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Correction: Title should read "Why It's Hard for Startups to Excise Wealth From Europe."

Cigarettes are technology. They are referred to as "nicotine delivery devices" in the tobacco industry. Magazines are technology. Billboards are technology. If google is part of th…

> The lawsuit said GitHub had an obligation under California law and industry standards to keep off or remove the Social Security numbers and personal information from its site. Th…

... And why exactly should we return to that? How is that progress?

Peak Medium.

Yeah no contract, but if you don't formally cancel your month-to-month service they will send you to collections for the next months bill.

If I think about it, I feel pretty dehumanized myself each time I click through a clumsy AWS GUI for a set of shoddy services that my company pays 60k a month for the privilege of …

Solution: Publish your infosec tutorials as fetish videos on pornhub. I bet they have a better monetization model for creators anyways.

Good, and good enough, are two totally different things.

I didn't see this before I posted my reply. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who is seeing this. I would go so far as instead of saying: > It was fine. To say that "it was better",…

I don't understand comments like this. I see this sentiment adopted, and echoed by so many really smart people who should know better. They talk about FAANG like they're essential …

Section 4-B says it's acceptable to use a customer's personal data: "To advertise or market the provider's communications-related services to the customer;" With ISPs that own netw…

Okay, for the sake of semantic digression, let's call it 'fraud' then. It's tantamount to fraud... ... Which is tantamount to theft.

Comparing 'Apples' that are killing us to 'Oranges' that will kill us.

I can't second this strongly enough. Why are we utilizing such vast amounts of our limited resources to persuade people to make certain decisions? In my humble opinion it's usually…

Yeah! That's a really good idea! Why not set an upper limit? Why not set it at say... 5 million dollars? Once you have 5 million in total assets, that's it. You can't keep any inco…

Yep, it turned out for me the slow transition was best. Over the course of a year anytime I register anything new, I just didn't use my gmail, and would just check both. Eventually…