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I don't see how the examples are any different to gender-neutral sexual comments.

It appears to be an issue with expectations for some people (including me). "Burger" is associated with a certain flavor, texture and appearance, so when I eat a veggie burger my s…

Society cares about working products, not the tech behind it - I don't see calls specifically for making critical software open source any time sooner than the year of the Linux de…

>With the GDPR in place, you theoretically now need to get consent every time This is false. There are multiple ways to justify processing of personal data, and your example would …

> Enforcing your moral values inside the company and even worse, using the company's power to force them to the world - only to abandon them when it hurts profits - is perverse IMO…

Not analyzing IP addresses to deliver more relevant results seems pretty aligned with that whole "respecting your privacy is our main selling point". I gladly add another word to m…

If I install an extension that sends agrees to a website then yes, it's the same as using a cat as a proxy, because objectively the request for consent has been fulfilled without i…

If the customer does not respond to your requests to accept your house rules you deny them service. GDPR is quite clear that "silent agreement" does not apply. GDPR Recital 32, sen…

The digital single market for online content services is effective since April: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/cross-border-p...

The important difference is that the only "license terms" for paperback copies are laws designed to protect publishers, whereas digital licenses can be as arbitrary as a publisher …

Same thing as WhatsApp. VC pay most of the bills until the network effect has cultivated the userbase to a size attractive for a buy out by a bigger fish.

Is it really a problem with the specific implementation (GDPR) or rather with the general idea that a person should be in control about their data?

"opt-out as default" in the context of GDPR means that all EU citizens have to be considered as not having given consent to usage of their personal data until they explicitly do so…

If compliance is impossible, it's probably because your business model is incompatible even with the spirit of GDPR - the notion that a person should have control over their data a…

Is it that unappealing for US citizens to get a STEM PhD? Especially in the US the private sector ought to offer enough jobs at the PhD level and pay to make the PhD worthwile.

The toxicity comes from the focus on competition and the lack of repercussion when misbehaving. A guild kicks you out if your negativity annoys too many or the wrong members, where…

Vendors don't put the 50% off sticker on it to make those happy who would have bought the item anyway. They put it on to trick people who would not pay 50$ for the article into doi…

You can fool many users into thinking they gave consent when they haven't. At least these won't resist further.

I can't find a section of GDPR requiring these individual toggles for each "partner". From my understanding a website owner could just as well list all partners and give the user t…

> Collecting PII is NOT illegal, as far as I can see. Nor can it be illegal. Article 6 [0] is phrased negatively, making collecting PII illegal unless x or y. These points cover al…

Both nudity and violence have their respective filter in the store preferences and one can also blacklist tags and individual products.

An underground data center would work if hurricane safety is your top concern. In any case a location on land is probably cheaper to rebuild.

In a European country with restricted access to guns most likely, where the police doesn't need tanks and machine guns to keep a situation under control. Also most people travel by…

Picture a shopping mile with a train station at one end. Many people will arrive by train, do their shopping and then want to return to the train station to get back home. You can …