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Re:Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great h... by ggm on Monday February 24, 2020 @05:36PM (#22409176)
Your analogy skills were strong, because analogy is rooted in myth, not fact. Achilles did not actually have an Achilles tendon because Achilles did not exist

There does not have to be an increadibly loud functional industrial vacuum cleaner, for figuratively everyone to get your analogy, because the Herculean reality of vacuum cleaners is that you cannot clean an augean stable of lego on the floor, without a lot of noise. If you get my analogy.

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Re:Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great h... by ColanR on Monday February 24, 2020 @07:07PM (#22409735)
To continue the pedantry, I don't think we know for sure that Achilles didn't exist. Troy certainly did, and we have the Iliad to thank for knowing to look for it.
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Re:Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great h... by ggm on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @01:30AM (#22411319)
No, we have Schliemann to thank, for digging through it in his lust for anachronistically Indy-Jonesing the archeology. Troy only exists because Schliemann stole the gold. Otherwise its just some hill in Turkey.
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Re:Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great h... by ColanR on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:11AM (#22414305)
I know the story...Schliemann went looking for Troy because the Illiad told him it existed.
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Re:Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great h... by ggm on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:00AM (#22421245)
Didn't work on Ararat. False in unum, false in omnibus. Anyway, he went to the wrong hill first. But overall yes, myth informs reality sometimes. Shame he didn't find the bones of the giant wooden platypus the Greek ice cream salesmen hid in.
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