[parksoha]

Isn't it completely unscalable? I work for a big automaker, there's literally people whose only job is to be compliant and inform the necessary leads about it. There's hundreds of countries, each with very specific things. If I study everything, I can't code.

When knowledge arrives at my team, is already condensed to the point of: "in X country, you must tell the prices of a call if you show a phone number for assistance"

Why should I explore every loophole of law to be compliant? That's the companies job, not mine.

[hn_throwaway_99]

For some reason, I've seen a lot of people try to make arguments around FTX that completely miss the scale and malfeasance that occurred. This wasn't a case of "oh, you got some esoteric GAAP depreciation rule wrong". This was an engineering leader putting a ton of special cases in the code saying "For our most beloved partner, none of the rules apply, including letting them take unlimited amounts of customer funds. Oh, and be sure to hide this from the dashboards the rest of the company uses."

This is not hard. Nobody needs to be versed in the ins-and-outs of jurisdictional compliance rules to see this was blatant and egregious.

If any of this looks remotely familiar to any software devs out there, you should really re-examine your morals. Or at least hire a lawyer.

[parksoha]

The thing is, the comment I'm answering, is not about FTX. I'm not talking about FTX. The user was making a very broad statement based on this case.

[acdha]

Down to the trivia level for an entire global company, sure, but this is a lot more general and bigger. Like if you have rules against accepting gifts from vendors, maybe you don’t remember if the threshold is $10 or $15, but you shouldn’t need to ask to know it’s not $30k in a suitcase.

[mianos]

Probably yes. What about the Volkswagen diesel emissions cheating that was approved and implemented by engineers?

It also might depend on seniority so you might not be on the hook.