LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

Post by ping_pong » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:21 AM UTC

throwaaskjdfh wrote: post #357

dfabulich wrote: post #300

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I got vaccinated at one of these West Oakland "first come, first serve" vaccination sites back in March. They were administering J&J vaccines (which do not thaw) with no residency check, and not even a poster saying "please don't line up unless you live in this neighborhood." No statement of intent at all. Others standing in line asked coordinators walking the line, "Am I eligible here?" and the coordinators responde…

EDIT: I was mistaken here, corrected by a response below. - I don't think there was a way for the public health authorities to create an explicit rule about neighborhood residency without inviting lawsuits. The best they could do is place vaccination centers in more convenient locations for underserved communities, and hope that it could raise the rate of vaccination in the vicinity. I think there were people assumin…

Post by garmaine » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:23 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #350

bebop wrote: post #331

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I think your post could have not included: “Much as I'd love to, it's not my place to say why the original title was inaccurate, so I'll just remind you all that there are two or more sides to every story and not everything on Twitter is true.” And “Normally, of course, we would downweight this sort of petty drama.” And could have avoided unhelpful conflict in the threads below. You sort of threw your opinion out wit…

I hear you, but both of those sentences are there for a reason. Without the first I'd be getting lots of "how is it inaccurate?" responses, and without the second I'd be getting protests about moderation practices. My intention was to give enough information (I'm not saying it's a lot) to preempt avalanches of predictable objections. I'm sure I could have done it better, though, because this was far from what Scott a…

Post by duckfang » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:26 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #384

duckfang wrote: post #367

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Its not the first time you've been caught in a lie, dang. But folks, this is the secret hackernews site, called BookFace. This is the site that the event happened. Its also a nice site to conspire with other YC companies and YC itself as a cohesive market 'strategy'. https://bookface.ycombinator.com/ And according to sam altman (sama), https://twitter.com/sama/status/631874706543480832 . Fun to read through here.. "i…

What is this "lie" you speak of? Actually, can you please list the other ones too? It's not fair to readers to make a tantalizing claim like that and then not give them enough information to make up their own minds. It's practically dripping with duck fat. Re Bookface: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Re YC founder usernames- it can't be secret if it's in the FAQ, right? https://news.yc…

Post by late2part » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:28 AM UTC

neonological wrote: post #302

dang wrote: post #210

The submitted title was "Y Combinator kicks out Paul Biggar over a tweet". That is inaccurate, so in keeping with the HN guidelines (" Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ), I've replaced the title with the tweet text. That's the standard thing we do with titles, when people post Twitter links. Much as I'd love to,…

> Normally, of course, we'd downweight this sort of petty drama. Down weight? So you guys internally pick and choose topics to weight down? I thought HN was purely community driven with only comments being moderated. Of course on the surface you guys say you only downweight petty drama but I truly wonder if that's actually true. The fact that you guys downweight anything without trusting the community makes me questi…

Post by cavisne » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:29 AM UTC

jonny_eh wrote: post #369

cavisne wrote: post #278

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This was actually fake news, Yakima fema site had the same eligibility as elsewhere in the state https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/washingtoni... A good example of how confusing and micro managed the eligibility charade was.

Information you think is wrong isn’t “fake news”. Please don’t be so hyperbolic. It’s akin to calling someone a liar.