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Re:Ask HN: How friendly is Berlin for startups? by DanBC on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:07AM (#14552787)
> What makes you think that the cheerfulness is "inauthentic"?

The fact that workers are trained in cheerfulness, and are given a set of phrases they must say, and that they say these phrases all day everyday to every single person they meet makes me think the cheerfulness is inauthentic.

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Re:Ask HN: How friendly is Berlin for startups? by Turing_Machine on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:42AM (#14567665)
Being trained in cheerfulness doesn't make the cheerfulness "inauthentic" any more than being trained to make hamburgers makes the hamburger "inauthentic".

Good grief.

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