top | item 8667740 (no title) wfjackson | 11 years ago The problem is that you're unwilling to apply that same logic to Ben Edelman and pretty much call him a paid shill. At least the commenter you were replying to noted the potential conflict of interest, unlike you. discuss order hn newest DannyBee|11 years ago Because it's not the same?Ben publishes pieces in newspapers, journals, and testimony, and pretends they are objective while being paid by companies to write them.If you think this is the same as me or anyone else commenting on HN about their personal opinions, i'm not sure what to tell you.When I start submitting congressional testimony on behalf of google, and we start talking about it on HN, i'll happily note that i wrote it.(In the same way when we talked about Google code.google.com, i happily noted i worked on it) gress|11 years ago Are you saying that HN is less influential than newspapers and journals?Are you pretending to be unaffected by the incentives you have to defend Google? load replies (1)
DannyBee|11 years ago Because it's not the same?Ben publishes pieces in newspapers, journals, and testimony, and pretends they are objective while being paid by companies to write them.If you think this is the same as me or anyone else commenting on HN about their personal opinions, i'm not sure what to tell you.When I start submitting congressional testimony on behalf of google, and we start talking about it on HN, i'll happily note that i wrote it.(In the same way when we talked about Google code.google.com, i happily noted i worked on it) gress|11 years ago Are you saying that HN is less influential than newspapers and journals?Are you pretending to be unaffected by the incentives you have to defend Google? load replies (1)
gress|11 years ago Are you saying that HN is less influential than newspapers and journals?Are you pretending to be unaffected by the incentives you have to defend Google? load replies (1)
DannyBee|11 years ago
Ben publishes pieces in newspapers, journals, and testimony, and pretends they are objective while being paid by companies to write them.
If you think this is the same as me or anyone else commenting on HN about their personal opinions, i'm not sure what to tell you.
When I start submitting congressional testimony on behalf of google, and we start talking about it on HN, i'll happily note that i wrote it.
(In the same way when we talked about Google code.google.com, i happily noted i worked on it)
gress|11 years ago
Are you pretending to be unaffected by the incentives you have to defend Google?