Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to be clear on hyperbole: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyperbole
Really? I reply with clarification and receive anonymous downvotes in return? hyperbole isn't a fancy word for exaggeration
Sigh
Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels
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#192My take home word from Conway's email: binary. Angelgate rolls on. http://goo.gl/fb/PpyhK
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#193I find it hard to tell if this is a heartfelt attempt to "tell it like it is", or masterful damage control to pull his buddy's ass out of the fire. PG vouches for him (which counts for a lot) so maybe it's completely legit and heartfelt. If so, it does indicate a certain lapse of judgment on the author's part. Why on Earth would he think something this inflammatory would stay secret? It must be obvious to everyone in…
Notice how he admits that the group is guilty of bitching about deal structures with entrepreneurs, while drawing attention away from the greater crime of collusion. My thought is that this is an attempt to draw attention away from the real crime here by throwing up more distraction.
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#195There's one thing I noticed about Arrington at Disrupt- sure, he's a dick, but he's only a dick to people who a) can take it and b) deserve it. I can't think of a single instance where he has called someone out, and it turned out later he was wrong. For example, some of the panel at Disrupt were being rude (talking amongst themselves during a startup presentation), and he stopped everything and called them out on it.…
This whole episode was quite an impressive feat by Arrington. As one of the many "not-super" angels in the world, it validated something that was only hearsay until Arrington confirmed it -- which has then given Conway a chance to chastise it appropriately. Granted, I still wish he'd revise the inaccuracies in this article ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/29/guy-who-copied-digg-slams-d... ) but I'll take the fact that…
I find Ron Conway's follow up courageous (given the fact that he knew it would come out). I think it is very good in its content. It shows that business ethics is about much more than following the law of the land or of your selfish interests. It also shows that there are still some great investors on the block. Thanks Ron!
I must say I wonder what favors Arrington exchanges with the very participants of this sad angel bunch to get them to forward all these confidential emails though...
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
The President of the United States managed to miss the fact that the word derives from french.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp
Unless I misinterpreted the purpose of your link, the denial of a conversation by a politician's PR flunkie does not mean it didn't happen.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
You missed the context: these guys were being bad and they got an appropriate bitch slap. Hopefully that's the end of it. I'm sure none of them are genuinely bad guys. In other words, the point of them being "genuinely bad guys" or not is whether the affair should be allowed to blow over after a few firm but loving reproaches. staunch and cookiecaper are both speaking in the same terms, on the assumption that only "b…
> Rejecting the idea of "genuinely bad guys" leads to the conclusion that they should be punished The idea of individual punishment also was emphasized in Zoroastrianism and spread its way into the global human psyche. Punishment is a very natural tool for us but it's clumsy. I would elaborate more but it takes a lot of words to explain a different paradigm and uncover hidden assumptions. I'm not saying you're wrong;…
Perhaps the idea that punishment should always be individual, never collective, started with Zoroastrianism (I haven't a clue) but individual punishment predates it by a wee bit.
For example (got this all from Wikipedia; you can verify it there), the Code Of Hammurabi predates Zoroastrianism by hundreds of years. Wikipedia lists seventeen examples from the code; each example describes an individual punishment based on individual responsibility for an infraction. (Since I can't stop surfing Wikipedia now,) the Code of Ur-Nammu, "the oldest known tablet containing a law code surviving today," also prescribes individual punishments for individual infractions. It dates from the third millenium BCE, predating Zoroastrianism by over one thousand years.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would only work if he controlled the mailing-list server, assuming this is an actual mailing list, and not a "CC all" ad-hoc solution.
"... That would only work if he controlled the mailing-list server, assuming this is an actual mailing list, and not a "CC all" ad-hoc solution. ..." Just email each individually.
> Just email each individually
And do so by having the "To" line be yourself, and the addressee in the "Bcc" line - that way the addressee will think others are getting it too.
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Right. He's used up his "nuclear bomb" title for the year. What happens when something truly scandalous happens? I suppose he could go up to hydrogen bomb..
"Fully operational battle station"?
"This technological terror you've constructed pales in comparison to the power of the Force"
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I made a comment to the same effect on this same story, but I've realized that it's actually phonetic given the (mis)pronunciation often heard 'round the Valley. Most people I know say "ahn-treh-preh-noo-er" instead of the more Frenchified "ahn-treh-preh-ner". It's easy to see how one might misspell the former (as RC apparently did).
Nitpick: I wouldn't say the second form has been Frenchified so much as the first form has been Americanized .
I was being ironic.