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Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory (backchannel.com)
In 2011 the Thiel Fellowship "was created to prove that a college degree doesn't matter," writes Backchannel, saying it's now evolved into something much more Silicon Valley. mirandakatz quotes their article:
What began as an attempt to draw teen prodigies to the Valley before they racked up debt at Princeton or Harvard and went into consulting to pay it off has transformed into the most prestigious network for young entrepreneurs in existence -- a pedigree that virtually guarantees your ideas will be judged good, investors will take your call, and there will always be another job ahead even better than the one you have.
This year's class are all established entrepreneurs -- some of whom have already graduated from college, according to the article, although having at least "stopped out" at some point remains a requirement for the program. "It's offensive, the way people ask about it," one fellow tells the reporter, who summarized his belief that "To go back [to Stanford] would imply personal failure. Why would he ever do that? He had his network started already, and clearly the opportunities came through the network... This network, he contended, was far more valuable than any he could build in college -- even at Stanford."
This year's class are all established entrepreneurs -- some of whom have already graduated from college, according to the article, although having at least "stopped out" at some point remains a requirement for the program. "It's offensive, the way people ask about it," one fellow tells the reporter, who summarized his belief that "To go back [to Stanford] would imply personal failure. Why would he ever do that? He had his network started already, and clearly the opportunities came through the network... This network, he contended, was far more valuable than any he could build in college -- even at Stanford."
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It's nothing more than a common watering hole for all the already-successful young entrepreneurs to all gather. Let's see, basically get a bunch of already successful young people and throw more money at them and give them even more opportunities to succeed... and they do it!? *rolls eyes*
Trump won because the democrats put forward the weakest possible candidate, who nevertheless had a comfortable lead, but did all the wrong things and lost.
The "Russian hackers", of which we have yet to see anything resembling evidence, were not the problem.
Hillary's image, her atrocious handling of the email scandals, and the timely "help" from the FBI were much more relevant.
Just like the Bernie bros told ya.
"It's offensive, the way people ask about it," one fellow tells the reporter
Sounds perfect for entitled millenials. I wonder when the house of cards will come crashing down in their lives.
Strawman fallacy
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
What this really represents is yet another way to attack education, especially public education. If you've actually been a teacher, then you should know that the most important thing about the best students is to avoid holding them back. Thiel is just exploiting this reality to make public education look bad: "See you don't need an education so the government should stop taxing rich people like me to educate you bums."
The people Thiel is picking for this program would have been extremely successful even if they had gotten more of that traditional education. However, if you take the very best and brightest with the highest motivation, and then you make sure they have the resources to learn whatever they need for their work, they are almost certain to succeed. In this case, I'm sure the house (Thiel) is even rigging the game, pumping in extra money and guidance to make sure there aren't any failures because the REAL point is to make education look like the failure.
This is just an extension of the dismembering of public education that has been going on for many decades. The best students are streamed into elite schools and most of the students are given obedience training to make them docile wage slaves, easily handled prison inmates, and obedient consumers who will buy the right soap and vote for the right political candidates, just the way the ads tell them to behave.
Worked pretty much exactly as they wanted it to and now it's time to harvest the whirlwind. Most American workers can't compete, and it's only going to get worse going forward. Much worse.
But the richest 0.1% will do better than ever. Government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1% shall rule the earth?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Trump won because white men didn't look the other way, which would be a very relevant percentage.
White men didn't look the other way or stay apathetic, because they were incited and angered.
They were incited and angered, because some religious anti-white-male Jihad/Crusade kept insulting them, degrading them, and being condescending towards them for the past decade or more.
Condescending self-righteous hate against white males turned them from quiet organisms into a "I'm throwing a brick out the window, have my middle finger all of you shits" retaliatory force.
Those same collectives who are so passionate about hating white men more than the Nazis hated Jews, are now still insulting white men and wondering why the tactic of still poking them with sticks doesn't make them vote their way.
And because of that unbridled, reckless, self-righteous, condescending crusade against white males, they are going to keep losing.
So keep the insults going. Keep blaming white males for anything and everything. Keep degrading them. And they will decide "since i'm branded as evil in such a generalized way, i might as well abide and become".
Does any one experience 12 days of Crismas? When is the beginng and when is the end day?
Sure, to make a large amount of money, you do not need a real education. Just have a talent to rip-off people.
In order to qualify as "genius" in modern times and be able to actually contribute to society, as opposed destroying wealth (as so many of those that amassed personal riches routinely do), a PhD in your chosen field is about the minimum. Without that, you will never get deep enough into a subject to really understand it and to really understand the difference it makes to really understand it.
Methinks this thing is about as valid as "Trump University".
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
This makes it sound like he's /producing/ geniouses, but isn't it more like /collecting/ them? Might still be valuable to them, but if he wants to come off as someone who's /producing/ something, let me know when he's putting a random sample through the 'factory' and the output is still genius.
hating white men more than the Nazis hated Jews
Provide evidence of systematic and direct genocide of... I'll be be generous... 3 million white people. I have popcorn.
She didn't lose, she won the democractic vote. More people chose her. And that was despite Russia trying to get Trump elected.
There are always traitors to their country like Peter Thiel and Paul Manafort. Manafort in particular has worked on putting in several of Putins puppets around the world. Trump is only his latest.
CIA just *confirmed* Russian hackers attacked BOTH DNC and GOP. They only released a bit of sexed up propaganda for the DNC. This is troubling because it means that Putin *both* manipulated the USA election *AND* he has leverage against elected GOP.
http://gizmodo.com/cia-report-concludes-that-russia-tried-to-help-the-trum-1789957086
"CIA Report Concludes That Russia Tried to Help Trump Win"
"Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances."
“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”
Colleges today are far-left ideological indoctrination centers and serve one purpose alone.....
https://youtu.be/9IEFD_JVYd0
"It’s about creating a home here!©"
If you desperately want stupid pakistanies in your backyard to one day evolve out of medieval shits, ask obama to migrate them at your address.
I for one don't need or want any of those. And fuck you stupid liberal nlgger.
So there are more entrepreneurs, creating more IOT gizmos and more Googles and more plastic that ends up in landfills, pushing us faster towards the Singularity. Is that being a successful person? A successful society? I didn't go to college and grad school to get a job or create a network: I went to become educated. I learned things that I could not have learned on my own because formal education provides rigor and a support structure that forces you to continue through it. Today, at 60, my biggest regret is that I did not finish my PhD and I am thinking about going back to school to study what I love - physics. Besides family, knowledge is all that has meaning to me at this point.
Ah yes, the oppression of the white man. Always being held down by.....I'm sorry, I forgot. Can you remind me who?
HIs argument is:
We didn't need the Chinese IN CHINA to invent gunpowder, guns, paper, paper money, rocketry, and the crossbow.
We didn't need the Indians IN INDIA (Mysoreans) to invent metal cased rockets.
His argument is that we don't need them HERE (in the US), not that we don't need them.
Then it will become the same as Yale or Harvard, and those able to promote their kids there (private tutoring for example) will pay more to get their kid enrolled. And having this place on your resume will become just as desirable and garner you unearned respect and position as a Harvard degree.
Stop collecting kids. Don't let enrollment become a priori proof of excellence. Go out there and promote the geniuses. Be their advocate. Don't be their new Yale.
...tells me everything I need to know about Thiel and the people selected for this group.
Thiel set out to disrupt the existing educational institutions. He suggested he could do a better job at training a small cohort of gifted individuals, and that once free of the shackles of a conformist degree-making institution, these fellows would be capable of jumpstarting human progress.
So, you know influencers - Big Fucking Deal - I want people who know how to do things, and get them done on schedule, on budget, and done right. I don't give a shit if you know how to get to know other people who also only know how to get to know other people.
Furthermore, I consider it essential that when I make a reference to a major historical event, piece of art, literature, music, you understand why that reference applies to our current conversation. I also consider it essential that your education allows you to draw upon a variety of knowledge in order to make good decisions. And you simply will not get that education by working 18 hours a day on whizz-bang.bullshit-me-to-death.com, because all the buzzwords in the world don't contribute at all to the benefit of society.
My company does not exist solely to make me rich, it exists to allow me to explore ideas which can be turned into real physical products which actually help people in some way, usually labor saving, sometimes life saving (or enhancing), but never parasitic. Because *anyone* can be a parasite, and pretend to "manage influencer relationships", whatever the hell that means.
[Yosemite Sam] Them wascawwy jooooooz [/Yosemite Sam]
Thiel's personal heavy petting zoo?
I think you are looking for Elmer Fudd. Yosemite Sam was a parody of Texans.
Is alive and well.
Trump won because white men didn't look the other way, which would be a very relevant percentage.
White men didn't look the other way or stay apathetic, because they were incited and angered.
They were incited and angered, because some religious anti-white-male Jihad/Crusade kept insulting them, degrading them, and being condescending towards them for the past decade or more.
Condescending self-righteous hate against white males turned them from quiet organisms into a "I'm throwing a brick out the window, have my middle finger all of you shits" retaliatory force.
Those same collectives who are so passionate about hating white men more than the Nazis hated Jews, are now still insulting white men and wondering why the tactic of still poking them with sticks doesn't make them vote their way.
And because of that unbridled, reckless, self-righteous, condescending crusade against white males, they are going to keep losing.
So keep the insults going. Keep blaming white males for anything and everything. Keep degrading them. And they will decide "since i'm branded as evil in such a generalized way, i might as well abide and become".
Ah so denigrating white males is bad but Mexicans, women & black people have to keep on sucking it up.
Thanks for clearing that up. And fuck you very much.
FYI, the white voter is losing the demographic race; unless the GOP manages to continue their rather diligent voter suppression, several of the Solid South will be swing states in a decade.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
" it's a lamb farm where they smoke grass and suck titties till all that bs is out of their system"
So can't we shift that back to their high school years so we can get a few more productive working years out of them?
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
"His argument is that we don't need them HERE (in the US), not that we don't need them"
And I doubt anyone *needs* the US to be in their country so time to get Americans out of all the places they're not wanted and back home where they belong.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
so anything PT does is suspect
Trump is the end of our country; PT is an accomplice and anyone who works for or endorses him is a co conspirator
from paul krugman twitter feed
Clinton lost 4 states (FL, MI, WI, PA) by ~1 point. If not for Comey/Russia, she probably wins them all by ~2 points & strategy looks great.
So at end of close election, FBI deeply hurt HRC based on no (literally no) evidence, while CIA sat on clear evidence of Putin interference for Trump.
Things Republicans trumpet but don't actually believe in: 1. Honest government 2. Fiscal responsibility 3. Free markets 4. Patriotism
Hillary is married to a white man. I don't recall her bashing white men, do you have any other straw men to beat?
Should rename it that - works on so many levels...
So these geniuses are pushing the forefront of technology by writing digital marketing apps, food delivery apps, etc. So sick of this shit and the crap coming out of SV. Call me when you have developed a positronic brain, or some REAL development in computer science. The crash can't come fast enough.
And you've been led to believe you can't have one way without the other, by the media companies. That is not true.
HRC is gone, thank God...now, let's focus on preventing djt from doing anything: America wins.
This is a pre-election publication by one of Hillary's boosters in the media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcAmdHqUsxg
If you want to blame a single person for Hillary Clinton's loss: blame Lena Dunham.
FYI, the white voter is losing the demographic race; unless the GOP manages to continue their rather diligent voter suppression, several of the Solid South will be swing states in a decade.
FYI, Hispanics are not 'naturally leftist' and it's racist to make that kind of assumption. As the Hispanic demographic is welcomed into the fold of Americans (USians??) they will settle down and their natural conservatism will manifest. It already does in many regards.
Significant parts of the Hispanic demographic are 'culturally conservative.' Give them time to settle in and become part of the country, and they won't be the lockstep demographic the Democrats hope for.
Unless, of course, the Democrats can find a way to lock them into a 'ghetto of dependency.' I don't see that happening, but with enough screeching from those striving to 'protect' them, it is possible 'the liberals' can cause them to identify as victims who need to be rescued by the State.
Harvard will pay you're way 100% if you're an actual genius. Hell, most schools will. You'll be rocking a 1600 SAT and can write your own ticket. The folks who need help are the average students. But they're not who Thiel is after. He wants folks who can power his High Frequency Trading and AI/Automation investments. The wave of the future is skimming off the top and/or getting rid of those pesky employees and their meddling wages & benefits. You need geniuses for that because it _hard_.
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Europe needed Americans after WWII. To avoid speaking Russian. They knew it too.
Same with Japan and the Philippines, only to avoid speaking Chinese.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Does Theil madturbate to pictures of Trump?
I too took an ethics class once.
It's funny the next Slashdot story is on Pogue complaining about breaking the space bar page-at-a-time scrolling convention by littering the frame with advanced wanker-bling web design (seriously, who ordered all this poptastic page cruft in the first place?)
So check out backchannel.com.
backchannel.com is formatting pull quotes as img objects, and the text of the article title is also an img object, impervious to search, much less cut and paste.
Never assume malice where stupidity is an adequate explanation is drawing a full on &imgsp; blank here.
Check out the HTML snippet for the page title element. Is this the modern face of stupidity? Or something else?
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"FYI, Hispanics are not 'naturally leftist' and it's racist to make that kind of assumption"
" As the Hispanic demographic is welcomed into the fold of Americans (USians??) they will settle down and their natural conservatism will manifest"
Wait a second - did the same personality write both those sentences or are the voices in your head taking turns?
FYI, assuming Latinos to have a manifest natural conservatism is racist.
Time will tell how the demographic shift plays out but the white American voter is being outpaced.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Also America as a whole has done a piss-poor job of "welcoming" Latino immigrants
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
What this "academy" produces are one-sided useful idiots like Zuckerberg whose lack of exposure to the humanities and critical thinking makes them putty in the hands of manipulative ideologues like Peter Thiel.
He set out to disrupt the existing educational institutions by paying kids to not go to college. And it failed miserably.
So now he's just cherry-picking kids who did that on their own and were already successful at it.
And the rich get richer.
Europe needed Americans after WWII. To avoid speaking Russian. They knew it too.
Same with Japan and the Philippines, only to avoid speaking Chinese.
That was a long time ago. The USA has done a terrible job of being Team America World Police.
Pull them all out, including from the Middle East and Guantanamo Bay.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
yeah. you go and "shift". you're not a part of this "we" thing you mentioned. you're in a special league of your own.
It is time for Europe and first world Asia to pay a fair share of the costs.
Someday Russia and China too. But first, they need changes of government.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
So more of a warehouse than a factory?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
What are you on? You already smoke weed and fuck behind the toilets in high school.
We're not being "held down" by anyone. There are just some bigoted jerks who think they're not because their skin color gives them the privilege to be prejudiced assholes without getting called out for it. Those times are at an end and if you think cheap insults are going to change that, you probably work for the media.
> The "Russian hackers", of which we have yet to see anything resembling evidence, were not the problem.
WHAT? We have lots of evidence!
I mean, the Washington Post told us that anonymous government sources told them the Russians did it. And there was that statement by the Coast Guard and all those other agencies that said the hacking was totally something Russia might possibly like to do. Also, we have Wikileaks! The completely bogus phishing email that bit.ly seemed to think Podesta clicked on to reset his Google password claimed there were hackers from the UKRAINE trying to get in. That's basically the same as Russia. And it would take their elite hacking skills to find his public Gmail account and send him a bogus Google login form.
And why would the government ever lie over something like this that could cause a war? Do we really think they'd once again lie to us, like they did about the WMD's and yellowcake uranium to send us to war in Iraq? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, can't fool me no more.
Fuck off.
"Literally everyone else. EVERYONE."
You've heard of "playing the black card"? Or "playing the woman card"?
There is no "white card" and there is no "man card". If you're both of these then good luck.
The people that speak like you are the ones that extrapolated the 10-20 men who hold positions of power and assumed that they represent the whole gender. News flash, men die in pits digging up coal. Men die on the cold front lines under machinegun fire. Men die shoveling coal into boilers. Men die providing the electricity that flows into your house and that powers your computer right now.
The fact that you can look at a handful of men and want to be what they are just speaks to your greed. You didn't even see the other 99.9999% of them, and you don't validate any part of how they try to live. You don't care if they're good fathers, or really a good "anything". They don't even show up on a radar anywhere.
Hillary crystalized this nicely: "Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat."
It seems men cannot be victims even when all of society knowingly volunteers them as potential victims. The draft is mandatory by the way.
Then you got The Femitheist that believes we shouldn't even produce men, we should selectively breed them out of existence. Easy to say this when you're a woman, and actually a message that's tolerated by society even though its hateful. It's also not genocide if you refuse to birth them in the first place, so this is okay. This is choice in action.
So, sure. We're not being held down if you discount the fact that we're routinely selected for slaughter, blown up, shot, electrocuted or killed in the test tube before we've even been given a chance. That's not oppression, right?
"try getting out of your suburb once in a while and see the city and the world"
try taking your own advice before dispensing it to others. If you had & if you had a clue of history, you'd know that young people were out in the workforce, required to act responsibly, at much younger ages than now. A lot of that was detrimental but too many 1st world kids have too much wasted free time.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Ah, so 3 million white people in the present or future need to be killed in the name of the past so your psychopathic hate can be satiated.
Your post only further proved the original one's points in terms of self-righteous and condescending madness. You should consider getting psychological help.
he's on hooked on phonics. you should try that - it might help you read English words. no where does he claim people don't start fucking and doing drugs in high school. that's only you arguing with yourself.
Humm. So do you get hit by cars a lot? I am assuming here that you have "stop" and "start" bass awkwards in that special head of yours.
Are you late to work a lot and don't understand why? Let me help. For you, the time you get to work is the time when you leave your house in the morning. That is however not your arrival time.
Sounds to me that you don't know what you want. You say it's an attack on public education, then go on to indict it - correctly I might add. You also don't like what he's doing - skimming the cream off the top.
Let's start at the beginning, schools in America were started by religious orders, such as the Catholics to teach people how to read the bible. They moved on of course to teach a lot more. Then the government got involved and made public schools. They were very successful and they had a LOT of religion, patriotism, good old American values. I can show you high school year books from my parents from the 1930s and 1940s. Today they'd make a liberal pass out in rage. I know, I've shown it to an almost liberal and they had a fit.
So what's the problem if we dismantle the very broken public education system? For those of us that pay taxes, look at how your property/county taxes are spent. I bet they're around 50% or more are spent on the county's public schools. They are also chock full of waste, because they don't care. There is no boss, it's the county government. There is no reason to do better or even save money. I used to do the budget for a county government and it was hard to do because of all the BS. BS that everyone can see, if they look. Waste put into place by a large extent by public unions. Hold hostage the kids. Want to cut something? Cut police, fire or education. Never cut the waste. That's never on the chopping block.
We *COULD* have a first rate education system. Not the way it is in place now. Here's a thought, fire all the janitors. In Japan they don't have ANY janitors. The kids do all the cleaning. Something they all take home. Over here, we have plenty of people that live in trash. We can go on from there.
Oh man, I love you people who are too dumb to understand basic things others say due to lack of social skills. Online though, your sweaty balls come out and you pretend to be all alpha. You make up shit people said, the opposite in this case, and argue with yourself. The best part is when you diss the person saying those things. Since you're the only one saying them, it's like watching the Fight Club scene where the guy is beating the shit out of himself.
Except in real life, outside of fight club, the world where you're a loser and wonder daily why the beautiful happy people don't accept you into their world - that doesn't make you cool. That makes everyone point and laugh at the clown who can't understand basic things people say because they are too dumb. How's your week so far there Pagliacci?
Here's something I learned in the 3rd grade:
What people want for their kids and what's good for them are often very far apart
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
http://healthlivingyoga.com/13005/food-items-and-exercises-to-reduce-pot-belly-considerably/
Calm the fuck down, fuckface.
My vision is quite poor and I wasn't replying to your comment from my usual computer with its larger screens so I only noticed the first line. That's what I replied to.
"us non-ugly happy normal people". /. is like telling everyone you have a big dick.
Right. Saying that on the internet, especially on
If you're making the claim, we know it's a fucking lie.
"don't no one give a fuck what you think is good for other people's kids"
Don't no one who don't give a fuck goes to the trouble of telling someone they don't give a fuck about that they don't give a fuck.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
You're right about the 1/2 blind nerd. The rest sounds like you're projecting.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
"you're like the kid who shit his pants and thinks no one noticed so he keeps being loud"
That's one of your personal anecdotes I really didn't need to know but common politeness dictates I thank you for sharing.
So, thanks.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body