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For better or worse, the man has never exercised traditional business practices.
by squarecat 14y ago
For better or worse, the man has never exercised traditional business practices.
- lwhi 14y agoFor better or worse, the man has never exercised ethical business practices. (there you go, fixed it for you... )
- squarecat 14y agoAnd here I thought I was really beginning to understand how and when to engage in the discussion, yet the HN demigods seem to be proving me wrong more often than not lately...
- tedunangst 14y agoWell, for one thing, a move like this is traditional. You were just piling more wrong on top of wrong.
- squarecat 14y agoPoint taken, though I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the headline misrepresented the true nature of the transaction, as a layperson unfamiliar with such fiduciary transactions (notably myself) would understand it. While lwhi's "correction" better reflected my (admittedly ill-communicated) sentiment, it still feels as though there's a Digg-like oligarchical groupthink seeping into Hacker News as of late, which is no more preferable to the Wild West antics of r/programming... =\