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Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20

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Post by Trundle »

metaphorm wrote: post #36
josh_carterPDX wrote: post #19

This is such an incredible way to raise money for a great cause. If you have people trying to access you, why not put something like this together? I love that this is benefiting someone other than Ben. Kudos to him for doing this. Hopefully more follow his example.

are you serious? if Horowitz was really committed to the cause he would just personally donate a large amount of money (he has plenty) and not bother engaging in any of the public virtue signaling behaviors. it seems pretty obvious that he put the "donated to charity" sticker on the form to deflect accusations that he was profiteering from his fame. seems to me more like he was getting too much shit mail and wanted t…

Pretty sure he signed up because he's a part owner of the cash gate company. If it was important to him to cash gate himself earlier he certainly had the means to implement a crude version of it.

Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20

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Post by bluetwo »

netsharc wrote: post #72
antirez wrote: post #30

Whatever you do with the $20 I still find unreasonable to make you contactable via a paywall: moreover if you have no time, you have no time even if each communication will donate $20 for a good cause. For a person of the wealth of B.H. it's simpler to just give directly money and avoid to receive unwanted communications.

Bill Gates' book The Road Ahead had the idea of a paywall to fight spam, someone who really wants to get your attention could attach a $20 "stamp" to their mail, and if it's a really important mail, say from a long-lost family member, you'd refund them. If it's just spam, you can keep the money.

I'm still waiting for someone to build an email system where only the header is sent along. The body of the message must be retrieved from the original server using a unique key included in the header. This would decrease spoofing of IPs and make black listing more accurate.

Please someone steal this idea...

Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20

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Post by 1337biz »

I always wondered what I should write people like that - unless I am pitching them for a project. "So I herd on Hackernews you are a really, really cool. Wanna go for chili next week and troll around?"

Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20

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Post by JadeNB »

fluxic wrote: post #3

Arguably better deal: contact me for $2.00 (cbswishes@gmail.com). All proceeds will be used towards buying a new pair of pyjamas

> All proceeds will be used towards buying a new pair of pyjamas

(Emphasis mine.) It's going to be hard to stick by the terms of that if you get a lot of contacts. :-)

Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20

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Post by gist »

tptacek wrote: post #40
metaphorm wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you serious? if Horowitz was really committed to the cause he would just personally donate a large amount of money (he has plenty) and not bother engaging in any of the public virtue signaling behaviors. it seems pretty obvious that he put the "donated to charity" sticker on the form to deflect accusations that he was profiteering from his fame. seems to me more like he was getting too much shit mail and wanted t…

Yes. This. Ben Horowitz is petrified that we will perceive the immense revenues he's going to get from $20 Q&A sessions as profiteering, especially considering the paucity of his other business interests. Virtue signaling, indeed!

Personally, I think it's cliche to always invoke charity as a way to lessen some perceived negative or appear to not be profiteering. After all the VC firm is clearly not a charity (his business in other words) so why is it necessary to walk on eggshells and always donate money to charity. To me this is just a typical pc correct way of doing things.
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