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I remember someone giving a lecture on software engineering methodologies who gave a pretty good summary by saying that "The methods are there to help your brain, not to replace yo…

I guess everything is relative, but I'm not sure I would say the economic damage is minimal. Maybe in comparison with other countries, but I'm not sure how clear that is. Especiall…

IANAL but I think the GDPR does not just look at the data in isolation, but considers the data and what it is used for. Thus if I give a company access to my data it does not give …

I guess I could have been more clear. I was not primarily discussing this particular case of what Discord is doing. Instead of I was against the notion that I cannot have any expec…

I find this notion that you should be absolved of all responsibilities just because you give it away for free to be completely wrong. They should still be transparent about what th…

This case reminds me a bit about the US embassy in Moscow, where the US let the Soviet provide them with premade concrete pieces for the construction [1]. The idea was that it woul…

I'm not sure why you do not just provide a citation for this claim that Swedish law prevented the investigation from proceeding. The claim which seems to be the closest to this see…

As explained in the answer to a sibling post, the question of if he is "locked" in the embassy or not seems mostly a philosophical one. Just imagine I used a different word if you …

Firstly, I was replying to a post which asked for in which concrete ways Assange was being treated differently from other people in similar situations. I have a bit of a hard time …

There is an article from a Swedish tabloid which could be of interest [1], unfortunately only available in Swedish AFAIK. The reason this article is of interest is mainly that it s…

Having been forced to dabble in the Microsoft world I have in general found documentation to, at least in some cases, be very sparse. Or maybe I've just not found the right resourc…

So, OK, taking a step back and thinking about this. So my impression from the public debate and so on in the western world is that discrimination is seen as unacceptable and really…

Not the person you were talking to, but to me this just feels like a MASSIVE straw man. If you can show that some company prefers men and actually discriminates against women, I th…

Any chance you could elaborate on this, because I dont really understand how it answers my original question. I have not checked recently, but last I saw, the database libraries fo…

Not sure if I'm missing something, but for the Techempower Bencharks [1] I had the impression that the bottleneck for other rust libraries were in accessing the database rather tha…

Well, the data does not just appear on strava all by itself. I made an assumption that a non-neglible fraction of the data uploaded was from Garmins/fitness trackers or similar dev…

In this particular case I'm not sure that blocking internet access at the base will solve much since the data is stored on the device, and it's enough to bring the device to a loca…

One thing I find rather odd is how noone raises an eyebrow that apparently the US happily admitts to having some enormous spy network in China. It is especially puzzeling if one co…

Not really a mathematician, so take this with a grain of salt. I would guess there are probably several different reasons for "looking down" on proof assistants. On the one hand we…

My understanding of cryptocurrencies is rather limited, so maybe I'm wrong, but I dont see how this is possible. If you create a "fork" it will either include the transaction or no…

One thing with all of this which puzzles me as a non-American, how does the "acceptance" of people getting killed by the police fit together with the whole anti-gorvernment thing w…

I'm not sure I can provide an actual quote on this and was more my understanding of what people are arguing, I could be mistaken, I'm not sure. But it would seem to me that accepti…

If I understand things correctly the argument by feminists etc is something along the lines of "there are no differences between men and women, and thus any difference in outcome m…

Firstly, you somehow did not even consider my whole point, which was that being a "geek"/"dork"/"nerd"/whatever is not exactly something men are encouraged to be. And based on this…

Firstly I think that Bittorrent-style techniques are or have been used in some places even though it may not have been advertised very clearly. For example until a few years ago Sp…