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Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control

Nerval's Lobster writes "Kernel editor-in-chief and noted firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos swings away at Silicon Valley's current startup culture, noting that it's resulted in herds of wannabe founders and startup groupies who don't exactly have a track record of starting successful companies or even producing solid code. 'Though they produce little of value, they are the naive soft power behind aggressive capitalist machines in Silicon Valley: the trend-setting vanguard of the global Web and mobile industries,' he writes. 'We should be very wary indeed of these vacuous cheerleaders whose vague waffle about the transformational potential of photo-sharing apps is more sinister and Orwellian than anything dreamt up by a dictator.' How long can such a culture continue before it dries up, and the whole tech-investment cycle begins anew?"

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  1. Parasites by For+a+Free+Internet · · Score: 0, Funny

    A workers government will sweep out this filth. For a Soviet America!

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  2. Hey, don't knock it! by TWiTfan · · Score: 4, Funny

    As someone who has optioned sub-rentals on a lot of garages in Silicon Valley, I can't complain. Nothing attracts VC money like showing off how you're young, hip, and working in a garage in Silicon Valley!

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  3. Re:Dictator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    (If he'd had a modern PR team, he'd have branded himself Hitlr)

  4. Re:Dictator by chill · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think someone is upset at the changes Yahoo is doing now that they have Tumblr. All of his llama porn was de-indexed.

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