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First paragraph: "The biggest myth about starting a tech company in NYC is that it's difficult to hire top tier programmers." Second paragraph: "The reality is

First paragraph: "The biggest myth about starting a tech company in NYC is that it's difficult to hire top tier programmers." Second paragraph: "The reality is it's hard to hire top tier engineers no matter if you're in CA, NY or Vancouver, where Flickr was based." Contradiction?

gojomo 17y ago
Only if read robotically. The whole piece is about "NYC vs. elsewhere", so "difficult" in that first sentence means "relatively difficult". English is not rigorous machine code; readers should meet writers halfway with generous interpretations, rather than stretch to find possible 'gotcha' interpretations that were unintended.