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Silicon Valley CEO who allegedly kicked girlfriend 117 times gets 1 year in jail
- whack 10y ago"It turns out CEOs are way more likely to be psychopaths than any other job title... About 1% of the human population are psychopaths. But CEOs are four times more likely to be psychopaths than the average person" The article is perfect anecdotal illustration of this. It's kind of sad that we've built a business environment where being a psychopath actively helps, not hurts, your climb to the top. http://thehustle.co/your-ceo-is-probably-a-psychopath http://thehustle.co/your-ceo-is-probably-a-psychopath
- noobermin 10y agofour times more likely So 4%?
- ChrisClark 10y agoYes.
- namelezz 10y agoNo 400%.
- mirimir 10y agoNo, 5%. It'd be 4% if it were "four times as likely".
- tedunangst 10y agoI suspect "as" and "more" frequently get lost in translation.
- mirimir 10y agoIt does seem so: From http://thehustle.co/your-ceo-is-probably-a-psychopath http://thehustle.co/your-ceo-is-probably-a-psychopath > FACT: 4% of CEOs are psychopaths > About 1% of the human population are psychopaths. But CEOs are four times more likely to be psychopaths than the average person, according to journalist Jon Ronson. He spent two years researching this, and published a book titled “The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry.” So the cited article suffers from the same ambiguity. I wonder what Jon Ronson actually wrote. Google was not helpful :(
- tedunangst 10y agoYeah... I'm not sure 4% counts as "probably" either. I would not be surprised to discover other inaccuracies.
- mirimir 10y agoThe book was not well received by mental health professionals ;)
- thisisbad 10y agoPsychopaths are very useful. Surgeons, butchers, salespeople etc. are more likely to be psychopaths. You don't want a surgeon to have empathy when he's cutting your leg off. You don't want a butcher to have empathy for animals. You don't want a salesperson to care about rejections. You don't want a CEO to be reluctant about laying people off.
- bootload 10y agoThis is a good observation. Where the behaviour becomes toxic is where the line is drawn. The surgeon who decides one patient isn't worthy of attention, the butcher who needlessly injures animals, the salesperson who defrauds sales figures.
- solipsism 10y agoMaybe YOU don't want a CEO to be reluctant about laying people off. I like working in places where my humanity has some value, even if it's not the most important thing. Maybe YOU don't want a surgeon who won't nick an artery if she thinks she can get away with it, because death has a strange appeal to her, but I like living. It's a bit hyperbolic, but so's your statement. We don't need psychopaths, we need people who can keep their emotions in check. Training, exercise, mediation, and drugs are all useful tools for this.
- nstj 10y agoWithout wanting to drift OT, the capitalisation of YOU doesn't really seem all that necessary here.
- Chinjut 10y agoI, uh, totally want my surgeon to have empathy when he or she is cutting my leg off.
- erklik 10y agoAnd then your leg gets cut off at the wrong angle since his hands are not under his control due to emotional connection. or He doesn't cut it off and then your diseases or issue spreads and your whole body gets paralysed.
- foota 10y agoThis is disgusting.
- nomoch 10y agoIt isn't allegedly if it was caught on video and he admitted it. If feminists stopped bitching about microaggressions and dealt with cases like this I'd have a lot more respect for them.
- wpietri 10y agoFalse dichotomy. They were very much up in arms about this guy. I sure was.
- danso 10y agoThis was a huge fucking deal in 2014. Just because you were unaware of it doesn't mean that feminists weren't up in arms about it: - http://valleywag.gawker.com/ceo-who-pled-guilty-to-domestic-violence-maintains-his-1567445544 http://valleywag.gawker.com/ceo-who-pled-guilty-to-domestic-... - https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/26/we-are-dropping-radiumone-as-a-ny-disrupt-sponsor/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/26/we-are-dropping-radiumone-...
- dogma1138 10y agoWhy do you need to be a feminist to think that anyone who beats anyone 100+ times should rot in jail?
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoGood grief! How pathetic!
- firefoxd 10y agoDoes it matter that the video is inadmissible? They all saw him do the crime.
- meira 10y agoAllegedly by video. This is the media that asks us to whitelist them on ad blocks.
- danso 10y agoHuh? What's inaccurate about "allegedly"?
- meira 10y agoWho said it is inaccurate? I only pointed out.
- function_seven 10y agoYour comment is confusing then. What is the this is the media that asks us to whitelist them on ad blocks statement regarding, if not a misuse of the word "allegedly"?
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- DarkerThanBlack 10y agoJust one question. Who is there to count how many fking time he kicks??
- kevingadd 10y agoIt's called a video camera And a victim.
- jtrtoo 10y agoSadly the headline is a tad misleading. He got jail time only after violating his probation. The violation? Doing it again. Geez.
- belovedeagle 10y agoWhile the headline is designed to spark outrage, after reading the article, not only do I understand why the sentence is so light, I'm glad it is. The police were way out of line and completely disregarded the accused's rights. The only effective way to incentivize the police/prosecutors not to behave this way is to let people we strongly believe to be guilty all but get away with it. No monetary fine has ever been effective in changing public servants' behavior, and threat of being fired doesn't seem effective either. We have to admit that criminalizing rights violations in any but the most egregious circumstances is unreasonable and could barely be enforced, let alone passed as legislation for political reasons. So what choice does society have left to change this behavior but leverage bad actors' conscience and, frankly, pride, by throwing away their hard work? (Well, the work was not hard enough, that's the point.) Society must bear the cost as well, but as long as it does so consistently, then the cost will be worth it.
- throwaway-hn123 10y agoWow. This is one of the most bizarre comments I've ever seen on HN, and I think you really mean it. Shocking.
- anonfunction 10y agoThe problem is that there is no consistency when it comes to our justice system. The only reason that the evidence was ruled inadmissible is because an attorney was good enough to make the case. For every CEO there are hundreds of poor people of color who are unfairly discriminated against and have no recourse available.
- rublev 10y agoI remember my first words as a newly born white baby: "...lawyer". Shortly after, a pigeon swooped into my bedroom and dropped a pair of keys into my crib with a note attached reading "This is the key to your safety deposit box where you will find estate papers along with a second set of keys that belong to a 110ft Schooner, welcome to the club lad."
- Chinjut 10y ago
- IPv5 10y agoWhy does everyone on Hacker New think we should have some sort of "angry mob rule" where people who weren't privy to the actual evidence and hearings decide how outrageous a crime is and have an Internet Poll to see what the punishment should be? Why do most of the people here hate the right to a trial, the right to face your accused, and the right of a hearing to determine sentencing?