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To use the cliche'd car analogy: People driving ferraris generally don't go around trying to race people with honda civics. They know that they have an absurd
by blhack 16y ago
To use the cliche'd car analogy:
People driving ferraris generally don't go around trying to race people with honda civics. They know that they have an absurdly fast car, they don't need to tell you.
But the 17 year old kid with the modded civic wants to prove himself, so he's much more likely to try and race everything that moves.
If you're Mark Zuckerberg, you don't need to point out that you're more successful than I am, it's obvious, and everybody already knows it.
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- zach 16y agoSince we're talking about giving feedback, I think a more apt analogy is what happens when people with Honda Civics want to race. Australian billionaire Kerry Packer was a notorious gambler. A legend about him is that at a poker tournament, he was challenged to play a high-stakes game by a Texan who bragged, "I'm worth $60 million." His response was to nonchalantly pull out a coin and ask, "Heads or tails?"
- AndyKelley 16y agoAt the risk of sounding dense... So did he imply that he was betting $60 million on the flip of a coin? I don't get why he would do that?
- kiiski 16y agoAccording to wikipedia, he was worth 6,5 billion. So probably the $60 million just didn't matter to him so much.
- danssig 16y agoBut that means it's not a fair bet. Had I been in the situation and had some idea of his value I would have said: "Very well, all my money versus all of yours. I choose tails."
- vecter 16y agoBecause betting $6.5 billion to win $60 million (and vice versa) is fair? That aside, fairness has nothing to do with it.
- jhamburger 16y agoIn the world of high-stakes gamblers, you're judged more on how much you're willing to gamble than how much $ you're actually worth. So that was an FU on multiple levels.
- reinhardt 16y agoGiven that typically "how much you're willing to gamble" << "how much you're actually worth", he basically equated the other guy's whole worth with a single bet of his (which was true). Would be fun to see the guy's reaction.