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tldr; no system failure is human error. if a human can cause this, then your system lacks adequate controls and mechanism. the root cause is the lack of controls, not the human error

Privacy is ok 4 years ago

Absolute privacy still results in tyranny,

what are the examples of this, can't think of any?

Privacy is ok 4 years ago

false and dangerous analogy. knowing your number plate is comparable to knowing your phone number, rather than the real analogy of bugging your converation in the car. the number plate yields metadata about journeys, not the actual conversation.

"i mean people who argue for privacy would never have a problem with barcodes on milk"

Overlapping markup 4 years ago

overlapping b and i elements <p>he<b>ll<i>o w</b>or</i>ld</p>

contary to the article it can still be represented as a tree, by decomposing the children into their own nodes (so in this case characters become nodes with child nodes expressing what formatting is active, followed by the letter, and then turn of all the active formatting)

this statement needs some detail, "high meetings" is obscuring that meetings use the docs (not meetings with no agenda or lots of presentations). meeying use docs as the primary driver, be that a narrative or analysis of a dataset

Inertia is a thing, especially around mental models and ways of working. Its hard to change an early decision, because many other parts and people have subsequently made decisions ontop of that. Like the ship of theseus, replacing parts is possible, but the replacement needs to fit in the gap, and the inertia means even if you replace everything, its always a ship.

Something like games these by Jane McGonigal

https://janemcgonigal.com/play-me/

I make alternate reality games: games that are designed to improve real lives or solve real problems. I’ve been making ARGs since 2001 — and you can watch trailers for a dozen of my favorite ARGs below.

Many of my games challenge players to tackle real-world problems at a planetary-scale: hunger, poverty, climate change, or global peace, for example (see: EVOKE, World Without Oil, Superstruct)

Assume you are in Oz and they are in US so be aware that laws are different, as well as scooe of any marks granted (doubt they have an internatonal mark), as daid by others marks also cme wth limitayions on them - so see what mark they have.

check your registration rules, and reach out to them to explain what is happening, stop any end run on your registra.

the phrase maybe, but the gdpr article itself provides more "Article 20

Right to data portability

1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:" https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e2753-1-1

INAL, but... you might want to revisit that code. article 17, right to erasure is about erasure of personal data, not about making non-indentifiable. of course they dont define erase or delete :-)

(edit: typo)

yes, you can always map most structures into tables, or even excel.

but it think "good fit" is a stretch. when designing systems you generally want to look at data access patterns, and pick a data exec approach that aligns to that.

in tech, unfortunately, RDBMS are the "hammer" in "if your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail."