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We are. Hacker News is the top spot for getting news relevant to startups.
well we are more of a news aggregating service, need some original content. Need more stories to break on HN
Of course, with MA's combative personality, it may go slightly differently, but it's probably a net positive for TC. Sadly enough.
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TechCrunch is awful, but there's no excuse for the spit in the face incident. I don't give a damn what lousy, fabricated article TechCrunch might have published to precipitate that. It's disgusting and totally uncalled for.
who knows if that really happened, or if Arrington was just linkbaiting to make money
Can you imagine how low you'd have to be to fake an incident like that just to get a few hits? Arrington has his faults, but he's not a showboater.
(Also remember that this article was posted while he's taking a break from TechCrunch entirely. Don't blame him for this story.)
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Which is strange, because the whole concept behind the British invention of the "corporation" is to address a group of people as a singular entity.
Not quite -- the underlying concept is a "company" in the sense of a troupe, band, eg "The King's Men", the "Dorrit's Chalk-Weavers", "Harold & Sons". The idea of a "corporate person" is much more recent, like 1880's, and I think started in the US.
From wikipedia:
In the late seventeenth century, Stewart Kyd, the author of the first treatise on corporate law in English, defined a corporation as,
"a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested, by policy of the law, with the capacity of acting, in several respects, as an individual, particularly of taking and granting property..."
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who knows if that really happened, or if Arrington was just linkbaiting to make money
Don't treat Arrington like some soulless mythical creature. He's a real person. He's susceptible to being offended enough to get pissed off at people and to rant even when he's been in the business for a long time. Can you imagine how low you'd have to be to fake an incident like that just to get a few hits? Arrington has his faults, but he's not a showboater. (Also remember that this article was posted while he's ta…
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Don't treat Arrington like some soulless mythical creature. He's a real person. He's susceptible to being offended enough to get pissed off at people and to rant even when he's been in the business for a long time. Can you imagine how low you'd have to be to fake an incident like that just to get a few hits? Arrington has his faults, but he's not a showboater. (Also remember that this article was posted while he's ta…
yes, but don't you think if someone spit on you, that you would have at least chased them down to kick their ass? I mean the guy must have been pretty close to land a hit.
Frankly, I think that people who react to aggression with more aggression are wasting their time and looking pretty stupid.
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yes, but don't you think if someone spit on you, that you would have at least chased them down to kick their ass? I mean the guy must have been pretty close to land a hit.
I'll assume Arrington is a nerd, like me, and that he's not the sort of person who'd kick anybody's ass. Frankly, I think that people who react to aggression with more aggression are wasting their time and looking pretty stupid.
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I'll assume Arrington is a nerd, like me, and that he's not the sort of person who'd kick anybody's ass. Frankly, I think that people who react to aggression with more aggression are wasting their time and looking pretty stupid.
Not as stupid as the guy covered in someone's possibly HIV infected spit.
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I fail to see how HIV came into this conversation.
you never know what the other person has, doesn't hurt to be careful in this day and age
I live in a world where people are innocent until proven guilty, people are all generally trying to do the right thing, the average man on the street doesn't like physically hitting other people, and most people don't have deadly diseases, and that the ones that do don't spit.