That's a bit misleading, I think. The full paragraph:
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Anyways, legal mumbo jumbo aside (we obviously could make this clearer), we absolutely don't sell or give your data to anybody but you. That's one of the major differences between us and some other analytics companies. Your data is yours and we won't monetize it.
The ingest side isn't too crazy. We're doing between 50-100 insert-type requests per second per server (although we run multiple instances of Tornado per server so it's actually fewer per Tornado process). The stats on the read side are more impressive. :)
That's a fair point. I think the article is assuming that, in these cases, the companies are in the wrong.
This is actually interesting. I think there's probably a huge opportunity to communicate with your customers in this case. There's got to be a way to engage while respectfully disagreeing.
I don't think it does much good to try and differentiate between the industry making a product or service and the advertising industry that supports them. They don't exist without each other.
For example, if Apple put out a sexist ad, you can bet people would talk about sexism in BOTH the tech industry and in the ad industry.
It's not true because men and women are both brought up in the same power structures. There are plenty of women who believe that women's rightful place is in the home, that buy into the notion of modern beauty, and that don't care about women's rights (aka abortion, rape, etc).
That being said, I'd buy an argument that said women are more likely to be aware of these issues. Or even that women are less likely to be sexist. I suppose I took issue with your assertion that women are MUCH less likely to be sexist. I guess it's an argument of degrees.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough when I wrote it, but my intention was to show that, while I wrote that version of the post, I realized it was stupid (not just the post, but the idea).
We're working hard to not fall into any of the traps of working with friends. It's not easy. Who knows if we'll succeed. But we're trying.
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