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> It's like McDonald's selling you a burger and telling you how to eat it. and you are not allowed to criticize it or write about the size of it or how much me

> It's like McDonald's selling you a burger and telling you how to eat it. and you are not allowed to criticize it or write about the size of it or how much meat there is in it or how filling it is to eat the burger. and you are definitely not allowed to compare it to burgers from other companies.

sysguest 7mo ago
and you're not allowed to open a restaurant (same food industry == competition) if you have even took one bite of the burger
tclancy 7mo ago
Please do not inquire about the location of the beef.
- hansvm 7mo ago
  The beef is in the fries actually -- well, beef substitute -- they have a wheat-derived beef flavoring used to make the fries taste richer. The jury is still out on whatever is between the burger buns.
- macintux 7mo ago
  I fear that reference may be too dated for this site's dominant demographics.
  - tclancy 7mo ago
    Agreed, but I had to let it leave the nest on its own. I am of a mind if I make one person laugh a lot it’s better than a polite twitter from the unwashed masses.
miohtama 7mo ago
Not allowing to criticize is practically a law in some European countries https://ppc.land/german-businesses-systematically-delete-critical-reviews-using-eu-digital-services-act/ https://ppc.land/german-businesses-systematically-delete-cri...
- LunaSea 7mo ago
  And the US with Oracle famously making it illegal to benchmark the performance of their database.
  - reactordev 7mo ago
    Because never before have we seen inverse power laws applied to table queries we were told would be faster than Postgres. They lied.
  - doubled112 7mo ago
    Didn't Atlassian have a clause in their TOS where you weren't allowed to discuss the performance of their cloud?
    - consp 7mo ago
      ... you can say anything about an empty set so when there is no performance ...
  - euroderf 7mo ago
    Nobody obeys this, right ? There's gotta be people anonymously posting performance results.
- junon 7mo ago
  A system being abused by mass-false-reports =/= "practically a law".
bombcar 7mo ago
Apparently a bunch of luxury brands make you beg and apply to buy, and if you ever disparage them, you never get to buy from them again. So eventually that'll apply to McDonalds.
- amiga386 7mo ago
  Luxury brands vs... McDonalds. I don't think it will. However, the luxury brands have the Soup Nazi's business model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi

sysguest 7mo ago

and you're not allowed to open a restaurant (same food industry == competition) if you have even took one bite of the burger

tclancy 7mo ago

Please do not inquire about the location of the beef.

hansvm 7mo ago
The beef is in the fries actually -- well, beef substitute -- they have a wheat-derived beef flavoring used to make the fries taste richer. The jury is still out on whatever is between the burger buns.
macintux 7mo ago
I fear that reference may be too dated for this site's dominant demographics.
- tclancy 7mo ago
  Agreed, but I had to let it leave the nest on its own. I am of a mind if I make one person laugh a lot it’s better than a polite twitter from the unwashed masses.

miohtama 7mo ago

Not allowing to criticize is practically a law in some European countries https://ppc.land/german-businesses-systematically-delete-critical-reviews-using-eu-digital-services-act/ https://ppc.land/german-businesses-systematically-delete-cri...

LunaSea 7mo ago
And the US with Oracle famously making it illegal to benchmark the performance of their database.
- reactordev 7mo ago
  Because never before have we seen inverse power laws applied to table queries we were told would be faster than Postgres. They lied.
- doubled112 7mo ago
  Didn't Atlassian have a clause in their TOS where you weren't allowed to discuss the performance of their cloud?
  - consp 7mo ago
    ... you can say anything about an empty set so when there is no performance ...
- euroderf 7mo ago
  Nobody obeys this, right ? There's gotta be people anonymously posting performance results.
junon 7mo ago
A system being abused by mass-false-reports =/= "practically a law".

bombcar 7mo ago

Apparently a bunch of luxury brands make you beg and apply to buy, and if you ever disparage them, you never get to buy from them again. So eventually that'll apply to McDonalds.

amiga386 7mo ago
Luxury brands vs... McDonalds. I don't think it will. However, the luxury brands have the Soup Nazi's business model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi