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0 pointsmac-chaffee5y ago0 comments

All these battles over IP where there's an enormous power imbalance strike me as problems of ego.

In college, I made a website and I thought another student "stole" the idea. I considered my legal options, but I'm glad I stopped there, even if I did have a case.

The other student was never a serious threat to my idea and in fact lost interest in the idea next year. So the only harm I suffered was to my ego that thought I deserved power over others just because I had an idea slightly before someone else.

I buy into Radon's argument that Replit has substantial value outside of "eval()" and is not actually threatened financially. As a result, I could understand a founder feeling disappointed at discovering clones, but I think it's important to separate harm to ego from harm to livelihood.

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daenz5y ago

>All these battles over IP where there's an enormous power imbalance strike me as problems of ego.

Bingo, especially the whole "we now have the resources to crush you" attitude. Someone please make sure these jokers never get money and power again.

atoav5y ago

I sure too understand where his feelings come from, but the questions are not our first implusive feelings but how we act on them and what we get in the end.

In your example you probably did the right thing by not persuing. But you could have also persued and fought a needless battle. Or it could have gone the other way: You could have overcome yourself and even teamed up with that other person.

Finding people doing similar things can be very shocking, because it threatens your self image. But it is also a chance to learn and grow, because who other than the person doing similar things as you did is someone to learn from?

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