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“We’ll be chartering buses to travel to and from schools around the Northeast. Sign up early if you’d like a seat on one of the buses.“ Will they be doing that “roll call” song too? https://www.tiktok.com/@theoffice/video/7254560650909928750?...
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Everyone has biases. They don't have to enumerate them at all times. What do you actually want?
For YC/HN to peddle fewer platitudes, euphemisms, and equivocations. At what point does preservation of this hallucinated wealth game become forced conservation of history and get in the way of the “freedom” part? Why are we socially trained to accept “people say Musk is rich so it must be true?” It’s all a socialized hallucination backed by government force. It’s kind of a huge joke. Let’s just get drunk and shoot p…
We're not socially trained for this. People don't think it's true because people say it. They think it's true because he owns a large stake in a lot of extremely valuable companies.
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Or perhaps this is ageism
Forgive me as I have little sympathy for middle aged adults calling "agism!!!" whenever an opportunity is presented to a college student that wasn't also presented to them
Example: statistically the odds of someone graduating from college being over 30 are low. Therefore if I claim that I hire college graduates I get to also filter implicitly by age.
Then the question is: assuming an inherent bias of sample, is it desirable or undesirable to introduce a "function" that attempts some mitigation? I see the "functions" that attempt to mitigate sexism, racism but not ageism.
It feels like companies or organizations are just fine with slapping a paragraph at the end of an announcement that parrots "we are inclusive trust us" without any real adjustment and call it a day.
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I mean isn’t that literally ageism? I don’t have any opinion on whether it’s acceptable or not here but come on…
There's also no rules saying middle aged adults cannot be college students. The only agist policy here is that you need to be 18 to apply, and nobody bat their eye at that.
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Question: - I am older, established, and have done a number of successful startups in various roles. - I have a family and can't spend a summer in California. - I don't need the seed funding YCombinator provides, but I don't mind it either. I can self-fund a bit However, I'd truly enjoy the experience, and with my next startup, I'd be glad to trade off the equity to be in the YC community. I think I'd learn a lot fro…
As two times YC founder, you fit 100% in what YC invests.
It feels to me that YC would generate enormous value the first time. It feels like there might be very strongly diminishing returns on investment after that. My impression is that the equity YC receives, relative to funding, is quite high, and most of the network / learning / etc. would happen on round one (This is a comment about me to give context for my likely naive question, not a comment about YC; I'm explaining in hopes you'll explain how I'm wrong. Given you did it twice, I am aware my thinking here is probably wrong, and I need to share my misconception to have it addressed)
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There's also no rules saying middle aged adults cannot be college students. The only agist policy here is that you need to be 18 to apply, and nobody bat their eye at that.
Yes there are. A 50 year old man cannot enter Harvard college.
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Yes there are. A 50 year old man cannot enter Harvard college.
1 in 10 college students in the US is 40 or older
Middle aged college students usually attend extension schools part of the university, but not part of the undergraduate college.
In any case there’s no strict limitation on being an undergraduate at say 60 (I believe Harvard Colleges oldest graduate was in their 80s), but it’s so exceptionally rare it’s ageism.
There’s no reason why one would need to be an undergraduate.
We only hire Americans from elite universities, but please come along and waste your time!