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Re: Changes at YC

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Post by xavdid »

kylecazar wrote: post #109
loeg wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Exonerative tense," "mistakes were made," etc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/past_exonerative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/...

Favorite example has to be Luis Suarez in his apology for very clearly biting a World Cup opponent in front of the world some years ago: "The truth is that my colleague Giorgio Chiellini suffered the physical result of a bite"

Some newspapers are really dreadful about this with regards to people killed/injured by cops.

A well-known example from the NYT:

> A reporter was hit by a pepper ball on live television by an officer who appeared to be aiming at her

https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/new-york-times-twe...

Re: Changes at YC

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Post by Finbarr »

The YC Continuity team did amazing work helping me and many other later stage founders. I’m sad to read this news.

YC is best known for their early stage investing. But Ali, Anu and the team created some excellent programs for later stage companies as well. Shogun benefited from the Series A program, Scaling from A to B program, and the YC Growth program. I wonder what’s happening with all of those initiatives.

Through these programs and the direct support and mentorship from the Continuity team, we learned a ton and significantly scaled our startup.

Wishing all of the affected team all the best.

Re: Changes at YC

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Post by fnordpiglet »

whitemary wrote: post #86
fnordpiglet wrote: post #6

Sorry to everyone who lost their jobs. It can feel like the end of the world and your worth. But I’ve seen throughout my career people land somewhere better. Someone once wise told me the most important saying in the world is “this too shall pass,” which applies to all things, good and bad.

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That’s true. They gave the platitudes as millions starved while Stalin exported food and established the gulags and lay waste to civil society. Yay!

The religion bit is really off kilter, unless you think the impermanence of all things is merely a religious idea and not a fundamental aspect of all reality. After all impermanence didn’t apply in Soviet Russia? Oh yeah, it too passed. Guess not.

Re: Changes at YC

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Post by xqcgrek2 »

ftxbro wrote: post #15

> Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today. guys maybe they were impacted in a good way tho?

no, they meant the way when a car impacts a wall, or when stool gets impacted in a colon

Re: Changes at YC

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Post by Kwpolska »

lcw wrote: post #123
voz_ wrote: post #46

> Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today. Never allow corporations to speak in passive, weak, blameless terms. Use direct, honest, language, and force them to do the same. "Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today." - > "We laid off 17 employees today" "I was impacted by layoffs" -> "Google laid me off" etc

I think this is just a matter of opinion. When something severe happens it's natural to not use the most harsh term to describe the event. It doesn't seems like something malicious. When describing a death many people will say "they are no longer with us" instead of describing the circumstance of death. When talking about traumatic events we as a society have a natural propensity to not use triggering words. There is…

Death is inevitable, unexpected, unplanned, usually caused by things beyond human control. Layoffs are a planned thing explicitly done by one human to another in order to increase corporate profits.

Re: Changes at YC

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Post by O__________O »

gingerrr wrote: post #112
O__________O wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not seeing anything related to the programs I referenced, am I missing something?

Sorry - the link in that thread is to a tweet, not the article the tweet links, which is what I wanted to link - that article indicates the partners leading the fund (and program) left YC. Also, the continuity program page (provided info for all 3 programs) is completely gone: https://www.ycombinator.com/continuity I haven't heard specifics about those programs but with the partners leading gone it seems difficult to…

Already linked to a source that shows the references to the programs are gone in my original comment; though that page is still there.

Also, might be wrong, but “theinformation.com” as a source is insta ban as a result of it being a “hard walled” content; hard walled meaning it’s not possible to access the content via alternative means. If you have a source that’s not blocked, feel free to provide it, otherwise just see this as promoting a source that’s ban on HN.

Here’s all the dead submissions, though you likely have to have “show dead” turned on from your profile settings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theinformation.com

Re: Changes at YC

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Post by smugma »

karamanolev wrote: post #44
tropicaljacket wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe your question is a joke but I assume "impacted" means laid off in this context. Kind of like when people say someone "passed away" to mean they died

Can we please just use "fired", "let go" or even "we separated with"? Impacted is just soft wording taken to a comedic level.

Fired implies with cause. In the US, it would be "laid off" and in the UK it's often "made redundant", which is itself more ambiguous than need be.

Re: Changes at YC

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Post by auggierose »

I am wondering if "impacted" is used because really lots of different things have happened to these 17 team mates. Or if "impacted" = "fired", and "team mates" = "ex-employees".

Re: Changes at YC

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Post by annexrichmond »

voz_ wrote: post #46

> Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today. Never allow corporations to speak in passive, weak, blameless terms. Use direct, honest, language, and force them to do the same. "Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today." - > "We laid off 17 employees today" "I was impacted by layoffs" -> "Google laid me off" etc

Never mind "I was impacted by layoffs", I often see "my position was impacted by layoffs"
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