[carlosjobim]

Great, now we're defending embezzlement and fraud with public funds on HN, because we really really hate big business.

A child caught doing something bad will cry "but my friends also did it!", is that the level of reasoning hackers want to be at?

[blanched]

That seems like a bad faith read to me. Nobody is defending it, just pointing out the irony / hypocrisy. Two things can be bad, and they can be related.

[carlosjobim]

You'd be surprised to hear then that I'm not the owner of any big company which embezzles tax payer money, and have never been involved in such.

[blanched]

I don’t follow how that makes sense as a response to what I said?

[carlosjobim]

Why would I be a hypocrite for pointing out public fund embezzlement?

[blanched]

You’re not. The originally mentioned “big companies” are.

[sdevonoes]

There are no hackers around here anymore. HN is mainly about business nowadays

[dmix]

HN has always discussed business

[jrm4]

What part of that said "defense?"

They can both be bad.

[lostlogin]

> Great, now we're defending embezzlement

I might be missing something, but I don’t see anyone defending the the scams.