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Comment Re: Will we finally learn our lesson? (Score 1) 32

True. Capitalism works best if the profits are for you and the costs for your customers or workers. But that's why we have compliance with penalties. The EU is increasing the number of compliance regulations for this every year. With good reason.

But the first rule should be: don't store data you don't need for your business process. Treat data as toxic waste: less is more.

Comment Re: Wrong solution. (Score 1) 32

We all know that this data is a lot more than just name and address. Apart from that, that data doesn't need to be accessible outside a strictly limited time window and can be encrypted at any other time. This means it should perhaps have its own system.

I once worked for the tax authorities and recommended they split up their archive in two parts: one containing the search keys, such as social security numbers, names etc, as well as indexes to random document keys, and the other containing the actual data and the random keys. Different data fields? different random keys even to the same documemt, to prevent linking data that way. Both databases secured and managed separately.

They were interested but I haven't seen them doing it yet. The devs don't seem to understand the concept.

Comment Re: overpriced vomit generator (Score 1) 20

It's becoming quite clear that semaglutide works by reducing the addiction component of eating, but also affects other addicting substances.

And the nausea discussed apparently counts if you have one episode of nausea or vomiting in a given year. I've had that without semaglutide often enough.

That it doesn't work on Alzheimer isn't a huge surprise to me, the latest research indicates there is a far higher likelihood of Alzheimer being caused by an immune response gone wrong, than by being fat. However, the things that make you fat may also moderate that immune response.

Comment Re: won't be able to count genders (Score 1) 259

All the people saying genders are simple biology are completely clueless. You're no exception.

Gender is the way society views a given sexe. They're not the same. And sexe is not strictly binary, it's trinary. We do have trisomies in our genes, although it's a small minority it's very decidedly not zero.

Calling the mix between gender roles and sexe simple just means you don't understand the biology to begin with. And you will likely keep ignoring that "simple" biology in order to make a political point of your prejudice against a small group used as scapegoat by, oh irony, a convicted sex offender.

Comment Re: One of the few advantages of a repressive reg (Score 1) 179

It is fairly obvious what's going on, because nowadays you can just buy satellite pictures for a few hundred dollars.

And that is not counting the verified reports of hundreds of women raped in the camps, or the pleasant little habit of installing party members and soldiers in the houses of Uyghurs in jail to look after their kids - including teenage daughters.

It is ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide. The Han Chinese are truly despicable.

Comment Re: What exactly is "Steam" anyway? (Score 3, Interesting) 164

And Epics platform still sucks. It's so bad I mostly even ignore the free games they offer. The hassle of finding stuff on their platform is so much worse than on Steam.

People may complain about steams cut of the profit, but at least it provides a payment platform, merchandising platform, shop in shop, patch service, addon delivery platform, and content delivery platform. Oh, and authentication and cloud storage. They're all part of the platform.

Really big publishers may build that for themselves but smaller ones just can't afford that. So steam does it for them.

There are many reasons to dislike a monopoly, but what is the alternative here?

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