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LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

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Re: LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

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Post by toiletfuneral »

tossaccount123 wrote: post #12

Interesting how so many leftists who hate the koch brothers and their big money spending are fine with billionaire tech elites throwing their money around But I suppose that's not surprising considering the top 10 richest districts and 73 of the top 100 voted democrat https://finance.yahoo.com/news/midterms-one-party-controls-w... Citizens United needs to be overturned ASAP

This is seriously the dumbest comment.

How does anyone think actual leftists support centrist liberal billionaires? I’m guessing you were educated in the US (just so you know there are more than 2 possible political positions).

Re: LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

sl1ck731 wrote: post #30
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most innovators aren't striving to reach some grand self-motivating concept. The world is much better off for having people like the Collison brothers, who see that a moderately sized piece of infrastructure is too complicated and try to earn a lot of money by making it simpler.

I'm not sure I follow. They were still motivated by money. I doubt there was some altruistic revelation that got them incredibly interested in processing credit cards.

Sorry, that's my point. They were motivated by money and not some deep underlying passion for payment processing, meaning there's no way Stripe would be what it is in a world where they could only make $10 million each from it.

Re: LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

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Post by sl1ck731 »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #32
sl1ck731 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I follow. They were still motivated by money. I doubt there was some altruistic revelation that got them incredibly interested in processing credit cards.

Sorry, that's my point. They were motivated by money and not some deep underlying passion for payment processing, meaning there's no way Stripe would be what it is in a world where they could only make $10 million each from it.

Ah sorry I misread. And that could be the case but I see a net positive from it. They might do enough to get theirs and then once they flatline it becomes someone else's opportunity.

For example Bezos might have had enough from just being the bookstore of the internet. Everything else Amazon does would be open to small business fighting it out.

There are still shareholders for public companies to please so just hitting the mark might not mean just stop innovating.

Re: LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

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Post by PavlovsCat »

fake-name wrote: post #7
code4tee wrote: post #2

Basically, he’s too rich to know where he’s spending his money. A good problem to have, but clearly he recognized this was a big screwup and he fessed up. Not more one can ask for.

> Basically, he’s too rich to know where he’s spending his money. If you have that problem, you have too much money . I've periodically considered a limit on the money people can have. I think if we limited people to a maximum wealth, after which taxes were 90+%, it'd go a fair way to fixing a lot of the issues with the world. Something like 10 million dollars seems reasonable. (Note: this ignores all the ways people…

> I've periodically considered a limit on the money people can have.

Same here, in a similar way, too, much like air friction works -- the faster you're already going, the more energy you need to expend to go even faster (i.e. going from 200 mph to 300 mph requires MUCH less additional than going from 9900 to 10000). But there needn't (and IMO shouldn't) be a hard cutoff.

Re: LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

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Post by mindgam3 »

Ironically, the company mentioned in the article for spreading disinformation has the following mission statement: “New Knowledge protects your brand from social media disinformation by identifying fake accounts, fake news, and propaganda campaigns.”

Why choose white hat or black hat when you can profit from both sides. Ingenious!

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“The money went to a small group of social media experts that included Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of New Knowledge, a cybersecurity firm.

They created a Facebook page intended to look like the work of conservative Alabamians, and used it to try to split Republicans and promote a conservative write-in candidate to take votes from Mr. Moore.

They also used thousands of Twitter accounts to make it appear as if automated Russian bot accounts were following and supporting Mr. Moore, according to an internal report on the project. The apparent Russian support for Mr. Moore drew broad news media coverage.”

Re: LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

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Post by dang »

toiletfuneral wrote: post #31
tossaccount123 wrote: post #12

Interesting how so many leftists who hate the koch brothers and their big money spending are fine with billionaire tech elites throwing their money around But I suppose that's not surprising considering the top 10 richest districts and 73 of the top 100 voted democrat https://finance.yahoo.com/news/midterms-one-party-controls-w... Citizens United needs to be overturned ASAP

This is seriously the dumbest comment. How does anyone think actual leftists support centrist liberal billionaires? I’m guessing you were educated in the US (just so you know there are more than 2 possible political positions).

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