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Just as a counter-example, one of my favorite HN comments of all time is from someone who remembered someone (kinda meta, right?) who called the Theranos fraud almost exactly years before it came out.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29765308 (this is the thread remembering that comment)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349 (this is the thread with the original comment)

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I also enjoyed all the HN takes that counteracted the uBeam hype machine in wireless energy transmission

I for one have learned through a lot of these over-hyped (and fraudulent) companies that when the public thinks something sounds impossible/highly infeasible, but the VCs swear there's something there, it's *much* more likely that the VC is buying into hype without doing sufficient research than it is that they know something that a generally intelligent public doesn't.

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