Y Combinator CEO apologizes after tweeting local politicians should 'die slow'

Twitter seems fine for mass dissemination of information, but jeez the discourse sucks, it just feels like it has this tremendous capability of bringing out the worst in people -- it's like watching a rockstar get hyped by the audience into stage-diving and they end up slamming into the ground while the audience laughs.

that's the mental picture I have when people much more powerful, rich, good-looking and smarter than I say some of the stupidest shit i've ever read, usually to nearly instantaneous regret.

Bootstrap, live the good life.

Classy.