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by raincole9 hours ago |
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upvoteby walt_grata9 hours ago|
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Once YC companies started having a negative impact on people and communities. Airbnb and gig worker stuff seems to be the start of it.
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upvoteby leoc8 hours ago|
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His reaction to the 2011 Dropbox password incident was an early concern, IIRC.
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upvoteby walt_grata7 hours ago|
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Very much so in my recollection
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upvoteby Cider99868 hours ago|
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OpenAI Airbnb Stripe Coinbase DoorDash Scale AI Dropbox Reddit Instacart GitLab Kalshi Replit Twitch

These are the companies advertised on ycombinator.com. The only one I like is GitLab which I'm neutral about. All other are companies I dislike.

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upvoteby bobthepanda8 hours ago|
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I think people have now become extremely wary of VC, startup and Silicon Valley because at some point there was a boiling frog shift from helping people and enabling new things to viciously eating anyone not participating.
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upvoteby ViktorRay9 hours ago|
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Are you sure the attitude changed generally or did it change more specifically here on Hacker News? Perhaps the kinds of people who use Hacker News changed.

https://youtu.be/ZIaOBAjvc38

Go to the 2:00 mark of this interview. Sam Altman says “Paul Graham is the most important force in startups of the past few decades” and the whole auditorium starts cheering. So Paul Graham is akin to a god in some places.

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upvoteby mzajc8 hours ago|
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I would hazard a guess that the people attending a YC event (!) to watch Sam Altman (!) talk with Garry Tan (!) would regard Paul Graham well irrespective of how the rest of the world sees him.
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upvoteby bambax7 hours ago|
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In this tweet he appears to support the racist POS who "outed" Jason Arday:

> "How should universities respond to the Arday scandal? Should they crack down on plagiarism and academic fraud? Ghent University's response, apparently, will be to fire the person who reported it."

https://x.com/paulg/status/2090439693334937963

This is an incredibly shitty thing to say. Nathan Cofnas is a proponent of "scientific racism" who thinks human races 1/ exist and 2/ have very different intellectual capabilities. (Unsurprisingly, his own "race" is at the top of this hierarchy.) He was fired from Ghent not because of the "Arday scandal", but because of his theories. This was the second time he was fired from a university. (He had previously been fired from Cambridge.)

People rushing to his defense can only do so for one of two reasons: they have a knee-jerk feeling that he's right and his victim is wrong, and are too lazy to research the facts, or they truly agree with his ideas on a fundamental level.

Both options are very, very bad.

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upvoteby phonon1 hours ago|
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According the the University it was for "Ghent University is shocked by the death of Professor Arday....recent public statements made by a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University regarding this matter"[1] and as discussed on that page he was not fired (yet?) but was "imposed a disciplinary measure on a member of its research staff for a period of three months. A preliminary inquiry is also under way to determine if further disciplinary action is warranted."

So perhaps you appear to the one "too lazy to research the facts"?

[1]https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/updates-case-postdoctora...

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upvoteby dififjfj3748442 minutes ago|
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If I remember correctly, Paul talked a lot about things that are ‘unsayable’ but his support for those going further than he was prepared to suggested at the things that he would to be able to say without losing status or power
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