Ask HN: What happened to the YC bailout post?

11 points·arunabha··5 comments

It was the top post a few moments ago. Seems to have disappeared completely. Was it taken down?

[Edit] Looks like it got flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35114633

It shows up as [flagged] for me. [1] Enable show-dead in your profile to see it. It happens if multiple people click flag. It could be there are too many of these threads. People could email dang and ask him to merge them.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35114009

It was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35114009

I'm assuming people took offense towards its goal. I'm not in favor of bailing anybody out, but it does seem a bit overzealous of a response, as it's still a topic I think we're all keen to keep track of.

HN is ironically a really shitty place to discuss SVB + consequences.

Actually, these discussions are pretty good. Even the SVB apologists/lapdogs are pretty mellow — silly, but making the best case they can. Lots of people learning about the FDIC, banking, stress tests, VC culture, startup funding stipulations, too-big-to-fail, etc. is not a bad thing. The most knowledgeable folks are probably up to their neck in alligators right now, and so can’t (or wouldn’t) comment. This, too, will pass.

It’s just the “startup economy”, and is of primarily regional concern, just like oil and gas or ag production. If US banks have too much exposure to real estate, which is national, worse things can, and have, happened.

Punishment for lèse majesty is death

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