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Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by smcl »

shuckles wrote: post #122
smcl wrote: post #114

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Kinda wondering what his beef with Hamasaki was that prompted "Resign you piece of shit". Seems like this was a Board of Education person, was he that bad, like poisoning the kids school lunches? edit: sorry I realise that I may asking some stupid questions that everyone knows already. But to me Garry Tan was just the Posterous guy. I'm just a bit floored to hear that there's more to this and I'm trying to find my be…

John Hamasaki is a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco who was a former member of the police commission. He seems to advertise himself by being intentionally incendiary, making up lies like the police get paid overtime to participate (i.e. walk) in the pride parade. There is also a group of people around him who amplify his lies. I can imagine people being fed up with being the target of his harassment, which…

This seemed to be about some board of education thing though - Garry's tweet features a screenshot saying "THANK YOU for donating to our campaign to recall the school board..." but it's aimed at the Hamasaki guy.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by smcl »

Dma54rhs wrote: post #169
12_throw_away wrote: post #107

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So, why the downvotes? We're not allowed to talk about this?

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So as an outsider who is literally just trying to piece this together, it doesn't seem extreme or left-wing at all. Can you explain why this is an extreme left wing talking point?

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by replwoacause »

TimCTRL wrote: post #141

On the light end here, Aproova Mehta once said; "I learn't two important lessons, First and foremost, Gary Tan loves his beers..haha" We probably wouldn't have instacart where it is if it weren't for Gary. Thanks Gary. https://youtu.be/wkmR7TYUt_c?t=653

I could be wrong but I think he spells his name Garry, not Gary.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by senttoschool »

senttoschool wrote: post #131
extent-connifer wrote: post #59

(Throwaway because it’s a small world) This is disappointing. YC needs a fresh perspective. Recycling older members is not a positive sign for continued innovation. I wouldn’t point to “HODL diamond hands” crypto hype (suddenly disappeared..) and personal brand-building content creation as the type of leadership YC needs at this stage. Specifically in this, someone who has been running a large VC fund for the past ha…

>I wouldn’t point to “HODL diamond hands” crypto hype (suddenly disappeared..) This is my biggest worry. I'd have preferred a non-crypto-junkie. This is Gary saying that ETH will go up to $10k soon: https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1402648829732614146 It went to $1k instead. At times, following Gary on Twitter felt like following a dumb crypto bro. Everyone looks like a genius during a bull market and 0% interest…

Also, if you're reading this Gary, just know that it's ok to say you won by investing in Coinbase early but let's not act like Coinbase isn't powered by scams.

You don't have to keep shilling crypto just because you invested in Coinbase early. You can take the win and not be a crypto bro.

You can shill crypto if our lives are improved by it and that if crypto disappeared one day, our lives would be worse. But not now. It kills your reputation hurts people. Right now, I see you as a Matt Damon who knows how to code.

PS. I'm forever grateful for you pushing Boudin out in SF.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by bot41 »

hellomyguys wrote: post #164
hombre_fatal wrote: post #160

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I don’t see what’s wrong about it. They are probably on some blocklist of low value reply guys.

No, I think he blocks anyone who likes a tweet that disagrees with him. Not necessarily people who are replying to him.

so? it's just twitter

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by hellomyguys »

hellomyguys wrote: post #164
hombre_fatal wrote: post #160

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I don’t see what’s wrong about it. They are probably on some blocklist of low value reply guys.

No, I think he blocks anyone who likes a tweet that disagrees with him. Not necessarily people who are replying to him.

I was just correcting you're incorrect point...

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by rvz »

gitfan86 wrote: post #153
rvz wrote: post #126

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> What is going to happen of the next few years with AI is going to be mind blowing. Or where it is headed it more dystopia. AI has already been democratized to death by the same gate keepers creating dystopian deep fakes and training on tons of your data on lots of data centers to incinerate and burn up the planet with zero efficient alternatives. The AI game has run its course, with nothing left other than the same…

Crypto bag holder I presume?

Not quite. But the direct opposite after playing the market for fun, but that is totally irrelevant here and for another time. Let's not deflect and make this about me.

We need to concern ourselves with AI running its course and with wasteful deep learning models constantly training, retraining with that burning up the planet via the data centers especially with zero efficient alternatives, which that is the main concern here and using our data to fuel this dystopia.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by s5300 »

replwoacause wrote: post #175
s5300 wrote: post #152

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Can you elaborate? I'm seeing a lot of positive things said about him here so contrarian viewpoints make me genuinely curious.

Yes, you’re on HN. You’re going to be seeing mostly positive things said about him from this user base.

As for elaboration - I can only implore you to go look at the history of his actions.

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