Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies

Re:Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies by swombat on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @02:57AM (#1978372)

There's a difference between even screwing over your best friend ("The Social Network"-style) and leaving them to die alone in a frozen desert of hell, where their mummified remains will stand for years to come as a grim reminder that someone left them behind.

Sure, there's some very distant analogy, but it's really a different kettle of fish.

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Re:Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies by makeramen on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @03:00AM (#1978378)

I feel like there's a sort of mutual understanding of the risk among all parties going into these situations. Yes one is much more grim than others, but in concept at least.

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Re:Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies by zaidf on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:00AM (#1978574)

Especially when "screwing over" means settling a lawsuit with gazillions of dollars.

I agree, I don't see much of a similarity between startups and risking death--literally.

It seems tantalizing and there is lots of vague overlap in attitudes and risks but that is something startups share with anything requiring lots of hard work, passion and commitment.

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Re:Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies by Semiapies on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @08:13PM (#1981421)

People like to glamorize their business endeavors. Some guys at computers building a web-app just isn't that exciting to people without a lot of fictionalization or likening it to something more exciting.

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Re:Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies by JabavuAdams on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @09:38AM (#1979129)

> where their mummified remains will stand for years to come as a grim reminder that someone left them behind.

where their mummified remains will stand for years to come as a grim reminder of their awesomeness.

Fixed that for you.

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