I stopped reading or contributing to Hacker News a decade or more ago. The people there aren’t worth it. They’re mostly pseudo-intellectuals in the tradition of Paul Graham - meaning they use big words, without actually knowing anything about the topic.
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Forever? His writing since 20 years ago is shallow and useless.
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Wow... hot take
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Pretty common take amongst the non-white-men of tech ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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And let's imagine an alternative world where Paul Graham wasn't a straight, white man. If you'll lend me a moment of intellectual honesty, I'm sure all these detractors you speak of would be whistling a different tune. No?
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Nope. His blind spot is specifically around how things affect people who aren’t rich white men. Check out, for example, this thread of vacuous “insights.”https://twitter.com/dellsystem/status/1174130397992472577?s=21 …
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