Again, what you consider a "tangential issue" is directly linked to a $5 billion dollar lawsuit over interchange fees (actually, several, that's just the latest one). Where I come from, that amount of money is not "tangential." It's core.
I think ethics are important. I don't really know much about your background. But it's disingenuous of you to claim that it's irrelevant when you're an investor with links to Walmart.
The only reason I sound like a crazy person to you is because, as you admit, you "never really get to the meat of what [I'm] saying." That's easily remedied by actually reading what's written, as opposed to just scoffing and writing me off as crazy.
As for format, I've tried just about everything there is, but I'm open to suggestions. In any event, my approach seems to be working, whether you want to admit it or not:
You don't sound crazy to me, but definitely angry, which makes it painful for me to read you.
The technicalities are way over my head, but even if you're right, you're unlikely to get any reply from YC since a law suit is pending...
Unsolicited advice:
From what others say in this thread, it sounds like you're obsessed with this issue. If I understand correctly, you've been wronged and filed a law suit because of it. Let your lawyers do their thing, and move on.
Your rants cause you more pain than they cause to the people you accuse.
Thanks for the update, I was relying on your original complaint's text that "…Plaintiff's Board of Directors wishes Plaintiff’s CEO, Aaron Greenspan, to represent Think Computer Corporation in this matter before the Court", but my parenthetical qualification allowed for the chance you might have acquired lawyers later.
I guess my point is that it just seems like you are using any relevant point to talk about your own issues. Conversation is a give and take, not an infinite loop.
I never claimed that ethics weren't important. I am saying that your mode of presentation is tiresome and makes your point impenetrable.
And it seems like you are flippantly excusing Y Combinator's ethical double standard because you're not interested in hearing about how pervasive unethical behavior is in the industry from a person you've never met but you're pretty sure you don't like, no matter how much evidence is a click away.
Perhaps that's because according to AngelList you're an investor in Square, which has signed two consent decrees for violating money transmission laws. That would make you a federal felon per 18 U.S.C. § 1960. And it sure would suck if my "presentation" caused you some legal trouble.
Because I'd expect someone as smart as you, with a clear financial stake in the money transmission regulatory situation, to realize that you can make more money by helping to promote reform than you can by hiding your connections to the mess and trying to shut me up.
If you haven't noticed, that strategy isn't working.
I'm not trying to shut you up. I'm trying to get you to phrase your message so that other humans will want to consume it.
How am I hiding my connections?
Accusing people of felons is probably also not a good way to rally them to your cause.
Even here you are bent on turning the discussion to your cause. I'm talking about the phrasing, not the message.
It does seem creepy that you see enemies and opposition everywhere. Good luck with your cause - you need it.
FWIW my investment in Square was small and because Jack was a friend. I'm not really injured either way, though would generally like to see laws make sense in the interest of parsimony.
Also FWIW, I think plainsite is pretty good.
Wow, news.yc makes this thread really narrow. Probably punishment for belaboring the point.
I don't see enemies and opposition everywhere. I'm not paranoid. You just happen to be an investor in at least one money transmitter and company I'm in litigation with (not to mention your Walmart involvement), and you didn't care to mention it. That would seem material and capable of altering your viewpoint. Instead you said you weren't employed.
The fact that I am supposedly "bent on turning the discussion to [my] cause" would actually suggest that I see potential partners everywhere, if anything.
As for phrasing, if the private and very polite conversations I've had with people had gone better, we never would have reached this point.
I am not involved with Walmart. I sold a company to them and did some contracting work that wasn't extended. I am no longer advising them, though I haven't bothered to update every profile everywhere. I'll go edit some more things if that makes you happy.
I retract "dead horse" and wish to replace "pet cause" - the first implies more about your cause than I really mean to.
I think ethics are important. I don't really know much about your background. But it's disingenuous of you to claim that it's irrelevant when you're an investor with links to Walmart.
The only reason I sound like a crazy person to you is because, as you admit, you "never really get to the meat of what [I'm] saying." That's easily remedied by actually reading what's written, as opposed to just scoffing and writing me off as crazy.
As for format, I've tried just about everything there is, but I'm open to suggestions. In any event, my approach seems to be working, whether you want to admit it or not:
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