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I was hoping they would speak to the inspiration for Richard's "decentralized internet" plot this season; if it was Ethereum or something similar.

Deinos 9y ago
Likewise. Given the current political climate, net neutrality and common carrier roll backs, etc., it is very fertile ground for further discourse and parody of pressing concerns in the industry at large.
adamnemecek 9y ago
More like urbit.
- laretluval 9y ago
  Agreed. I'm wondering if Richard will get mixed up in far right politics in this season.
  - tmccrmck 9y ago
    Urbit is one of the few things that I think may be too nutty for the show.
  - eli_gottlieb 9y ago
    They can't do that after Peter Gregory died ;-).
    - dmix 9y ago
      Libertarian != far right Unless I'm missing something about Peter's character that indicated he was far right?
      - eli_gottlieb 9y ago
        So without hitting real-world politics too much... The idea is that Gregory was based on Thiel. Peter Thiel did in fact join the Trump campaign and administration as an advisor. The Trump campaign was, in fact, far-right -- which is part of why it took the Republican Party by surprise in the primaries. However, Gregory died when his actor did (of blessed memory). I think that a good Silicon Valley storyline on this subject would have been a great use of the character they had. I don't want them to introduce a replacement character to hit a plot-point, after going through the trouble of mourning Peter Gregory and replacing him with Laurie Bream. For me it would cross the line from affectionate parody into, in a sense, appropriation of Thiel's life. The other issue would be that the show has no plans of actually giving us hard-biting political satire. That's not its thing in the first place. Maybe if they picked it up with Laurie delving into far-libertarian and far-right politics as a part of inheriting Raviga Capital from Gregory? Maybe he left some will saying whoever runs the company has to get involved somehow under certain conditions? Then they can at least make the comedy of this all-business-all-the-time character Laurie seeing how Gregory's weird hobbies play out. Hmmm... and it could turn out Russ Henneman was involved in it, too, so she'd have to swallow her hatred for the guy and do weird stuff alongside him, lest other Raviga partners accuse her of failing to carry out Gregory's wishes.
        dmix 9y ago
        Ah, okay I figured you were making the leap from financially backing Trump's presidential campaign over Clinton to being far right ideologue. Thiel was quite bold by staying quiet following his choice to do that, then being vague and non-commital in the only interview he did with NYTimes (the only real response he made regarding a Trump policy is flatly rejecting supporting a muslim registry and that he thought Trump was good on gay rights), people filled in the blanks otherwise. HN's not the right place for these discussions, so I'd rather not dig into it more, I was just curious why you said that.
        blfr 9y ago
        The Trump campaign was, in fact, far-right The winning candidate in at least a semi-functional democracy cannot be far-anything. Trump's a mainstream American politician by definition.

Deinos 9y ago

Likewise. Given the current political climate, net neutrality and common carrier roll backs, etc., it is very fertile ground for further discourse and parody of pressing concerns in the industry at large.

adamnemecek 9y ago

More like urbit.

laretluval 9y ago
Agreed. I'm wondering if Richard will get mixed up in far right politics in this season.
- tmccrmck 9y ago
  Urbit is one of the few things that I think may be too nutty for the show.
- eli_gottlieb 9y ago
  They can't do that after Peter Gregory died ;-).
  - dmix 9y ago
    Libertarian != far right Unless I'm missing something about Peter's character that indicated he was far right?
    - eli_gottlieb 9y ago
      So without hitting real-world politics too much... The idea is that Gregory was based on Thiel. Peter Thiel did in fact join the Trump campaign and administration as an advisor. The Trump campaign was, in fact, far-right -- which is part of why it took the Republican Party by surprise in the primaries. However, Gregory died when his actor did (of blessed memory). I think that a good Silicon Valley storyline on this subject would have been a great use of the character they had. I don't want them to introduce a replacement character to hit a plot-point, after going through the trouble of mourning Peter Gregory and replacing him with Laurie Bream. For me it would cross the line from affectionate parody into, in a sense, appropriation of Thiel's life. The other issue would be that the show has no plans of actually giving us hard-biting political satire. That's not its thing in the first place. Maybe if they picked it up with Laurie delving into far-libertarian and far-right politics as a part of inheriting Raviga Capital from Gregory? Maybe he left some will saying whoever runs the company has to get involved somehow under certain conditions? Then they can at least make the comedy of this all-business-all-the-time character Laurie seeing how Gregory's weird hobbies play out. Hmmm... and it could turn out Russ Henneman was involved in it, too, so she'd have to swallow her hatred for the guy and do weird stuff alongside him, lest other Raviga partners accuse her of failing to carry out Gregory's wishes.
      - dmix 9y ago
        Ah, okay I figured you were making the leap from financially backing Trump's presidential campaign over Clinton to being far right ideologue. Thiel was quite bold by staying quiet following his choice to do that, then being vague and non-commital in the only interview he did with NYTimes (the only real response he made regarding a Trump policy is flatly rejecting supporting a muslim registry and that he thought Trump was good on gay rights), people filled in the blanks otherwise. HN's not the right place for these discussions, so I'd rather not dig into it more, I was just curious why you said that.
      - blfr 9y ago
        The Trump campaign was, in fact, far-right The winning candidate in at least a semi-functional democracy cannot be far-anything. Trump's a mainstream American politician by definition.