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Sorry about that Michael, I had you confused with someone else on HN. Apologies. Look, if the money were there and the environment was there we'd be there. It
by 3pt14159 13y ago
Sorry about that Michael, I had you confused with someone else on HN. Apologies.
Look, if the money were there and the environment was there we'd be there. It really is that simple.
I think the odds of winning the startup lottery are actually pretty high, at least for all reasonable definitions of "winning". Although that might be survivorship bias speaking on my end.
If more people were like Elon Musk we'd be working on these harder problems. I totally agree with you about your observations about people that gain power, at least in aggregate.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoSo it's all someone else's fault?
- rosser 13y agoOf course it is. I'm reminded of a scene in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, with Kieran Culkin and Emile Hirsch. (Great movie, btw.) Minor spoilers: The boys are riding their bicycles along a country road, and happen upon a dog that's been struck by a passing vehicle, and is dying. Hirsch's character, Francis, says (paraphrased), "Someone needs to come for it. They need to do something." Tim, played by Culkin, responds, "There is no 'they'. We are they." I trust the scene's relevance isn't too obscure.
- gruseom 13y agoReminds me of Heidegger's concept of the "they self" as an inauthentic way of being.
- judk 13y agoGreat movie. But the tiger part was a bit ridiculous.
- scott_s 13y agoThe scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ut7L-X1NQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ut7L-X1NQ What always stuck with me was the end: "No one was coming for this dog, I hope you realize that. Nobody around here, no one who passed it, not even the guy who hit it. I hope you realize that. Don't you ever tell me to get real. I know what fucking real is, okay?"