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Re:Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For by dictum on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:53AM (#6580246)
pg wrote about the art of carefully disguised PR campaigns: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Re:Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For by joshu on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:24PM (#6583100)
That article was originally about me and was wrong. So there's that.
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Re:Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For by gdubs on Sunday October 20, 2013 @03:59PM (#6581244)
He also mentioned that they were never able to crack the New York Times :)

That was, however, some time ago.

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Re:Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For by jeorgun on Sunday October 20, 2013 @08:05PM (#6582196)
Also, that Viaweb never made it to the New York Times doesn't mean that nobody then did. Note the first sentence of the essay ;)
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Re:Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For by gdubs on Sunday October 20, 2013 @08:33PM (#6582328)
Ha, great point! I had based my comment on memory.

Also, worth mentioning that while I don't want to be overly cynical, this article does sound like a brilliant PR campaign. Given the size of typical PR budgets, you could afford a lot of free fast-food lunches for people.

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