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by Throwaway23412 3477 days ago
Links like this illustrate what a distorted bubble the typical HNer lives in.

I've lost track of how many times I've seen a product or company posted here and HNers will say "I can already do that myself." For instance, I still chuckle at the "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially" comment in the Dropbox HN post nearly a decade ago.

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Even within HN there are bubbles inside the bubbles.

I keep seeing _sec people make statements that only makes sense if one is the administrator/dictator of a company network or server farm, and that are basically impossible to implement on a personal computer without effectively treating the user as an attacker.

> Even within HN there are bubbles inside the bubbles.

sup dawg...

makes me wonder how many business opportunities we are missing out.

we could possibly be making billions selling illiterates a usb-pluggable physical button that opens a browser window to gmail.

ye deities, the idiocrasy creep ever closer...

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-JK29LP-Doritos-Dash-Button/dp/...

Ha! I referenced that very comment here just yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13104221