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'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Post by StackRanker3000 »

willvarfar wrote: post #208
tempsy wrote: post #125

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I’m not sure how anyone can say this when he’s notorious for blocking thousands and thousands of people on Twitter/X for the smallest perceived critique, including people who have never interacted with him at all because they engaged with some tweet he didn’t like The only kind of person who’d ever go that far is someone with a very fragile ego

So he sees someone interacting with some other tweet in a way he doesn't like, and then blocks them from following him? Having not used twitter, is this easy one-click thing that takes no time nor thought, or is he having to switch screens and spend time on doing this? (Technically I became a twit yesterday because nitter stopped working and there is just one person's posts that I like to check up on, so I ended up g…

There are also tools that allow you to block everyone who’s liked a tweet, everyone who follows a particular person, etc. I don’t know if Garry Tan uses such a tool, but maybe he does.

Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #339
tedk-42 wrote: post #268

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He's paraphrased 2pac is his alcohol fuelled moment "Fuck Mobb Deep, fuck Biggie Fuck Bad Boy as a staff, record label and as a motherfuckin' crew And if you want to be down with Bad Bo, then fuck you too Chino XL, fuck you too All you motherfuckers, fuck you too (take money, take money) All of y'all motherfuckers, fuck you, die slow, motherfucker" It's immature and poor judgement but he's apologised for it so I don'…

Somehow in all my many alcohol fuelled moments, I never said anything like that. Fuck this odious turd and anyone who would try to excuse him.

"Fuck this odious turd and anyone who would try to excuse him."

I think what you mean to say was:

Fuck Y Combinator as a staff, message board, and as a mother fucking VC group. And if you want to be down with Y Combinator, then fuck you too.

Sam Altman, fuck you too.

Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Post by wildpeaks »

cj wrote: post #44

As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

In vino veritas, as the saying goes.

Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Post by AniseAbyss »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #324
tempestn wrote: post #257

I'm a little bit aghast at all the comments saying this is normal or no big deal. Maybe it is normal (or at least common), but it shouldn't be. If you believe it's no big deal, I can't agree. I can see this kind of behaviour from adolescents, but adults should understand that words are meaningful and have consequences, and that even if you disagree with someone, they're still a human being who deserves some modicum o…

Reading this article by Rebecca Solnit [0] posted on HN here [1] absolutely helped me make sense of the Garry Tan story, and what is going on in Californian politics. It's well worth reading, but is a long and initially tedious article bemoaning the passing of a gentler, humane culture. Then about halfway through it grew some balls and teeth, and frankly I found it shocking. I had no idea California was this degenera…

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Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

mcv wrote: post #273
tempestn wrote: post #257

I'm a little bit aghast at all the comments saying this is normal or no big deal. Maybe it is normal (or at least common), but it shouldn't be. If you believe it's no big deal, I can't agree. I can see this kind of behaviour from adolescents, but adults should understand that words are meaningful and have consequences, and that even if you disagree with someone, they're still a human being who deserves some modicum o…

Yeah, apparently it was a pop reference, and that makes it okay? The problem with references is that not everybody gets the reference, and without that (and possibly even with) this is a death threat. And with today's highly polarized and volatile political situation, you need to be really careful with that. I've come to expect this sort of behaviour from random internet trolls, but a CEO really should know better. I…

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Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

meepmorp wrote: post #131
infamouscow wrote: post #58

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> I sincerely wish the worst things imaginable for these activist journalists. They are the enemy of the people. This is unironically the kind of shit that authoritarians love to say about journalists.

Most journalists are just propogandists and misinformed people stating option as fact. I don't understand why anyone holds them in high regard. Like yeah, there are many great individual journalists who take their job seriously and get real information out to people, but for the most part, no.

Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Post by rayiner »

jrussino wrote: post #120
rayiner wrote: post #97

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People joke about people they hate dying all the time.

This shouldn't be a normal thing. Don't encourage it.

And yet it is normal. Have you ever been around people?

Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

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Post by framapotari »

chomskyole wrote: post #336
refurb wrote: post #326

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Yes, when people apologize for things we generally move on since the person acknowledge their error. Let’s be honest, it’s blowing up because the California political machine is threatened by this guy, and tearing him down for a small transgression means they’ll hold onto the reins of power even longer.

A death threat by one of the richest persons = A small transgression when they apologise after the fact Seriously?

If I say to you "die slow", would you read it as me threatening to murder you?
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