[4cao]

It might have also had something to do with the fact that the subheading of that article was incendiary (literally).

[ashtonkem]

Michael Church definitely has an axe to grind, and it’s certainly fair to complain about that. I personally think that he’d sway more people to his side of thinking with a less acerbic style, but that’s just me.

The issue is that a polemic against PG gets downvoted and removed, but Taleb’s polemic against Nate Silver doesn’t. It certainly makes it look like the subject of a polemic is more important than the tone or content of the article being posted for very specific people.

[whymauri]

The subheading is really unfortunate. I don't always agree with pg, but I think Y Combinator is a great thing.

[gdix]

It might also have to do with the fact that the author removed it from their own site and the link is now dead.