Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity

Re:Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity by yesbabyyes on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @09:01PM (#3891871)

Thanks, daenz. That's what "usually I don't do this" was referring to -- which is a lazy cop out, I agree. Usually I don't do that, either. My bad.

It may not make it better, but I think I did it because jimmyvanhalen's argument was, to me, so... Preposterous. As I understand him, he is basically arguing that if you feel that you have money to give to charity, you should give that to whomever gave you that money. I wonder what he feels about my, admittedly ridiculously small, donations to charity. Am I, too, wrong to give? Should I lower my fees and "give" that money to my clients instead?

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity by daenz on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @09:08PM (#3891897)

Yeah, it's a difficult subject. People are passionate about money. But kudos for owning up to your post... I made a ad hominem awhile back and someone was kind enough to point it out, thought I'd pass around the favor :)

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity by yesbabyyes on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @10:19PM (#3892063)

I take it you think one should donate to charity anonymously, but humblebrags are ok? ;)

I just wanted to add that I actually think wealth and investment accomplishments are somewhat relevant in this discussion, regarding your comment on fallacies. Especially given jimmyvanhalen's very strong opinions on what "a VCs job" is, what a16z "should" do, and his confused ending statement on that what they did would be fine by him if they did... Exactly what they are doing.

Don't you agree?

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity by daenz on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @10:59PM (#3892169)

I wasn't bragging. I was trying to relate...I made an ad hominem attack and was called out on it.

I don't really have an opinion on the actual thing being discussed though, other than my comments back and forth with "paul"

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity by yesbabyyes on Thursday April 26, 2012 @03:51AM (#3892912)

I don't really have an opinion on the actual thing being discussed though, other than my comments back and forth with "paul"

I.e., trolling. Yeah, I know.

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity by daenz on Thursday April 26, 2012 @01:59PM (#3895272)

These are my actual beliefs and I'm arguing their merit civilly. Unpopular != Troll.

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