Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

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Post by dougludlow » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions
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Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

#2

Post by jpt4 » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:04 PM UTC

Reporting for future record: This post was flagged less than ten minutes after being posted, without any comments.

Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

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Post by aclimatt » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

The first time it had 270+ upvotes and was flagged off the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970

There seems to be some censorship going on...

Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

#4

Post by alistproducer2 » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

jpt4 wrote: post #2

Reporting for future record: This post was flagged less than ten minutes after being posted, without any comments.

It seems all threads related to this matter are falling off the front age or disappearing quite rapidly.

Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

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Post by torgoguys » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

aclimatt wrote: post #3

The first time it had 270+ upvotes and was flagged off the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 There seems to be some censorship going on...

sctb says it is user flags: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728092

Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

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Post by fooey » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC

jpt4 wrote: post #2

Reporting for future record: This post was flagged less than ten minutes after being posted, without any comments.

The author is Ellen Pao, so it's a safe bet this is an instance of the messenger getting in the way of the message

Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

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Post by SEJeff » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC

Sam's post on this was great where he admits it strained his relationship with Peter Theil: http://blog.samaltman.com/the-2016-election

Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

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Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:29 PM UTC

"Money doesn't talk, it swears."

-- Some Nobel Prize Dude.

Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

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Post by MBCook » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:31 PM UTC

torgoguys wrote: post #5

aclimatt wrote: post #3

The first time it had 270+ upvotes and was flagged off the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 There seems to be some censorship going on...

sctb says it is user flags: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728092

I'm not surprised. There are a lot of people who don't like discussing this stuff (either because they don't agree with it or they just don't want to deal with any more stuff about politics/social issues).

Re: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

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Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:31 PM UTC

The discussion appears live here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970