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The man is responsible for taking away life saving medication from over 20 million people in the last few weeks. Why does Y Combinator demean itself to the point of associating wit…

Recently discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43029164

Wasn’t that part of the plot of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon?

So $55 billion in exchange for denying life saving medication to 20 million souls.

For those who aren’t familiar, VDARE is "an anti-immigration hate website" which "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites" ac…

What level of financial savings would justify threatening the lives of 20 million souls? https://pepfarreport.org/

> throwawaydpresd 1 minute ago [dead] | root | parent [–] > I feel guilty that I'm still using hacker news. I feel like I'm supporting the regime Can someone explain why this is do…

I would agree that protests alone are less effective than if they are combined with other things.

If the number of threats of physical harm (death, disfigurement, rape, etc) my colleagues are receiving are an indication, I feel the protests are having an effect.

Why is this person still invited to speak at AI Startup School?

Why is this person still invited to speak at AI Startup School?

Garry Tan and Paul Graham are lauding DOGE (I, like pretty much everyone else, am also all for employing new technology to optimize business and government) but have not expressed …

Before this is flagged, I would appreciate it if someone could explain the benefit of removing educational videos and/or how it saves taxpayers money

I would appreciate it if someone could explain the benefit of removing educational videos and/or how it saves taxpayers money.

> Pausing their work now, while there are no elections occurring, to ensure the work they are doing is inline with their statutory responsibilities seems like a good idea. I really…

This sounds like an unserious answer but I'll try to give you the benefit of the doubt. > First of all, the way CDC works, it's just a board of directors from many pharmaceutical c…

I would be interested in hearing arguments for why it is helpful to gut the CDC’s globally recognized applied epidemiology training program

It is a 2 year fellowship. Assuming hires are uniformly distributed, it would stand to reason that approximately half were hired in the within the past year. https://www.cdc.gov/ei…

> if people really wanted to boycott Elon, they shouldn't just focus on the company's products, but boycott the stock. I would agree the equity valuation is essentially the "life f…

The bubble can last a long time. Trump Media & Technology Group has always traded well above fundamentals and likely will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.