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Silicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missile (www.ycombinator.com)
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[–] imadabouzu@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I kind of wonder if this whole movement of rationalists believing they can "just" make things better than people already in the field comes from the contracting sense that being rich and having an expensive educational background may in fact be less important than having background experience and situational context in the future, two things they loath?

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Somehow, the same guy will lecture you for an hour about Chesterton's Fence when it comes to "traditional values."