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> Reading the title alone gives the impression that this is a change to appease the LGBT community or after receiving some similar pressure. Because that's the real impetus behind …

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AKA, "up to the whims of a bureaucrat"? My god the pro-GPDR brigade is running wild.

> I expect it is quite more nuanced than his description of dead/not dead and summing up the material on both sides. It is a bit more nuanced. There are heuristics ( breadth and de…

So sad to see reddit leaking into HN. > There's a way for small companies to avoid this - take your user's data security at least slightly seriously No kidding. My point wasn't abo…

> Have they ever not been? The mongol conquest of china? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_dynasty > I think through history…

> Anyone bashing the GDPR for being too hostile towards startups and smaller businesses should read this. Looks like the fine was almost a bit too low in this case... You make it s…

> And these "news" are not fact-checked by any authority anymore. Yes. Because when the ministry of truth is in charge, things are so much better. /s The problem is that "fact chec…

What is he going to be tried for? Doing actual journalistic work rather than being a "pretend journalist" that we have working in all our "news" companies?

This should be the HN motto: "If you aren't paying for it, you are the product". Also, VPN isn't a magic cure for the disease of privacy violation. You are just choosing to trust t…

> Something needs to change, the same way Reddit’s ranking algorithm was changed based on Randall Munroe’s public suggestion. That was a long time ago. Reddit ranking is even worse…

> p.s. Please don't get offended that I said Japan was a tick too small for me. It doesn't have to fit me, I don't live there. I was just making an observation. :) Why would anyone…

> E.g. many of the naive arguments for razing Confederate history can be applied to American history, Native American history, etc. Without nuance, the conversation becomes "we are…

> Does anyone know how effective incognito mode is at preventing data and privacy abuses like this? Incognito mode really doesn't do much. It only prevents storing browsing data lo…

> I wonder if there are similar courses on CS algorithms for people who didn't study CS in college. This might be a bit more challenging and less hand holding than the nand2tetris …

> I believe US foreign policy will potentially have very large changes due to their new found energy independence. It's possible but I think corporate interests, rather than our en…

Agreed. I like 12 monkeys better as a movie ( just my style of movie ) but brazil is a far more realistic dyspotian reality. Dystopia by the mundane and the bureaucratic rather tha…

You are free to give up your unfair privilege and move to the less privileged parts of the world. > It is kind of sad that we have this way of carving up the world into arbitrary p…

Fear sells. And the news sell fear. Something is always tearing america apart. We are always on the brink. The past few months, it's facebook tearing us apart. Last year, it was pu…

> Without their content what will Google search? Wikipedia, blogs? I hope so. The internet was better when news was an afterthought. > Without news content google search users will…

> Give China another 20 years and they will surely have overtaken the USA in world leadership. I guess anything is possible but I highly doubt it. Do you really think culturally, l…

That used to be a good idea 4 or 5 years ago. Sadly now aggregators are echo chambers themselves due to publisher pressure.

It's clickbait "news" and "studies". So much of the media and "science" is useless people doing useless nonsense just to make money. "Why you shouldn't work remotely". "Why you sho…

Even kids with allergies benefit. "—Among children with some reaction to peanuts on the skin test: Only 11 percent of peanut eaters developed an allergy versus 35 percent of abstai…

There is a significant portion of developers ( particular web and app ) and IT staff who never studied computer science in college but instead moved into programming/IT mid career.…