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>People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t. Respectfully, this may be a biased perspective. Are you in SV? Becau

>People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t. Respectfully, this may be a biased perspective. Are you in SV? Because there are many non-media people outside of SV who don't share your enthusiasm. >I’ll never understand why people get so upset for rich people making bad bets and losing a bunch of money. I think some consider it audacious and see a certain cynicism in it, especially given the context. That is, we're living through an age of tremendous wealth/income disparity (on a relevant side-note, tech has played a not-insignificant role in that disparity). At the same time, we have massive national and global problems (climate change, rising nuclear regimes, terrorism, mass shootings, etc). Yet, all of this SV brainpower and capital is being deployed to make rich people richer off of over-priced trivialities like Juicero. The guys with the lifeboats are playing music for the people on the Titanic and charging them for the privilege. When you really step back and look at it, it's a little nuts, really.

unclebucknasty 9y ago
Note to non-commenting down-voters: Down-votes are just bits in a database. Down-voting doesn't actually have the power to alter reality. Carry on.
- omarchowdhury 9y ago
  It made your text greyer, though. But have an upvote.
  - unclebucknasty 9y ago
    Pointless.
    - omarchowdhury 9y ago
      Too bad you're so bitter. I was in full agreement with your original comment, thought it was unfair you were downvoted in the first place. And you're the truly clueless one if you think you can extrapolate the extent of my cleverness from such a small cross section of interaction with my being. But I'd love to know how my comment made your point? Reality is altered by downvotes, at the minimum through the color change on our screens as I pointed out, and in the mental reactions that arise when someone on Hacker News sees that greyed text. There's also the fact that the downvoting is causing you to lash out the way you are, to protect your fragile sense of ego. Is that not downvoting changing reality? At one moment you were not irritated by being downvoted, and the next moment you were. And don't try to weasel yourself out of this by attempting to be aloof regarding downvoting, you've already missed your chance at that. P.S. For the sake of your well being I recommend you not to reply to this comment. P.P.S. Lol @ you editing your comment. Looks like I made my point.

unclebucknasty 9y ago

Note to non-commenting down-voters: Down-votes are just bits in a database. Down-voting doesn't actually have the power to alter reality. Carry on.

omarchowdhury 9y ago
It made your text greyer, though. But have an upvote.
- unclebucknasty 9y ago
  Pointless.
  - omarchowdhury 9y ago
    Too bad you're so bitter. I was in full agreement with your original comment, thought it was unfair you were downvoted in the first place. And you're the truly clueless one if you think you can extrapolate the extent of my cleverness from such a small cross section of interaction with my being. But I'd love to know how my comment made your point? Reality is altered by downvotes, at the minimum through the color change on our screens as I pointed out, and in the mental reactions that arise when someone on Hacker News sees that greyed text. There's also the fact that the downvoting is causing you to lash out the way you are, to protect your fragile sense of ego. Is that not downvoting changing reality? At one moment you were not irritated by being downvoted, and the next moment you were. And don't try to weasel yourself out of this by attempting to be aloof regarding downvoting, you've already missed your chance at that. P.S. For the sake of your well being I recommend you not to reply to this comment. P.P.S. Lol @ you editing your comment. Looks like I made my point.