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Re:Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to variou... by Ma8ee on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:57PM (#26185408)
In Sweden we used to have a conscription army. It was said that they got really good at leadership and training since they could afford to experiment. If they screwed up one year they could just scrap the whole batch since they anyway got a new cohort every year.
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Re:Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to variou... by WJW on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:04PM (#26185506)
The Israeli claim a lot of their startup culture comes from the high degree of responsibility their (very young) conscripts get in during their mandatory military service. I can imagine that someone who's been an 18-year old tank gunner in actual tank-to-tank combat has a different outlook on acceptable levels of risk than most people.
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