linkydinkandyou
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Comment · 11 years ago
This is probably the best comment in the whole thread. In fact, you can't get "rich" unless you're a founder in a startup. (And no, this isn't sour grapes! I've made money in Silicon Valley, and continue to work at age 53 in a new startup.)
Comment · 11 years ago
Hmmm. I tried "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
Didn't get it right.
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal... )
Did better on "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
Comment · 11 years ago
Aren't these annual fees a large part of the business model and the profitability? Amazon manages to be able to keep _raising_ theirs!
Comment · 11 years ago
That Arab Spring is sure doing well, isn't it!?
Comment · 11 years ago
Exactly. People are saying that /r/fatpeoplehate "violated copyright" but every meme does that. (See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09...). And reddit never said they were getting legal takedown notices for material published there.
Most of the posts I saw were responses to fat-acceptance bloggers and their postings on their blogs. Obviously these blogs were created to foster discussion and that was happening. When the discussion wasn't positive, they got upset.
Obviously, it's a private website and they can do what they want with it. But it never was a place for "free speech." If you didn't go along with Reddit groupthink (which is an odd mix of socialism "college should be free" "Koch Brothers are Evil" and libertarianism "Go Uber!" "Open Access to the Internet") you would be quickly down voted away.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm not so sure that /r/fatpeoplehate did anything worse than any other "funny pictures" subreddit. (For example, ones about "rednecks" or "ravers") I think just a lot of obese people got offended, and for some reason Ellen Pao felt for them.
Comment · 11 years ago
The forgot "fat hate." Weren't the anti-Obesity folks the straw that broke the camel's back?
Comment · 11 years ago
Is Y Combinator turing into "The Daily Kos?" Blaming all the world's problems on the "Koch Brothers" and "The Super Rich?"
C'mon now, folks.