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I love the comments saying that giving $500k instead of $125k will make things worse. Clearly YC should have made things better instead, by giving less!

Why stop there though? If YC really cared about founders, they'd give them nothing. Better yet, make them pay - now that would have been helpful! But no. Clearly YC doesn't care about founders.

YC really ought to stop making things worse for founders like this. I mean how dare they.

Everyone grandstands about everyone else's atrocities.

That's what they all say.

The zealots won't care.

When I read articles like this, it seems to me that they are studying not evolution, nor animals, but computers.

These are really software projects. It is a chunk of the world that software has eaten, without it having much been recognized.

They're not mentally agile enough to avoid MENSA.

Lisp gets there by being simple and having the optimal notation for it.

Which VCs? Likely not very good ones.

I'm talking about thinking, not sitting in an office.

The truth is that the "best ones" are often obsessed with their work and endure painful tradeoffs in their lives, for example their family lives, because of it.

People who do great work tend to think about their work all the time. No one thinks about their fourth priority all the time.

Then who is?

The argument isn't primarily a quantitative one. It's asking what it says about the so-called life sciences that they are based on torturing living beings.

> If every man who ever beat his chest about how sexism is a bad thing spent more time working on his bad habits, things would change.

You can say that again. This place and others would be unrecognizable.

Not as pathetic as "We at IBM are concerned of".

"open source marketer and community manager"

The next generation never ceases to be as ridiculous.

Lisp was around decades before "Tiobe", and will be for decades after.

Everyone tends to make everything personal and about themselves.

The planet will be here for a long, long, long time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic… asshole. -- George Carlin

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251836-we-re-so-self-import...

That was more than a bit hyperbolic. If you'd started with this wording, no one would have objected.

Wow, when did the internet figure that one out?

Yes and https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/that-which-we-dont.html#p... as well.

People criticized you for spamming HN with your links so you decided to do more of it?

Spend less by spending more?

"Grown-ups have taken all the fun out of being a kid just to save a few thousand lives."

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2017/04/06/george-carlin-you-a...