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Wilson said when he tried to open his car door, Brown slammed it back shut, then punched Wilson in the face.

The question is whether Darren Wilson was justified in using lethal force.

Revealed in another interesting trail of emails exchanged between PG and Fred Wilson (who also passed on Airbnb).

An oldie from Fred Wilson where he calls himself out for missing on Airbnb.

This is because the formula uses the lower bound of the Wilson interval.

The fact that he had just stolen something has absolutely no relevance to the question of whether Darren Wilson acted correctly when he fired his gun.

I also have to wonder why Wilson got so close when opening his door in the first place, to someone he knew might be dangerous.

With respects to Airbnb, Fred Wilson of USV passed on the opportunity as well and posted emails showing where Paul Graham personally spent quite a bit of time trying to convince him otherwise.

> The fact that he had just stolen something has absolutely no relevance to the question of whether Darren Wilson acted correctly when he fired his gun.

I strongly agree with Fred Wilson that Hillary Clinton's remarks were spot-on (or close enough), and that we should welcome this discussion in the political arena rather than bristling at it.

They may be relevant to your point of the narrative, but my point is that the key question is whether Wilson was justified in his use of deadly force, and the earlier events are not relative to that.

I know that nearly all of them are going to vaporize eventually, but in the meantime they completely poison the well for all of us who are trying to do what Andressen, Wilson and the rest pretend they want startups to be doing - creating sustainable businesses in sustainable markets.

In the words of Woodrow Wilson: "If there are men in this country big enough to own the US government, they are going to own it".

If Wilson had taken more care before he was in the middle of a fight then he wouldn't have been in the position to "just respond" with deadly force in the first place.

That is why the portion of my comment which you quoted says "...has absolutely no relevance to the question of whether Darren Wilson acted correctly...." (Emphasis added.) Grabbing at a cop's gun may justify deadly force, but it wouldn't have happened if Wilson hadn't drawn it in the first place.

The one wire, the cable furthest aft on the flight deck, hadn't been used at all, Wilson said." What other engineering items have been overlooked that you believe are mindboggling?

One of Fred Wilson's partners, Albert Wenger, also penned a post touching on this today[0].

So you need to check the confidence interval with Wilson, but you also need to check the quality of the reviewer.

Wilson may well have been in danger, even mortal danger.