Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit
miohtama | on: US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
Not allowing to criticize is practically a law in some European countries

https://ppc.land/german-businesses-systematically-delete-cri...

junon | parent | next
A system being abused by mass-false-reports =/= "practically a law".
LunaSea | parent
And the US with Oracle famously making it illegal to benchmark the performance of their database.
doubled112 | root | parent | next
Didn't Atlassian have a clause in their TOS where you weren't allowed to discuss the performance of their cloud?
consp | root | parent
... you can say anything about an empty set so when there is no performance ...
euroderf | root | parent | next
Nobody obeys this, right ? There's gotta be people anonymously posting performance results.
reactordev | root | parent
Because never before have we seen inverse power laws applied to table queries we were told would be faster than Postgres. They lied.