[soneca]

Such confidence while having no way to know if they would be right (because, no matter the arguments, they were trying to predict the future).

[throwaway990dv]

If they were wrong, the comment would have continued rotting away unnoticed. But they got lucky and were right -- confirmation bias is a wonderful thing.

[vulcan01]

Nitpick: this is technically survivorship bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

[soneca]

Right? I do think Instagram was one of the acquisitions of the decade.