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That’s not what the expression means. If you are a tiny company and a big customer comes to you and says “can you scale to support us”, you answer yes even if y

• velp 6y ago
  I think I agree with you, but this argument seems like a pretty arbitrary line. How is saying "yes we can scale" when you're not sure if you can, aren't you essentially implying that you have the infrastructure to deliver on that promise? And if you don't actually have that infrastructure yet/built/proven, then you're essentially selling a feature that doesn't exist. It's shades of grey from lying about E2EE, but seems pretty similar imo
  • hhw 6y ago
    Because with presumably feasible level of efforts and resources, you can make a claim that's not yet true, but has a reasonable probability of becoming true by the time you need to deliver your product/service. So you can make that claim in good faith, even if you're not 100% certain it will hold true. That's very different than making a specific claim that you already have a feature right now, that you in fact don't. That claim cannot possibly be made in good faith, as it's currently outright false, and you can never retroactively apply end to end encryption on conversations that have already happened.
  • jacobjonz 6y ago
    /like a pretty arbitrary line/ Really? Do you think they would/could lie on the features of a product that they deliver to a client. If they did, do you think they should get away with that? 'We have that capability' claim is totally not the same.