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New comment by nocha in "Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak"

nocha — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:03:31 +0000

Can you provide examples? The only example of a 'scientific' study I am aware of is the disgraced Wakefield stuff which has been disproven so many times it isn't even funny. That's before you add in the malpractice that happened and the conflict of interest he held.

Ask HN: GDPR and the Civil Rights Act 1964

nocha — Fri, 25 May 2018 12:55:52 +0000

With the wave of sites blocking users based in the EU as they don't want to comply with the GDPR, has anybody looked into the legality of these blocks? Specifically, how do they tie in with the Civil Rights act 1964 which prohibits discrimination based on national origin...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17153178

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New comment by nocha in "StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations"

nocha — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:10:39 +0000

That is also PII being used for the purpose it was collected for (identifying a contributor) and I believe falls under Art.6(1)(f) of the GDPR. You would likely have a hard time convincing anybody that you can apply the right to be forgotten to a git repo - especially as that particular processing can be argued to not be requiring consent once you have submitted your commits.

New comment by nocha in "Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law"

nocha — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:59:08 +0000

Actually it kinda does... Article 27: "the controller or the processor shall designate in writing a representative in the Union"

New comment by nocha in "I downloaded an app and was part of the Cajun Navy"

nocha — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:27:22 +0000

And what happens when a hurricane takes down the cell tower? Or the power is out for days and the cell tower's backup batteries run dry?

Decentralised radio is essentially ham radio. Individual units talking directly to each other, without relying on a single point of failure (the cell company). As others have said above, ham radio is a godsend in some situations. If you use the right bands, you can talk halfway around the world while running off batteries and using a wire thrown over a tree for an antenna.

New comment by nocha in "Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job"

nocha — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:14:53 +0000

You missed one of the really nice points of having a stage there. You use it to test your backups by restoring from live every night/week. By doing that, you discourage developing on staging and you know for sure you have working backups!

New comment by nocha in "Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre-orders"

nocha — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:21:38 +0000

IIRC Chip and Pin uses a challenge-response type set up with public key crypto to authenticate your card with your bank. You cannot clone that, as processing is done on the card - not the reader, and the card never reveals it's secrets.

New comment by nocha in "The EMV chip credit card transition in the US has been a disaster"

nocha — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 09:29:47 +0000

I'm in the UK and I forgot my credit card pin a few years back. Getting it sorted was as simple as phoning an automated phone number, entering my card details and they then posted a new pin to the address they had on file. I highly doubt there was a single human involved in the entire process, and it was probably just an add to their lost card procedures.