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Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by mghackerlady »

SwellJoe wrote: post #11

I've come to be convinced that having a huge amount of money causes some kind of mental breakage, a need to control other people that is unhealthy for everyone it touches. I don't mind everyone having or expressing an opinion, even opinions I disagree with, but when someone uses their disproportionate wealth and influence to spread misinformation and disrupt and dismantle democratic systems it crosses a line. It take…

How much money do you think causes it? Additionally, perhaps it's the other way around. Being someone who's predisposed to those tendencies is better at gaining capital. I think some good evidence for this is that Ken Olsen, by most accounts, was a saint and he owned DEC. Him having a substantial amount of wealth didn't turn him evil, so perhaps either he didn't hit that threshold or got lucky enough to not need the unhealthy and controlling tendencies to make it big

Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by SlinkyOnStairs »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #77
burkaman wrote: post #32

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I don't think having the money causes the problem, it's the journey to get to that point. People like MacKenzie Scott or lottery winners generally don't act like this. But aside from those rare instances, in order to make it to a billion dollars you need to consistently exploit people and absolutely refuse to use your power to help others in any significant way. You have to wake up every day with a hundred million do…

>> in order to make it to a billion dollars you need to consistently exploit people and absolutely refuse to use your power to help others in any significant way. I would categorically disagree with your statement. Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg All billionaires. All have created one (or multiple in Musk's case) products that have greatly benefitted society in numerous ways. The Gates Foundation has…

That reply is utterly baffling. We can set aside Bezos and Musk, but the exploitative actions of Zuckerberg and especially Gates are extremely well documented.

Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by mghackerlady »

baggy_trough wrote: post #35
vrganj wrote: post #13

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He's so far right that he endorsed Scott Weiner! That's pretty far, all right!

the far right will collaborate with people more left on the political spectrum if it benefits them. Think the molotov-ribbentrop pact. The nazis benefited from stalling any soviet aggression and the soviets got poland before going to war with germany

Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by [deleted] »

sleepybrett wrote: post #72
Snow_Falls wrote: post #18

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I would agree with you, I see people like Jeff Bezos who's unfathomably wealthy but also treats his workers so terribly that they have to pee in bottles and I wonder why? What compels someone to so obssesively seek wealth that they must treat people like that. I can only see it as some sort of mental illness. When someone compulsively hoards trinkets to the detriment of all around them, we call that a disease and I d…

To be fair, I don't think jeff has proclaimed that their drivers need to pee in bottles. That's all mid level managers trying to show gains to their up-line reports. Jeff (and the board) wonders if deliveries could be more efficient, and wants to find efficiencies to report to the board and the shareholders. However it's fucking dave, 6+ layers below jeff that is firing drivers for missing unreasonably tight delivery…

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Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by baggy_trough »

mghackerlady wrote: post #93
baggy_trough wrote: post #35

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He's so far right that he endorsed Scott Weiner! That's pretty far, all right!

the far right will collaborate with people more left on the political spectrum if it benefits them. Think the molotov-ribbentrop pact. The nazis benefited from stalling any soviet aggression and the soviets got poland before going to war with germany

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Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by dionidium »

tptacek wrote: post #84
nickburns wrote: post #47

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Can you elaborate on "basic competency issues", either in the case of Boudin's office and/or other high profile reformist prosecutors? Is that just a polite way of calling them dumb, à la what the kids are calling a 'skill issue' nowadays?

I can speak at length to the tenure of Kim Foxx, Chicago's former high-profile progressive prosecutor. I know some of the issues rhyme with Boudin's term, but San Franciscans can tell his story better than I can. So, first, no, I feel like I'm saying the opposite of "they're dumb". I don't think either Foxx or Boudin are dumb. I think they're both interesting people with interesting and valuable views. When I say "ba…

We almost certainly have opposing ideological views, but something I said a lot during this era (that I'm happy to see you hinting at) was that if you come into office as a progressive prosecutor without any plan to deal with the people in your office or in law enforcement who aren't on board, then that's really the more immediate failure. You can't just say, "I would have been successful if not for my detractors," because the detractors are a totally predictable obstacle for which you need a plan.

In big systems you can't always just do whatever you want!

Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by fzeroracer »

energy123 wrote: post #46
vrganj wrote: post #39

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Everything is politics. Which food you eat (are you vegan? carnivore diet? Both have implications in regards to animal welfare, climate change, soil use, identity etc etc), which media you consume (obvious), which job you have (which power structures do you strengthen with it? who benefits from your labor? who do you try to disrupt?). To say one is "apolitical" is just voicing a preference for the status quo. To decr…

That's a pretty depressing worldview. Children playing in the park aren't being political. It's possible to just exist sometimes.

It's not that long ago that black children were barred from being in the same space as white children so at one point yes, it was political.

Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by phonon »

tptacek wrote: post #85
phonon wrote: post #76

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A. That's how I read it too. B. You can be criminally liable for HIPAA violations, if you induce someone covered by them to violate them. See for example https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/media/1254226/dl (indictment of KEITH RITSON) "COUNT 2 (Conspiracy to Wrongfully Obtain and Disclose Individually Identifiable Health Information) 19. Paragraphs 1-3 and 5-18 of Count 1 of this Superseding Information are hereby reall…

Is there a fact pattern where Lim could have bank-shot criminal liability despite not herself being a covered entity? Probably? She could have misrepresented who she was and obtained the records through fraud, for instance. Again, my thing here is, if you're going to put those kinds of accusations on the table, and you're a district attorney , you'd better come correct. The facts presented in the document the DA's of…

If you induce someone to violate HIPAA who is covered by it (like say a nurse at a hospital), you can be criminally liable. There is no carve-out for journalists. BOTH the person who gave the record and the person who induced them to give it could be liable (not in the same way, possibly). In any case, you seemed to think there was a bright line rule of some sort, that "At one point it accuses Lim of "violating HIPAA", which is not a thing† (HIPAA constrains covered entities, not reporters)." when in fact you can be criminally liable for inducement/conspiracy etc if you induce someone who is covered to give you those records, under https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1320d-6

Here is another similar case of a non-medical person violating HIPAA.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/memphis-man-sentenced-c...

Take the L :-)

Re: Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

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Post by boroboro4 »

jasonmp85 wrote: post #28
browningstreet wrote: post #25

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And Paul G has defended him on X as a centrist. Weird blind spot.

"Centrist" in America is just "far-right but doesn't talk about it very loudly"

But this particular one does?..
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