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Why not?
That’s simply their rule.
Where is this rule? Even in your other reply you say there's "no strict limitation" so it's not a "rule", just a trend.
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Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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That’s simply their rule.
Where is this rule? Even in your other reply you say there's "no strict limitation" so it's not a "rule", just a trend.
Dorm rules mainly. Like I mention in a sibling comment, given the demographics and the arbitrariness of the decision it’s effectively ageism without being explicit.
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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What specifically? That's a long essay that was only published last week.
Quite a long discussion of how important the "best" universities are to starting a startup. Nothing YC-specific. > And if you want to start a startup you should try to get into the best university you can, because that's where the best cofounders are. It's also where the best employees are. When Larry and Sergey started Google, they began by just hiring all the smartest people they knew out of Stanford, and this was…
All this says is that elite universities have a higher density of good people. Which is totally true. If you want to maximize your chances of meeting good people that's a concrete thing to aim for.
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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For YC/HN to peddle fewer platitudes, euphemisms, and equivocations. At what point does preservation of this hallucinated wealth game become forced conservation of history and get in the way of the “freedom” part? Why are we socially trained to accept “people say Musk is rich so it must be true?” It’s all a socialized hallucination backed by government force. It’s kind of a huge joke. Let’s just get drunk and shoot p…
> Why are we socially trained to accept “people say Musk is rich so it must be true?” We're not socially trained for this. People don't think it's true because people say it. They think it's true because he owns a large stake in a lot of extremely valuable companies.
Owns is a socialized concept. It’s not immutable physics
We learn what it means as far as ground truth from socialization
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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> Why are we socially trained to accept “people say Musk is rich so it must be true?” We're not socially trained for this. People don't think it's true because people say it. They think it's true because he owns a large stake in a lot of extremely valuable companies.
Owns is a socialized concept. It’s not immutable physics We learn what it means as far as ground truth from socialization
Okay, but "rich" isn't, if you've accepted people can own things.
Not killing people is a socialised concept. I don't think this banale-fact-dressed-up-as-criticism of "is a social construct" is worth much. And if it is, it's also a social construct, as are the words used to communicate it. So should we then ignore it?
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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Owns is a socialized concept. It’s not immutable physics We learn what it means as far as ground truth from socialization
Okay, but "rich" isn't, if you've accepted people can own things. Not killing people is a socialised concept. I don't think this banale-fact-dressed-up-as-criticism of "is a social construct" is worth much. And if it is, it's also a social construct, as are the words used to communicate it. So should we then ignore it?
People can own things != minority of people should own all the things. Gradients, ranges, distributions, not binary.
If it’s so banal it would have no influence but you seem to accept the underlying; “banal” facts have power and social concepts are mutable. So you push back with empty rhetoric, over generalizing others to avoid the powerful fact socialized society is hallucination.
I never criticized “social concepts” either. I criticized our current social concept. Others can be propagated. Your banal attempt to generalize specifics is a lame rhetorical approach where you both accept socialized society as a concept but refuse to debate its specifics (that would require actual effort not just miming money/assets changed hands via paperwork).
May as well browse r/conservative as all HN is ever shipping is fealty to who we say is smart and rich but never requires them to prove it, but requires us to kneel and kiss the rings regardless, as if spoken tradition and written records are real evidence of skill and accomplishment when billions are spent reminding us these things are true.
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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What specifically? That's a long essay that was only published last week.
Quite a long discussion of how important the "best" universities are to starting a startup. Nothing YC-specific. > And if you want to start a startup you should try to get into the best university you can, because that's where the best cofounders are. It's also where the best employees are. When Larry and Sergey started Google, they began by just hiring all the smartest people they knew out of Stanford, and this was…
> When Larry and Sergey started Google, they began by just hiring all the smartest people they knew out of Stanford...
I worked for a large tech company as an intern in the late 90's, which is where I learned smartest doesn't always equal best. There were two of us interns in the org, one on the east coast and one on the west coast. I was in grad school at a regionally known engineering school, whereas my west coast counterpart was a grad at Stanford.
They were one of the smartest people I've ever met and worked with, and were basically a walking encyclopedia of CS knowledge, all the way down to level 1 of the OSI model. They were also entirely unable to execute on anything. There was no ability to plan and schedule work or to stay focused on the job itself.
One of us got a raise and asked to come back next summer and the other got walked from the building by security (a first, apparently) before the summer ended.
Yes, it's anecdata, and over my career I've worked with many other people from "top" institutions. As a whole, I haven't been any more or less impressed with them than any other Engineers I've worked with or hired.
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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I did not say the what you claim I said. A person may dishonestly believe something.
May and an assertion are two different things. Maybe I'm misunderstanding?
A belief is honestly held if it is based on your best ability to apply reason to facts.
A belief is dishonestly held if any other consideration comes between you and reality--that is, if you evade. You could choose to not carefully think about the issue. You could choose to treat something as a fact when you don't have evidence for it.
You can be honestly mistaken, perhaps due to a lack of knowledge and an error in logic. In those cases, you change your view when the correct facts and method are made available to you.
You can also be dishonestly mistaken. Example: adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, who were victimized by a stepfather or their mother's boyfriend, often report that their biological parent blames them for "stealing" the affections of their abuser. Blaming the victim for the abuse they suffer is clearly a belief that cannot be held honestly.
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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Presumably because they want to work with students instead of people with decades of experience?
Students are willing to work hard for free for the 0.001% chance that they'll be the next Mark Zuckerberg.
Also won't raise as many eyebrows when they're taught how to manufacture valuations with little to no basis in reality.
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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Okay, but "rich" isn't, if you've accepted people can own things. Not killing people is a socialised concept. I don't think this banale-fact-dressed-up-as-criticism of "is a social construct" is worth much. And if it is, it's also a social construct, as are the words used to communicate it. So should we then ignore it?
People can own things != minority of people should own all the things. Gradients, ranges, distributions, not binary. If it’s so banal it would have no influence but you seem to accept the underlying; “banal” facts have power and social concepts are mutable. So you push back with empty rhetoric, over generalizing others to avoid the powerful fact socialized society is hallucination. I never criticized “social concepts…
> People can own things != minority of people should own all the things. Gradients, ranges, distributions, not binary.
You've just described capitalism, and our current situation.