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 the "technology industry" then you could say there is no real delineation between the two industries. It seems like we're either making technology for advertisements or we're using technology to advertise.

> 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. The plaintiffs believe that because Social Security numbers had a fixed format, GitHub should have been able to identify and remove this data

I can't wait until I get to debug our first build that won't run because we uploaded some data, however broadly that ends up being defined, with 9 digits in a row...

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

Peak Medium.

Unable-to-peek Medium

Maximum Medium.

Wait, like, formally cancel in what sense? I would expect if you wanted to cancel a service, you'd have to tell somebody about it?

I have to be missing something obvious, because without you letting them know, the only way I can figure for them to know not to bill you anymore is telepathy.

Other No Contract carriers bill up front so they can just stop service if you stop paying.

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 running our operations and storing our business intelligence on the computers of the one entity that has not only the financial muscle but also the lack of moral scrupples to use that intelligence to enter our market and outcompete us.

Jussayin'

Glad someone finally said it. What's stopping these data collecting companies from cornering a huge amount of markets?

When you reach that size, you are not looking for investments in the millions, you are looking for the billions.

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", because there was more competition.

That's a keen insight, that it might be a "generational thing". I remember things, in general, working better before the Shermann Antitrust Act stopped applying to technology companies.