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

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

photochemsyn wrote: post #61
BoxOfRain wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://hn.algolia.com/ is quite good for finding things on HN.

Curiously, you can search stories by popularity but not comments.

I can search my comments by popularity, but I only get comments from 8 years ago and this year. I think that HN doesn't let it get the karma of comments from the intervening period. (If not, then it's an algolia bug.)

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

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Post by throwitaway1123 »

vgbm wrote: post #50
janderland wrote: post #30

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Sources?

I couldn’t find the first one. 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610005 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36570438 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30723129

Found the first one (using HN's Algolia search api) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37803494

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

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Post by codegeek »

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

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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.

I don't disagree that it had promise but it has failed to live up to the hype and after 15 years, we can safely say it has failed. A tiny minority may be using it for transactions but it did not gain the actual adoption it was supposed to and never solved the problems it was supposed to. Funny thing is that it created companies like Coinbase that is the exact opposite of what De-Centralization and anonymity was supposed to be which is supposedly the biggest problem solved by Crypto.

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

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Post by crop_rotation »

fotta wrote: post #4

Did you win the Putnam? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

Is it just me or that comment seems planted to get that response? I don't get why is there a random reference to Ravi Vakil who has nothing to do with the context of that conversation. And if you want to cite for academic accomplishment, you can cite someone known much more widely. I find it much less iconic due to that.

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

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Post by meowster »

solardev wrote: post #59
tomjakubowski wrote: post #51

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that's copy pasta, not a buryat original

I think it's a parody of the original: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...

The original story doesn't pass the smell test, but it's fun and hard to disprove.

Sled Driver is a great book for anyone looking for something to read. Physical copies sell for the hundreds of dollars, but there is a PDF floating on the high seas.

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