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I mean terms of service are not that hard to read. Facebook's TOS is only 4k words long. It is not particularly dense or full of legalese. I have written source code comments a ten…

No less an authority than Danny Baker . . . the comedy writer, born in '57? Or else who? How would he know about this?

This is silly. We do not know that the overall construction methodology had anything to do with the bridge's collapse. Does the Nipigon River Bridge's collapse show how cable-staye…

Which tech corporations have complained about this tax?

90% of billions and billions of dollars is still billions and billions of dollars.

I agree we are not using the same definition of data discovery. In my use case, you know a priori which user provided the data, you just need to plumb the information through to al…

Hrm, did you expect me to design the output of an entire industry in an HN comment? I didn't say it was easy to do. But it is what must be done. My goal was not to provide code, bu…

> we have no idea which overheads are actually going to prove justified and which are just throwing money away Life is risk. I contend that if you make a good faith effort to compl…

> For a letter like this . . . our lawyer is the first call I'm making /shrug It's your money. You could do that, or you could even light it on fire if you wish. It's no skin off m…

> How do you automate personal data discovery, especially for already existing data? You attach an owner id to every record, and make sure all your systems can dump all information…

Hopefully if you are a company that small, you haven't had time to develop multiple data warehouses. You can write up a script to query your single warehouse to get the necessary d…

You probably need a lawyer to help you write the document the first time, and to update it when you make new partnerships or develop major new pipelines for data. You probably don'…

Ha. With my friends, if we have one of these "we don't know" scenarios, and my friend tries to take out their phone to look it up, I tell them to put that goddamned thing away. Kno…

There are a lot of private parking garages in NYC. Are those all government mandated?

And if it's your car, and you want to claim that it's not you, they ask you who it is.

Don't forget that cars are much less than 50% here, and bus commuters are among the people that stand to benefit.

Unless you are disabled, moving between adjacent floors is pretty easy with stairs. And lots of types of disabilities that would prevent the use of stairs would seem to make these …

*in languages without tail call optimization.

Mostly agreed, although it's hard to judge. I wouldn't want to be the one that always has to pick up after everyone else either.

Measurable results are all well and good, but it can be helpful to know how the baseline was established. Measurable results aren't "portable" without a well-established baseline.

According to the ruling, the CEO wouldn't be liable personally unless the violation is willful. Which, having been adjudicated in German court, it now would be. If the CEO becomes …

> For the same reason naval battles in the real world weren't always fought by ramming ships into other ships. If a single ship could wipe out a whole enemy fleet via ramming in te…

Obviously, everyone is entitled to enjoy what they want, but this movie was difficult for me, even by Star Wars standards. If we can just destroy entire enemy fleets by jumping to …

Yep! It was probably overstepping on my part to say that the entire benefit depends on that argument. I should instead have said that the tradeoff does not seem good to me.

My biggest object to the functional options argument is the step where NewServer(..., Config{}) is considered bad for some reason. As far as I can tell, the entire purported utilit…