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Since when is Union Square been renamed "Satoshi Square"?

Stop spamming this thread with your recruiter garbage!

This thread is not for recruiters.

Downvote.

It doesn't do geographic searches well.

"San Francisco" results in just 1 match, whereas there are 5 on the front page alone.

While their high level goals (eliminate hunger, reduce stress on agricultural and environmental resources) are laudable, this project suffers from the same arrogance of doctors in the 1960s who said mother's milk was primitive and could be replaced by artificial formula.

Now, in hindsight, we know what a mistake that was, as natural breast milk contained compounds which decreased various cancer and health risks.

I cannot help but think they are going down the same road.

Ha, Bashir got funding from Jack Dorsey because he's her boyfriend (or was, at one time, anyway).

Dude... the small, light gray text... are you trying to ruin our eyesight?

"Scene is clear. Call unfounded. No threat to public safety in #CambMA #MIT"

https://twitter.com/CambridgePolice/status/30533598012521267...

That's only part of it.

It seems this "affinity data" model is the basis for the high hopes and high valuation: http://gigaom.com/2012/03/24/pinterest-weve-got-a-business-m...

A small amount of money for a few months, followed by a demo day in the end, etc.

It's not as established, though, and I haven't read or heard much about the startups which come out of it, though, which I why I posted the question.

Their site is: http://eranyc.com/

I'd love to hear from anyone with direct experience.

Why?

You might be far less likely to blow up the way Knight did, but you're hardly immune.

"there are no logically possible situations in the code that they haven't programmed a response for"

Until they blow up one day themselves...

Call me cynical, but no type system, no matter how sophisticated, nor team of programmers, no matter how talented & experienced, is immune to this type of thing.

Can you imagine yourself paying someone to smear others on a forum?

I cannot, no.

But a large (and dare I say ruthless) organization interested in limiting the PR damage?

Sure.

He's been on here for years, and so have I.

I have often wondered, though, about his alacrity to side with the establishment, in defense of investment bankers, against net neutrality, etc., and what his motivation is.

Maybe, since he was willing to name his employers, who happen to be despised in liberal circles.

OTOH, there is a lot of PR spending on social media (e.g.: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/politics/obama-campaign...), so it wouldn't surprise me if Goldman has hired people to smear Smith on forums like this one.

Some of those banks do very well, and it wouldn't be terrible for their PR to hire him.

Possible, but unlikely.

Smith must have known he'd be attacked personally (as in that ad hominem piece you posted), and it's unlikely another bank would want to touch him, regardless of their true feelings towards Goldman.

Do you know anyone who pays people for saying stuff like this on random message boards?

Sure: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/pku22/iama_former_koch...

I tend to say this kind of thing because I think it's true, and because I'm unimpressed with the quality of opposing arguments and would like someone to refute me.

I'll give you credit for the latter (if it's true), but not the former.

He effectively blacklists himself from any future job in finance (and therefore ends his career) just because he doesn't like his bonus?

So no, it's not Occam's Razor: if he were merely unhappy with his bonus, he would call another i-bank and move on.

BTW, I notice you're always quick to defend the big money status quo around here (you were against net neutrality a while back, IIRC).

What's in it for you, as a mere SEO "consultant"?

Are you paid to post these talking points, or do you really believe what you say?

Hence my unusual spelling.

I'm not sure the white trash equivalency is really gaining momentum, though.

Whites never deeply disliked their poorer and less-educated brethren despite looking down on them, and there has been a spate of "white trash is cool" with the popularity of the Cable Guy and Redneck comedy tours.

there really is a sense of "those losers are embarrassing us."

Chris Rock has a famous rant about this: "There are black people and there are n!!!ers, and the n!!!ers have got to go"

Stripe and Samurai don't work?

Recurring is built-in to both of those platforms, and the fee structure is far less.

I don't know why you're willing to put up with the credit card processing status-quo.

Established merchant accounts are expensive.

Why pay those merchant account fees, and on top of that, pay another set of fees to be able to do recurring billing?

How is recurly relevant any more, given Stripe and Samurai?

"Customers cannot tell you what they need."

Don't tell the lean startup guys that.

I think you're missing the point: this article is about how to react when unexpected things out of your control occur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_%28logic%29

I think he gets it. He's being sarcastic, too.

Nice try, Hugh Grant, but we know you're really an actor, not some bookshop owner.

I saw the founder of Catchafire speak at an investor conference, and she bragged about "making a lot of money" off volunteers and the organizations they volunteer for.

I found it disgusting, but no one batted an eye.

Perhaps that was a bit blunt.

I don't know who he is or read many of his comments here, but on the basis of the article alone (long, incoherent, illogical) I didn't get a favorable impression.

Perhaps he should have thought a bit more about what he wanted to say, and he would have a written a better piece (which reminds me about a quote from Twain: "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one").