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This is a comment that says there are only a few good startups in existence. There is no possible way the author fo the comment can back that argument up. It's a sentiment that stretches past commendable skepticism, past cynicism, and lands with a flatulent thud right in the soft belly of parody. It's like a mirror image of the "sharing economy will render property ownership obsolete".

That's too bad, because when it isn't making ludicrous generalizations about the CS/engineering demographics of the whole tech startup sector, it makes a good point about not accepting below-market wages from tech companies.



>This is a comment that says there are only a few good startups in existence. There is no possible way the author fo the comment can back that argument up.

Why does he have to back it up? Null hypothesis, "There are no good startups", right?


Uncharitably: what he's saying is that there only a few startups he considers good that he can name off the top of his head.


Why is that uncharitable? It's fairly true. I am sure there are a lot of great companies out there that I've never heard of.


Wow, what a dishonest response. Your attempt to repurpose the premise of my comment as if had been yours to begin with ignores your actual assertion, which is "but there are only a few of those [good startups] in existence".

I apologize in advance if you are like that guy in that movie who lost his long-term memory and therefore could only remember the last hour of his life and therefore only had my comment to go on in composing that response.


Are you John G?




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