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Just last month they were saying they'd be manufacturing the first aircraft in 2024. This company just looks like another huge investor scam at the moment.

purim 4y ago
Think I remember lot of comments here criticizing Boom being downvoted and flagged. Is Boom part of YC by any chance?
- randtrain34 4y ago
  YC '16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scaling-boom-yc-w16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scali...
  - purim 4y ago
- deleted 4y ago
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- dang 4y ago
  That's a clever insinuation, and since you've had many HN accounts in the past, and used them to abuse the site in similar ways, I'm going to be a notch less charitable than usual and conclude that you meant this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 as an innocent-sounding smear. For anyone worried about this kind of thing: what the commenter is insinuating is, in fact, just what we don't do. Here's tons of past explanation about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... In particular, we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged.
  - purim 4y ago
    > since you've had many HN accounts in the past well aren't you the one now making big insinuations? I feel you are invading my privacy and making me feel unsafe so I guess I will use a VPN next time, thanks for making me aware. I don't think I'm alone with my assessment. I've seen threads where comments were downvoted and flagged when they were critical of certain YC companies, and I can't recall 100% is why I suggested the likelihood of the same pattern. I didn't say YOU removed it but the people in that thread for whatever reason felt justified to censor those comments. > we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged. Incorrect, you've removed my original comment which you completely took out of context and just assumed malice. This is a pretty aggressive stance, and it just reinforces what I've pointed out. "hey i think theres censorship" flagged and removed to the outsider doesn't it seem pretty clear? you should at least allow some discussion around this, maybe I was wrong, maybe I'm not but claiming you removed zero comments is incorrect here. It only adds fuel to the suspicion.
    - dang 4y ago
      Users have done the flagging. The only thing we did was unkill some of those comments.
asciii 4y ago
Weird. This article states 2029 but their own site says 2024. https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/post/its-about-time-for-a-bold-new-era-of-supersonic-flight https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/post/its-about-time-for-a-b...
- objclxt 4y ago
  > This article states 2029 but their own site says 2024. The article says they intend to carry passengers in 2029, which isn't incompatible with going into production in 2024 (of course, they will do neither).
randtrain34 4y ago
they've raised 250m, assuming they lose money at the current rate of 111m in H1, wouldn't they run out of money before then?
- the_duke 4y ago
  That loss if for Rolls Royce ...
rocket_surgeron 4y ago
- dang 4y ago
  That is entirely users doing that. Admins didn't touch those comments or even see them...I've been dealing with nothing but the queen all day and didn't even look at this thread until now. We don't flag comments that are critical of YC companies; we moderate HN in exactly the opposite direction, as I've explained many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That's not to say we don't moderate at all—but we do considerably less than we normally do.

purim 4y ago

Think I remember lot of comments here criticizing Boom being downvoted and flagged. Is Boom part of YC by any chance?

randtrain34 4y ago
YC '16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scaling-boom-yc-w16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scali...
- purim 4y ago
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dang 4y ago
That's a clever insinuation, and since you've had many HN accounts in the past, and used them to abuse the site in similar ways, I'm going to be a notch less charitable than usual and conclude that you meant this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 as an innocent-sounding smear. For anyone worried about this kind of thing: what the commenter is insinuating is, in fact, just what we don't do. Here's tons of past explanation about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... In particular, we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged.
- purim 4y ago
  > since you've had many HN accounts in the past well aren't you the one now making big insinuations? I feel you are invading my privacy and making me feel unsafe so I guess I will use a VPN next time, thanks for making me aware. I don't think I'm alone with my assessment. I've seen threads where comments were downvoted and flagged when they were critical of certain YC companies, and I can't recall 100% is why I suggested the likelihood of the same pattern. I didn't say YOU removed it but the people in that thread for whatever reason felt justified to censor those comments. > we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged. Incorrect, you've removed my original comment which you completely took out of context and just assumed malice. This is a pretty aggressive stance, and it just reinforces what I've pointed out. "hey i think theres censorship" flagged and removed to the outsider doesn't it seem pretty clear? you should at least allow some discussion around this, maybe I was wrong, maybe I'm not but claiming you removed zero comments is incorrect here. It only adds fuel to the suspicion.
  - dang 4y ago
    Users have done the flagging. The only thing we did was unkill some of those comments.

asciii 4y ago

Weird. This article states 2029 but their own site says 2024. https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/post/its-about-time-for-a-bold-new-era-of-supersonic-flight https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/post/its-about-time-for-a-b...

objclxt 4y ago
> This article states 2029 but their own site says 2024. The article says they intend to carry passengers in 2029, which isn't incompatible with going into production in 2024 (of course, they will do neither).

randtrain34 4y ago

they've raised 250m, assuming they lose money at the current rate of 111m in H1, wouldn't they run out of money before then?

the_duke 4y ago
That loss if for Rolls Royce ...

rocket_surgeron 4y ago

dang 4y ago
That is entirely users doing that. Admins didn't touch those comments or even see them...I've been dealing with nothing but the queen all day and didn't even look at this thread until now. We don't flag comments that are critical of YC companies; we moderate HN in exactly the opposite direction, as I've explained many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That's not to say we don't moderate at all—but we do considerably less than we normally do.