On The Information and How We Operate

Re:On The Information and How We Operate by thatthatis on Monday December 30, 2013 @10:51PM (#6988835)

"We edited a bit around some of Mr. Graham’s quotes on female founders. Specifically, we edited a “these” from the quote. The reason was simple. The “these” didn’t refer to anything. The paragraph that preceded it referred to Mark Zuckerberg being a hacker and it immediately followed a question about what would be lost if YC encouraged more women to be startup founders."

The statement that the preceding paragraph referenced Zuckerberg and thus the "these" had no contextual meaning is unbelievable to me.

Q: What about lowering the bar for women? A: Take a hacker like Zuckerberg, he started when he was 10. There's nothing we can do to help these women.

What seems more reasonable?

pg responded to a question about women by referencing Zuckerberg then in an entirely separate and new thread started being misogynistic?

-or-

Pg responded to a question about women by describing what a hackers path looks like then came back to more directly answer the question.

Jessica Lessin is too smart a person to be confused here. I'm calling bs.

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Re:On The Information and How We Operate by cynicalkane on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:47PM (#6989021)

Don't underestimate the ability of allegedly smart people to fool themselves in the service of a pet cause.

Humans are designed to think tribally. Not fooling yourself for your cause makes you an outlier.

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