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Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by jrflowers »

camgunz wrote: post #178
jrflowers wrote: post #169

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Well, yeah >The superficial way to look at veteran prosecutors resigning is that they're no longer culture fits, which you can look at as a good thing: Boudin and Foxx were hired to change those cultures. But a more practical and immediate way to look at them is that losing veterans puts the screws on your ability to execute the day-to-day of the agency. Your whole point is (aside from Chicago and San Francisco being…

No he's saying that realistically it's a challenge you have to accept if your success depends on culture change.

Where did he write about success?

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Post by wallst07 »

plorkyeran wrote: post #142
dionidium wrote: post #97

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We almost certainly have opposing ideological views, but something I said a lot during this era (that I'm happy to see you hinting at) was that if you come into office as a progressive prosecutor without any plan to deal with the people in your office or in law enforcement who aren't on board, then that's really the more immediate failure. You can't just say, "I would have been successful if not for my detractors," b…

To some degree there simply isn't any plan you can have beyond that in the short term things will suck and hopefully the long term benefits will be worth it. If the existing incumbents are sufficiently ideologically opposed to your goals that they'll refuse to work rather than let you even inch towards them, there's not much you can do beyond try to replace them with people who don't have the relevant experience but…

So it's not enough to say that the progressive ideology is a bad plan in that environment? You said it yourself, there isn't any plan. What happens in complicated high risk situations when there is no plan? You end up with bad results, which is a result of the failed ideology.

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Post by wallst07 »

fzeroracer wrote: post #101
dionidium wrote: post #97

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We almost certainly have opposing ideological views, but something I said a lot during this era (that I'm happy to see you hinting at) was that if you come into office as a progressive prosecutor without any plan to deal with the people in your office or in law enforcement who aren't on board, then that's really the more immediate failure. You can't just say, "I would have been successful if not for my detractors," b…

I mean, you have basically no control over law enforcement if they decide to arbitrarily slow down arrests or protest your leadership. This has been one of the more consistent issues in American politics and you can see it when the police union doesn't get their way they have a huge tantrum and make things worse for everyone involved. This isn't really a statement on Boudin did or did not do since I don't have that k…

The flip side I've heard is that LE doesn't arbitrarily slow down arrests due to a difference in ideology. It seems more simple than that. Who wants to go through the effort of making arrests if the DA is letting them free. The LEO will see them commit the same event the next day. I don't think anyone would want that in their day to day job, much less law & order.

It's like writing a PR/MR every day [by hand] and having it declined every day, eventually you stop.

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Post by wallst07 »

tptacek wrote: post #159
phil21 wrote: post #150

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How is carjacking Kia’s fault? Kia had a problem with immobilizer anti-theft devices not being installed plus a well documented trivial way to “Hotwire” certain models. This would simply be car theft. It was a well documented (via social media) technique that lowered the skill level needed to steal a car to basically the ability to sit through a 30s TikTok. Is it that it’s a “gateway crime” to full on carjacking? You…

Carjacking relies on burner cars; they drive up near victims, 2 people get out and rush the car, and then both cars speed off. Carjackers (at least in Chicagoland) don't generally post up in parking lots waiting for victims; they're highly mobile. (I have two carjackings on camera from behind my old house, where we had a Nest camera. One thing I learned from that: anybody who thinks carrying a firearm is a realistic…

I still fail to see how carjacking rates are Kia's fault. I mean, Did carjackings increase everywhere relative to the % of kia's on the road in every area (urban and rural)?

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Post by [deleted] »

Traster wrote: post #180
OrangeMusic wrote: post #175

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Why would it not be legal?

The person you're replying to is making the argument "Would you object to a book publisher that only signed writers who were white" or "Should a coffee shop be allowed to only hire white barristas". Which is a sound logical argument if you ignore the entire history of racism in the United States.

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Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by wallst07 »

jrflowers wrote: post #181
camgunz wrote: post #178

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No he's saying that realistically it's a challenge you have to accept if your success depends on culture change.

Where did he write about success?

It read to me like a post mortem on why she failed [opposite of success]. She failed because she was bad at changing the culture which is a core competency of leadership. It doesn't really matter what the people think one way or another, the job of a leader is to lead, "win hearts and minds"

This seems pretty self evident.

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Post by rayiner »

Traster wrote: post #180
OrangeMusic wrote: post #175

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Why would it not be legal?

The person you're replying to is making the argument "Would you object to a book publisher that only signed writers who were white" or "Should a coffee shop be allowed to only hire white barristas". Which is a sound logical argument if you ignore the entire history of racism in the United States.

That principle is not only logical, it’s a core premise of the civil rights laws, as the supreme court reaffirmed 9-0 in a decision recently: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1039_c0n2.pdf. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

I guess it’s not illegal to have a publishing house that promotes white authors. I’m no expert in that area.

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Post by wallst07 »

jasonmp85 wrote: post #28
browningstreet wrote: post #25

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And Paul G has defended him on X as a centrist. Weird blind spot.

"Centrist" in America is just "far-right but doesn't talk about it very loudly"

I thought centrist stayed in the center, but left or right moves far in one direction. So in relatively speaking, you maybe right, but not absolutely.

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Post by mghackerlady »

bix6 wrote: post #112
mghackerlady wrote: post #110

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if the US of all places isn't a culturally christian environment I don't know what is

Has US Christianity always been like this or has it changed? It all feels very manipulative to me now and the morals / virtues seem to have fallen by the wayside.

It started episcopalian (more liberal anglicanism). The evangelical movement in the US really didn't start to so visibly change things until reagan
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