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dllthomas on Nov 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders

To be fair, the world is huge. A "negligibly small group" could still produce "tons of examples". I don't have the data to say what the actual case is here - certainly, people like the above don't appear to be well represented in my social circles.

scott_s on Nov 26, 2014 [–]

Which is fair. But I'm also not willing to categorize prose as a "strawman argument" when it is the argument of an actual man, right in front of us.

dllthomas on Nov 26, 2014 | [–]

Agreed, in broad strokes, though we've some risk of running afoul of Poe's Law.

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