I wouldn't underestimate the difficulty of picking up a highly tonal language like Mandarin, if only exposed to the 44 phonemes of English well into adulthood...
Be warned that Google does NOT push updates to these Android One phones, the OEM does, so they take their time and (potentially can) include as many crap apps as they want.
Xiaomi puts a lot of crapware in their Android One mobiles. They have their own line of apps, "Mi", and they include many of them pre-installed by default.
Teaching German kids Turkish feels like it has a political motive more than anything else. I can see Kenyans gaining opportunities of improving their lives by learning Chinese. What do Germans have to earn from learning Turkish? Are you sure the backlash was racism and not just a lot of "what a terrible waste of time and public money"?
Turkish has been taught in Germany for quite a while, with little or no controversy. Here's an article from 2014 on this [1], which mentions it started around 30 years earlier.
Germany and Turkey have long had a close economic relationship. Turkey is a major vacation destination for Germans. The largest ethnic minority in Germany is Turks. Germany has promoted Turkish migration to Germany for over 200 years, which really picked up in the mid 20th century to fill the German labor loses from WW II.
Offering Turkish as an elective language in Germany seems roughly equivalent to offering Spanish in the Southwestern United States.
If all those families moved to Germany because there was no future in Turkey, it's highly unlikely that learning Turkish will do any good for them. I think the objective of a public education has to be to improve the lives of people, if they want to learn Turkish or Klingon they should pay for it themselves.
Also I can imagine that adding a new language choice is very expensive.
> If all those families moved to Germany because there was no future in Turkey, it's highly unlikely that learning Turkish will do any good for them
The classes are for people who only speak German. People emigrating from Turkey likely speak Turkish.
It's about understanding other cultures, and the ones most relevent. Just like how in England, along with learning about christianity, we learnt about Islam.
It's like in the US, Spanish is the most popular second language taught in schools, since you're very close to large numbers of spanish speakers, and have a high number of spanish-speaking migrants. In the UK, amongst a load of other reasons, until very recently French was the most poopular second language in schools, since France is pretty close to us.
The typical alternatives for third language are French, Latin, Spanish or Russian, those clearly are much more about practical benefit than a language people around you regionally might actually speak (in parts of the country, I assume closer to the French border French is somewhat more practical than e.g. in Berlin)?
By mentioning sexism, when the parent comment doesn't, you're already assuming only women can be cheats. Please don't be a sexist, it's against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don’t understand this at all. The dude you’re responding to is clearly criticizing sexism rather than reinforcing it. There is absolutely nothing in his comment to suggest that “only women can be cheats.”
So the GDPR is only about personal data? What are my responsibilities if I run a chan, i.e., I store no personal data about my posts other than the IP address where they originated? What if I use some tracking technology such as a cookie or localStorage to identify unique browsers regardless of their IP address?
"Personal data" is defined differently in the GDPR than in most US legislation.
>‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person
An IP address or tracking cookie is an identifier. It is not, in isolation, personal data. The other stuff you store like posts and access logs become personal data if those identifiers allow you to associate that stuff with a natural person. If you strip the data of identifiers to the extent that it can no longer be connected to anyone, then it ceases to be personal data within the scope of the GDPR.
You have to make it clear to people that you're using these technologies and how long you keep their data. You should also explain how you keep this data safe.
If you suffer a data breach you have to disclose this, and you are potentially liable for it if you could've protected users from that breach by technological means (applying patches, salting passwords, encryption, and so on). If your breach includes too much personal data() this could be serious.
If you think you want to keep data forever, then your liabilities for that data extend forever. You should consider if this is really what you want, or if you might want to simply delete old backups and scrub identifying information after some time.
() The regulator will evaluate this by considering how the people that personal data is about will be affected. This is a difficult question to ask -- a chan user might at worst suffer potential embarrassment being linked to posts, so I suspect the regulator will view loss lightly, unless it could easily and reasonably be prevented.
The ICO has really good guidance about this on their website:
I understand your point, but this isn't a special risk introduced by the GDPR, and from the perspective of a regulator, I don't think they are going to consider the linking someone to illegal behaviour to be additional liabilities for the company suffering the breach.
That being said, if your "chan" provides a safe haven for illegal behaviour, you might have other non-GDPR problems as well.
Then you couldn't comply with takedown requests (and thus can safely disregard them) because you don't know what content belongs to what user, and you can't even be sure that the person making the request is actually the one that posted the information on your chan.
