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nroach

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About nroach

ex-Privacy Lawyer and Startup advisor

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43834212

    I've also found that the extension configuration isn't very durable. I wound up having to re-do the arcane setup process semi-annually on each device or my searches would 403. Even…

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    Comment #43167179

    Are these the droids you’re looking for? https://github.com/apple/security-pcc

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    Comment #38540954

    For me, this feature is worth the price. Especially if it means my save history isn’t just sold to adtech as it is with some free services.

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    Comment #37911041

    Some companies supply that information voluntarily. Experian (iirc) even has a product offering that ‘helps employees qualify for loans and demonstrate stable earnings’ if the comp…

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    Comment #36053931

    How do you avoid bird strikes? At least near me, seabirds +180mph ground effect seems problematic

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    Comment #36053872

    Having gone through this myself recently, it should not apply to parents attending events, if they are just a passive attendee, such as being in an audience for a school play. It d…

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    Comment #33826257

    > Ad-free premium search is already an option with Brave Search Is the premium search ad-free in the sense that no user-derived data is utilized or extractable for advertising purp…

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    Comment #32615722

    Even if ads do not appear on the product, it doesn’t mean that the data isn’t used to drive ads revenue. Are these addresses used for conversion measurement?

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    Comment #31349154

    When I was in private practice at a small firm, I would often take care of things like this at no charge for good clients if I could knock it out in a few minutes. It's the old "ou…

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    Comment #29792123

    Some people choose to serve on juries out of a sense of civic responsibility and don’t seek exclusion.

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    Comment #25051506

    This would be amazing if eGPU drivers were developed.

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    Comment #24698968

    Also this is magnified with many kids out of school. With reduced child to parent transfer those that do need to go in to the office may have less background infectivity. When my k…

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    Comment #23080979

    Some people that work early-shifted days do so because they have child care obligations. Many day cares charge by the minute for late pick-ups. So an abrupt departure may not be 10…

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    Comment #21686691

    Is the CPM assertion supported by data? Does it factor in incentives at the federal level that are subject to sunset provisions? Does it include local incentives that are inconsist…

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    Comment #21632704

    Not true. While hurt feelings isn't the legal standard, it doesn't have to rise to firing or hiring impact either. The ADEA standards apply to age discrimination. The ADEA prohibit…

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    Comment #21345392

    Part of the issue is that Gitlab's approach signals a "we don't know what we don't know" problem. Enterprises have been dealing with GDPR, CCPA, and data privacy issues for several…

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    Comment #21286348

    Many data protection regulations, GDPR included, have exemptions that ensure that smaller organizations are not impacted until they are sufficiently large to bear responsibility fo…

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    Comment #21028644

    according to the link the Wing drone doesn't land. It hovers and lowers the package by winch.

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    Comment #20889104

    Garnishment is against accounts held by a third party. If the right to withhold or draw from already-authorized sources is part of their contract on either the payments or lending …

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    Comment #20887503

    Can you supply some references for the keystroke assertion?

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    Comment #20769609

    Part of the problem is that tracking at scale really does add convenience (automatic home to work detection, traffic pattern detection, real-time routing around events.) But then u…

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    Comment #20636199

    ... if incremental income is tied to number of deliveries. If the driver was contractually obligated to work that day anyway, and the incremental load simply increased the time at …

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    Comment #20383270

    Tolerance for and expectation of "please" can be cultural. OS code may receive contributions from global contributors. Anecdotally, in my team which spans individuals from each con…

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    Comment #20274464

    The disincentive to new entrants is that the existing market participants can always drop prices enough to make the new entrant unprofitable. If you're in a control of a monopoly o…

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    Comment #19488666

    This is a pretty common post-startup experience. You'll likely find that positions in the Senior Manager to Director/Senior Director range are a good fit. It's often easiest for ha…