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There is a decades-long study by Tashkin et al., not being able to find that smoking cannabis is significantly harmful. I am on my phone so don't have it at hand.

But I am clearly not talking about lotto-winners, but someone who gets 2x salary, who may behave weird first couple of months and then becomes "normal". I fully agree about the lotto winners though. I had witnessed it actually as my school friend's parents won. For lack of a better description - they have become like animals with unlimited money, but money ended quickly though.

Why not just buy a second smartphone?

You may assume that would happen, but unless you really have a thing to show off, you'll keep a similar lifestyle and just watch your savings account growing. I know very few people who permanently changed their behaviour after a sudden change in their earnings. This is of course just anecdotal evidence.

To be fair, people having unhealthy lifestyle - especially those drinking are feeling terrible all the time - may just think this is how healthy person should feel and miss any symptoms of the potential disease.

That is a reminder - no matter how rich you are, you have exactly the same hours in the day as the guy sleeping under the bridge.

You can get used to any salary in few months. You could be earning 2x as you currently are and feel exactly the same after a couple of months.

This is the environment governments create and also proves it is in human nature. It would be like banning sex and then be amazed how much STD are around.

Likely somebody paid for it. EU is creating the law for big corporations, so it seems like one of those would like to copyright telemetry data and EU just amended it to please them.

What I was reading? It is easy to badmouth someone without knowing the context. It is not uncommon to end up with a flawed design if you find yourself in circumstances like short deadline, uncertain requirements, lack of resources, small user base, no QA and so on that are outside of the developer means to change.

Have they not removed protected characteristics from the data? If they had, AI wouldn't know about gender and there would be no bias.

I was looking at a couple of non technical friends browsing the Internet. Not one took time to read consent prompts, they just mindlessly click whatever takes the notice out of the way. GDPR is dangerous and doesn't fix anything.

Right, but you want to impose it on the others. That is pretty selfish. If company paid for food in you salary you could have a choice. You don't want choice? Fine. Just don't force it on others because it works for you.

But that removes choice, which diminishes your freedom as a person. I'd rather have a canteen where you can pay for food or go outside and be paid so I can afford that.

I think there is something missing in your story. My Portuguese friends who fled Portugal to London paint different picture of their lovely country. Maybe there are different rules to foreigners there?