It's Their Mona Lisa
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It's Their Mona Lisa
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#2Every culture has that one thing outsiders reduce to a joke or a meme. Rarely bothers to ask why it matters to the people it actually belongs to.
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#3What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?
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#4What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?
Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.
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#5What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?
Based on TFA, nothing. Since no has quoted anything as such. So, allow me.
This [0] is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News. (Most favorited post circa 2020, though now that would likely be something else.)
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#6What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?
The guy who dismissed Dropbox.
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#7What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?
Has to be the dropbox comment
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#8I thought I saw "woman with a polecat" in the SF legion of honour gallery. Maybe it was on tour. (This is at least a decade ago and possibly more)
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#9Upon seeing the entry for Marie-Antoinette’s private theater, I felt an urge to proclaim the Amargosa Opera House as Death Valley's "Mona Lisa". I was lucky enough to get a private tour and it was like stepping into one of the world's greatest works of art in the most bizarre of locations. The pictures don't do it justice but https://lenspire.zeiss.com/photo/en/article/mario-basner-cap...