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New comment by bseow in "WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities"

bseow — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:47:05 +0000

You will have to specify if you don't like the purpose of the law or the implementation. Because the implementation isn't really up to the EU. Google could implement a http header tomorrow that complied with the law (at least as much as a notice) and would act like other ways of accessing your browser (like web camera or location). The problem is everyone would turn off the tracking, which would affect their revenue.

New comment by bseow in "China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars"

bseow — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 01:14:57 +0000

I don't see how it silly. Autonomous cars are going to be a game of information. I don't think it is in any nations interest to give that information away. If autonomous cars, artificial intelligence or any other technology is going to be as big as people say (or even just as big as computers, software and information is these days) then it's going to be a large part of the future wealth of a nation. Just like oil or even regular car manufacturing is today.

Also I think you severely overestimate the subtlety of Chinese propaganda.

New comment by bseow in "Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations"

bseow — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:52:42 +0000

I feel this has become a bit of a standard excuse for git. The reason I use a gui isn't because I don't know how git works (while I do forget that too from time to time), but because I can't remember the default behavior and notation of the git cli. I'd be perfectly happy if the cli was actually made to be "low level", but it to a large degree isn't. So if I'm going to have to remember what some abstraction does, it might as well be on a higher level.

One example of this is the table at the bottom of this page: https://git-scm.com/blog/2011/07/11/reset.html

New comment by bseow in "China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars"

bseow — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:09:27 +0000

One can question their methods. Still why should they let foreign companies map their country? Technology and information assets like everything else. They might be the natural resources of the 21st century. And a lot of countries might be giving up their chance of becoming the next Norway without even knowing it.