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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:23AM (#38082595)
This is the "Pay or okay" model that some sites in Austria and Germany have ( https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-beginning-end and other updates from NOYB talk about the issue).

I've also seen a Spanish site with this, but as far as I know it has only been accepted by Austrian and German authorities (and challenged recently by some courts).

Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off on Thursday October 19, 2023 @09:22AM (#37942532)
Re:Squeezing a sokoban game into 10 lines of Haskell on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:14AM (#34924669)
It'd be 2 characters no? `head x` vs `x!!0`.
Re:Bad UI is causing people to get scammed on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:09AM (#32033890)
Verifying that it works in Firefox in Linux (with Gnome and with Sway, in case that matters). Thanks a lot for this!
Re:Google Analytics Opt Out on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:39AM (#25444620)
If GDPR is a concern, it has to be opt-in, so it wouldn't be compliant in any case.
Re:Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:36AM (#25147771)
> The "--force" / legacy option can't tell a difference between "broken solution that will work for you" and "broken solution which won't".

But probably it doesn't have to. "--force" implies that the user wants to go on and manage the consequences of what happens. Typing it requires actively adding that flag, which is a conscious decision on the part of the user. If the user wants to check by themselves if it works or not, that could be their prerogative.

Re:A Lesson in Acceptance on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:25AM (#24211331)
In the Spanish-speaking world you can find the endings -e, -@, and -x. Depending on the area/organization one or other can be used (also, differing ways of pronouncing them; I'm a native and barely have heard any one pronounce the -e versions ever).
Re:Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:40AM (#24036959)
This seems to ignore the Snowden revelations. I don't think most of the world trusts US companies qualitatively more than they trust Chinese companies for these kinds of apps.

Also, the discussion was about national security and you are giving different arguments here. How is this related to national security?

I'd think that it's cheaper not because it's risky (specially since Amazon says it inspects the item), but because it's second hand. Trying to pass the risk to the user is probably not what most people would expect.
What is your source on this? This opinion seems to be against what experts continue saying.
Re:Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:12AM (#21676088)
Well, that's not a defining characteristic of English but of most (all?) living, dynamic languages. I have seen it with the languages I speak or have tried to learn (Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese...).
Re:Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @07:07AM (#20211662)
Having a German (as parent poster) and Spanish phone for many years, I have never had a robocall. It's really surprising to me that this is a problem at all.
Re:Why I'm still using jQuery on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:05AM (#20021440)
Getting a

> Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

trying to access https://youmightneedjquery.com .

Fixed link: https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2019/04/appeals-...

There was a :wq at the end (too much vim everywhere ;) ).

Re:Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @02:12PM (#19731262)
This is true for quite some studies for bike commuters. The risk of accident is probably higher than getting public transport or walking (I don't know with respect to using a car; but that's less common in most places here in Europe), but the improved health conditions are worth it on average.
Maybe only the ones they had an easy excuse to remove?
Handlers are already ignoring the caution signs, though, just not for (at least) one product, TVs.
Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:37AM (#15921019)
It is my impression that corruption measures usually indicate corruption available or actively done by normal people without power (eg. bribing officers to get licenses or similar things).

Corruption by big corporations and similar things is usually another thing (although if things are corrupt in the low level, they will for sure be in the higher levels).

Re:Facebook Lies on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:02PM (#15393356)
I guess the problems started much earlier, and that court decision was actually a result of such issues.
Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:21PM (#15038777)
I don't think I agree with the grandparent, but usually swing voters don't change their political views, but rather political parties adapt their programs (or rather, propaganda) to appeal to them. So I don't think that's a good example.
Re:What is property based testing? on Monday April 03, 2017 @09:16AM (#14022496)
It's like QuickCheck, but instead of testing random values, it tests all values in a certain range.

For example, if the function takes an array of 128 bit values, it's test all the possible arrays of length 0, 1, 2... up to the length you want to test for.

(Actually, not necessarily all, but all that an exhaustive generator generates; the generator would normally go through all values, but it potentially could only test some values, but would not select them at random).

Re:C++ Has Become More Pythonic (2014) on Sunday May 01, 2016 @08:49AM (#11605985)
There's a comment by Fabio Fracassi ( http://preshing.com/20141202/cpp-has-become-more-pythonic/#I... ), member of the German delegation for the ISO C++ committee, contending that view. At roughly the same time that Python has been getting this features, many other languages have also been getting them, and usually without crediting Python influence (but rather other languages').
Re:Who owns Route 66? (2010) on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:48AM (#9309814)
There are other bubbling wines that are not called "champagne".
Marx was about something else, mostly. You should probably read a bit more of (or on) him.
In that there is no way to argue that the artist lost sales due to the copies, thus, no harm made.
Re:CoffeeScript 1.7.0 on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:46PM (#7140970)
I guess: -2 % 6 = -2, but -2 %% 6 = 4.
Re:The sum of all the positive integers is not -1/12 on Saturday January 18, 2014 @09:44AM (#7081089)
Just add 0 in front of the second sum. 0 + x = x, so it is the same.
Re:I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made on Saturday November 30, 2013 @10:31AM (#6823367)
You explicitly said "Communism in the formal sense". You were wrong with that.

Most ideologies and political or economic ideas have had their names subverted to mean something different by opponents (democracy, republicanism, communism, anarchism, capitalism...). That doesn't mean that if you speak in the "formal sense" you can decide to use whatever meaning you prefer.

Re:I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made on Saturday November 30, 2013 @08:31AM (#6823094)
Nope.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is not communism. Not even for Marx. It is the state before communism, in which the proletariat makes changes in society so that communism may take place.

Re:Sweden 'a close partner' in NSA surveillance on Sunday September 08, 2013 @08:02AM (#6348492)
What? Do you have reading skills?

The message you are answering to doesn't take a political position, it just says that the previous one has some facts wrong.

That said, I don't think you're either pro-eastern bloc or not. There are many political opinions one can have, and many aren't easily divided into pro-eastern bloc or not.

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