Yes- I didn't make the point well, but that's the point. The game of telephone goes like- * there's what I would guess to be reality * the things the article

Yes- I didn't make the point well, but that's the point. The game of telephone goes like- * there's what I would guess to be reality * the things the article says, that distort from (what I would guess to be) reality * the things the headline says that distort from what the article says * the things most HN commenters who only read the headline say that distort yet further from the article and from reality By reading some of the top HN comments, and then the article, I get to play this game backwards. This was a particularly good example. I don't doubt that Lidl is building some platform for retailers and its supply chain to use. That's just good business. And no doubt data protection plays some role in the strategy, though data protection is a right generally afforded individuals, and Lidl's focus will be commercial. But these two paragraphs are particularly out of proportion: Schwarz Group, which owns both Lidl and Kaufland, is launching its own rival to Amazon Web Services (AWS) following the recent acquisition of software specialist Camao IDC and The acquisition, which completed on May 1, brings 70 cloud specialists into the wider group representing key “resources in an important area of digitalisation”. AWS probably hired 70 people in a couple of hours yesterday, dwarfed by Amazon as a whole, which probably hired 5,000.