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Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?

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Post by paulddraper »

mdgrech23 wrote: post #11
Carrok wrote: post #3

Dropbox comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I remember reading this comment at that point. I totally agreed w/ the author, at least on point number one. A lot of us here where already paying for web hosting and using FTP clients to upload our files and like mentioned Linux, which had the time meant Ubuntu for most of us had it so nicely integrated into the file system. In someways we/Ubuntu were just ahead of the OneDrive. Honestly the only difference between…

> at least on point number one

Point number one is

> I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself

Thus objecting to this Dropbox idea on the basis that it was redundant to 2% of desktop users.

Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?

#32

Post by LawrenceKerr »

codegeek wrote: post #24
IamLoading wrote: post #13

i found this funny. bitcoin's first HN post, and commentor claiming its cute, but no will entertain the idea. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600813

And everything they said is still true. yes there are some believers but most crypto lovers are nothing but trying to get rich quick. No real world practical adoption after 15+ years.

Except for it creating the possibility of transferring wealth digitally, to anyone, across borders, without any centralized intermediary you have to trust. That's pretty amazing, especially for people who live unbanked, or in hyperinflationary economies with totalitarian governments.

Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?

#34

Post by qingcharles »

JimDabell wrote: post #15
Carrok wrote: post #3

Dropbox comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

It’s worth reading dang’s comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148

Wow, like my sibling poster, I've never seen this and it adds so much context completely changing my perspective of the original comment.

Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?

#35

Post by Der_Einzige »

LawrenceKerr wrote: post #32
codegeek wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And everything they said is still true. yes there are some believers but most crypto lovers are nothing but trying to get rich quick. No real world practical adoption after 15+ years.

Except for it creating the possibility of transferring wealth digitally, to anyone, across borders, without any centralized intermediary you have to trust. That's pretty amazing, especially for people who live unbanked, or in hyperinflationary economies with totalitarian governments.

Except in practice western union does almost all of that (minus centralized intermediary) more reliably, hence why the overwhelming majority of the third world doesn't use or rely on crypto despite these supposed benefits (which seem tailor made to help the third world out)

Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?

#36

Post by Carrok »

scrlk wrote: post #26

Brian Armstrong looking for a Coinbase co-founder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664

I enjoy that his motivation for starting Coinbase was that credit card transaction fees are too high, and digital currency can solve this problem.

Here we are, 12 years later, and people still buy and sell cryptocurrency almost exclusively as an investment/bet, and very rarely is it used to facilitate any real transactions.

Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?

#37

Post by talldayo »

paulddraper wrote: post #31
mdgrech23 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember reading this comment at that point. I totally agreed w/ the author, at least on point number one. A lot of us here where already paying for web hosting and using FTP clients to upload our files and like mentioned Linux, which had the time meant Ubuntu for most of us had it so nicely integrated into the file system. In someways we/Ubuntu were just ahead of the OneDrive. Honestly the only difference between…

> at least on point number one Point number one is > I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself Thus objecting to this Dropbox idea on the basis that it was redundant to 2% of desktop users.

For enterprise customers, this is an entirely fair objection. You could do this, and many places do. The companies I've worked for use NAS a lot more than they use Dropbox, I can tell you that much for sure in 2024.

Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?

#39

Post by paulddraper »

JimDabell wrote: post #15
Carrok wrote: post #3

Dropbox comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

It’s worth reading dang’s comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148

This explanation doesn't add any context.

> When BrandonM wrote "I have a few qualms with this app", he didn't mean the software. He meant their YC application.

Of course. Criticism #3 (arguably the funniest one) was about monetization: "It does not seem very 'viral' or income-generating."

-my sides-

> The criticisms he was raising turned out not to be problems in hindsight, but were on point in 2007

They weren't really on point then, were they?

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This comment isn't an example of "ha ha, low IQ" it's an example of "ha ha, humans can be hilariously bad at recognizing opportunities."

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