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You are on the website of the venture capital firm that incubated Reddit

I am fully aware of this, as I attended a meetup at the YC office in Cambridge in 2006 where I met Alexis and Steve, but thank you for the irrelevant comment!

I’m assuming you’re not aware of Reddit‘s history of “controversial” communities. I don’t recall who was CEO of Reddit in 2011, but whoever it was did not intervene to shut down r/jailbait (or r/creepshots), despite an enormous number of users asking for it, until it was a matter of national news. For quite a while before the Anderson Cooper segment Reddit was a pretty popular place for people to post pictures of underage girls.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ks8xuYRPnWM


I am fully aware of this historical information, thanks.

Wait you’re fully aware of Reddit’s history as a CSAM hub? And that information is irrelevant to mention in response to your request that we don’t share sites that boost CSAM on the Y Combinator Forums? Because you went to a meetup once?

???

I’m 100% all for not sharing the richest man in the world’s paid CSAM generation website but lmao at uh, getting snippy about somebody bringing up a directly related issue because it kind of tangentially sort of might involve somebody that you meant once. I think that sort of system in the industry is why we still see links to the richest man in the world’s paid CSAM generation website on the Y Combinator Forums.

It is like “No CSAM sites not ran by my buds should be on this darn webpage!!!” but like the mods here share your values, they’ve just apparently got one more bud than you do


> Wait you’re fully aware of Reddit’s history as a CSAM hub

Yes.

> And that information is irrelevant to mention in response to your request that we don’t share sites that boost CSAM on the Y Combinator Forums? Because you went to a meetup once?

No. Please read what I wrote again, as you seem to be confused and claiming I said things that I did not say.



> The answer is "nothing"

Wait by “nothing” do you mean that there is no cause for the disease that the link you posted says has an unknown cause, or “nothing” do you mean that they don’t actually have anything wrong with them but you’re sharing a neat link about a disease that has an unknown cause?

I normally wouldn’t question an hour old throwaway that knows many neurologists, but what exactly are you applying the word “nothing” to here? You started with one statement, said that you don’t like a guy, and then wrote another statement that negates your first statement.

Like by “nothing” do you mean “I personally do not know, so my knowledge of what is causing this is nothing, but I want to share that I don’t like that one doctor”?


> Additionally, landlords don't benefit from the higher prices (ie. market rate rent) either, since that also pushes house prices up.

I like this thinking. If you buy a house on the cheap and rent spikes and your profit increases dramatically, you’re not benefiting because somebody will kick in your front door and force you to buy a crazy expensive house.


Yeah they should make a laptop where you can choose what display you want to use, and which keyboard and mouse for that matter. It could be made cheaper by ditching the screen and keyboard, and heck I wouldn’t even mind if it were a bit bigger or heavier since it’ll just sit on or under my desk. That sort of laptop would be amazing.

They have computers that are built into keyboards now. Maybe that will do the trick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yl2twJswM


No, my ideal laptop doesn’t have a keyboard. I’m imagining like a laptop where everything other than the cpu/gpu/ram/basic storage/nic are addressed by peripherals and I can just have one that sits in my office and I plug stuff into it.

Now that I think of it, I’d also like laptops that come in standardized sizes so I could stack them on shelves and mostly just interact with them through ssh/terminal. I could imagine those laptops being super popular for compute/storage


Sounds like you want a NUC PC or something similar with a built in battery.

Pretty bold of somebody who’s never been murdered to post that getting murdered isn’t a bother. It seems, to me, that if somebody tried to murder me it would bother me, and if they succeeded it would bother quite a few people

> We’re all in the same, but different, shit.

Can you elaborate on other cases where the words “different” and “same” are interchangeable?


It means that if you zoom out, things look more similar. Similar patterns, similar problems and solutions, but different components.

All the various shades of red are all red. All news is engagement bate (if it bleeds, it leads), but every piece of news is different. You are in a forest in region X and I am in a desert in region Y, both could be dealing with the same problem of keeping warm at night. It's all different, and yet still the same.


I didn’t ask for an interpretation of the post, I asked for other times where anyone would use “same” and “different” interchangeably as words (in a sentence, presumably)

It kind of seems like the sentence I quoted was gibberish that’s short enough to seem vaguely profound. Unless somebody could give other examples of when those words are interchangeable (then obviously dogs is eggs), but as it stands it’s a duck pregnancy is optional type situation


Lay off the brew.

This seems unnecessarily rude. If you have examples of when somebody would use the words “same” and “different” interchangeably in a sentence that are so obvious that it justifies being rude, the bigger dunk would be to post them

It's the stupid law of averages.

You may be the victim right now, and I may be the perpetrator, but over time you'll sometimes be the perpetrator (what, do you think you're perfect?) and I'll sometimes be the victim (you don't think I suffer?), and over time it all averages out.

But just because you're the victim this time, you're getting all the sympathy. Is that fair?


I want a sandwich to eat. You want sushi. We are both hungry.


This is a good point. The words same and different are interchangeable if you do not use either word

"Same difference" /s


Same same, only different, but still same, but still different.


It is nice that most people have a good grasp of Latin vocabulary and immediately recognize the word for “hand” because otherwise you’d probably get questions like “is the name of your product being eighty percent ‘anus’ intentional?” and so on


Seeing as there are people that believe that they are dating a chat bot and others that believe that chat bots contain divinity, there are probably some people that would respond positively to slop emails about Business Insight Synergy Powered By Data-ScAIence and buy some SaaS product for their Meritocrat-Nepo sneaker collab drops company


> Really quite nasty of the company.

> This is a sad situation

I like this post where you agree with the person you’re replying to and then imagine somebody posting “Wow this was so unexpected because my worldview does not have room for companies to be mean, can somebody explain this??” and calling out that imaginary poster for being naive.


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