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Eh, I think I have something interesting to say on this topic. I'm not making a "religious flame war", merely stating that literal and thorough implementations of scriptures cause …

Well, by thorough I simply meant not skipping any part. And those horrible parts of scriptures from religions originating from middle east (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) really can…

True, but the only way to make it more sensible is to be less thorough. I.e. not implement certain rules that are stated explicitly in the books. Like modern Christians and Jews th…

It's worth to mention the consequences explicitly: if you happen to mention you're fleeing because of religious oppression it may be considered apostasy, which is punishable by dea…

As much as I like GDPR, I have no idea why would this law be any good. Perhaps I'm not seeing something here - can anyone explain how this law is good for society?

Ugh. Thanks for pointing it out.

Why would you want to make it a price to pay? We choose what's legal and what's not, it's not given to us in some great revelation. Do you think people's lives would be better with…

Not sure what your point is. I can just suggest to see the PDF: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411935

Yeah I meant that there's another layer to the symbolic representation of "sqrt(2)" than just the tree of operation, so that you can ask sensible questions about the value of the n…

US needs (something like) GDPR. 2% to 4% of revenue is a good starting point for a penalty. In the absence of a penalty why would anyone running a Telco company not take the extra …

Yup, it is possible. That was just a hand wavy example to show where the issue is. Symbolic real numbers need not be represented as small programs/objects generating a sequence of …

It's extremely counter intuitive what would happen if a computer system (a Turing machine) was operating symbolically on real numbers, not floating point numbers which have vastly …

You have a point, but the problem is that there's no way to not spew data out in public spaces. I'd have to cut off all of the following: - my mobile phone - my landline phone - al…

Thanks, I'll look out for that. @tapland and @jgibson also mention that mobile networks often outsource running the infra. In any case - I agree with you that this seems like a shi…

Good to know, thank you! It should be enough to harass one's provider, but perhaps a more broad approach will work.

This is interesting, if that's indeed the case then I'll publish my findings and encourage people to 1) fill similar requests, 2) fill requests for data deletion and ceasing of fur…

I'm not familiar with how GSM networks operate. Why would I send a request to Huawei or Ericsson? Don't they just provide networking equipment? Or do they also provide services, pa…

See, one of the reasons why I'd prefer someone who speaks legalese to do this :) Thanks, makes sense. I wanted to make it clear I'm not happy with a response "Yeah sir, you live he…

That's what I'd do if I were in their shoes. I planned to document it and share with wider audience in case I find something out of the ordinary. For example, if they kept my locat…

Nothing fancy, and I sent it to the contact point they have in their privacy policy. You can find it on their websites (or at least I found it; in my case it was just an email but …

You guys need (something like) GDPR in the US. I believe it's a necessity.

For EU folks: anyone tried a GDPR request to their phone provider to figure out what do they collect and what do they store? I'm thinking any of the following are within the realm …

I'm thinking of doing that to see if they collect and if so how long do they store any of the following information: - Call history, including metadata and potentially also content…

So, if I understand correctly, the source of bullshit here would be some sort of soft coercion/engineering of consent? Over something that people don't need/shouldn't need? I.e. so…