reciprocity

Their minds simply cannot process the idea of social reciprocity. That is to say, they have no real ethics.

Be reasonable, and consider proportional reciprocity. Pull the guy aside at least, this is just another person, not a tiger, not a snake, just a human.

They lack a sense of fairness or decency, and will follow the norms of reciprocity only under threat of force. Most people don't get further than their freshman year in high school without discovering that these people are real, they are numerous, and they are a curse.

It comes across as bush league, it shows poor judgment, and you are ignoring the fundamental rule of connections – reciprocity. Networking is conducted between individuals who have met or worked with each other, and who can provide equal levels of help to each other.

The incentive that they each have individually to do this is obvious, and the others allow it because they want to do it too and they implicitly expect reciprocity. It's basically a method for implicit collusion.

The games are designed to both get people addicted, and to get your friends involved by manipulating social gift reciprocity obligations. I think we'd have settled for "awful" up until the clawbacks, now we know the leadership at Zynga is sociopathic at best.

However there is nothing preventing Google from allowing facebook to access Google's data, merely stating reciprocity isn't a reason to keep their own customers 'hostage'. It's simple business, Google wants there to be no competitive advantage.

And reciprocity was a part of that: eventually, I found myself able to respond to questions and I remember how great it felt to see the first +25 on my profile because someone accepted my answer. These days, if I ask a question it's because I've spent a good amount of time on it and haven't been able to resolve it myself.

Such is already the case for France and it's growing amount of allies within the European Union who are campaining for reciprocity of trading and are working against dumping. In the meantime, be assured that I will make certain that our competent governmental services will work twice as hard to inspect your imported tires.

I'm sure that Apple adding DDG to Safari is the reason for this thinly veiled reciprocity. Privacy or not these are people selling their wares and they are willing to be sleazy about it, this is not unlike the bullshit post about the fake cell antennas and the magical ROM that detected them that is making the rounds, it's disheartening.

Altruism can be based on kinship, reciprocity, ideology, self-image, sympathy, habit and other things which are active in normal people's minds. IBM and Google are public corporations, meaning that turning a profit is the whole point of their existence, and that their leadership have a legal responsibility to shareholders.

The above statement may seem to you full of naivet and wide-eyed optimism, but that's the optimal strategy for success for even the most hardened cynic; look up some research on persuasion through reciprocity and liking.

Yes, there's reciprocity in this world, but it should be obvious to any unbiased observer that this wasn't part of some elaborate scheme on Patrick's part to grab the money of HN users. Patrick has spent countless hours providing invaluable advice to this community for free -- even if you want to take the most negative interpretation of his motives, this simply wouldn't be worth it.

I also wonder if, in addition to no pay, the price of the internship is actually negative because of the reciprocity expected from the social connections used to secure the internship for the recent college graduate. I am imagining a voice mail like this: "Hey, Joe [the VP at the PR firm which represents Large Company X], this is Bob, [the internal head of PR from Company X] calling.