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Only on Hacker News I can write an entire paragraph explaining how I am not criticizing Thiel and then still get slammed for criticizing him.
by hristov 9y ago
Only on Hacker News I can write an entire paragraph explaining how I am not criticizing Thiel and then still get slammed for criticizing him.
- csallen 9y agoThe culture here is often contrarian to a fault.
- huiuyhn88 9y agoOnly the Sith deal in absolutes!
- api 9y agoThere's a lot of really weird vicarious worship of the wealthy around here. It's ironic that it's called Hacker News since traditionally hackers came from more of a "fight the man" zeitgeist. At times it borders on sycophancy, like when every single utterance of a VC no matter how banal is analyzed as if it's the words of some venerated guru. The extreme of this would be the Silicon Valley right and its full and explicit embrace of feudalism and monarchy. ... and no, I'm not criticizing Thiel. The vicarious sycophancy of the HN community is a lot weirder and at times more troubling than the behavior of the actual SV rich.
- fullshark 9y agoThat’s cause we are all temporarily embarrassed billionaires.