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by gottorf 145 days ago
By "used this to his advantage", it sounds like he was just a fraudster?
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He called it "arbitrage". But yeah, I agree.
No it's not fraud, it's a growth hack. And it's not lying, it's advertising, it's not spam, it's a cold email, it's not patent trolling, it's IP protection.

But maybe it's maybelline.

Fraud is legal now. In the USA, at least.
Fraud is good, these companies need their revenue so they can create an all powerful AGI. If you don't allow them to scam they'll lose against the chinese
You got downvoted but this bizarre logic is really what passes in SV.