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posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 16 2018, @12:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-let-the-door-hit-ya dept.

Netflix's CEO offered to resign from Facebook's board in 2016, citing his fellow board member Peter Thiel's support of Donald Trump:

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — who called his fellow board member Thiel's support of Trump "catastrophically bad judgment" in an email leaked to the Times — also offered to resign over his disagreement with Thiel, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday. Sources told WSJ that Facebook CEO Zuckerberg declined Hastings' offer to resign. Facebook declined to comment on the matter to Business Insider.

Now, Thiel may resign from Facebook's board instead in the midst of packing up and leaving the Bay area:

The founder of PayPal and a prominent investor in Silicon Valley, Thiel is reportedly moving his investment firms Thiel Capital and Thiel Foundation out of the Bay Area and into Los Angeles this year, according to WSJ.

In L.A., Thiel is also reportedly planning to build "a right-leaning media outlet to foster discussion and community around conservative topics." Thiel bankrolled the lawsuits that eventually forced Gawker Media into bankruptcy, and has been trying to buy Gawker's now-defunct flagship site.

Although Thiel has called Silicon Valley a "one-party state", in the 2016 Presidential election, Hillary Clinton beat President Trump 72 percent to 22 percent in Los Angeles County.

The Guardian also has an article about Thiel's involvement in New Zealand.

Also at Ars Technica, The Mercury News, LA Times, and Vanity Fair.

Related: Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property
Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel's Doomsday Survival Plan
University Could Lose Millions From "Unethical" Research Backed by Peter Thiel
"Black Hole" of Accountability for Drug Trials Flouting FDA Oversight?
Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com


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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by deadstick on Friday February 16 2018, @02:24PM (7 children)

    by deadstick (5110) on Friday February 16 2018, @02:24PM (#638803)

    two unique

    ...and Soylent scores a new oxymoron!

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by JNCF on Friday February 16 2018, @02:52PM (3 children)

    by JNCF (4317) on Friday February 16 2018, @02:52PM (#638817) Journal

    Zero and one are two unique numbers; they are unique in different ways, and the uniqueness of one does not preclude the uniqueness of the other.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday February 16 2018, @03:52PM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 16 2018, @03:52PM (#638846) Journal

      Zero and One are also unique in the same way. They are not in the set of all integers excluding zero and one.

      So now Zero and One are unique in different ways, first that they are unique in different ways, and second that they are unique in the same way.

      But then this leads to . . .

      oh, nevermind

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday February 16 2018, @08:26PM (1 child)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Friday February 16 2018, @08:26PM (#639013) Journal

        Zero and One are also unique in the same way.

        Especially the one on the left. (Sorry, very old philosophy joke about the indiscernability of identicals.)

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 16 2018, @08:45PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 16 2018, @08:45PM (#639028) Journal

          The value of Zero and One are unique -- just like every other integer.

          A snowflake is unique -- just like every other snowflake. (Two unique snowflakes.)

          You are unique! Just like everyone else.

          To improve efficiency the USPTO no longer requires patents to be unique. We'll have the best patent system. The best. I promise. And believe me, I know my patent systems. The most beautiful patent system ever!

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Friday February 16 2018, @06:27PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday February 16 2018, @06:27PM (#638922) Journal

    *special snowflakes.

    But damn do we have some wonkey_monkeys in here today.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 16 2018, @08:45PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 16 2018, @08:45PM (#639030) Journal

      I wonder exactly what distinguishes an *ordinary* snowflake.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @11:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @11:07PM (#639103)

        Eats kale with a double mocha java latte in a safe space while reading the Huffington Post instead of studying for that Modern LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ Studies final.