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We are defined by how we act in trying moments.

He might be disappointed, but how he is acting doesn't come off as reserved and respectful. He made a judgment to associate himself with Caldbeck, and instead of making proper reparations he's digging himself an even larger hole. He's not a victim in this. He helped put Caldbeck in a position of power.

> most clear understanding of the culture issues internally

Is it really clear internally? It's clear to me that they don't understand the issues otherwise it wouldn't have taken public furor for them to start fixing it

Agreed. Before this I could arguably say that management was rotting away, but the rank and file should be excluded from judgment because they have no control.

But to hear this and read posts on social media lamenting the loss of Travis, and then contrasting it to the silence from Uber employees regarding Susan Fowler is stark and deafening.

If this is the type of people they select for, the ones who prioritize success by any means necessary, then Uber should maybe be a black mark.

This thread is basically people stumbling over themselves trying to defend how this is NOT sexist or justify the varying degrees of sexism.

Some of the fun examples: - men get talked over too! (doesn't mean this isn't sexist) - he's just an asshole (doesn't mean he's not a sexist asshole) - that woman is just looking for a social justice moment (how about the rest of the audience?)

I've worked at 2 different startups - currently in management capacity at one. 2 cents:

1) Appreciate the $ that it provides for income + ability to grow 2) If we could do it again I would not recommend it to the founders and instead focus on bootstrapping

Managing and dealing with pressures from investor is a giant suck on ability to think. No matter how much you say you're going to ignore them, they will ALWAYS weight on you and you will always weigh their opinion. This is despite them not knowing much about your industry or tech or market.

I've increasingly come to the opinion that investors become a drag on the company, and the best investors are the ones who put money in and stay completely out of the way.

There are tons of companies out there trying to get Tesla's technology to market. None of them have promised what uBeam is promising.

So sad :( Love Kippt!

Then Github should have held off on that legalese post that incited anger. You can't put something like that out re: an issue that involves so much human emotion.

Given that Marc Andreessen publicly vocalized support for him and his new venture, I hardly think he'll have much trouble with his career.

Exactly. If they came out with this response first this shitstorm probably wouldn't have escalated to this point.

Yes. I was waiting until he had the opportunity to actually put out a good response (despite the initial waffle). That interview destroyed any faith I had.

But I blame this entire trial and failure on the Board. It is their responsibility to vet candidates, and their inability see how this could blow up shows a horrible lack of judgment on their part.

> If anything, Prop 8 would've helped them. Their core business is dating, right? If you can't marry, you date more. So, wherefore the problem?

WTF. Maybe because they're decent people who care about equality?

If he doesn't hate gay people, then why not just make his position on marriage clear? He can straight up say "I don't believe in marriage" or whatever.

Expressing sorrow for causing hurt isn't the same as taking responsibility for it.

The very first action should be an apology, but that hasn't happened and doesn't look like it'll ever happen.

Not really. It is easy to sweep things under the rug when you're not one of those affected legally, financially, emotionally. I know of people who decided to leave their careers, their homes, and move to another country so that they could be with someone they love. Those decisions changed their lives and it isn't something that just goes away.

Just because your religion says so doesn't mean I have to follow it. I'm not trying to make you change your religion - you can live the way you want - but that is not the way I want.

The appropriate middle ground is just that. You can be as religious as you want, tell me that I live in sin etc., but you don't get to force me to not be with the person I love. Similarly, I don't get to force legislation to make everyone atheist.

Sure, I'll tolerate his views, he can believe whatever he want. I honestly don't care... except for the fact that he took the first shot by donating money to actively screw people like me over.

His last public comment on this issue was in 2012, where he basically didn't actually comment.

And quite honestly, as a gay man, I would rather use Chrome and have Google profit over my personal data, VS touching Firefox now. The Mozilla Board clearly knew about this issue (it was quite a big deal when the news first broke), and this should have something they considered. If Eich changed his views, then he should have clarified before them formally announcing this. Mozilla making this choice yells to me that they don't give a crap about me and others like me. Even if logically that doesn't make sense, there's this visceral emotional disgust and pain.

This. Lawyers and ilk don't understand the amount of interest, persistence and MONEY that fans/fandoms generate for a body of work. Doing this is stupid shortsighted - goodwill is something hard to generate and easily lost. Paramount should have instead gifted that person a giant fan pack and made it a huge PR opportunity.

When the Uber NYC General Manager is doing it I would hardly put it on sales.

You're saying a black person who grows up in a white subculture then is less at risk of poverty? I call bullshit on that.

It doesn't matter what subculture you grew up in or are exposed to. It is what other people perceive of you that influences the likelihood of you falling into poverty. Skin color has a lot to do with that. Maybe the reason black people don't appreciate the idea of hard work is because no matter how hard they work, they don't come up ahead?

By subscribing to the idea of these subcultures being responsible for work ethic, you're still placing work ethic innate to the race - and that's flat out racist.

And for the matter of preconceived biases, I'm not the person coming into this suggesting that certain cultures have work ethic issues.

> The fear is that if we implement a basic income in the USA, that, well, to put it bluntly, blacks and latinos, and, to a lesser extent, whites will simply stop working.

That's ridiculously racist. Poverty being tied to race doesn't necessarily have to do with innate work ethic.

As you said, victim blaming. It isn't just feeling awkward about things - there are consequences both psychologically, financially, and physically being an outcast. Being uncomfortable with a place isn't something the person can fix themselves - they neither have the power nor the ability to do so.

Diversity begets diversity. The only way to do that is to set up systems and infrastructure that supports and enables that and it requires support from community leaders.

Mixpanel isn't completely dependent on SERPs. It is a different user acquisition/awareness tactic.

Also, illegal isn't really the right term to use here.

A company of 220 people that can't figure out how to properly phrase a hiring rejection? Not a good sign.

I'll be curious to see success rates of entrepreneurs from those alumni networks - although we'll have to define what's successful in the first place.

So what you're saying is... asking people not to spend money to support Orson Scott Card is on the same scale as giving money to institutions and people to 1) lobby against sexual minority rights and 2) encourage foreign countries to have laws to criminalize queer behavior, resulting in more violence and attacks on queer people. Cool.

Can we stop with this already? One minute Waterloo is "Silicon Valley North" the next minute it is Vancouver. Who cares? Just build your ecosystem the way your community wants it.

From the opinion (http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_g2bh.pdf)

DOMA is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment. Pp. 13–26.

You're blaming the Play Store for something that the app developers decided to do? Just because there's a hole doesn't mean it should be abused, particularly since Path is supposed to be from a "legit" company.