hard to explain, and would suggest a major fuckup by the teams involved.
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So, just from observation, when developing new tech, there is always LAST to market advantage. MS was LAST to market. Google was LAST to market. Kubernetes was LAST to market. Apple was LAST to market (After MS and Palm).

I think that Agile is good after the market is captured. But when developing the core tech (usually with no customers beside product managers and based on research), it might be too constraining.
Isn't ASCII indexing constant time and Unicode grapheme indexing ~linear time?
I don't mean abandoned in a particularly negative sense, exactly because it's normal for research project to be left behind as you describe.

But from the point of view of a potential user, this kind of software is undeveloped, unsupported and rotting away (e.g. about two Clang versions behind): probably useful as a prototype to plunder and reimplement, not as a tool to get things done.
nobody but targets are in the line of fire when americans blow up villages in waziristan or whatever
I’m sure advertising isn’t the only source of their revenue
An incentive may be process improvement, combined with competitive products.

Faulty items returned to the store may or may not be returned to the manufacturer. In trying to suss out what went wrong, having the actual failed hardware in hand is useful.

And certain sectors (especially manufacturing) face numerous other competitors. A few bad reviews can have a large impact on purchases.
Yes. https://www.odenserobotics.dk/
If you want to experience for yourself the effect frame rate (and the related motion blur) has, this is a really great demo:

https://frames-per-second.appspot.com
Funnily enough that was what I was thinking about when I wrote my post.
Come on, surely everyone has seen a fight scene or some other action scene shot with a shakey cam at 24 FPS that just is impossible to follow? It doesn't let you immerse yourself, if anything it pulls me out of the action because I have to look away or I'll be sick.
I think the most salient point in your link is:

>Even more significantly, from the point of view of the problem of character encoding for digital textual representation in information technology, the preexisting identification of Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic as distinct scripts was carried over into character encoding, from the very earliest instances of such encodings. Once ASCII and EBCDIC were expanded to start incorporating Greek or Cyrillic letters, all significant instances of such encodings included a basic Latin (ASCII or otherwise) set and a full set of letters for Greek or a full set of letters for Cyrillic. Precedent for the purposes of character encoding was clearly established by those early 8-bit charsets.

That's true, although it reminded me of a cool charset: the Russian KOI8-R encoding[1]. This encoding was created so that if you stripped the high bit (presumably on a system unable to handle russian properly) you ended up with semi-legible latinized Russian. Quoting wikipedia:

>For instance, "Русский Текст" in KOI8-R becomes rUSSKIJ tEKST ("Russian Text") if the 8th bit is stripped; attempting to interpret the ASCII string rUSSKIJ tEKST as KOI7 yields "РУССКИЙ ТЕКСТ". KOI8 was based on Russian Morse code, which was created from Latin Morse code based on sound similarities, and which has the same connection to the Latin Morse codes for A-Z as KOI8 has with ASCII.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R
We have a saying in the US, which I don't think anyone follows anymore:

"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order."
No, but some people are sensitive. I suspect most Google developers consider themselves part of "the masses"
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> If treating a large group as a unified actor is improper, then giving another group another label and doing the same thing...because it's that group is in a different classification, is also improper.

I think this is the logical leap that people aren't understanding. Generalizing means assuming things about individuals based on their group membership: OP wasn't saying it's a moral failing, but that it leads to inaccurate assumptions when applied to the heterogenous group in question.

What's the analogy to using the term "the masses"?
Why mock eventual consistency though? I get it, some megacorps and VC funded startups are pushing strong consistency and attacking other consistency model, but it's just aggressive PR detached from reality. If you try various consistency models, you'll find the coordination-free camp of consistency models to be much nicer and much easier to work with, reason about and strong consistency is not actually all that strong and more like a lie in every single practical deployment that has to interact with humans and they always have to build eventual consistency on top if they actually need some guarantees.
Guns are necessary but not sufficient. Guns + independent, civil society groups are what make a healthy democracy.

The idea is to back civil society with an implicit, but never used, question of force.

If things break down into shooting, that's civil war. And who knows what happens next, but it's not likely to be good for anyone or the country.
Well, I have hardware routers that know about L2, and I'd like to have them do as much routing as possible. I'm running Quagga to advertise my VXLAN routes to my hardware routers, so packets originated on bare metal can reach my virtualized infrastructure and vice versa. I want them to know that if the machine advertising this particular IPv6 subnet is in the same rack, packets can go there and don't have to go to a dedicated gateway for all my VXLAN traffic.

I could run IPv6 on the inside and IPv4 on the outside, sure. I worry this is going to trigger more edge cases than either running IPv6 the way it was intended or IPv4 the way it was intended.
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This is nothing new and is the process by which insurance companies reduce drug costs.

Insurers come up with formularies that favor less expensive drugs first. If those don’t work, the patient can get the more expensive drugs.

Manufacturers negotiate formulary agreements. They might offer a rebate to move their product to first line use.

In therapeutic areas like psoriasis, the rebates can exceed 50% since it’s such a competitive class with more than a dozen products.
>If United, however asks how clean the aircraft was and there was chocolate smeared on my seat they get a 1 out of 5.

Well, but then that is not nit picking anything, it is objectively reporting issues that are real.

From your original post it sounded (to me at least) like you would downrate a hotel because the maid forgot to leave in the bathroom a shower cap. (as opposed to just call service for one, if needed)

BTW I know someone that actually did that, and he was (is) completely bald.
This looks very cool!!!

We maintain an open source testing proxy that lets you do things like make assertions about performance, network requests, and other things like capturing a har. It would integrate really well with this if you're interested.

https://github.com/browserup/browserup-proxy
While this is perfectly fine for you and for everyone who makes this understandable decision, what tends to happen is that people learning about bleeding edge of technology tend to have very different perception of what bleeding edge tech is. Every new buzzy technology is so oversold that it makes developers overly cynical and disappointed when it doesn't deliver on the promises made.

If you or others such as yourself did blog about success stories, or real-world experiences in General, other engineers would perhaps have a more sober perspective of the bleeding edge and would make more informed decisions when deciding to switch stacks instead of just "hey its cool and the latest fad".

Again, I don't really expect you to change your behavior at all, this is just a description of what happens in aggregate.
The problem with seccomp is that it operates at the level of system calls. An application could use seccomp to, for example, restrict what system calls it can invoke. However libraries usually consider what system calls they use an implementation detail that can be changed at any time. This forces the application programmer to pay attention to library internals.
I'm in the same boat. Currently taking Taltz, but only until their $25 copay program kicks me off in 18 months. After that, my insurance copay goes up to $600 a month (actual cost to them is $5k).

I have no idea what I'll do after that.
Wife is on a similar journey. Medical Mutual in Ohio has been great as well. Just received two bottles of pills for her next therapy regimen and the cost on the packing list is $16K. $0 to us.
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> Market doesn't mean advertise

Broadly speaking, the verb "to market" does mean "to advertise or promote" (try Googling "define market", and see the verb definition).

> so yes, bringing products to market for the world is also bringing them to market for the EU.

While that's true in a sort of technical sense, the GDPR text explicitly contradicts the notion that failing to restrict EU citizens from buying something amounts to requiring GDPR compliance.
A good idea is to search for the URL before submitting, BUT see below.
> a doctor is free to prescribe whatever they want

Presumably not "whatever they want", presumably it's a bit more structured then that.

> The third party payer is also free to object

Aren't the patients payers too?

Read the article, it's nice.