Yeah, but you can get a startup company's technology going with Ruby, Python, or PHP.
However, if you espouse an absolutist "victim of circumstances" ideology like the article:
The finding further undercuts the theory that poor people, through inherent weakness, are responsible for their own poverty – or that they ought to be able to lift themselves out of it with enough effort.
As far as I see, it happens the following way. Some people see some article on HN, their mind flashes in dissonance. They upvote the next article which opposes that one.
So that's why, right after we see an article defending X, we see one defending an anti-X, or not-X.
I just think it's strange that people who would come to HN looking to learn more about entrepreneurial things would resonate much at all with "the environment determines outcomes, not the individual" type thinking.
Not only does that mindset doom entrepreneurial success, but I wonder why people with such a defeatist attitude toward self-improvement are here in the first place.
However, if you espouse an absolutist "victim of circumstances" ideology like the article:
The finding further undercuts the theory that poor people, through inherent weakness, are responsible for their own poverty – or that they ought to be able to lift themselves out of it with enough effort.
You are doomed.