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No. His definition describes the word as it's actually used. If I open a hot dog stand, I may have incorporated only a month ago, but I haven't founded a start

• _pmf_ 10y ago
  > If I open a hot dog stand, I may have incorporated only a month ago, but I haven't founded a startup. No. For that, you'll have to provide a narrative of how you will revolutionize the global fast food market and secure the fate of humanity by providing billions of people real-time access to the very best of bovine and porcine by-product nutrition (optional: include heart-warming story about Denise, a mother of 7 from Decatur, IL, who was enabled to escape a hell of drug abuse and prostitution by opening a franchise, highlighting the world changing nature f your business and elegantly glossing over the fact that the franchise owner effectively earns less than a toddler searching landfills for sources of lithium).
• im4w1l 10y ago
  I miss one thing in that post: a discussion of people abusing words to manipulate. This is typically done by taking a word with the desired emotional charge, and misapply it to piggyback on those emotions. Allowed to fester, the spin-terrorists will rape a language to its death.
• jacquesm 10y ago
  > His definition describes the word as it's actually used. Hackernews is not the world.
• Scarblac 10y ago
  > His definition describes the word as it's actually used. That must be why this is a reoccurring discussion on HN...