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You are being extremely disingenuous. You are equating the dead of a person with the dead of a company. By doing this you are biasing the argument in your favor because people know is bad to let people die. All in all I cannot take your argument seriously if you do stuff like that. You are apealling to emotion rather than reason.

Time to have some serious, un-edited conversation here folks.

The comments around this question have been really interesting to watch. But the underlying subtext of corporations 'good' vs 'bad' and the level of seriousness it entails when they are dissolved is even more amazing.

First off, on a discussion group that is pretty much focused on creating innovation through technology, the concept of corporations is pretty much fundamental. If you hate corporations and everything they stand for then starting one should be the last thing on your mind. Further helping other people create theirs should also be pretty low on your list. Without the existence of these collectives there is no framework for seed rounds, 'happy exits', or IPOs. There is no 'acqui-hire' and no structure in which to build a vision that is greater than yourself.

But the second bit that must be understood is that "corporations" are composed of people, just as a marriage is composed of people. These companies are things that people invest time, emotion, and money into to further their goals. When they fail, people feel badly, sometimes really badly about that.

If you decide to live in the community of people who build companies from the ground up, or work to make them great, then someone you know personally will commit suicide when they come to the realization that their company has failed and they could have prevented it. I know it is hard to imagine this as a young person who has yet to face their own mortality in any serious way, but please try to understand this scenario.

You have been working with folks for 3, 4, 5, or maybe 10 years on building something together. Imagine someone you knew in 6th grade is is now graduating with you in college. There are challenges that you don't think you can overcome, personal hardships that you weather together, shared victories you've achieved. You've shared in people making progress toward their life goals, perhaps they have saved up enough to buy their first house, maybe their kids have made it into an Ivy League college, maybe their kids have married your kids. And now, all of this and more is going to be destroyed. These people, these friends and colleagues, are going to have their lives turned upside down, and some more than others. Some will lose their houses, their kids will be told they have to come home because there is no money for school, reputations will be smeared, and good people who did nothing but great work will be villified by a public which has been fed information in a way that creates the most rage and the least understanding.

If you, latinohere, or anyone else reading this, ever get the "opportunity" to be standing at that abyss and look into it, you may feel that your own death is actually preferable than having to live with that. Sadly I know friends who decided it wasn't worth it and they ended their own lives rather than live with the knowledge they had led people into a place that turned out not as they had hoped. And in that moment, that moment of decision, do you take this "deal" which converts a bad outcome to a slightly less bad outcome. it really comes down to people living and dying. Corporation or not, real people who have to live with themselves the day after and the day after that.

Chuck: Well said.

The customer is paying for their bandwith. Google is paying for their bandwith. What more does this scum bag want? Fuck him.

Unfortunately the general public, and maybe even politicians, don't understand this and believe the lie that google is freeloading.

My parents never forced me to do my hw. I never did chores. Almost no praise and no punishment. All in all they were pretty hands-off. I'm from a low income family and lived in a crappy neighborhood in NYC, went to some crappy schools. And yet, I managed to get a Bachelors in Engineering and a Masters in Computer Science. I have a very strong work ethic. What worked? Who knows.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I know enough to know that we don't know enough. Too many times we've done things that in hindsight should never have been done had we had more information. I fear this may be one of those times.

How do we get that information if people are running around burning these crops to the ground?

Still not as impressive as Davinci whom had very exact sketches of anotomy almost second to none during his time. Not to mention his sketches of flying machines. You need multiple artists and engineers to match all of Davinci's talents.

Do you think da Vinci performing and documenting dissections is strong evidence of his procrastination?

FYI my six year-old can also draw machines that can't actually fly.

So basically you are being called out and finding no way to defend your statement now you are acting all high and mighty.

Sounds incompetent to me in their part. If Facebook can be profitable why can't reddit?

Facebook is profitable at the expense of its user base. Reddit is taking a longer view, in part because of the demographic that uses their service and in part due to what happened to Digg.

Given Reddit is 7 years old, it's a dangerous gamble they're taking in not developing some kind of sustainable business model, one that provides cover for disasters that inevitably hit. Obviously Conde may choose to provide for them perpetually, but that's extremely unlikely.

Then again, maybe they're at a large enough scale now to fully run off the Wiki model. More power to them if that's the case and Conde is ok with it.

I'm a 35 year old latin and I have never, ever heard anybody use that word, not on TV, not on books, not on nothing. I had to look it up too see if it was real. Is a weird word, please don't use.

Diesmo, on the other hand is quite common and I guess you can say that diesmar is the act of giving the tenth of your profits to the church. Still, diezmar is a dead word.

Instead we use decimo for tenth and decimar for destroy.

Cool, though I wonder what the origin of decimar is. :)