This seems extremely mean spirited.

TallGuyShort 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some of the comments are unnecessary, but things like this:

> wiping $40B and several people's life savings

Okay, you shouldn't dump your life savings into a cryptocurrency that claims to be doing innovative things in the first 2 days. But if that's true that guy ruined multiple people's life's work. That's a bit mean-spirited, wouldn't you say?

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gmd63 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To put it into context, 40 billion dollars is about 22,000 average lifetime earnings of a man in the US.

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NewsaHackO 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Did you read the page? The first portion is whatever, but then it lists random founders with no record of doing anything nefarious based on a random ranking list. It's literally bullying.

	▲	ForHackernews 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Correct. It's abusive to apply probabilistic AI models to real human individuals and penalize them for things they haven't even done yet with no recourse. I hope you will remember this the next time your employer asks you to build an AI moderation, credit evaluation, or anti-fraud system that will harm much larger numbers of innocent people far than one mean website.

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nutjob2 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, but so? It provides a modicum of balance versus relentless hype by founders and the doting media. Even if not true it might remind people to have some healthy skepticism. The fact that your reflex is to find it "extremely mean spirited" speaks volumes. Everyone else in life gets shat apron because of other people's unscrupulous behavior, why are these people special? People should assume that there is a good chance any business venture is a fraud.

Ultimately it's one guy's opinion. It's not like he's going to ruin these people's lives or businesses.