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Which is an attempt to actively legislate morality--not that I necessarily disagree with you. I mean more to point out that there is a certain despair in choosing (what I see as) a…

Why should he? You clearly haven't repented of your impudence, and the authoritarian culture here only responds to criticism of a proper (read: flattering) tone. I suppose it's kin…

> That conversation didn't require abusiveness to be created. How can you say that with any certainty? The only real example you have of this kind of conversation happened right he…

>If you see the Valley as another Wall Street-- with a similar corporate ladder (engineer -> VP/Eng -> CTO -> founder -> investor)-- it will piss you off less. As someone heavily i…

Value cannot be adequately quantified. At its best, money is an inadequate substitute for such a quantification that is often useful; at its worst, the failure to be mindful of tha…

I don't expect different, but pointing out that the technology sector is no less rotten than the financial sector is a pastime of mine.

Oh, I can't resist. >You disdain the love of wanting money? At what point has my absolute contempt for "loving money and wanting more of it" been unclear to you? Because you really…

In other words, you don't want money, but you are forced to deal with it.

I'm not specifying an amount or a correctness, and I do not disagree that there is a line between means and end. I'm saying that HN's attention span is dominated by dollar signs.

>And yes, when you call something "vulgar and utterly clueless", you're definitely making moral judgments. I know! My point is merely that I wasn't lecturing. >You have enough cons…

>please stop lecturing people with cheap and meaningless moral judgments. Ha. I'm not lecturing; I simply have no respect or consideration for your position. You are not being lect…

This seems to me to be an excellent example of the kind of poor thinking money promotes; do prove me wrong. >If a lot of smart people thought WhatsApp was worth 14B Why are they sm…

There's paying the bills, and there's lust for percentages of 16 billion dollars.

Forgive me if I'm contemptuous of those whose subjective goal is the acquisition of money.

>Is it really vulgar to desire money and take it as indicator of success Yes? It is not only vulgar, it is utterly clueless.

This article is from March 2012. It has been posted twice before to HN to little impact. http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/Whatsapp%20s... (Correction: the presentati…

If you want evidence that HN has a fetish for money, it's that the technical details of Whatsapp's success are only closely inspected now that gratuitous cash has been thrown aroun…

It seems to me this doesn't actually contradict parent; it almost just rephrases quanticle succinctly. (To the extent that I'm actually unsure of your intent.)

What's amusing is that the correct title of the piece (no plural on 'overflow') is more ambiguous. I wonder which way the HN title mods will rule.

Why are you asking me? Goodnight.

I never said I was proud that I could tell your comment was self-aggrandizing. I only said it was obvious.

Heh. Well, you've made it pretty easy for me. >>Under the circumstances, it's time for you to get over yourself. The OP's post, and my reply, are perfectly symmetrical -- one deman…

Oh, get over yourselves, both of you. He's just starting a conversation, and while I wouldn't advocate handing out participation ribbons, you're just trashing someone that had a th…

There's trying to cross trends for other people (your example) and trying to cross trends in order to find your own niche within expectations. Witness all of the not-quite-fits in …