> That said, I didn’t want to mislead people. So we chose to be clear to them that there is a technical term; it’s just not going to be important for the rest of the content.
I don't think you have to be very cynical to assume that's what's going on. It might not be happening now, but once the adoption rate is sufficient there's going to be a small update to the license, and the insurer will know enough to set your rates exactly right.
If the insurance company wasn't getting the data, wouldn't they have chosen a cheaper, simpler model of toothbrush?
Edit: this is from the official site: "The Beam Brush tracks usage to encourage better brushing habits amongst our members. Then, we collect that data in the aggregate so that groups receive the best possible rates on insurance premiums.
Better brushing leads to better plans and premiums for your group!"
Also, the company is pretty upfront. "Floss, toothpaste, and a beam® brush ships with all our plans directly to your doorstep." is on the homepage. You choose the toothbrush color on their website. I'm not sure what caused the second package to send, though.
My understanding was that GDPR requirements apply to all citizens of the EU regardless of where the company is located. Someone else can chime in if that's not accurate!
It doesn't care about anyone's citizenship, but it can apply to US-based entities if they're sufficiently targeting Europe in offering goods or services.
But is HN targeting Europe or any geographic area? If someone from Europe decides to participate, isn't that a conscious decision to participate in a forum outside of Europe and thus outside of the GDPR? Should someone expect their own, local laws to apply around the world?
The last time I touched on this with our legal team (and it was not related to GDPR, it was just related to data storage of EU Citizens) the storage location was a very relevant key point.
Having said that, what about CDN's? I'm certain that lots of comment data is located in CDN's across the EU, US, and Asia.
Has he done anything to indicate that he's grown? 19-year old Zuckerberg seemed like a sociopath. Sociopaths tend to get smarter, but they don't usually grow souls.
I credit much of my current aptitude with (and interest in) computers to getting to use one throughout my childhood with no restrictions. I understand it can be nerve-wracking for parents ceding that much control to children, but I think children are both smarter and more self-disciplined than we give them credit for and I think digital free range can build independence in the long run. Maybe my opinion will change when I have kids of my own someday. Who knows.
If you did that with an iPad today, your kid would basically only watch the most horrendous youtube videos or play brainless games. That stuff just didn't exist when we were kids, using our just-for-nerds computing devices. The games weren't as addictive or plentiful, video apps tuning to their "likes" didn't exist. It's not even remotely similar.
I don't know. I grew up in the XP era and I played a lot of brainless games (3D pinball was where it was at) and read a lot of mindless Wikipedia articles as a kid. But then I got curious about how it all worked behind the scenes.
Maybe I'm too optimistic, but my hope is some of that inquisitive spirit hasn't been totally quashed. It's too depressing think that kids are not still discovering the internet as a virtually boundless repository of human information and a fascinating set of technical problems.
The difference is that back then, the brainless games were the equivalent of a box of chocolates. Sure, you might eat a couple but you would probably get bored before you finish the box. Now, it's like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. You never want to leave.
So as a child, choosing the productive option yourself is basically impossible.
I disagree about the addictiveness of earlier games.
I and many others played endless hours of PC games in the 1980s. I remember going through all 150 levels of Lode Runner, for example, and it distracting me from doing other things.
Some kids played so much Pokemon, or Tetris, or other games that their parents took away their Game Boy.
One difference, as this piece mentions, is the direct coupling of the gameplay in many modern games to a wheedling for money from the parents for in-game advancement. That didn't occur 20 years ago. (The Game Boy required batteries or the purchase of a wall adapter, so there was demand for additional money to play, but the coupling wasn't anywhere near as direct as now.)
I could never get bored with Civilization 2, or Lords of the Realm, or Close Combat 2, or Age of Empires. And I put a lot of hours in, between 10 and 18. I'm not sure that Candy Crush is anymore fun than those games were.
Oh my god. And Starcraft, and Axis and Allies, (original) DOTA. I was even a WOW player back in the day before I got fed up buying expansions. Man, the hours of productive time I wasted...
This seems very cool, but it's hard to imagine myself ever using this for anything. What use cases do you imagine this has or have other people found for something like this?
I don't know the precise answer off hand, but probably in an OS dependent code path in OpenJDK. I know for instance OpenJDK uses the global sysctl API to get total RAM on a FreeBSD machine. To use jails as multi-tenancy system you therefore want to fake that API out to the resource controled max for the jail.
The ad in question was of course totally tasteless and tone-deaf, but I'm curious as to whether Snap is uniquely susceptible to price fluctuations based on the comments of social media influencers for some reason.
