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There’s no honor among thieves. What this guy, and the whistleblower, and Mark Zuckerberg, and Roger McNamee, and everyone else are doing is simple — they’re al
by numair 5y ago
There’s no honor among thieves. What this guy, and the whistleblower, and Mark Zuckerberg, and Roger McNamee, and everyone else are doing is simple — they’re all turning on each other. Don’t try to figure out who is “right” or “wrong” or whatever, or if it’s the government going after them, blah blah blah. It’s just a bunch of dirty people pointing fingers at others, trying to wash their karma.
Somewhere in the vaults of the FBI are recordings of my final conversations with Sean Parker. One of the things I keep repeating to that unrepentant sexual predator is, “in the end, all of you will turn on each other.” And that’s exactly what is slowly happening, and will continue happening. Especially as all of these formerly-young millennials turn into old people who will be desperate to sell their kids and grandkids on a “I was one of the good guys” narrative.
Like rats on a sinking ship, I tell ya. And don’t @ me with a reference to the stock price — the labor market determines the future of the giants in our field, because they’re labor constrained, not capital constrained. If Facebook can’t hire the best talent to build the best apps for iOS 22 or whatever, all of the money in the world won’t make them relevant again.
- will4274 5y ago> unrepentant sexual predator What is this? I don't have any context.
- jjulius 5y agoThe user you're responding to reported Parker to the FBI alleging he witnessed him rape a 16 year-old. He's also got some prior history involving FB and how they treated an app he developed years back. Here are a few links related to this that I discovered by Googling "numair sean parker" just now. His Twitter feed also alludes to many other people being involved with underage boys. https://mobile.twitter.com/numair/status/1408055869481254912?lang=en https://mobile.twitter.com/numair/status/1408055869481254912... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26725402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26725402 https://numair.medium.com/15-years-is-enough-time-silicon-valleys-rape-problem-ee1a022a079f https://numair.medium.com/15-years-is-enough-time-silicon-va... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134289 ----- Edit: It's worth pointing out that this post of his from 2006 aged like milk, given his current views of Parker and (as I've read in other threads lately) Zuckerberg/FB. https://web.archive.org/web/20070107220225/http://www.numair.com/2006/11/sean-parker-as-jim-clark-2.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070107220225/http://www.numair...
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- _bfhp 5y agoI don't really care how "dirty" all of the people are, I'm going to listen to what experienced people of all opinions and motivations have to say about the issues and each other, and make up my own mind. Dismissing the underlying censorship issues ignores the consequences for billions; what happens at Facebook sets the standards for the rest of the internet and beyond.
- numair 5y ago> what happens at Facebook sets the standards for the rest of the internet and beyond. That used to be the case. But at this point, you’re really just watching the ghosts of the past emerge in the present. Facebook doesn’t own the future. It’s impossible to own the future if you can’t hire the talent needed to maintain the ownership. There was a time that Facebook’s employees were so dedicated and talented that one guy went off into isolation and single-handedly wrote the first version of Facebook for iPhone. I doubt the 2021 equivalent of that guy could ever be convinced to join FB. (A+ to whoever correctly guesses who I’m talking about.)
- jmeister 5y agoHot air from /u/numair
- 54b4b54 5y agoGood fucking riddance to the whole lot of them.