dibstern

What 'real issues' are you talking about?

What was anyone else scared at all to touch?

Lol what are you on about. Plenty of countries have a very multicultural society, and they do great.

Look at Melbourne, Australia, we have huge immigrant populations, and all the different cultures have made this an awesome place to live - E.g. I highly doubt you'd find a more diverse selection of restaurants per capita anywhere else.

This election wasn't about race. Don't project your bigotry onto all Trump supporters.

And the 'world elite' is not actually the group of people that aren't racist, it's the middle class that isn't racist. The 'elite' and the 'worker class' are actually pretty similar in how bigoted they are.

So the world's most liveable city is Melbourne, Australia, we're very far from Trump, much further than Canada, VC firms and tech startups are more than welcome to come on over and enjoy the best quality of life on offer! Hehe

What restrictions are you talking about?

Parties are likely notified of other party's offers, unless the offer prohibits it, which LinkedIn likely wouldn't have accepted as it had a hot bidding war on its hands.

Awesome, thank you!

Dude it's his duty as a representative of shareholders. Shareholders deserve to have all offers for the company heard, and all possible acquirers notified so that the shareholders get the best possible offer.

Boards focus on representing shareholders. CEOs do too, mostly, but I'd argue that focusing on providing value to customers, which will in turn better provide value for shareholders, should be the main focus, because big companies too often lose sight of what the hell it is they're doing that is actually of value.

Doesn't being in SV mean the top talent is all hoovered up by Google, FB, etc? What about huge rent costs?

Would love to be able to start a startup in Melb, Australia, because it's the most livable city in the world, but the tech scene here in comparison to SV is like living in the Stone Age. Not sure if I'd be better off moving to SV - but interestingly, I met a top CTO/CEO who had moved his company to the Valley and advised against it, because apparently it's very cliquey and it's hard to break into really well established circles, especially as an Aussie, for some reason. I'll definitely get him another coffee at some point in the future to dig into this more.

That's the same as saying it's too complex for you to understand so you're not going to bother. It'll hurt you in the long-run, your own relationships depend on your ability to understand people. Furthermore, if you don't understand other people you'll never fully understand yourself.

That would make me turn down their offer, I don't appreciate anti-competitive business practices. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

ITT: Anti-west propaganda commenters, somehow relating censorship issues in Turkey to the "evil west"

Except democracy relies on freedom of the press in order to operate. Brainwashing a population into supporting one guy and holding elections every so often to confirm the brainwashing is working isn't democracy.

Do you even know how the UNHRC works or how much of a farce it is?

Member states are rotated every 3 years. The council is heavily controlled and influenced by middle eastern and African nations, supported by China, Russia and Cuba, which protect each other from criticism. Even Ban Ki-moon has called the council ineffective. An example of this influence is that it criticises Israel more than all other countries combined - which, remember, include North Korea, Syria, China, Turkey, Libya, Burma, Zimbabwe, etc.

The UNHRC is not representative of the UN.

Dude he's a billionaire, of course he invests huge amounts of money in things.

To suggest the US wants Saudi investment in its stock market that has the sole impact of pushing up one cable company's stock price is absurd and obtuse.

Does that not depend entirely on the size/stage of your business, the size of your customers and your industry?

I don't think it's unusual for an email list to be managed by one dude at an early stage tech startup.

The point zdkl was making was that you're not running what people describe as a startup - that is, a high growth, early stage business. And that if you're not running a startup then it is only logical that you are much less likely to 'play startups'. Do you see what he means?

Also, you talk about raising money like it's a bad thing. Don't forget that plenty of fiscally responsible high growth companies have raised angel & VC rounds. Just because you take on less responsibility doesn't make you more responsible, as a founder & business owner.

In other words, he's 100% wrong.

Religion has brought none of those things. If anything, religion has inhibited scientific and economic progress.

Demonisation and labels are the death of thought and discussion.

Disagree. Counterexample: looking down the barrel of a gun "I wonder what this trigger thing does..." That quote is far too easy to find counterexamples for, because ignorance does indeed harm. There's a reason we have Darwin awards.

Statistical bullshit aside, even if his stats were on point, you'd have to say Trump is a Black Swan of a candidate, breaking models generated by past data.

If you're aiming for a failed company and a pile of cash that makes you feel empty inside, or just a failed company, you're on the right track.

Means nothing because it doesn't differentiate positive engagement from negative. Trump is so widely hated and mocked around the net that I'm not at all surprised he has a very high level of engagement.

It's difficult to be sure about George.

He spoke so derisively about other companies that failed to deliver, and now because of the inevitable paperwork that comes with a product that takes over your car for you at times (level-3 autonomy iirc), he too fails to deliver.

If he leaves to join Tesla, it seems pretty irresponsible, given that he's raised $3.1M and has a team of employees relying on him.

But that's all speculation until we see what comes next.

Perhaps I'm unimaginative at ~1:30am, but I can't imagine what he wants comma.ai to do, unless he sells or licenses the product to automakers who can do the paperwork for him.

Hi Marco.

I disagree with you for a couple reasons.

(1) Seek to understand, then seek to be understood. If we want to eliminate misguided beliefs, convince anyone who thinks sexual assault and racism is okay, etc., you need to first understand them, and have them feel as though they are understood. It's a basic rule of effective communication. No one will listen to your criticisms of their arguments if they are not convinced that you have understood what they are saying and show empathy towards their position. So, a dialogue wherein all parties work together to develop shared understandings will be far more effective than the demonisation of a section of society.

(2) Supporting Trump doesn't necessarily mean Peter supports Trump's more bigoted and/or inappropriate views. This is Peter Thiel we're talking about. Peter gets excited by thinking differently to other people. If thinking differently were a sex act, it would be Peter's fetish. Peter would support a candidate only if he believes it's what the country needs to help bring back a time of growth and optimism that he thinks has been lost long ago (see: Zero to One). Now, remember, just because Peter believes something, doesn't mean that it's right (see: Clarium Capital).

So, it is my view that Sam is right in supporting the sharing of vastly different ideas, views and understandings. Thiel hasn't specifically supported any of Trump's shameful views, as you aptly describe them, so his only 'crime' is to believe that a protectionist moron (he'll perceive him differently) can do anything positive for the country - a belief that might be mistaken, but is by no means a crime or something to cause shame.

Stop demonising Trump supporters. You'll never convince idiots of anything by addressing them as such.