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Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?
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#42Some searches:
Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19716401
Ask HN: What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393213
Ask HN: Favorite HN comment(s)
Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?
#43Dropbox comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I always forget how young I am, just for HN to remind me :)
Re: Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
The (centralized) part you put in brackets is quite important. That's the differentiator.
Both systems can obviously co-exist. Much like how gold co-exists with fiat money. Or how there's bittorrent and S3.
And it is true the adoption part is still tiny (just equivalent to one of the top S&P500 companies in market cap) compared to its potential. And the numbers show that as adoption increases, volatility goes down.
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#45Did you win the Putnam? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
I love that this continues to top the list.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 rea…
Yeah I agree, dang's comment doesn't really address any of the issues that I or other people have with the original comment that we're talking about.
Dunno why dang felt hte need to write that comment.
No one felt the need to write the same kind of comment from Commander Taco regarding the iPod.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Lol, HN cannot ever accept the L.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
A third world with a reliable govt doesn't need it. You need trustless currencies only when the centralised alternatives are actually untrustworthy.
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#49>Nice try FBI cockwad...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25884541
Goofy (but not r*ddit-tier) comments like the above are iconic in their own special way on this intellectually serious site.
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#50> Do blind people not have feet? I'm confused by the geometry of this story. . > People often complain about how complex it is, but it's really just a matter of passing endofunctions through transplainer pipelines so that you can asynchronously hydrate the islands. . > I sent it to my wife but she spelled her own name wrong and now she thinks I have a crush on someone else . > Is zero greater than or equal to zero? Y…
Sources?
I couldn’t find the first one.
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610005