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gowld on Nov 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake

> retrospect it very much looks like a mistake

Judging decisions based on future knowledge is utterly worthless. "In retrospect, picking the losing lottery numbers was a mistake. In retrospect, picking the winning lottery numbers was brilliant."

It was only a mistake if it was a wrong choice given the information knowable at the time.

bradleyjg on Nov 22, 2017 [–]

That's true enough. But you said that you bet whatever he did with the money since had a much better return than Facebook. You were wrong.

joshuamorton on Nov 23, 2017 | [–]

Different commenters. But yes, the original g...grandparent was mistaken.

bradleyjg on Nov 23, 2017 | | [–]

You’re right. I missed that.

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