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numair.medium.com is a personal blog at numair.medium.com about business, culture and startups. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Silicon Valley’s Rape Problem”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
4HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Readers link Numair's posts about his "Facebook Goodbye" post and a Steven Levy interview about its leaking. The one comment concerns the author's dispute with Sean Parker, not the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Silicon Valley’s Rape Problem
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-07
  2. The truth about Dan Kaminsky
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. The user you're responding to reported Parker to the FBI alleging he witnessed him rape a 16 year-old. He's also got some prior history involving FB and how they treated an app he developed years back. Here are a few links related to this that I discovered by Googling "numair sean parker" just now. His Twitter feed also alludes to many other people being involved with underage boys. https://mobile.twitter.com/numair…

    Comment linking /15-years-is-enough-time-silicon-valleys-rape-problem-ee1a022a079f

    on “My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post”
  2. Submitted Stripe isn’t a platform, it’s a mouse as a story · 136 points

    HN discussion
  3. Before you listen to any one connected to early Facebook discussing their “company culture,” I suggest you read the link below and understand what I am saying. There are deep, dark reasons why the word “consent” has never been part of Facebook’s culture. There are a lot of lottery winners in Silicon Valley who leave out the “turned a blind eye to the sexual predator” part of their success stories, whether it involve…

    Comment linking /15-years-is-enough-time-silicon-valleys-rape-problem-ee1a022a079f

    on “What defines a great company culture?”
  4. Submitted Silicon Valley’s Rape Problem as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  5. Since this seems to be yet another HN comment thread filled with people who feel really smart for dismissing the potential of cryptographic digital currencies and the emerging liquid market for these digital assets, I'll just copy and paste my thoughts (which I might end up having to do often, since these sort of crypto-hate-fests are now popping up on HN at a rate of several per day): > Money moves fast in the cryp…

    Comment linking /the-intelligent-case-for-crypto-43e60cfb57f3

    on “Crypto lobbying is going ballistic”
  6. Submitted The truth about Dan Kaminsky as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Incompetence That Will Kill Apple as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Competitive Losers as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The End of the Dark Age of Unproductive Insecurity as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The truth about Dan Kaminsky as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted What's holding back Japan? The bullies as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted On Apple, Twitter, and Elon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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