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If you're going to try to be contrarian, at least do the research to do it well. You think you're being clever but you're showing no understanding of the positions you're trying to make fun of. As a result, you come across like a moron. You should have used a throwaway, not because you have non-politically-correct views, but rather because you hold extremely strong opinions about something you can't even articulate c…
Personal attacks are not ok on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Digging up details from someone's history and bringing them in here as ammunition in an argument is particularly not ok. That's a practice of the online callout/shaming culture, and we're trying to avoid that on HN. Not that the callouts are always wrong, but callout/shaming culture has toxic systemic effects that are incompat…
Re: Venture capital firms to include “diversity riders” in term sheets
#41Hey Dan, didn't mean to violate the rules. To be clear, my comment was intended to be about his argument and it's lack of rigour.
Also, his bio links his twitter, so I thought that made it within bounds. But yeah, that was a bit harsh, sorry.