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Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#51

I appreciate their commitment to the bit. I wish their team included slightly more diversity however.

“Hey Jim, we have a woman, but we still need to find that token black guy to satisfy the SJWs!”

“Fuck that Pete, we’re Cthulhu Ventures.”

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#52

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https://www.mithril.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valar_Ventures

These I don’t really see a problem with. The name is inspired by fiction that’s fine. When I go onto a firms website and see images of a mythical monster plastered everywhere that’s when it gets a bit ridiculous.

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Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#53
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https://www.wired.com/story/life360-location-tracking-famili... >Parents can use Life360 to track their teen’s location in real time. The company can use that data to sell car insurance. I think apps which allow parents to monitor their kids and invade their privacy are bad for humanity.

You think? It seems like about the one valid use case for tracking. I bought phones for my kids on the proviso they would be primarily for safety purposes. Though it will start to get a bit grey as they get older.

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Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#54
post #46

"Our goal, as Cthulhu, is to support initiatives designed to rise from the dark depths of R’lyeh (metaphorically speaking!) and end up destroying or at least disrupting, some market paradigm." Happy to maintain social paradigms though - only one woman on then entire team...

"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming" They do not want him woke

Underrated comment.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#55
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Nyarlatothep 2020: The Dark Pharao for President! Hastur 2020: Who but that which is already the yellow king?

> Nyarlatothep 2020: The Dark Pharao for President! He's standing for Prime Minister of the UK, but in his views, that doesn't disqualify him from running for president too. No "dirty laundry", so to speak.

I take it you are a fan of the Laundry Files then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#57

(I'm assuming that this is not satire - it looks a bit too real) I really love it when people carry jokes into serious business and take it all the way to the end. There's a lot of guts in that. I envy that level of self-confidence and hope to one day get there myself. That said, somehow I love it even more when such jokes get featured on HN and, invariably, shares of dry humorless grumpy people complain that they ca…

I think a lot of people value that HN isn’t the kind of place where you get puns and flippant comments and posts.

Yes we need to manage out those sort - they would better suited an actuaries Job (accountancy would be to racy for them).

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#58

(I'm assuming that this is not satire - it looks a bit too real) I really love it when people carry jokes into serious business and take it all the way to the end. There's a lot of guts in that. I envy that level of self-confidence and hope to one day get there myself. That said, somehow I love it even more when such jokes get featured on HN and, invariably, shares of dry humorless grumpy people complain that they ca…

I think a lot of people value that HN isn’t the kind of place where you get puns and flippant comments and posts.

I turn to Reddit for that. Here on HN humour is generally very lacking and even frowned upon. Things lighten up a bit when people like idlewords[1] show up, but that's pretty much the exception. For a recent example, just read through the comments in here[2] (a Show HN that reached the homepage yesterday). This is a regrettable state of affairs.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714

Edit: forgot that HN also lacks Markdown besides humour

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#59

I appreciate their commitment to the bit. I wish their team included slightly more diversity however.

+1 . Whenever I see "Cthulhu" written somewhere, I think of those racist passages from the book. And then I scroll that website and I see 0 ethnnic diversity in a poorly designed slideshow. Yup, the lack of taste in webdesign adds to the queasiness.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#60
post #23

I appreciate their commitment to the bit. I wish their team included slightly more diversity however.

I'm assuming you mean racial, sexual, ethnic, which is rubbish. There's greater diversity WITHIN the groups than BETWEEN them. Categorizing diversity based on superficial traits is WRONG, bordering on racist. It's the fundamental racist idea. (Dont get hung up on the word racist, we are talking about quantifying diversity) Genuine diversity is done by selecting on competence across individuals, NOT BY SKIN COLOR, GEN…

Yes, but if you're called Cthulhu Ventures, I would expect at least one Shoggoth on the team.
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