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estearum12/08/20252 repliesview on HN

Pretty trivial to make profits "not exist" though if you planned to engage in fraud and wanted to de-risk it.


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esseph12/08/2025

They're a publicly traded company. If they drop profits substantially, I imagine shareholders etc would leave.

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rsynnott12/08/2025

This is why GDPR fines, say, are a percentage of _revenue_. Harder to mess with without getting into outright fraud.

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