Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by coldtea on Saturday May 26, 2018 @05:20AM
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>I’ve been reading hacker news for about a decade, and it’s getting to the point where I don’t think there are many entrepreneurs and/or technical people on here anymore.
The number of people who are saying it’s no big deal to comply with this huge law, especially for very small startups, is mind boggling.
You want it to sound like the second phrase is the observation that proves the first, but in my eyes the two sentences are contradicting.
You can very well be technical and/or entrepreneur and think it's "no big deal to comply with this huge law".
Because, in fact, one of the defining characteristics of being an entrepreneur is taking risk, including the risk to not comply 100% with all BS laws. And one of the defining characteristics of hackers and programmers is thinking they can solve a problem (and often underestimating how long it would take).
So your GDPR-related observation would in fact prove the opposite of what you're stating: that there are plenty of entrepreneurs and technical people on HN.
Now, if you wanted to say: "there are no conservative, risk adverse entrepreneurs, and by-the -book corporate software engineers in HN anymore", then yes, that would be something that your GDPR related observation would support.
P.S Note that I'm not making an argument either way. There might be many or few entrepreneurs and technical people on HN. I'm just saying that if the latter is the case, it's not at all supported by your observation re: GDPR.
The number of people who are saying it’s no big deal to comply with this huge law, especially for very small startups, is mind boggling.
You want it to sound like the second phrase is the observation that proves the first, but in my eyes the two sentences are contradicting.
You can very well be technical and/or entrepreneur and think it's "no big deal to comply with this huge law".
Because, in fact, one of the defining characteristics of being an entrepreneur is taking risk, including the risk to not comply 100% with all BS laws. And one of the defining characteristics of hackers and programmers is thinking they can solve a problem (and often underestimating how long it would take).
So your GDPR-related observation would in fact prove the opposite of what you're stating: that there are plenty of entrepreneurs and technical people on HN.
Now, if you wanted to say: "there are no conservative, risk adverse entrepreneurs, and by-the -book corporate software engineers in HN anymore", then yes, that would be something that your GDPR related observation would support.
P.S Note that I'm not making an argument either way. There might be many or few entrepreneurs and technical people on HN. I'm just saying that if the latter is the case, it's not at all supported by your observation re: GDPR.