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Post by threatofrain »

TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #158
beaner wrote: post #123

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"Try to damage Ycombinator"... How?

It's a divisive political topic, and he associated an individual post made on an internal Ycombinator forum with Ycombinator itself. Comments of individuals don't represent the company, and by framing it like he did, he publicly dragged Ycombinator right into the middle of a contentious political debate.

That's like saying students at a university don't represent the university, and yet they do and don't, both in the eyes of the people and the institution. It's difficult to say how attribution will be finally concluded in society, no?

In this case the relationship between member and institution is even tighter, and the desperation of sink or swim is more palpable.

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Post by choppaface »

dang wrote: post #538
choppaface wrote: post #492

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What?!! There are many, many posts with “inaccurate” titles. Would you like to change the John Carmack post to include his entire tweet as the title? YC moderation here on a YC-related post is not fair. It’s also unfair that this reply is placed above substantive discussion.

If there are many posts with inaccurate titles, that's because we didn't see them. If you skim these 500 comments you'll see that we make a habit of editing inaccurate titles: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - and that's just a small fraction of the cases. Also these 250: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... . HN users are pretty adamant about title accuracy:…

As a past moderator for an unrelated forum, there’s a careful balance between “reducing confusion” and “fanning the flamewar using a moderator’s outsized leverage.” I really don’t see how the reply here strikes that balance. Moreover, my post here was +3 but is suddenly now -3 after Dang’s reply.

Dang, I’m sure you have a lot of work to do, but I recommend you take a critical look at how much of that “work” you’re actually creating for yourself. The behavior I’ve observed here really underscores the untrustworthiness of other things I’ve seen from YC founders and employees.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by systemvoltage »

hiq wrote: post #560
systemvoltage wrote: post #317

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A friend of mine flew out from Zurich to CA to get a shot. They gave him one without checking anything. His response? “America has the best vaccine program on the planet. They have so many rules in Zurich that the confusion is holding things back. They’d rather throw away vaccines than break minor rules”. Vaccination should be easy, bureaucracy free and straightforward; especially now . I can understand age restricti…

> They gave him one without checking anything. His response? “America has the best vaccine program on the planet. They have so many rules in Zurich that the confusion is holding things back. They’d rather throw away vaccines than break minor rules”. I live in Zurich, the vaccination program is crystal clear. If there are free slots, you can book an appointment. Up to recently, if you were not in a priority group (whi…

I had a long chat with him and don't remember it all but I paraphrased his take on Zurich's vaccine program. I don't know enough about situation there but my guess of why they flew down to CA was probably that they didn't cut it for the tier, frustrated by the slow roll out and the trip was most likely not a dedicated trip - they also rented an RV to travel around. Vaccication!

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Post by HWR_14 »

m-ee wrote: post #530
HWR_14 wrote: post #521

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There were no formal eligibility rules because they didn't want to discourage people without IDs. The pastor did not open it up. Here is an article where he called people from outside the neighborhood "interlopers" and said he hoped word of the site wouldn't spread on social media: https://archive.is/Z55Oe

That quote was from someone at the office of emergency services, not the pastor. And the workers at the vaccine we’re telling people it was open to everyone 18+. I live here, this is information I got from talking to neighbors. There’s accounts on Reddit saying the same if you dig back in /r/oakland

Yes, it was legally open to everyone 18+. And food bank food is open to everyone too. What's the difference?

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Post by rvz »

TigeriusKirk wrote: post #12

We're about to see the Streisand Effect in action.

If he gives screenshots, we're about to see Y Combinator and HN play a long game of whack-a-mole with those who repost the screenshot.

We know who always loses when the Streisand Effect becomes in action.

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Post by whimsicalism »

shkkmo wrote: post #288
whimsicalism wrote: post #218

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But example 2 wouldn't be skipping the queue, which is what the tweet is discussing. Plenty of people were doing the showing up at end of day thing, it wasn't frowned on at all back in March.

It is unclear what the tweet is discussing. I don't see any clear statement from Paul as to what exactly he is alleging was done. One the the people who Paul is posting these allegations about did reply here and notes that they informed the staff they qere not CA eligible, waited 4 hours, then got the shot. It was not explicitly stated that these were shots that would have been wasted, but the 4 hour wait (if true) w…

> the 4 hour wait (if true) would seem to imply that.

To me, it implies extremely high demand - and likely the shots would not have been wasted.

I’m assuming you aren’t familiar with how these walk up sites in the Bay worked? Multiple hour long waits were common because of how high demand was in the area.

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Post by bellyfullofbac »

systemvoltage wrote: post #446
chx wrote: post #425

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> friend of mine flew out from Zurich to CA to get a shot. I call BS. Unless said friend is a US citizen, people who have physically been to the Schengen area have been forbidden to enter the US for quite a while now. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/from-oth...

There are exceptions, I’m sure otherwise I would have not met him (!!). His wife is US citizen. He is not. What more can I say? You can call BS all you want. Your response sort of violates the HN protocol of assuming the best of people. Edit: Perhaps because his wife is US Citizen, this would apply but not sure: "As further provided in each proclamation, citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States, c…

If you click the link "European Schengen area", it leads to the detailed proclamation[1], and:

2 (a) Section 1 of this proclamation [the suspension of entry] shall not apply to: [...] (iii) any noncitizen who is the spouse of a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident;

So yeah, GP is typical of the world nowadays, calling BS without knowing all the details...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

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Post by SyzygistSix »

kuschku wrote: post #575
metaxis79 wrote: post #234

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This is really frustrating to me, I also got vaccinated at that clinic through the same mechanism - I live in the complex on the street a block away and perpendicular. I also had people complain at me, and I had to patiently ask them, "would you rather the doses expire"? It's really frustrating but I understand the confusion and also the general feeling of "unfairness", as everyone right-thinking is eager to get vacc…

When I was a child I remember going to food banks. I remember the food bank having no eligibility checks whatsoever. I also remember a few rich people going there just to take advantage of it, and I remember days where we were so far back in line that we got nothing while the rich people walked out happily. That vaccination site isn't any different. Those vaccines were intended for poor, underdocumented, at risk popu…

Apparently lots of vaccination sites were indeed different.

Your food bank analogy would work if they were serving fresh food and could not give it all away, so invited any and all to come and eat. Which was the situation at many vaccination sites. Doses were going to waste if people did not use them. And when not enough people in the designated groups were showing up or making appointments at some sites, everyone was encouraged to come so the shots did not go to waste. That so many showed up after the general call for people is a marker of success. Not the one intended for initially, but better than shots going to waste.

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Post by SyzygistSix »

throwthrowbye wrote: post #391
Hamuko wrote: post #81

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> they admitted it He's now denying that he instructed others on how to skip the line, although it's not really that clear of a denial.

The post specifically told others how to skip the line, which was lying about their profession to say they were one that was qualified but that then people on site couldn’t prove.

Where can I see this? Did the OP make a screenshot?
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