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Comment by simonhamp

5 years ago

Cheaters always watching over their shoulder. How can you trust people if you know they can't trust you? Or worse, you can't trust yourself!

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mmastrac  5 years ago

I don't agree with @amasad's actions at all, but I think this is a very uncivil comment.

truetraveller  5 years ago

Simon, this is a wrong reply. Tone down the rhetoric a notch, please.

  • simonhamp  5 years ago

    Lol.

    This isn't rhetoric, this is lived experience. No character assassination required - the character in question has assassinated themselves

  • xenihn  5 years ago

    It's a valuable idea that everyone should keep in mind throughout their lives, and throughout their careers.

    Same thing with people who speak negatively of others to you in private. Odds are they do the same thing, but about you, when speaking with others. If you confide something negative about someone else to them, they'll probably tell that person.

    • truetraveller  5 years ago

      Yes, it's a great lesson. And "speaking negatively" is another great lesson. Thank you.

      But, we can't just call (even implicitly) Amjad a "cheater".

ztratar  5 years ago

Just going out to say the amount of speculation on this thread combined with character assassination is pretty shitty.

This is one side of the story, we don't have much evidence either direction, and it's not clear there was any "cheating" involved in anyone's past.

HN should do better.

  • threatofrain  5 years ago

    The CEO Amjad Masad has responded in this post.

    This is a story told with receipts, and receipts carry a weight of their own. Namely, private emails made public. You can see for yourself whether you'll ever see the other side speak through the language of receipts.

    So far all he has done is double down on the story told through the emails.