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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 24 days ago
Arguably, inception

The "Dumb fucks" story is rather well-known

Any reference to it used to get downvoted. HN commenters would argue he has since changed, that he's older and wiser

But I also recall reading about a conversation he had with a classmate who started a similar database of student information at Harvard. Like the Winklevoss twins, he thought Zuckerberg was copying his idea. I believe he went on to create a website of searchable case law. Was his name Greenspan, I can't remember

Anyway, the gist of what I remember is that in a conversation with Greenspan, Zuckerberg specifically cited federal court as the place where his dishonesty would hit a wall, or something like that

Many years and billions of dollars later, it seems like this may be coming true