Reasons for Failure

Comments primarily question the definition of failure, seek explanations for why something failed, and debate the causes and expectations around the failure described in the article.

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TL slidebook.io archive.org DR Ph.D GME failure failed fail fails failing professor word failure rate survivor mean need

Sample Comments

fullshark • Jun 17, 2016 • View on HN

The failure is also the failure

anonymousDan • Mar 7, 2020 • View on HN

Any thoughts on why they failed?

diminoten • Oct 28, 2019 • View on HN

What exactly was the failure you're talking about?

tptacek • Jun 27, 2009 • View on HN

... unfortunately, they appear to have failed.

eimrine • Mar 25, 2022 • View on HN

What is considered as "fail"?

flavio87 • Dec 4, 2013 • View on HN

Do you have ideas about why it failed?

pkilgore • Oct 27, 2022 • View on HN

Article didn't say why it was doomed to fail? I miss something?

ludston • Dec 17, 2018 • View on HN

What do you mean by "fail"?

ocdtrekkie • Apr 11, 2016 • View on HN

This takes some horrific failure to accomplish, I imagine.

tgafpc2 • May 11, 2020 • View on HN

TL/DR: If failed, but that was totally expected.