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Peter Thiel, YC, and Hard Decisions

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...written by Ellen Pao. Famous for doing a not-so-well job at Kleiner Perkins, getting fired for that, and then her filing a lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins because they "fired her because of sexism" (and then losing that lawsuit in court).

So yeah, I take everything I read from her with a grain of salt.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/technology/ellen-pao-klein..., in case someone wants to know)

I will get down voted for this, but it is worth it to speak my mind:

I get so fed up with people telling other people what to think, which candidates to support, etc. I don't much care for Donald Trump, but it is a free country and if people want to support him, that is their business and I support their right to their own opinions even if I don't like their opinions. I would hope that most Trump supporters are just voting anti-establishment, but their reasons are their own business.

I'm voting for Trump because of the alternative. He's an awful candidate, and really a bad human being. However I'd rather vote and make that vote count, than to piss it down the drain by folding my arms and staying out. Better the devil I know...

> Better the devil I know...

Usually, when someone uses this phrase, they don't know anything about the other option. It sounds like you know plenty about Clinton.

How did the previous story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 ) get knocked off the front page so quickly?

With 232 points, 172 comments, and only 1 hour old, I would think it should still be there, but yeah, I'm not seeing it either.

If this was an algorithmic decision, it was probably the flame-war detector.

I don't remember clicking any EULA. If I did naturally I didn't read it.

But if there were one, I am certain that HN-the-management retained the right to dismiss, suppress, delete, or otherwise remove from play posts and comments as they will, with no appeal, no recourse, and no visibility.

Those little arrows and the typical case lead us to believe that HN functions algorithmically.

I am sure it does, in the 99% case.

Criticism of the unpardonable actions of Peter Thiel and criticism of the indefensible decision to do business with him is obviously the 1% case.

That story, currently on the second page, was put there because of user flags. It was also heavily penalized by the software flamewar detector, but we've turned that off. Moderators have not penalized the post.

Thanks for clearing it up!

Is there a way for the mods to protect the post from user flags? Normally, user flags are a good thing. That doesn't seem to be true in this case, though.

What changes are you making to the implementation to prevent this from happening in future?

Speaking as a woman in tech, I thank the team at Project Include for standing up in public. That's hard to do and in itself, means a lot.

Maybe he knew about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727602

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