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I love how I, as a lowly middle-class person, can invest money in a company and if they were pulling the wool over my eyes and I lost my investment, it’s all “o
by transfire 4y ago
I love how I, as a lowly middle-class person, can invest money in a company and if they were pulling the wool over my eyes and I lost my investment, it’s all “oh well, buyer beware”. But let it be some big wigs investing in a disruptive tech (that makes the status quo oh so nervous) then it’s all pitchforks and fire — those devils be damned.
Hence I note the faint stench of Denmark in there somewhere.
- DoktorDelta 4y agoIt's less "disruptive tech" and more "tech that didn't work and reported incorrect results".
- erehweb 4y agoPeople went to jail for Enron, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Kenneth_Lay_and_Jeffrey_Skilling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Kenneth_Lay_and_Jeffr...
- zozbot234 4y ago> that makes the status quo oh so nervous Nervous? The Theranos approach could not possibly work, and serious researchers were well aware of that. There's even a completely hilarious video online where some folks point this out with the most astonishing diplomacy and politeness but nonetheless in the clearest of terms, while Holmes is forced into some sort of clumsy damage control.
- transfire 4y agoNot true at all.