Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
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timothycaldwell Feb 28, 2018 | on: How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop | context

We already comply with age of consent laws. GDPR changes the law and adds lots of edge cases around users transitioning from valid user -> invalid user as I described above.

I'm not complaining. I'm just saying it's not basic or simple. I often see the attitude that, "Oh that should be easy" when someone hasn't implemented something.

This essay covers it well: Reality has a surprising amount of detail https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255

It reminds me of people who have taken the programming 101 class telling me, creating Amazon is easy, its just a webpage. Or I could completely run Twitter off of just 4 machines.

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