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by dcposch • 10 years ago

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jcr• 10 years ago

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

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

brudgers• 10 years ago

The story is not something that people would be likely to encounter on a general news site. That doesn't make it a good story, but to me, it's consistent with the guidelines.

Speaking of which, meta-discussion is also discouraged by the guidelines because it leads to uninteresting comments such as mine here.

dcposch• 10 years ago

Most, not all.

This story is about political money in Silicon Valley. I think it's relevant to a lot of people here on Hacker News, because many of us work for one of these guys.

One effect of cap tables is that when things go well, someone else is typically making a specific multiple of whatever you're making. Say you're an early employee at Company X and you really work hard and ship something great, and that makes Company X more valuable. Your stake in the company has appreciated---but someone else, typically a founder or VC, has made exactly 20x or 50x or 100x as much!

Those people are in a position of power. They have a lot of leverage. If they're using that clout to advance a specific political agenda, maybe you want to know what the agenda is?

What I'm trying to do is show people that political contributions are public records and show people how to search them and make sense of them.

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