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Aaron Greenspan
Personal blog · aarongreenspan.compoliticsstartupswriting
Aaron Greenspan's personal blog at aarongreenspan.com covers politics, startups and writing. Since 2007, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 150 times, most often “An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Aaron Greenspan
Most-linked posts?
- /writing/20130404/in-search-of-the-cookie-dough-tree/7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2018-03-26
- An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2007-09-14
- Petitioning Rube Goldberg's Supreme Court (2013)3 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2015-01-01
- The Lost Chapter3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-19
- Authoritas: Aaron Greenspan's story of the founding of Facebook2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2008-02-13
- /writing/essay.html?id=862 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-02-20
- FaceCash Files Formal Complaints Against Stanford, USC, Pomona, and AAU2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-23
- The Lost Chapter2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-12
- In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-05
- Facebook's fake account problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-23
What Hacker News says?
When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2006, I had just lived through the events that were eventually twisted into the movie The Social Network. My conclusion having witnessed Mark's behavior firsthand was that he was the least trustworthy individual I had ever met and that he was likely to harm others. At the risk of sounding like Chicken Little ("the sky is falling!") I wrote a great deal voicing my point of view, incl…
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on “Facebook Fraud [video]”Submitted The Lost Chapter as a story · 375 points
HN discussion> So it was that while running, but not so much as to force my body into open rebellion, I noticed something odd. When I was heading down the gently sloping hill on Peter Coutts Road towards Stanford Avenue, I turned right as usual to head back home, passed along the edge of a grassy area, and smelled...cookies. But not really cookies. Raw cookie dough. Outside. http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-sear…
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on “A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit”Submitted Facebook's fake account problem as a story · 265 points
HN discussionSeriously, reading this article it's almost as if they're deliberately re-enacting Harvard's response to houseSYSTEM (which included course reviews, scheduling features, and of course, The Facebook) from 11 years ago. It really says something about institutional behavior. There must be some kind of Independent Thinking Students Emergency Playbook they hand out in elite university administrations. As then-President S…
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on “Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down”Submitted A Sad Irony: The Federal Judiciary's PACER Pricing Is Illegal as a story · 250 points
HN discussionHarvard did this in 2003. It even went so far as to accuse me of using the word "The" improperly, in a copyright line where I properly attributed credit to "The President and Fellows of Harvard College," when http://www.harvard.edu at the time said the exact same thing (and apparently still does). I left Harvard early (with a degree), and then I wrote a book about it. http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html So…
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on “The Great Firewall of Yale”Submitted In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree as a story · 194 points
HN discussionPreviously: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/zuckerberg.html
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on “The Lost Chapter”Submitted FaceCash Files Formal Complaints Against Stanford, USC, Pomona, and AAU as a story · 158 points
HN discussionA very large chunk of his articles are negative http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/index.html Not saying they aren't all true, I'm sure they are. Why focus on the negativity? Recognize it and move beyond.
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on “The Lost Chapter”Submitted Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (2011) as a story · 113 points
HN discussionMy response: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=100
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on “Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of Mt. Gox”Submitted Do you trust the Bitcoin Foundation? as a story · 73 points
HN discussionI've been to Gasworks Park and I agree, it's a strange idea. Nice park though. Reminds me of the "cookie dough" smell in Palo Alto: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-search-of-... > So it was that while running, but not so much as to force my body into open rebellion, I noticed something odd. When I was heading down the gently sloping hill on Peter Coutts Road towards Stanford Avenue, I turned right…
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on “Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills”Submitted $10,000: The Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants as a story · 72 points
HN discussionThis is still the best essay I have read on the topic: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-search-of-... I've left Silicon Valley since I read it. And having read it, I hope to never move back.
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on “Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country”Submitted Fool's Gold 2.0: The siren song of Bitcoin as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThanks. Glad someone noticed, though aggressive overuse of 18 U.S.C. § 1960 at the federal level is hardly the biggest problem... See page 15: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20131118.hsgacstatemen... The real issues are at the state level, but as you can see, it's all intertwined.
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on “Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges”Submitted Mark Zuckerberg's Ponzi Scheme (2019) as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI have often thought that Aaron Greenspan's attitude towards California money transmission law was a little aggressive, http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20141022/the-common-se... , like, this guy is ranting about obscure laws and there is no way that the government would really abuse this legislation to shut down reasonable businesses. Then, in this complaint, I read ""On March 4, 2014, FORCE asked one of his c…
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on “Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges”Submitted The Harvard People I Know Who Are Breaking The Law (Again) as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSee http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=86 . "(a) Whenever the commissioner believes from evidence satisfactory to the commissioner that any person has violated or is about to violate a provision of this division, or a provision of any order, license, decision, demand, requirement, or any regulation adopted pursuant to this division, the commissioner may, in the commissioner's discretion, bring an ac…
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on “Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From California”Submitted I Don't Think Elon Likes Me: Elon Musk Is Suing Me as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThe e-mail I just sent to the author of that post: "Ms. Kaminska, In your recent post ( http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/03/03/1787992/magic-the-unde... ), which I found via Brad DeLong’s web site, you described Bitcoin as "totally unregulated" and "completely unregulated" a number of times. Such characterizations are completely erroneous, and you should probably correct your post. Unfortunately, many people are unde…
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on “Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins”Submitted Petitioning Rube Goldberg's Supreme Court as a story · 11 points
HN discussionMy comments: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20131118.hsgacstatemen... Jerry Brito's testimony was quite good.
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on “Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video]”Submitted Dear California, Stop hitting yourself. as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYes. The argument is that the E-Government Act of 2002 makes the judiciary's policies regarding PACER illegal. See: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=84 http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/29himg3wm/california-northe...
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on “FBI and Secret Service Files: Aaron Swartz”Submitted An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) as a story · 9 points
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