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Yup, I called this a year ago but my article didn't get much traction, I guess because I'm not the founder of a Y Combinator startup.

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28957379

My article: http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/flexport-ceo-wrong-bottlenec...

No discussion :( : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987281

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Don't take it personally, I think upvotes are a lot more random.

Every 6 months or so I repost (on another site) bottle rocket under the ice:

https://i.imgur.com/IEW6QqB.gifv

Sometimes it's huge, somtimes it sinks. No pattern to it.

Interesting. What kind of patterns have you tried to look for?

One source of "randomness" in user voting on time-sensitive sites (as opposed to e.g. a forum where you could log in once per day and read up on everything) is that the oline audience changes troughout the day as different timezones are at work / asleep / etc. This is both a regional change as well as an occupational/age change.

I discovered letting Europe see it a few hours before the USA woke up was the best time of day. A post needed a few upvotes before the 'bury brigade' saw it.

Well this is my first time seeing that video, and I'm delighted!

I wonder if there's anywhere in the contiguous U.S. where such fireworks are still legal. I hope so.

There are many states where Bottle Rockets are still legal; they are generally states that are not considered a Nanny state or do not have high risk of fires. Some states like Texas banned them because too many houses had wooden shingled roofs decades ago that tended to catch fire because of a bottle rocket landing on them. And laws are much harder to get rid of once they have been enacted so despite very few homes actually still having a wooden shingled roof the ban on bottle rockets still stands.

https://www.rd.com/article/states-where-fireworks-are-legal/

A lot of places(From the state level down to individual city level) use the annual Consumer Product Safety Commission report on Firework injuries to determine what needs to be banned for so called "public safety" reasons. Which is why you have places that have even banned Sparklers.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Research--Statistics/Fuel-Lighters-and-...

Glad you liked it. I think this 8 second clip of a guy saying 'I'm lost' is hysterical, never gets an upvote though. Maybe you have to be English to get it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieWm9T_GgSA

Sad to hear you didn't get traction back then. What are your predictions today? ;)

Sadly I don't have predictions. I can only tell when other people are wrong, not actually be right myself :D

> I can only tell when other people are wrong, not actually be right myself

...well, is anyone today is wrong about their shipping container projections? :-)

Smart move!

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