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> So this is the Romanian guy What relevance does it have that he is Romanian?

by 4ad 10y ago

johansch 10y ago
Why is it an issue to mention someone's nationality? Do you have perhaps have any pre-conceived ideas around that particular nationality? (Edited out things that should not be offensive, but could be perceived as such.)
- heisenbit 10y ago
  What victims were there? My understanding is that there was some game playing with two accounts violating the terms of service. The affected relationship was developer - Apple and Apple has asserted itself here. There was also to the degree I know some misrepresentation of the conflict by the developer. Afaik. this has not gone to court and both developer and Apple seemed to want to stop talking about it. I believe we should respect this. As we also should respect the nationality and contribution of developers giving away something for free.
  - johansch 10y ago
    Anyone who has used the Apple Appstore is fractionally speaking the loser/victim - he spammed it. Do you ever wonder what the appstore would be like without spam bullshit? How quality software studios could make money instead of some hack like this buying ratings from a third-party on cookie cutter apps?
    - duaneb 10y ago
      For a cookie cutter app, there are zero alternatives with feature parity. It's also notably much, much higher quality than the median app.
- drinchev 10y ago
  Aaah, come on. Putting labels on people based on the country and statistics is a bit stupid. Same as all arabs are terrorists thing. Yeah sure lots of people from my country ( Bulgaria ) are statistically dodgy, but there are also legitimate ones. Law says : "Person is innocent, until proven guilty."
  - johansch 10y ago
    You kinda said it yourself, there.
    - drinchev 10y ago
      Said what? If I understood your sarcasm correctly, I would assume that according to you statistics describe what people are. For example. Statistically Sweden right now has the highest amount of rapes in Europe [1]. So it means that most of the Swede are rapist. Hmm. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden
      - johansch 10y ago
        And 99% of the Bulgarian visitors to Sweden spend their time sitting on the ground in front of supermarket entrances. So I guess that is what the 99% of people inside Bulgaria do as well?
        4ad 10y ago
        > And 99% of the Bulgarian visitors to Sweden spend their time sitting on the ground in front of supermarket entrances. So I guess that is what the 99% of people inside Bulgaria do as well? Wow. I never saw anyone on HN get so low. Ever. In more than 9 years. It appears I was right about you.
        johansch 10y ago
        Your account is five years old, not nine. Anyway, good night.
- 4ad 10y ago
  > Why is it an issue to mention someone's nationality? It's not an issue to mention someone's nationality. Intent matters. That is why you don't say "he's just a black murderer from NYC" or "he's just an arab terrorist". > Do you have perhaps have any pre-conceived ideas around that particular nationality? No, it seems that you have. What a lame attempt to spin it around. Funny how you edited your post after people called foul, this is your original post: http://i.imgur.com/HaejrYq.png http://i.imgur.com/HaejrYq.png. This link you posted is amusing: http://blog.siftscience.com/2013/global-e-commerce-fraud http://blog.siftscience.com/2013/global-e-commerce-fraud. Those American scammers!
  - johansch 10y ago
    Yes, it's such a surprise that there would be scamming going around inside the US.

> So this is the Romanian guy What relevance does it have that he is Romanian?

by 4ad 10y ago

> So this is the Romanian guy What relevance does it have that he is Romanian?

Why is it an issue to mention someone's nationality? Do you have perhaps have any pre-conceived ideas around that particular nationality? (Edited out things that should not be offensive, but could be perceived as such.)

heisenbit 10y ago
What victims were there? My understanding is that there was some game playing with two accounts violating the terms of service. The affected relationship was developer - Apple and Apple has asserted itself here. There was also to the degree I know some misrepresentation of the conflict by the developer. Afaik. this has not gone to court and both developer and Apple seemed to want to stop talking about it. I believe we should respect this. As we also should respect the nationality and contribution of developers giving away something for free.
- johansch 10y ago
  Anyone who has used the Apple Appstore is fractionally speaking the loser/victim - he spammed it. Do you ever wonder what the appstore would be like without spam bullshit? How quality software studios could make money instead of some hack like this buying ratings from a third-party on cookie cutter apps?
  - duaneb 10y ago
    For a cookie cutter app, there are zero alternatives with feature parity. It's also notably much, much higher quality than the median app.
drinchev 10y ago
Aaah, come on. Putting labels on people based on the country and statistics is a bit stupid. Same as all arabs are terrorists thing. Yeah sure lots of people from my country ( Bulgaria ) are statistically dodgy, but there are also legitimate ones. Law says : "Person is innocent, until proven guilty."
- johansch 10y ago
  You kinda said it yourself, there.
  - drinchev 10y ago
    Said what? If I understood your sarcasm correctly, I would assume that according to you statistics describe what people are. For example. Statistically Sweden right now has the highest amount of rapes in Europe [1]. So it means that most of the Swede are rapist. Hmm. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden
    - johansch 10y ago
      And 99% of the Bulgarian visitors to Sweden spend their time sitting on the ground in front of supermarket entrances. So I guess that is what the 99% of people inside Bulgaria do as well?
      - 4ad 10y ago
        > And 99% of the Bulgarian visitors to Sweden spend their time sitting on the ground in front of supermarket entrances. So I guess that is what the 99% of people inside Bulgaria do as well? Wow. I never saw anyone on HN get so low. Ever. In more than 9 years. It appears I was right about you.
        johansch 10y ago
        Your account is five years old, not nine. Anyway, good night.
4ad 10y ago
> Why is it an issue to mention someone's nationality? It's not an issue to mention someone's nationality. Intent matters. That is why you don't say "he's just a black murderer from NYC" or "he's just an arab terrorist". > Do you have perhaps have any pre-conceived ideas around that particular nationality? No, it seems that you have. What a lame attempt to spin it around. Funny how you edited your post after people called foul, this is your original post: http://i.imgur.com/HaejrYq.png http://i.imgur.com/HaejrYq.png. This link you posted is amusing: http://blog.siftscience.com/2013/global-e-commerce-fraud http://blog.siftscience.com/2013/global-e-commerce-fraud. Those American scammers!
- johansch 10y ago
  Yes, it's such a surprise that there would be scamming going around inside the US.