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.