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This actually depends. If you need something specific, tailored to your needs and operational niche, then obviously you can not forego a visit to a lawyer. However, for some documents, a reputable template is more than enough. (As even lawyers rarely draft "bespoke" documents for every client and happen to use a templated text more often than not).

Your comment is based on the premises that Meta/Google... are there to help you shop/find the best result once you've made your mind. For that purpose, an optimised search engine is indeed very useful.

But I don't think that's why intent profiling exists. What if, instead of helping you find quickly what you are looking for, they forced you through a less perfect system that, while leading you to your result, suggests you other, somewhat similar articles... Maybe you'll buy more? That incentivises ads and thus increases profits for the AdTech.

Yep, that pretty much mirrors my own experience as well, and I am also Swiss.

Sadly, IT companies in Switzerland aren't serious about security. Even big, reputable firms have been shown to be sub par when it comes to it... One of such incidents involved a highly reputable firm in Geneva that had many federal contracts. They got a data breach and their dirty laundry got aired out in the open: passwords to client networks/accounts/... were stored in clear text, contracts and other confidential information barely protected...

So I'd say, while in Switzerland we do some things right, IT ain't it.

That's a really interesting project !

One pet peeve, though. Some entries have "Arbitration Award" listed as an action. However, these usually mean that the physician won an arbitration case (i.e. the ruling was in their favour). Listing them without any differentiation can potentially negatively bias a person's opinion against a perfectly honest doctor.

There is no such thing as a "constitutional right given to Swiss citizens to banking secrecy". Swiss constitution does not provide anything of sort [1]. The "Banking Secret" is defined at art. 47 of the Federal Law on Banking [2] and it has a rather narrow definition.

So there is no such thing as "banking secret" for Swiss residents. Hence even if Credit Suisse is nationalized, it won't change anything for their customers, except perhaps an increase in trust.

[1] https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1999/404/en [2]: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/51/117_121_129/fr#art_47

I believe they are referencing the fact that upon a login attempt the server does receive a plaintext password per se.

Usually it is stored in memory only long enough to compare it to the hashed version from the persistence layer but... that's in theory.

What that company is trying to do is breach hundreds if not thousands of contracts just because said customers belong to a certain country. Such actions have legal ramifications that either the CEO or the entire Namecheap board did not take into account.

Hence this entire act resembles an emotional response of a distraught individual that lashes out. Have a look at [1] for an interesting take on the matter.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30507443

Understandable yes. But within their rights? I doubt so. Contracts are binding for both parties (client and the company). What they are doing here is an intentional breach of contract. Depending on the jurisdiction it can have nasty legal ramifications.

This one depends on both the field you are in as well as your own academic philosophy OP.

If the paper is enough to reproduce the results AND cleaning up the code can/is tedious, then adding the "code and data are available upon request" note seems both fair and justified.

That way, whoever wants the code can still ask for it and it does not lay an unnecessary burden on the author.

Every human is a biodegradable battery of kinetic energy. So for what its worth, parent comment is technically correct.