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You've just described the entire business model of every Silicon Valley VC firm, not just YC.
In other words, an EU citizen residing in and accessing the Internet from the US has just as much right to invoke the GDPR with these sites as an EU citizen residing in and accessing the Internet from the EU. Blocking people accessing your site from the EU does not allow your site to not respond to such requests.
(inb4 all the Proust fans downmod me to oblivion)
Intuitionistically, it makes total sense that you get a clearer picture of the true state of the finances of Netflix as a going concern if they recognize the costs of a show on their balance sheet over five years when they expect subscribers to still be watching it for the first (or second, or third) time several years on.
That is, however, really nice confirmation that Netflix does in fact live what I was told when I interviewed there, that Netflix prides itself on offering the best comp package in industry. (They followed that by casually offering to more than triple my salary, so I had some inkling they weren't just making that up, but it's easy to write off one data point in a high-demand field as an anomaly.)
I'm most impressed that Amazon is doing as well as it is in those rankings, given how much shit they've gotten in the press over the last few years.
WePay is about providing payments infrastructure to marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms (Lyft, GoFundMe, etc.). WePay are competitive with Stripe's Connect product (disclaimer: my employer). Braintree and Adyen also have similar products.
Congrats to the WePay folks. I hope this new chapter works out well for them!
A simple answer is something like, "We want to figure out whether a candidate can do the work we need them to do. We do that by giving candidates sample work problems which are streamlined versions of problems we've actually solved at the company in the past. People we hire are more likely to still be employed with us than they are at our competitors after a year. We know we don't hire enough women and URMs into technical roles, and we're instituting a rule that at least one woman or URM candidate needs to be interviewed for each open role."
For all other uses, Kenn recommends Algo, and I recommend Cloak, neither of which uses PPTP/l2tp.
I can tell them one thing: use Cloak. And I know that, no matter how they do so, they won't be less safe than they would have been without it.
For more on this, see my followup to the VPN post: https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2017/04/public-heal...
https://gist.github.com/kennwhite/1f3bc4d889b02b35d8aa
For anything actually sensitive, you're better off not using a VPN than using a VPN which provides an unsafe configuration.
If you'd rather not do your own pager duty for something like Algo, here's a recommendation I put together a while ago:
https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2017/03/quick-and-d...
...Dude's a professor?