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by BoorishBears 33 days ago
This is an oddly passive-aggressive comment when a much more likely read is they were relying on the funding and the large tech company did what large tech companies do and started moving slowly.

And I can see others already blaming them for relying on the vulnerability for living expenses, but if we can hold the hyper-rationalization for a second, we shouldn't be against the person who expected an organization with more money than God to uphold a deal for relative peanuts, right?

Like yes we all get that large orgs make spending $5 very hard, many claps for being the in-group, but their frustration would be understandable.
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866-RON-0-FEZ 33 days ago
I'm supposed to feel bad that Microsoft didn't immediately wire him an advance on the bounty before validating anything? Have you ever tried to get anything corrected with a corporate payroll department? Try three months minimum.

It's like suggesting someone was relying on a lottery ticket to payout to survive.

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BoorishBears 33 days ago
I tried to be as coddling with my language as possible.

Acknowledged how orgs work, separated blaming the org from sympathizing with their reaction, tried to separate the prudence of their actions from the sticky situation they'd still be left in by the orgs actions...

But it was for naught: people are really ingrained in a weird "might-makes-right" model of corporate operations. "Larry Ellison is a lawnmower" was supposed to be a jeremiad but now it's more like a guiding principle that we browbeat anyone for questioning.

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array_key_first 33 days ago
Yes and that's bad. Saying it's bad doesn't make it not-bad, it just makes it still bad but now we know it's bad.
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antonvs 33 days ago
> we shouldn't be against the person who expected an organization with more money than God to uphold a deal for relative peanuts, right?

You're assuming that there was a deal that wasn't upheld. I don't think we have enough information to assess that. This person's blog posts do read as being somewhat unstable. There's even someone in the comments seemingly genuinely trying to be helpful: "Just wondering if you’re BiPolar (like me) and see a different reality than what is real. Been there."

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