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Re: Why I left

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Post by honestoHeminway »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #18
pmorici wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The irony. He rants about the unethical behavior of his associates and then clearly states that he will himself engage in unethical behavior. The only thing this rant proves is that the ICO space is over run by ethically challenged scammers much like the Bitcoin ASIC space was 3 years ago.

It may be ironic, however it's not unethical to engage in unethical behavior specifically against unethical actors.

interesting, ethics is basically a signum operator. twice unethical equals ethical- so basically modulu 2

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Post by tankenmate »

GalacticDomin8r wrote: post #49
em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be ironic, however it's not unethical to engage in unethical behavior specifically against unethical actors.

Yeah because history always treats kindly those who believe the ends justify the means.

And yet on the other hand many times the history is written by the victors.

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Post by z3t4 »

It's all fine when your startup is not making any money, but when millions of dollars starts to roll in things can get ugly. So always make sure you have the vesting worked out beforehand, and put it on a paper and have everyone sign it.

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Post by arisAlexis »

don't understand how you can find zero-day exploits if your codebase was solid. If it wasn't maybe it's better that they don't use your code?

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Post by thegayngler »

GalacticDomin8r wrote: post #50
JonasJSchreiber wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Passive behavioral trait. Shyness, unwillingness to engage in confrontation, I can empathize.

My impression was more passive-aggresive with a large dose of narcissism.

I didn't get that based on the fact that he moved to a whole other place where he felt safe. No one goes through that kind of hassle without having a good reason. His later actions justify or make me believe his story about the assault.

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Post by lz400 »

No proof or evidence of anything. I've no idea about what happened here and I don't care but this post makes my BS detector fire in several places.

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Post by intoverflow2 »

noncoml wrote: post #54

It’s amazing how we, geeks, fail to negotiate and secure our equity before delivering our work and lose all leverage. After countless examples where tech people have been exploited by business people, Tesla pops into mind as the most famous one, we still haven’t learned our lesson!

Think if you're dealing with the sort of types who work in ICOs you need to be beyond business savvy and more expect to be screwed at every turn.

Re: Why I left

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Post by rwallace »

Upvoted this submission because it contains three very important lessons for technologists:

1. Never, ever accept a cofounder arrangement where you deal with the code and someone else deals with all the money.

2. If someone starts trying to exploit you, get a lawyer. The last thing you want is for the law to be on your enemy's side.

3. If this is your hard lesson in the first two rules, and the bad guys offer you a substantial chunk of cash to walk away (and $300,000 is a substantial chunk of cash), take it. It's by far the least bad outcome for you.

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