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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by hellofunk on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:06AM (#12451645)
> If his life would've turned out a little different

You know you can say the same thing about Pablo Escobar, and Hitler, and many others. Just because someone has an innate talent at something, perhaps even a genius, does not make them worthy of the rhetoric "if only things had turned out a bit different for them...". People do what they do, we shouldn't question what they could have done.

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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by aetherson on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:06PM (#12454275)
Stipulating that Shkreli is guilty of securities fraud, theft, and is a dick of a person, it's still awful to compare him to people who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds or millions.
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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by hellofunk on Friday September 09, 2016 @12:16AM (#12459597)
I wasn't making any direct comparison, just making a general point using well-known historical figures.
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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by unixhero on Monday September 19, 2016 @02:03AM (#12529298)
In fact ... You induced Goodwins Law.

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Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazism or Hitler approaches 1"—​​that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will ...

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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by tomjen3 on Friday September 09, 2016 @06:13AM (#12460799)
If Hitler had a video series about how to do public speaking, I would watch that, and I hope every politician would.
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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by unixhero on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @01:34AM (#12537313)
Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazism or Hitler approaches 1"—​​that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will ...

His method is known. This is why the study of history is important.

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