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Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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Re: Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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Post by antupis »

blippage wrote: post #27

“The one moral CEO in America.” That's up there with Ken Lay's proclamation that Enron set the bar for corporate ethics (I can't find the exact quote, and obviously before the collapse). 'The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.' -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Anyhoo, I have no actual idea if the accusations against Price are founded or not. That's for the courts to decide. I'm not into the whole…

There has been plenty of those accusations like waterboarding his ex-wife and usually no smoke without a fire is pretty good thumb-rule about these things.

Re: Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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Post by mrweasel »

I hate these stories, because we have no idea which side is true. The reckless drive is the only charge than can be proven, or at least have vitnesses.

Criminal charges really should be kept out of the media until there’s enough evidence to jail the suspect. This is to protect both sides.

Re: Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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Post by ctrlmeta »

nl wrote: post #34
pvaldes wrote: post #28

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Can we stop with this unfounded speculation please? These are real human beings we are talking about with serious allegations. Let the court follow its due process and come to a decision. The jury is still out there. Innocent until proven guilty.

All this armchair criticism and judgement on HN is turning out to be a very poor reading experience.

Re: Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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Post by yieldcrv »

ggambetta wrote: post #26

I hope this means he'll stop posting the 70k story every other day on LinkedIn. Only person I've ever had to block there. I didn't follow him, but too many 2nd+ degree connections liked his posts to make it too much for me.

I did the same thing, so obnoxious and redundant

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Post by filoleg »

wesleywt wrote: post #39
chitowneats wrote: post #7

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Wanting to do good and talking about doing good in proportional amounts to the (a lot of) bad you are doing (as well as a solid way to gaslight everyone and drown out the negative sentiment) are not the same thing. Virtue signaling refers to the latter, not the former. No need to invent strawmen to "dunk on conservatives", conservative politicians give plenty of actual legitimate reasons to be disliked.

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Post by ben_w »

proxyon wrote: post #14
chitowneats wrote: post #7

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many such cases

Without commenting on the actual story, human morality isn't a single switch (or even dial) with evil on one side and good on the other — it is entirely possible to be a demon in one aspect and at the same time an angel in another.

For example: Washington bought slave's teeth, with circumstantial evidence those teeth ended up in his mouth. By the time he died, he was against slavery but didn't seem to know how to approach the abolition of the practice.

People are complicated.

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Post by ThePadawan »

yieldcrv wrote: post #44
ggambetta wrote: post #26

I hope this means he'll stop posting the 70k story every other day on LinkedIn. Only person I've ever had to block there. I didn't follow him, but too many 2nd+ degree connections liked his posts to make it too much for me.

I did the same thing, so obnoxious and redundant

Parent did say it was LinkedIn, yes. /j
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