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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by gruseom on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @12:19PM (#2580458)
You're confusing naughtiness with evil. Naughtiness has to do with breaking conventions, evil with hurting others.

If you followed PG's record, you'd know how strong an advocate he is that startups be good.

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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by freshfunk on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @12:29PM (#2580500)
In a morally-flexible environment, it's easy to confuse the two.

For example - Zynga selling offers (for credits) with very fine print that signs you up for paid services. And the fine print is so convoluted/tiny most people don't read it. Helping or hurting consumers?

- Facebook hiring a PR firm to highlight questionable privacy practices by Google. Helping users or hurting Google?

- Subprime mortgages. Helping or hurting homeowners?

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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by gruseom on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @12:38PM (#2580536)
In a morally-flexible environment

You're assuming your conclusion. Punctiliously following convention doesn't make you good. It just safely ensconces you near the mean. Not a promising place for startup founders to reside.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is naughty. He's not evil or even "morally-flexible".

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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by freshfunk on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @12:56PM (#2580618)
Perhaps you should look to real business rather than comics for examples. It would be more convincing.
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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by wging on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @01:25AM (#2583008)
I think the rule is, "Write to your audience."
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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by jdp23 on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @01:03PM (#2580643)
Dropbox lying about their security guarantees ....
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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by btilly on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @01:09PM (#2580675)
The fact that they are a Y-combinator company makes this far and away the best example given.
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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by nl on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @11:40PM (#2582750)
Except that they didn't lie.

English isn't a computer program - there are many interpretations possible. I suspect that they didn't even see the other interpretation of their language around security until someone pointed it out to them.

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Re:Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us by benhoyt on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @09:49AM (#2583929)
As G. K. Chesterton said, "break the conventions and keep the commandments" -- http://www.chesterton.org/wordpress/?page_id=8
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