An Open Letter To All Startup Founders

Re:An Open Letter To All Startup Founders by temphn on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:01PM (#4101423)

Do you think this state of affairs is a desirable one? If you accuse someone of being a communist or a socialist, you are laughed out of the room; if you accuse someone of being a sexist or racist, the onus is on them to disprove it (and this is frankly impossible).

The insane contortions of the American legal system are good reason to base a company outside of the US.

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Re:An Open Letter To All Startup Founders by tptacek on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:04PM (#4101452)

I'd love to watch more companies get slaughtered by effectively delivered gender discrimination complaints. Post them all to HN and spark 482-comment threads about the injustice of it all! I will laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

I've seen the system be abused by people with totally bogus complaints. Somehow, I just can't work up any outrage about it. Something about how "men like women and women like men and that's just the way it is" just does something to my internal moral compass.

Planning on starting a company in Europe or Asia so you can ask your coworkers out on dates without worrying about discrimination complaints? Good luck with that. ;)

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Re:An Open Letter To All Startup Founders by mindcrime on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:38PM (#4101676)

Something about how "men like women and women like men and that's just the way it is" just does something to my internal moral compass.

So you don't think that men like women and women like men?

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Re:An Open Letter To All Startup Founders by temphn on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @01:00AM (#4104397)

No, planning on starting a company in Asia so that you don't have to accept spurious discrimination complaints that cost you 1-2 years of headcount as a fact of nature.

   Something about how "men like women and women like men 
   and that's just the way it is" just does something to my 
   internal moral compass.

We shouldn't care if the Christian Coalition's "moral compass" is disturbed by the idea of men with men. And shouldn't care whether your "moral compass" is disturbed by the thought of men with women.

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Re:An Open Letter To All Startup Founders by tptacek on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @01:21PM (#4107119)

I don't know who you're arguing with, but it isn't me.

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