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Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges by doctorpangloss on Monday August 28, 2023 @04:08PM (#37299769)
So then you’d concede that all that’s left is these Fizzbuzz people are liars and are bad people, and that their product is crap and should not be used, and you don’t need to have personally used the app nor met them personally to know any of that, since it’s all clear from their extremely obnoxious, self destructive conduct, and that that’s just an opinion and not a forecast on whether or not their useless investors will get a return?
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Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges by tptacek on Monday August 28, 2023 @04:10PM (#37299792)
Perhaps you missed this line from my original comment:

I think the good guys prevailed here.

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Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges by doctorpangloss on Monday August 28, 2023 @04:23PM (#37299952)
Yeah definitely. It’s just to say that the security researchers, these classmates, didn’t get lucky. Like if I were a Stanford student, and I heard about this shitty website, you know, if I were generalizing, I wouldn’t be wrong to guess it was run by obnoxious people and that the technology was a big lie.

And this website, this forum, it has a maligned love affair with the anti establishment characters, and it can’t really figure out this one because it’s dropouts v. hackers on the face of it. Most of the comments are litigating the law, by non lawyers and even when by lawyers, by people who absolutely could not predict the future of a legal decision. Why not just trust your gut? What I want to hear - what I want to be the #1 comment forever and for all time, which is just my opinion - is like, this research never needed to happen to know that Fizz or whatever is absolute trash. Do you see what I am saying?

There are a lot of 18-22 year olds pursuing entrepreneurship out of college aged vengeances. Y Combinator funds many such founders! And here we see the double edged sword: if you’re at Stanford touting yourself an entrepreneurial genius with your app about antagonizing your classmates, you had better actually bring the bacon to your supposed technology. Because you have more than your founding team’s worth of classmates who hate your guts, but can actually program.

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