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Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

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Nothing? Really? Nothing? Nothing in the entire existence of the universe ever beats a free service? OK then...

It's a phrase, a commonly used one in English, obviously not nothing in the entire universe.

It's unnecessary hyperbole and wrong too.

Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

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They probably did not want to have their CEO nabbed by police in the Vancouver airport for extradition on sanctions violations. You might want to see what happened with Huawei, who aren’t even a US company.

If Huawei wants to do business in the US economy, they can do so but have to abide by the rules. They can also choose to do business with Iran instead, but not both.

That isn’t what my comment was actually about. It was a comment about GitHub, not Huawei or the US.

Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

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If Huawei wants to do business in the US economy, they can do so but have to abide by the rules. They can also choose to do business with Iran instead, but not both.

It appears that you are pretty much the only one who gets it. At least from anyone who responded. I find it rather shameful, that apparently everyone who responded to my question, did so by explaining that a US company has to abide by US law. You don't say! That was never the question, but apparently even reading is even too much to ask from people these days. Of course US companies have to follow US laws. But if tha…

Is that not also what I just said?

Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

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There's definitely an argument that GitHub is one of the primary reasons that Git beat Mercurial.

I've used Mercurial. It sucks compared to Git. And not because I can't use it on GitHub.

It's tricky to compare them now, because Git won, it's got a lot more investment. Ideally you'd need to care them just before Git got the upper hand - but that's hard to pinpoint.

Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

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Money and skills are ALWAYS problems. Those are "cheap" and "fast" of the "cheap, fast, good, pick two".

> Money and skills are ALWAYS problems. Those are "cheap" and "fast" of the "cheap, fast, good, pick two". Those are not problems, those are trade-offs. OP is right, you could be in a position in which those trade-offs dont apply to you (i.e. by buying a "expensive" but great solution, this happens all the time in all the industries) or you could sacrifice one item (say speed) in your solution if this is not a proble…

No one has an infinite supply of any of the three. They are problems. You say they "don't apply" but then you explicitly acknowledge that you lose "cheap" or "fast" in your examples.

> problem (n) 1a: a question raised for inquiry, consideration, or solution

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