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At this point in the US, anyone who wants to get a vaccine can get one. That makes getting it a personal choice. Then you have this person try to damage Ycombi

At this point in the US, anyone who wants to get a vaccine can get one. That makes getting it a personal choice. Then you have this person try to damage Ycombinator because one of their founders spoke internally about the matter. Absolutely tactless. You'd expect future founders to be able to consider potential repercussions for biting the hand that's serving them.

CRConrad 5y ago
> At this point in the US, anyone who wants to get a vaccine can get one. That makes getting it a personal choice. But since this all happened in March, when not anyone who wanted to get the vaccine could get any, your comment is irrelevant.
Hamuko 5y ago
>At this point in the US, anyone who wanted to get a vaccine can get one. Pretty sure when this actually happened, vaccines were not actually open to anyone that just wanted one.
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- mynameisvlad 5y ago
  Bingo. He uses the announcement of vaccines opening up to all in May as "proof" that it was allowed, but I can't see anything in the announcement that indicates that.
- tingletech 5y ago
  that site was well known locally at the time to accept anyone who walked up
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    Perhaps... But perhaps not everybody was supposed to go walk up in the first place: https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1370071520953835520 https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1370071520953835520
beaner 5y ago
"Try to damage Ycombinator"... How?
- TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
  It's a divisive political topic, and he associated an individual post made on an internal Ycombinator forum with Ycombinator itself. Comments of individuals don't represent the company, and by framing it like he did, he publicly dragged Ycombinator right into the middle of a contentious political debate.
  - threatofrain 5y ago
    That's like saying students at a university don't represent the university, and yet they do and don't, both in the eyes of the people and the institution. It's difficult to say how attribution will be finally concluded in society, no? In this case the relationship between member and institution is even tighter, and the desperation of sink or swim is more palpable.
  - beaner 5y ago
    All I've been hearing on HN for the last 6 years is how so many things are inherently political, that to not act is to condone, and that organizations should be made to take a stand by their employees/students/passers-by. Why does YC get an exception?
    - pseudalopex 5y ago
      I don't know how you missed the many comments saying the opposite.
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    - yownie 5y ago
      Because we'd have to change bookmarked websites apparently.
wwweston 5y ago
Why would alleged poor behavior among a handful of YC founders damage its reputation, unless it’s either endorsed by YC leadership or widespread enough that it’s unfortunately representative? If anything, criticism of poor behavior within the cohort would reflect well on a culture that values sharp contrarian takes and productive disruption. Or at least, it could...
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CRConrad 5y ago

> At this point in the US, anyone who wants to get a vaccine can get one. That makes getting it a personal choice. But since this all happened in March, when not anyone who wanted to get the vaccine could get any, your comment is irrelevant.

Hamuko 5y ago

>At this point in the US, anyone who wanted to get a vaccine can get one. Pretty sure when this actually happened, vaccines were not actually open to anyone that just wanted one.

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mynameisvlad 5y ago
Bingo. He uses the announcement of vaccines opening up to all in May as "proof" that it was allowed, but I can't see anything in the announcement that indicates that.
tingletech 5y ago
that site was well known locally at the time to accept anyone who walked up
- CRConrad 5y ago
  Perhaps... But perhaps not everybody was supposed to go walk up in the first place: https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1370071520953835520 https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1370071520953835520

beaner 5y ago

"Try to damage Ycombinator"... How?

TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
It's a divisive political topic, and he associated an individual post made on an internal Ycombinator forum with Ycombinator itself. Comments of individuals don't represent the company, and by framing it like he did, he publicly dragged Ycombinator right into the middle of a contentious political debate.
- threatofrain 5y ago
  That's like saying students at a university don't represent the university, and yet they do and don't, both in the eyes of the people and the institution. It's difficult to say how attribution will be finally concluded in society, no? In this case the relationship between member and institution is even tighter, and the desperation of sink or swim is more palpable.
- beaner 5y ago
  All I've been hearing on HN for the last 6 years is how so many things are inherently political, that to not act is to condone, and that organizations should be made to take a stand by their employees/students/passers-by. Why does YC get an exception?
  - pseudalopex 5y ago
    I don't know how you missed the many comments saying the opposite.
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  - yownie 5y ago
    Because we'd have to change bookmarked websites apparently.

wwweston 5y ago

Why would alleged poor behavior among a handful of YC founders damage its reputation, unless it’s either endorsed by YC leadership or widespread enough that it’s unfortunately representative? If anything, criticism of poor behavior within the cohort would reflect well on a culture that values sharp contrarian takes and productive disruption. Or at least, it could...

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