Comment by tidepod12 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by tidepod12 | Hacker News Reader

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>Your link omits context. A couple of comments up is this:

So your context arguing against my assertion that you are telling people to quit and start their own company is a link to a comment telling people they should quit and start their own company?

How about this [0] comment? I'll quote it here for you:

>But, I may suggest an additional option: do something about it. Build a business that eschews VC culture, or become a VC who doesn't fit in among their blood-sucking peers.

>This is a disingenous line of questioning. Google employees are aware of their employer's misbehaviors.

You're still dodging the question, and your reasoning is "I've stuck my head in the sand and I'm going to pretend nobody is using my site for things I disagree with"?

I'll ask it again and maybe you won't dodge it this time: You just admitted that you do not conduct audits on private projects. Without a doubt, someone is now or will be in the future using your site to build software that you disagree with. Knowing this, how do you justify still hosting your site instead of shutting it down?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23073740

I told (past-tense) a person (singular) to consider founding a company in the context of their individual circumstances, while reassuring them that if they chose not to that I would support that decision; in a discussion entirely unrelated to the one we're having now.

You are arguing in bad faith and I have no interest in entertaining it any further.

>You are arguing in bad faith and I have no interest in entertaining it any further.

Ironic, because this entire comment chain was started by you with a loaded question that was asked in bad faith. I guess it's fine when you do it, but not others, eh? Is this the same mentality you're holding in regards to sourcehut? "It's fine that I'm building something that may be used nefariously, but when Google employees do that, they're bootlickers"?

The fact that you still dodged the question is duly noted, btw.

I'll remind you that this "line of questioning" wasn't intended to bash SourceHut or you in any way, but rather to try to get you to empathize with the fact that "quit your job and stop working on things you enjoy just because someone on the internet disagrees with your company" is hardly a winning stance to take.

You are obviously arguing in bad faith. You pose the rhetorical:

> Is this the same mentality you're holding in regards to sourcehut? "It's fine that I'm building something that may be used nefariously, but when Google employees do that, they're bootlickers"?

And yet it was previously asked:

> Who is using SourceHut to build software I disagree with on ethical terms? I am not aware of such a project.

It is clear to me that Drew has declared an absence of knowledge of such malfeasence with his products.

TL;DR take a huge life risk; just don't forget to be both exceptional and successful!

99% of startups fail (a turn of phrase, not a real statistic AFAIK), and that is usually said in reference to those that do take VC money. Tell me: what happens when my bootstrapped startup fails?

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