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Re:The Irony of Applying to YC by nailer on Thursday October 11, 2007 @01:43AM (#66158)
"A scalable job, according to Taleb, is any job where given success, the amount of money you make is vastly disproportionate to the amount of time you put in--like starting a company, or becoming an actor or musician. "

That's a terrible misuse of the term scalable.

Re:The Irony of Applying to YC by jsackmann on Thursday October 11, 2007 @02:20AM (#66168)
In fairness (and in context), Taleb is quoting some random b-school guy he encountered. He reuses it, but I suspect he does so that he doesn't have to mess with the original story and/or quibble over definitions.