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> Perhaps you could talk about the quoted comments All the quotes are barely one sentence, and with zero context, and no link back to when or where they were s
by DrBazza 4y ago
> Perhaps you could talk about the quoted comments
All the quotes are barely one sentence, and with zero context, and no link back to when or where they were said. I know modern journalism is lazy and just quotes tweets, but the author could have put a bit more effort in.
> when Zuckerberg came up with his mantra, “move fast and break things”, he didn’t just mean code.
> Thiel himself is so committed to libertarianism that he has established an eponymous foundation to “defend and promote freedom”
> Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has previously suggested a “limit” on laws to “some set of pages”. “When you add a page, you have to take one away,” he said.
> “This is an extinction level event,” warned Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator.
> “Where is [the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jay] Powell? Where is [the Treasury secretary, Janet] Yellen? Stop this crisis NOW,” tweeted the venture capitalist David Sacks
- nayroclade 4y agoThe article assumes an audience sophisticated and informed enough not to require extensive evidence that Peter Thiel is a libertarian, or that he and associated VCs are generally opposed to government regulation, because those assumed to be established facts. The quotes aren't intended to prove these facts, simply to provide a flavour of the types of rhetoric and attitude they have historically displayed. So what exactly is your argument here? That Thiel and co. aren't libertarians? That they are generally pro-regulation and government bailouts? Or that the article's thesis is invalid simply because it didn't meet your standard of empirical representation, regardless of whether it's true or not?
- nerdponx 4y agoThe last one at least was literally just a Twitter post with no other context.