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0 pointsmysecretaccount4y ago0 comments

As long as ${some number} is large enough it will not impact "small ISP" at all.

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That's the thing about being an Internet startup... You never know when you're going to explode and suddenly jump from a ten-thousand-user service to a milliion-user service.

So supporting this would require a company to take all manner of new precautions that companies currently don't (circuit-breaker on the new account creation system? But then your growth stalls and your potential customers go to a competitor instead, and you don't blow up into a YouTube or a Twitter like YouTube and Twitter did).

pdpi4y ago

Or the simpler solution: Once your revenue goes over the threshold, you have a period of 6/12 months to go into compliance, or something similar.

selfhoster114y ago

If you're suddenly a million-user service, you should easily have enough revenue to implement the regulations during a grace period.

shadowgovt4y ago

Assuming you have a revenue model. What was Twitter's revenue model when they had their first million users?

TheSpiceIsLife4y ago

Grace period - A grace period is a period immediately after the deadline for an obligation during which a late fee, or other action that would have been taken as a result of failing to meet the deadline, is waived provided that the obligation is satisfied during the grace period. In other words, it is a length of time during which rules or penalties are waived or deferred. Grace periods can range from a number of minutes to a number of days or longer, and can apply in situations including arrival at a job, paying a bill, or meeting a government or legal requirement.

In law, a grace period is a time period during which a particular rule exceptionally does not apply, or only partially applies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_period

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shadowgovt4y ago

That's the thing about being an Internet startup... You never know when you're going to explode and suddenly jump from a ten-thousand-user service to a milliion-user service.

pdpi4y ago

Or the simpler solution: Once your revenue goes over the threshold, you have a period of 6/12 months to go into compliance, or something similar.

selfhoster114y ago

If you're suddenly a million-user service, you should easily have enough revenue to implement the regulations during a grace period.

shadowgovt4y ago

Assuming you have a revenue model. What was Twitter's revenue model when they had their first million users?

TheSpiceIsLife4y ago

In law, a grace period is a time period during which a particular rule exceptionally does not apply, or only partially applies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_period

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