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wpietri ◴[] No.16407907[source]
> they feel people there are resistant to different social values and political ideologies

This is just bizarre to to me. I moved here from the Midwest, which I found stifling. There's a far greater variety of social values and political ideologies (not to mention backgrounds and interests) here than pretty much any place I've lived. The main hostility I see is to intolerance, but that's hardly surprising given SF's long, welcoming history and the paradox of tolerance. [1]

If I were to worry about any sort of uniformity, it wouldn't be political, but in startup culture. 20 years of success has created some very well-greased rails into which most innovation has to fit: bright young founders, seed round followed quickly by A and B rounds. That can be fine as far as it goes, but it has become so orthodox that I think we're not a great place for doing anything other than a plausible Next Big Thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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1. dna_polymerase ◴[] No.16408531[source]
Paradox of tolerance, huh? Being intolerant towards the 'intolerant' while still claiming to be tolerant? That's exactly the kind of crap that made Thiel and Altman making such strong arguments towards the culture in the valley.
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2. wavegeek ◴[] No.16408601[source]
> the 'intolerant'

i.e. anyone who disagrees with us.

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3. refurb ◴[] No.16408615[source]
That's the problem. Any dissenting political view is twisted to something intolerant and becomes verboten.
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4. anigbrowl ◴[] No.16408629[source]
How is this different from animals having both a microbiome and an immune system? I'm guessing you rely heavily on Popper's theories in the lab, so I think you really ought to give this one the time of day rather than dismissing it without actually making an argument for why you don't subscribe to it.
5. wpietri ◴[] No.16415418[source]
I hope you note that you don't have an actual argument here. You're just shitting on something it's not even clear you understand.
6. wpietri ◴[] No.16415428{3}[source]
I'm sure that some people do that, but to cast everything in that light is just laziness.