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Silicon Valley: no country for young men

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Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#21

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Not pointless for those of us who have an FT subscription…

Yeah, but you don’t need HN to tell you to look (I assume you check what you pay for). There’s a whole lot of these paywalled things and they’re all just noise unless there’s a free alternative.

Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#22
post #4

https://archive.ph/LfYaU

Imagine reading this vacuous nothing-burger and thinking to yourself "Yep, that's what I'm paying $40 a month for." The only interesting part of the entire article is Peter Thiel railing against the fact that startup founders are getting older, mostly because Thiel seems to be an opportunist who wants fresh meat to exploit. Someone who has been around the block a couple of times might be thrilled by the idea of Thiel…

The fact that anyone wants to do business with Thiel these days baffles me. He spends his time and money finding and funding the craziest far-right conspiracy theorists in the country to run for elected office. He's a loon.

Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#23

Appears to firmly contradict this: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-avera... Makes me wonder if news agency workers just pull stuff out of their behinds.

Should probably tell people that's from 2018, and the FT article is from today. [0]

Unless, of course, you wouldn't want people to know that! (:

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180208022213/https://www.inc.c...

Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#24
post #4

https://archive.ph/LfYaU

Imagine reading this vacuous nothing-burger and thinking to yourself "Yep, that's what I'm paying $40 a month for." The only interesting part of the entire article is Peter Thiel railing against the fact that startup founders are getting older, mostly because Thiel seems to be an opportunist who wants fresh meat to exploit. Someone who has been around the block a couple of times might be thrilled by the idea of Thiel…

Wow, great comment.

Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#25
post #9

Young founders are into crypto and it seems to me Silicon Valley is not the center of gravity in that area

Probably because more people in silicon valley are technical than other places, and they know it's mostly bullshit.

It's honestly surreal to me the amount of hype crypto is getting right now. No one can even articulate why they love it, other than the hype itself.

Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine reading this vacuous nothing-burger and thinking to yourself "Yep, that's what I'm paying $40 a month for." The only interesting part of the entire article is Peter Thiel railing against the fact that startup founders are getting older, mostly because Thiel seems to be an opportunist who wants fresh meat to exploit. Someone who has been around the block a couple of times might be thrilled by the idea of Thiel…

The fact that anyone wants to do business with Thiel these days baffles me. He spends his time and money finding and funding the craziest far-right conspiracy theorists in the country to run for elected office. He's a loon.

>he's a loon

He's pretty typical, honestly. There is a very large contingent of people who think exactly like he does. 10 years ago, he might be fairly cast as an outlier. Not anymore.

Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#28

Please just post an link to a non-paywall mirror, a link to the paywall article is useless to most people.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html :

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...

Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#29
post #4

https://archive.ph/LfYaU

Imagine reading this vacuous nothing-burger and thinking to yourself "Yep, that's what I'm paying $40 a month for." The only interesting part of the entire article is Peter Thiel railing against the fact that startup founders are getting older, mostly because Thiel seems to be an opportunist who wants fresh meat to exploit. Someone who has been around the block a couple of times might be thrilled by the idea of Thiel…

Also no mention that the Fed enabled these malinvestments by keeping interest rates artificially low for decades.

Re: Silicon Valley: no country for young men

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because more people in silicon valley are technical than other places, and they know it's mostly bullshit.

It's honestly surreal to me the amount of hype crypto is getting right now. No one can even articulate why they love it, other than the hype itself.

Easy money is probably the most exciting thing on planet earth. And probably always has been.
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