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To be fair Sam Altman violates the guidelines.

> I am suspending my involvement with the NEOM advisory board until the facts regarding Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance are known. This is well out of my area of expertise, so I don’t plan to comment on the case until the investigation is finished. I remain a huge believer in the importance of building smart cities.

He decided to step back because a heterosexual male was murdered. How about the discrimination against LGBT and women in Saudi Arabia? I guess the money is just too good to turn down.

Nothing like a good photo op with a dictator that murders gays.

https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-OY406_UBERSA_P...



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None of this has anything to do with what I'm talking about. I think everyone doing business with Saudi Arabia has blood on their hands. I'm not interested in litigating the point further.

It sure does since Sam Altman is grandstanding in the thread posted. Don't litigate it further. Why would I care?

Edit: I thought you were done?


Sam Altman is the CEO of YC. I said that YC kicked out Andrew Torba for harassing batchmates. And lo, there's the CEO of YC, on a Hacker News thread, saying he kicked out Andrew Torba for harassing batchmates. There's probably nothing more to be said about it here.

Downvote for whataboutism.

Thanks for supporting Sam and his crusade to make money with the Saudis.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18318477 and marked it off-topic.

Great coverup for Sam's support of homophobic and sexist dictators.

Sorry, but I don't buy it. This obviously has nothing to do with Sam and I expect the thoughtful readers of this site to discern this.

Could you please just stop breaking the guidelines and instead post civilly, informatively, and on-topic? We've asked you many times before and we ban accounts that won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Sexism at YC has everything to do with Sam Altman. He's the CEO. Doesn't the buck stop there?

Go ahead and ban my account. You're part of the problem.


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