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Citizen Thiel

nzherald.co.nz

34 pointsflashfive6 comments

This is one of the weirdest website designs I have seen in a while. The scrolling but not scrolling effect was disorienting.

The site overflows vertically everywhere on a 21:9 screen, it's not even possible to read without resizing.

Interesting article. I get why Thiel would be of interest to a small nation, but it's interesting to me the stigma he has in the US, especially among the tech community.

Even the title is invoking Citizen Kane which is not alltogether flattering. You compare him to Musk or Bezos (who are darlings) and he's not that different and probably has a smaller impact among the three. Bezos is actually owning his own newspaper now, he continues to gobble up industries, he's got god knows how many houses spread around. Musk has been taking government money and overpromising and delaying projects for two decades now.

They're all from the same wave of tech, similar connections (Musk and Thiel doubly and obviously so), but Musk is Tony Stark, Bezos is Swole Bezos and in this article Thiel is described as a Bond villain. Are they really that different?

Is the politics where the dislike comes from, or is it something else?

Is that a serious question? You're genuinely wondering why a man who expressed support for one of the most antithetical figures to the values expressed by the tech community is generally disliked by the tech community?

Thiel claims to hold libertarian opinions, but how do you square that with fascism?

Yes? The tech community expresses lots of contradictory values and actions. I don't think that tech people should value monopolizing and proprietary companies but they do.

The tech industry is contradictory, like Thiel. That's why I asked.

Why do people do all of the research only to put it behind some super annoying "design"? I couldn't stand it and gave up.

Scrolling doesn't work right. Ok, I'll just page down. But it's just slightly off, so I page down halfway into a page, and have to re-align. Then I page down halfway into an animation-dissolve between two sets of text.

STOP IT!

What's the point of all this? Are you trying to communicate? If so, then stop slapping me in the face while I'm reading.

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