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		ryanwaggoner on Jan 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizin... There’s probably an order of magnitude more software that was written 5-10 years ago that lost money but the software devs were still paid for.

whataretensors on Jan 31, 2018 [–]

Yes but the loss is linear while the gains are often exponents. I bet the integral of each would make the 'lost money' nearly insignificant.

ryanwaggoner on Jan 31, 2018 | [–]

Well, yeah. Otherwise there’d be little incentive to risk that money. And you wouldn’t call those losses insignificant if it was your money :)

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