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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas by jacquesm on Saturday March 10, 2012 @08:12AM (#3687729)
> No wonder we love and underdog -- there is no greater under dog than humanity.

Tell that to the Dodo, the Quagga, the Javan Tiger and the Thylacine. And many others besides.

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas by jodrellblank on Saturday March 10, 2012 @09:52AM (#3687853)
Weak and winning is "underdog", weak and losing is "loser".
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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas by lutorm on Saturday March 10, 2012 @10:47AM (#3687941)
By that definition, every loser that hasn't yet lost is a winner. There is no way to tell the difference except hindsight. I bet the dinosaurs told themselves that they were totally different than all those other weak-ass species that had joined the annals of history 76 Myr ago...
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