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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

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203 points tysone | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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dekhn ◴[20 Nov 24 23:45 UTC] No.42199382[source]▶
I remember Urs arguing for this at TGIF quite some time ago. He said legal costs were increasing exponentially while the value of old email was only linear, which was unsustainable.

One outcome of this was to wipe a number of ongoing scientific discussions I was having with external collaborators. I'm used to people having the last 30 years of mail on hand to be able to carry out extremely long, complex projects.

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1. okdood64 ◴[22 Nov 24 16:40 UTC] No.42215259[source]▶
> He said legal costs were increasing exponentially while the value of old email was only linear

Uh this sounds cool at first when you say it, but what does it actually mean? Can't he just say legal costs of keeping that email is more than the value of it. How did he derive exponential?