Most of the comments in this thread are from accounts who are posting their very first comment on HN (some of them even created today). Very inspiring indeed.
These are still non controversial. Controversial bubbles on HN are:
* Everything should be free and open source. Just because small portion of the HN can donate to their favorite projects, everyone should run on donations. Ads are forbidden on the internet. No internet business should be a profitable company.
* Tiring and useless interview process designed by FAANG etc is no way a farce and a totally justified practice (some version of Stockholm syndrome there)
* Private companies should not interfere in the politics/internal matter of another country. (This view quickly changes when they see the negative effect of same companies in their own country)
* YC is the best and the most exclusive startup accelerator/incubator in the world. If you got accepted in YC, you have won in life.
Have you encountered any Indian bureaucrats recently? They are so far detached from technology and science it's hilarious. But they are very smart (cunning) in imitating whatever the ruling government is doing. So if government is trigger-banning everything, bureaucracy will do the same (and double down in most cases) without ever questioning it.
This is purely result of the outcome. They threw the guy under the bus while they invested heavily in the same guy just few years back. It's not like Foley suddenly changed his personality after these guys gave him money. They found him interesting enough to invest with him. (As an aside one can even argue that these investors go out of their way to invest in CEOs who act like psychos as those are the ones who have higher probability of giving those 100x returns). If it had worked, everyone including these same investors and media would hail him as crazy genius ie next Steve Jobs.
They were quite happy with him while things were running smooth but as it soon as things went south, he became the worst ever CEO and suddenly Peleton became the worst managed company in history?
Funny as I saw example of LendUp yesterday in How to Get Startup Ideas by YC (https://youtu.be/uvw-u99yj8w?t=1072). Apparently Payday loaning was broken and scammy industry. (So they decided to scam some more I guess)
Some comments on this thread are really something. I know my comment adds nothing here but honestly I don't have any words to argue with this. Just disappointed.
I'd say other way around is true. HN crowd won't like this but it's very hard to continuously update a product for the core userbase that Firefox has. (small sample size but I maintain a small privacy focused app and from my experience, most of the reviews I get are how it's missing features which competitors have or how it's unusable because it can't handle stuff without jeopardizing privacy focused nature of the app.)
Judging by the HN and Reddit comments with each Firefox/Signal/Matrix releases, it seems most of the customers of privacy focused products want all the other features of competitors; most of the times without paying any money (or they think donations should cover for everything because they once donated, so all hundreds of thousand users would). And they dislike/have negative sentiments towards any UI changes or breaking functionality for new features. So core userbase for these products becomes hostile towards the product growth by definition. In this environment, either the product stops growing and simply becomes a niche product for those set of users or it dies.
Here is the summary in video from the same media house which discusses some other points in detail (it's as opinionated as the original article about organic farming though) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVHUwvC7Og0
I am curious as to how did you jump from not believing the government to pandemic being a conspiracy? Pandemic is real and governments have lied to their people, more so in last one and a half year - both of these statements can be true.
Also you should not question someone's capability to come across in the interviews based on their venting on online anonymous platform. Humans can have vastly different emotions depending on the situation.