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Learning not to trust the All-In podcast

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342 points paulpauper | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.265s | source
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Centigonal ◴[06 Nov 24 18:07 UTC] No.42066519[source]▶
There was the opendoor ipo, there was Jason Calacanis "sharpening the knives" ahead of the Twitter acquisition, there was what David Sacks did to Zenefits, and there's more. People are going to keep trusting these guys, simply because they have a hard-on for charismatic people with a lot of money, an extremely short memory, and refusal to believe that they will be the next ones to be scammed.
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27153 ◴[06 Nov 24 18:11 UTC] No.42066584[source]▶
It's frustratingly impressive how grifters are able to maintain a grift even after it's made evident that they are grifting...
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1. wrs ◴[06 Nov 24 18:19 UTC] No.42066714[source]▶
One of the effects of a successful grift is that contrary facts don’t matter — in fact contrary facts just reinforce the grift by strengthening the us against them dynamic.