Y Combinator Cuts Ties With Peter Thiel After Ending Part-Time Partner Program (buzzfeed.com) 67
An anonymous reader shares a report: Billionaire venture capitalist and Facebook board member Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with startup accelerator Y Combinator, according to an edited company blog post. Thiel was formerly a part-time partner with the accelerator. BuzzFeed News confirmed his departure with a source familiar with Y Combinator's management structure. Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time partners moved over to a program called "experts," which provides advice to Y Combinator entrepreneurs, Thiel did not join.
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None of this has anything to do with liberalism or conservatism. You can find the same kind of disdain among sports fans of opposing teams, especially if they have a historic rivalry and are close competitors.
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A conservative who complains about liberals censoring free speech, then turns around and wants to ban flag burning, is a hypocrite.
That would apply to the Bible thumper kind, not the Thiel variety.
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What is progressive about the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela? They have no relation to progressive policies in the USA. If you want to look at where American invented progressive ideas have been applied you need to look at modern socialized democracies like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc. I can list off several ideas invented in the USA applied in other countries which have worked out smashingly. How about drug policy in Portugal? Numerous education programs in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Singapore. T
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Now, to be fair, so are most conservatives.
No they aren't. Conservatives disagree, and even strongly disagree, with progressives. But actual censorship is coming from only one side.
A conservative who complains about liberals censoring free speech, then turns around and wants to ban flag burning, is a hypocrite.
Please provide an actual recent example of liberal views being silenced. It is easy to find dozens of examples of conservative speakers prevented from speaking on college campuses and other venues. The opposite is rarely true.
Much of this is due to the distribution of political viewpoints. Most conservative areas have plenty of liberal people. Even the "reddest" of
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General discontent with conservatives is somewhat deserved
Feeling discontent does not justify censorship. You can disagree with someone without trying to silence them.
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Do not feed the troll.
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Please provide an actual recent example of liberal views being silenced. It is easy to find dozens of examples of conservative speakers prevented from speaking on college campuses and other venues.
When you say "prevented from speaking", do you mean that they haven't been paid to speak there or allowed to use auditoriums as a venue, etc.?
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Little-known fact - the name was chosen to try and attract more females.
Yes, I know.
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Actually no, Franken apologized for groping a WOMAN, whereas Roy Moore is Trump's hand-picked child molester that never admitted he's a predatory GOP hypocrite Cuckservative despite it being common knowledge even among retards in Alabama. FTFY.
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Roy Moore is Trump's hand-picked child molester
Trump supported Luther Strange, Roy Moore's primary opponent, so no, Moore is not a "hand-picked" child molester.
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You're confusing Trump with Peter Thie--FUCK! I fucked it up.
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... posted by ACs.
They all blame Thiel's departure on politics, too, even though TFS makes it clear that he chose not to continue participating when YC ended its "part-time partners" program - Thiel's participation in which was his only affiliation with the company - back in 2016.
Not everything that happens in Silly Valley has to do with politics. In fact, very little does - and any given VCs' participation a particular incubator venture can end for a host of reasons.
The fact that neither YC nor Thiel will comment on the split tends to augur in favor of a purely business-based motive for his departure, from what I can see ...
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How would they do that? Would you recommend VNC or SSH?
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It doesn't help that the title is worded in such a way as to suggest that it was Y-Combinator did the severing, and that it was political. Very click-baity.
Unethical Medical Research (Score:2, Informative)
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We want to give people in pain the right to die, but how DARE THEY try taking medicine that hasn't been fully vetted yet!