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Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by addicted »

mgh2 wrote: post #294
dasickis wrote: post #120

I'm the person this original tweet was about. None of you know any of the internal details but what I can state is that Paul has no idea what he's talking about and later admits to the fact I wasn't lying. Here's the order of events: 1. I went to a neighborhood clinic in Oakland, CA that's literally next door to my house, I can see the church from my window. Paul lives in NYC which is on the opposite end of the count…

Well, if Paul was mistaken, then he should have been informed- not kicked out of YC for a misunderstanding don’t you think? Sounds like abuse of power

Yeah, I’m not gonna get particularly upset about either side doing something wrong at a time when there was a lot of confusion, lot of pressure, and frankly the correct moral decision isn’t all that clear.

But that swings both ways, and it does not speak well that 1 side was penalized so heavily for it, irrespective of whether they were in the right or wrong.

Of course, it’s even more egregious coming on the heels of a Ycombinator founder defending someone who did far far worse.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by pmiller2 »

Guess what? It can happen to you, too, if you dare criticize a celebrity CEO. I got flagged & chastised for “breaking the guidelines” over a comment that stated facts about a certain CEO whose initials are TK.

Remember when y’all kept saying there’s no free speech on Facebook or Twitter? Well, it’s worse here, because if you don’t toe that line and bend the knee, you might get your user privileges limited.

Edit: here it is. +3 points and flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26914977

Edit 2: and here's the dressing down I got:

> Regardless of how wrong or badly-behaved other people (be they HN users, celebrity CEOs, or imperialist bullies) are or you feel they are, you owe this community better if you're participating in it. Other people doing bad things is a poor non-excuse for setting this place on fire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26938019

See? Don't criticize "celebrity CEOs," folks. You're breaking the code, and the insiders will circle the wagons if you do.

BTW, "Boober" is a direct quote said directly to a GQ reporter: https://www.gq.com/story/uber-cab-confessions

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by HWR_14 »

dfabulich wrote: post #300
mbgerring wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So just so everyone has the full context: Oakland opened up its vaccination sites to more people on a shorter timeline than the rest of the state, in certain ZIP codes with disproportionately poor residents, in order to get vaccines to those disproportionately poor residents. I know this because this is how several of my friends who live in West Oakland got vaccinated ahead of the eligibility opening up in the rest o…

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…

They don't ask for proof of poverty at a food bank either. And "Am I eligible here" could be seen about specifically asking about age/preconditions eligibility.

In fact, that whole conversation could have been changed trivially to picking up free food at a food bank and would not have looked out of place.

As for "if you're offered a vaccine take it", I don't think that applies to "I can go somewhere to get offered the vaccine." If there was a 4 hour wait, then it's not like they had spares lying around. If you had driven to a rural site where they have to thaw 6 doses for 3 people that would have been a different story.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by lawnchair_larry »

ping_pong wrote: post #381
throwaaskjdfh wrote: post #357

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This pretty much summarizes how it was taken advantage of: https://archive.is/Z55Oe

Glad it was "taken advantage of", racism has no place here. Disgusting that people think this is ok.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by ModernMech »

rrauenza wrote: post #368
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,…

My main confusion from the title was trying to figure out who "Lol" was and why "Lol" got kicked out. Took me a few minutes to realize it was LOL.

I read it and thought somehow League of Legends was part of YC.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by throwout111 »

I also got thrown out of yc. It was after demo day. My co-founders blamed me for our initial anemic raise and threw me out. Because this was in-between demo day and official yc graduation, I'm no longer part of the yc network. I've done pretty well since then, but still it sucks to be divorced from an organization I once respected, and then loved.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by dqpb »

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,…

Getting kicked out of ycombinator is petty drama?

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by lawnchair_larry »

ping_pong wrote: post #355
kordlessagain wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it we need to discuss this more? It’s not technical, or interesting. Just a bunch of people gossiping and trying to judge!!

There are a of questions this topics brings up. It's clarifying whether or not YC is a bunch of white, privileged elitists that have no ethics. Is this behavior endemic within YC? Is YC and dang protecting these founders and trying to brush the behavior under the rug? (the fact that dang isn't hiding the thread bodes well on this aspect) Is this the environment that new founders want to be associated with? Hopefully…

Please take your racism and concern trolling elsewhere.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by ed405 »

kordlessagain wrote: post #224
dasickis wrote: post #120

I'm the person this original tweet was about. None of you know any of the internal details but what I can state is that Paul has no idea what he's talking about and later admits to the fact I wasn't lying. Here's the order of events: 1. I went to a neighborhood clinic in Oakland, CA that's literally next door to my house, I can see the church from my window. Paul lives in NYC which is on the opposite end of the count…

Twitter is Internet rage defined.

You mean HN is internet rage defined? Twitter is awesome.
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