I am a EU citizen, I bought a (Chinese) robotic lawn mower.
One day, end of April when the grass is growing very rapidly, they presented me with a dialog in the app that basically said.
"We updated the EULA with the explanation "optimized wordings". Please accept."
There was no reference to the new or old EULA, and if I didn't accept I could not start the app and use my new mower. It was bricked.
I am now checking their compliance with GDPR. It is a tedious process because they keep stalling, but I still feel I have all the rights.
And I get a lot of help from chatgpt who works as a patient secretary that translates my "f-fck sake give me my stuff" into formal/friendly legalese with counter questions designed to be difficult to duck.
As of now, 2 months later, they have finally pointed me to "download personal data" in the application which gives me back a PDF with mower model, my email address and some push notification history.
But I know they store much more than that. And I think they know that I know. If nothing else my customer support history. But also for example a map of my garden.
I definitely agree with the GP, and the point is that most often someone else (or an LLM) added all those LOC that are removed to make the system sensible.
I'd argue that indexes is an implementation detail here and exactly the kind that should not leak into the abstract "thinking about sets and how to combine them".
It is valuable and critical in lots of real situations. But it may interfere with the actual learning.
Not sure how to describe this, but in a small/medium size company you have a few chips with talent.
And somehow k8s tends to use one of the most valuable chips. The smartest guy who from then on only works with maintaining and updating k8s. Instead of building the best and smartest products.
> what would I do if giving up the right to veto hinged on my veto power?
Was that a rhetoric question? Of course it is a leap of faith. But the idea is that it will make the union as a whole stronger, and then maybe even giving up your veto right would make it worthwhile.
I am honestly curious who you are pointing at (in particular if you exclude British leaders)
Partly because I am actually curious, I don't doubt there are bad leaders.
But partly also because, without any details, this is a very general trope, that I don't really think is very healthy at the moment. Since it is food for right wing extremists (you probably know yourself where some politicians in USA originate from).