Why I'm Leaving the Thiel Fellowship(medium.com)
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Why I'm Leaving the Thiel Fellowship
https://medium.com/@cosmoscharf/why-im-leaving-the-thiel-fellowship-7205ca88766b#.q0ba3hxfp
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a rather awful essay not worth reading. This sounds like a rather large sum of money you're paying for few minutes of internet attention on your half baked ideas about the current american political system.
You may disagree with Peter Thiel's philosophy (as I do), but you cannot deny he is a thoughtful and intelligent man who has some interesting conjectures about the future which are (in my assessment) likely to be wrong. Furthermore Thiel himself hasn't personally made any investments (apart from the trump donation) which I find personally objectionable. If you had specific quarrels with his ethics, apart form his association with trump, it'd be a different story. Your essay betrays none of that.
You may disagree with Peter Thiel's philosophy (as I do), but you cannot deny he is a thoughtful and intelligent man who has some interesting conjectures about the future which are (in my assessment) likely to be wrong. Furthermore Thiel himself hasn't personally made any investments (apart from the trump donation) which I find personally objectionable. If you had specific quarrels with his ethics, apart form his association with trump, it'd be a different story. Your essay betrays none of that.
Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12927657
That one is [flagged] and [dead], and doesn't even show up in search anymore, but does have some existing comments that probably should be moved to this submission.
The two submission URLs differ in the #fragment at the end. HN should probably ignore those when checking for duplicates, as in probably 99% of the cases two submissions that differ only in the fragment will be intended to be the same and the fragment difference will be due to how the submitter happened to read the article before copying the URL for submission.
That one is [flagged] and [dead], and doesn't even show up in search anymore, but does have some existing comments that probably should be moved to this submission.
The two submission URLs differ in the #fragment at the end. HN should probably ignore those when checking for duplicates, as in probably 99% of the cases two submissions that differ only in the fragment will be intended to be the same and the fragment difference will be due to how the submitter happened to read the article before copying the URL for submission.
Fair play, that's a lot to turn down for his beliefs.
I wonder when people like this will come to understand that the magic words don't work anymore?
I recommend this article by Scott Adams: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152998516891/the-de-hitlerizati...
Very thought provoking article, thanks for the insight. Felt like reading a masterpiece of poetry.
I didn't vote for Trump, but it's a high time we stop with NYT/CNN/etc. popularized name calling.