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Re:Ask HN: How friendly is Berlin for startups? by stevekemp on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:44AM (#14542897)
Enter a Disney shop, in many parts of the world and somebody will say "Hello, how are you?" Leave the shop and that same greeter will say "Have a great day!"

That always feels incredibly forced, and very very fake.

But what do I know, I'm British ..!

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Re:Ask HN: How friendly is Berlin for startups? by Turing_Machine on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:55AM (#14543266)
Disney stores are...ummm... not a representative sample. :-)
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Re:Ask HN: How friendly is Berlin for startups? by stevekemp on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @03:22AM (#14543338)
Very much so, but its a good example of fakeness/insincerity that matches the topic.
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Re:Ask HN: How friendly is Berlin for startups? by Turing_Machine on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:11AM (#14545342)
Maybe in the sense that Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany would be a good example of "European politics".

The OP was making a general observation about the United States as a whole. Picking an extreme example like Disney is a Hasty Generalization fallacy.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...

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Re:Ask HN: How friendly is Berlin for startups? by stevekemp on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:47PM (#14546206)
I was trying to suggest that those stores, here in Europe, have greeters and those greeters are the very epitome of fakeness - which the parent was referring to.

I suspect the confusion comes because people assumed I meant Disney stores in the states.

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