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Y Combinator Cuts Ties With Peter Thiel After Ending Part-Time Partner Program (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Billionaire venture capitalist and Facebook board member Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with startup accelerator Y Combinator, according to an edited company blog post. Thiel was formerly a part-time partner with the accelerator. BuzzFeed News confirmed his departure with a source familiar with Y Combinator's management structure. Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time partners moved over to a program called "experts," which provides advice to Y Combinator entrepreneurs, Thiel did not join.
Molesting children or making excuses for it.
Arrgghghh I hate Trump so much IM LOSING IT
... posted by ACs.
They all blame Thiel's departure on politics, too, even though TFS makes it clear that he chose not to continue participating when YC ended its "part-time partners" program - Thiel's participation in which was his only affiliation with the company - back in 2016.
Not everything that happens in Silly Valley has to do with politics. In fact, very little does - and any given VCs' participation a particular incubator venture can end for a host of reasons.
The fact that neither YC nor Thiel will comment on the split tends to augur in favor of a purely business-based motive for his departure, from what I can see ...
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fuck peter thiel and sam altman.
Little-known fact - the name was chosen to try and attract more females.
Yes, I know.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I think it would be best to summarize it as "People are often wildly intolerant of opposing views over matters they feel strongly about."
None of this has anything to do with liberalism or conservatism. You can find the same kind of disdain among sports fans of opposing teams, especially if they have a historic rivalry and are close competitors.
You're confusing Trump with Peter Thie--FUCK! I fucked it up.
McCarthy was better behaved than the blacklisting political litmus testing monoculture of extreme lefties Silicon Valley has inculcated. Support the wrong candidate in a fair and open Presidential election?! The left will attempt to destroy you because only they are entitled to political freedom because only they "think right".
How would you like to test a live virus herpes vaccine without the dealing with all those cumbersome FDA regulations? http://www.newsweek.com/peter-...
A conservative who complains about liberals censoring free speech, then turns around and wants to ban flag burning, is a hypocrite.
That would apply to the Bible thumper kind, not the Thiel variety.
Conservative strategy of minimizing education and free thinking and touting the bible has worked. The brain washed pawns reached critical mass and are ready to vote pussy grabbers and harassers in office for empty promises. well deserved, well deserved
Progressives are often wildly intolerant of opposing views.
Yeah, remember when Abe Lincoln was accused of being intolerant? George Washington? Teddy Roosevelt?
No? Then take a look and find out.
Now, to be fair, so are most conservatives. A conservative who complains about liberals censoring free speech, then turns around and wants to ban flag burning, is a hypocrite. Few and far between are those who believe in true free speech.
The only people who clamor for "true free speech" are the ones who can't stand criticism.
In any case, if you want to see where the progressive position on speech leads, take a look at those glorious bastions of free expression in history: the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and more.
What are you talking about? None of those places were "progressive" except in those own false propaganda. And ok, there was a period when the USSR actually adopted a more reasonable position towards marriage and divorce than the preceding Tsardom, not to mention tons of other things, but that was hardly difficult.
Otherwise, you have a military-mad authoritarian state that took over from an authoritarian state, a military-mad authoritarian state formed by the prior that managed to not even give a crap about any posturing over ideals beyond self-serving nationalism, an authoritarian state ruthlessly oppressed by its neighbors that took over from an authoritarian state ruthlessly exploited by its neighbors, and an authoritarian kleptocracy that succeeded a prior authoritarian kleptocracy that was only buoyed up by an available natural resource.
Funny how people like you never want to mention Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, modern Russia, Alabama, Tennessee or Texas.
Theil is not a Bible thumping conservative, dipshit. He fucks men.
Y Combinator gave birth to the advertising toolbar company that the author of "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" sold along with his engineer cofounders to Twitter while securing himself a job at Facebook to revamp their advertising system. Thanks to them you all are now being tracked over the Internet.
Isn't that a terrorist organization?
What is progressive about the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela? They have no relation to progressive policies in the USA. If you want to look at where American invented progressive ideas have been applied you need to look at modern socialized democracies like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc. I can list off several ideas invented in the USA applied in other countries which have worked out smashingly. How about drug policy in Portugal? Numerous education programs in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Singapore. They are beating us at the things we invented. How about the Marshall Plan? Or the post-WW2 economic plan for Japan. These were wildly progress and successful idea. We could go on with example after example of both popular and successful progressive ideas changing the world into a better place.
Social Security needs to be pried from most red state conservatives hands over their own dead bodies yet DOWN WITH SOCIALISM!!! Propaganda is how you confuse the USSR with Denmark. In fact Social Democracy was invented as a term for transitioning away from Marxism, Totalitarianism and unrestricted capitalism. (You do realize pure unrestricted laissez faire capitalism has painfully and repeatedly proven to be a bad economic solution right?)
Now let's talk about supply side economics, the Laffer curve, trickle down economics, Chicago/Austrian economics...long history of failure there going back to ancient times. It failed in ancient Rome. There is scant evidence to suggest giving tax breaks to wealthy people while cutting benefits to the general populace ever lead to progress unless the balance was far from fair to begin with.
The best part of all of this is that a wealthy US Republican banker destroyed trickle down theories 80 years ago which brought about the American Century as a result, do some long hard reading on Marriner Stoddard Eccles please! We all owe him our lives and livelihoods, he should be revered as the hero he was. I recommend statues of him replace Robert E Lee and the racist gang so we never forget his lessons ever again as they are our most important American progressive idea...maybe the most important idea from any human ever.
Free speech does not include a right not to be opposed! Speaking against someone's freely spoken ideas does not take away that person's right to free speech.
I don't like you going full Godwin's Law but it is your right to express those ideas no matter how uninformed they may be.
Quick raise of hands. Who thinks Russia stopped meddling with USA? I think Trump is just the beginning. Why would they stop when it works so well?
Wild guess, what is the percentage of divisive comments right here on /. seeded by the Russian troll army?
One of the largest aspects of being a liberal is being open minded to the views of others.. that is how you learn and grow.
Point blank this comment was so inaccurate and judgemental that I'd wager you don't actually know a single person from silicon valley or even all that many liberals.
Mod parent funny.
Now, to be fair, so are most conservatives.
No they aren't. Conservatives disagree, and even strongly disagree, with progressives. But actual censorship is coming from only one side.
A conservative who complains about liberals censoring free speech, then turns around and wants to ban flag burning, is a hypocrite.
Please provide an actual recent example of liberal views being silenced. It is easy to find dozens of examples of conservative speakers prevented from speaking on college campuses and other venues. The opposite is rarely true.
Much of this is due to the distribution of political viewpoints. Most conservative areas have plenty of liberal people. Even the "reddest" of congressional districts are ~30% Democrat. But there are some areas, including college towns, that are overwhelmingly Democrat, so many liberals don't know a single person that is openly conservative. This leads them to believe that conservative opinions are not only wrong, but are evil and immoral, and should not even be expressed.
Found a bible thumping conservative!
I think all three of you assholes are worse than fucking hitler and you should be rounded up and locked up.
General discontent with conservatives is somewhat deserved they've been dragging the country faster and faster down the shitter since the 1980s. I've given up caring though, I will raise my wealthy children to have total scorn for the untouchable caste descendants of poor dumb conservative hicks. They've begged to be disadvantaged and exploited by the rich practically my entire life.
The south will become a beautiful place for rich blue staters to fuck tranny hookers and get wasted on the cheap.
We are working to turn the south into a passport free mexico as soon as we finish trolling you faggots into building a wall around the real mexico. Once that's started we will feminize your men into trannies and use your destitute states as party central. It'll make bangkok look like a church party.
Stupid fuckers.
USA has become a place heavily contaminated with political correctness. Better to be avoided!
You mean violent warmonger Teddy Roosevelt and racist Abe Lincoln who said he wanted to deport all the blacks back to Africa?
You are a victim of educational malpractice and are in dire need of some reading:
https://www.libertyclassroom.com/
Central banking is the most insidious institution ever contrived by western governments.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_the_Fed
Do you realize that the modern conservative movement has been largely adapted from the tactics of Leo Trotsky? There is a reason why mainline conservatives and liberals are often so similar. Here, check out this book:
https://mises.org/library/betrayal-american-right-0
You can download it there for free.
And yes, most slashtards are intolerant leftists,which explains why both the parent post and gp post are both modded down.
Wild guess, what is the percentage of divisive comments right here on /. seeded by the Russian troll army?
Honestly, no one knows, but I'm willing to say it's far less that you guess. The Russians don't need to sow division in the US since each half of the country is hates the other. Fortunately, my half is better armed, has far more military experience, and is far more self-reliant.
Here is a whiny sheriff and DA office trying to PROSECUTE someone for having an anti-Trump sticker on their truck:
http://reverepress.com/news/sheriff-threatens-anti-trump-bumper-sticker-facebooks-response-everything/
And you think conservatives do not censor? Both liberals and conservatives censor. Politics is a cruel game (and a big scam).
Funny, your comment rates a 1. I would have expected that on Slashdot, you would be rated insightful.
I think you need to go back to the drawing board on economics. All the criticism on the Laffer curve is null if you cannot disprove it.
Fortunately, my half is better armed, has far more military experience, and is far more self-reliant.
The better armed part is likely true. There are about 23 million veterans and active military service members in the US. They're about 2 to 1 "conservative" vs "liberal". So that's 15.2 million vs about 7.6 million. Assuming a naive even split of the population, that's 4.7% of the total population vs 2.35%. So, you could say that it's far more because it's twice as many, but the problem is that's about 90.6% of one population with no military experience and 95.3% of the other population with no military experience. Also, the average age of the veterans is 58. A good quarter of them are going to be too old to be very helpful in whatever scenario you're imagining. As for self-reliance... statistically "conservatives" use more social services, etc. than "liberals" in the US, but it's like the military thing. When you get down to it, the majority on both sides are perfectly self-reliant.
Anyway, honestly most of you USians are actually center-right anyway,
Please provide an actual recent example of liberal views being silenced. It is easy to find dozens of examples of conservative speakers prevented from speaking on college campuses and other venues.
When you say "prevented from speaking", do you mean that they haven't been paid to speak there or allowed to use auditoriums as a venue, etc.?