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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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a twitter thread by sv ceo where comment section wants to do some recreational union busting, political assassinations and automating away longshoremen (lmao) over checks notes black friday bringing slightly less profit to mass retailers. to which i say, fuck your black friday then
and he says that it'll affect elections? specifically in "don't do anything visible in interest of unions or trump will win" kinda way? what kinda madhouse is this americans explain https://xcancel.com/typesfast/status/1836498432510562788#m
the institutionalisation of it is/was also just fucking nuts
and then in recent years it's slowly been creeping out into other countries too, with other vendors in other places aping "black friday deals"
I have no mouth and I must scream
Is this the Flexport(?) guy? They're YC funded I believe.
was/is he unusually shitty or notorious for something
dunno really, he’s got a lot of threads on HN where hackernews incorrect each other about logistics
I think the dude is just a wonk who happens to have gotten funding
yeah so it seems