A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud

Re:A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud by honkhonkpants on Thursday September 01, 2016 @12:30AM (#12403109)

The reigning ethos in SV is something very close to nihilism, but we do believe in one thing: property. A homeless or insane person has been assigned a near-zero value by markets and is therefore to be ignored. When the only thing you recognize is the exchange of goods and money, how can you assign any value to a person having neither?

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Re:A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud by dang on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:50AM (#12403496)

Please stop posting this sort of intemperate rant to HN. It sheds no light on a difficult social problem like homelessness and turns discussion into a tire fire.

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Re:A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud by honkhonkpants on Thursday September 01, 2016 @03:06AM (#12403539)

I don't like metadiscussions, and I can see you have your hands full with this circus of a post, but did you reply to the wrong comment? Mine only has two replies (ex. yours) but dozens of siblings and cousins. If there's a tire fire here, I didn't light it.

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Re:A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud by dang on Thursday September 01, 2016 @03:15AM (#12403573)

I'm describing what long experience has shown us that comments like that one do. Sorry for not making that clearer (and thanks for the convivial note about the circus).

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Re:A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud by toomuchtodo on Thursday September 01, 2016 @12:49AM (#12403159)

SV is all flash, no soul.

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Re:A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud by MichaelBurge on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:10AM (#12403224)

>> but we do believe in one thing: property

I thought SV was the world's hardest place to exercise your property rights? Just try demolishing a single-family house to set up a new low-income Section 8 apartment complex. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't.

San Francisco is like the polar opposite of the real-world Rapture you're envisioning it as.

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