How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
This is incredibly awful, but not particularly surprising.<p>One of Paul Graham&#x27;s most read essays is about the qualities that YC looks for in founders (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;founders.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;founders.html</a>).  In that essay, he specifically discusses &#x27;Naughtiness&#x27; as a positive quality, and how it&#x27;s one of the most important features of potential founders.<p>The problem is that being clever and hacking around a system for curiosity is governed by a very different set of incentives than being clever and hacking for profit.  Feynmann&#x27;s safecracking at Los Alomos was done to complain about an absurd system and to play pranks on his colleagues, not to enrich himself.<p>Being willing to break dumb rules to show how pointless they are is an excellent public service.  Breaking rules that stand in the way of your profit is completely different, and it&#x27;s important to call it out.