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Ask HN: Favorite/Classic HN threads of all time
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such confidence while having no way to know if they would be right (because, no matter the arguments, they were trying to predict the future).
If they were wrong, the comment would have continued rotting away unnoticed. But they got lucky and were right -- confirmation bias is a wonderful thing.
Right? I do think Instagram was one of the acquisitions of the decade.
Re: Ask HN: Favorite/Classic HN threads of all time
#23The Dropbox launch post is a great example of why you shouldn’t take (particularly dismissive) comments here too seriously. (This isn’t to dunk on any of the contributors there - but just a reminder that we’re all fallible and have biases) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 On that note, PG coining “middlebrow dismissal” isn’t a very elaborate comment, but is a term that has entered a few people’s lexicon. htt…
> The Dropbox launch post is a great example of why you shouldn’t take (particularly dismissive) comments here too seriously This mentality is still thriving on HN Just yesterday someone complained that Clearview AI would only honor removal requests for California or EU residents. So of course someone responded that they should just buy some property in California, establish residency, and then they’d be able to comp…
"This mentality is still thriving on HN"
Good!
"So of course someone responded that they should just buy some property in California, establish residency, and then they’d be able to complete the request."
I am looking at the name of this website and I see that the name of this website is "hacker news".
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#25I sell onions on the internet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
I keep coming back to read this every once in a while.
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#26It's a job posting, but I think about Dear Future Homejoy Engineer near the end of every year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956
Thread posted on Dec 25, 2014.
"Homejoy shut down on July 31, 2015." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homejoy)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such confidence while having no way to know if they would be right (because, no matter the arguments, they were trying to predict the future).
If they were wrong, the comment would have continued rotting away unnoticed. But they got lucky and were right -- confirmation bias is a wonderful thing.
Nitpick: this is technically survivorship bias.
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#30The Dropbox launch post is a great example of why you shouldn’t take (particularly dismissive) comments here too seriously. (This isn’t to dunk on any of the contributors there - but just a reminder that we’re all fallible and have biases) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 On that note, PG coining “middlebrow dismissal” isn’t a very elaborate comment, but is a term that has entered a few people’s lexicon. htt…
I mean I saw a lot of people saying they can use FTP and this and that but people moved on from FTP to hosting files on other sites back then like RapidShare, MegaUpload and so on. I know I used to share code and projects on RapidShare before it disappeared.
I do agree there are biases and sometimes people miss that they are commenting not from the perspective of the general population. Its nice you can setup ftp and this and that, but the common man has no time or interest for that. They want easy to use. Look at Facebook, the top way to share family photos and even holiday cards. I can only imagine without Facebook we would see way more holiday cards.