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A comment on U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani. Parent comment

Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by learc83 on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:06PM (#17325586)
Look at my comments on the April thread.

I was incredibly sceptical about a 19 year old with no experience starting a biotech company. All of my comments had a large number of upvotes (for 2015), while many of the people disagreeing with me were downvoted into the negatives.

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by SilasX on Saturday June 16, 2018 @11:52AM (#17327869)
Yes, being skeptical about a 19 year old is easy.

The hard part is to do it in a way consistent with the rhetoric about “fake it till you make it”/“it’ll all work out”/“all self doubt is impostor syndrome”.

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by learc83 on Saturday June 16, 2018 @12:11PM (#17327951)
It's not hard if you just don't tell people to fake it till they make it in the first place.

There's a sizeable contingent on HN that is sceptical of that mindset in general, which was my point.

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by SilasX on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:56PM (#17360977)
No. There's a sizeable contingent of people who will call out specific ideas as being "obviously BS", but who lack the insight to realize the dissonance with their mentality of "fake it till you make it". People who actually have a general answer for "when not to fake it, and give up instead" are the extreme exception.
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