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kamkazemoose
14y ago
Just a note, but it's possible what Aaron did actually was legal. There was an article [1] by an expert witness in the case posted earlier today. So I think the trial would have been revealing. Admittedly the article doesn't prove anythi
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kamkazemoose
14y ago
Either that, or they don't have a blog. Pastebin is an easy way to share an e-mail or some other text if you don't have some other method of publication easily available.
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kamkazemoose
14y ago
It was probably originally an e-mail sent to everyone at MIT based on the 'Dear MIT community'
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kamkazemoose
14y ago
He's replying to edanm, who had another problem, and not the blog author. His comment is more relevant to edanm's problem and I think it's fine.
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kamkazemoose
14y ago
It could just be that Google was too big. Maybe Guido just wanted to be the Big Man on Campus. Google is filled with brilliant/famous engineers. Dropbox is much smaller so going to a smaller company, he can have a much larger impact. Ju
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kamkazemoose
14y ago
The main reason is because bitcoins are volatile. Most currencies are fairly stable, there won't be much fluctuation over the course of a week or month, for however long refunds are valid. This isn't true for bitcoins. Once you pay for s
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14y ago
Then you place a time limit on submitting feedback. Say you have 1 week-1 month. Still not perfect since it sounds like in the posted scam he didn't find out for over a month, but it might help in many cases. E: Also just had another ide