pierre_M

It's also boring, ugly, and at a level of sophistication roughly equivalent to a depressed fourteen-year-old kid's poetry

Waaah, life sucks And you're going to die Isn't it horrible And meaningless?

Portal at least has some craft to it.

How is it "borderline scam"? How are they hoping to profit at your expense by offering you $40K and then not letting you spend it?

Isn't the scale of it comparable to YCombinator?

YC certainly gets a lot of mentions here (not entirely unrelated to the fact that they run the site, but still...).