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This article always rubbed me the wrong way as it's practically a condensed rewrite of Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?, published in The Atlantic in 1982
by tristanj 8y ago
This article always rubbed me the wrong way as it's practically a condensed rewrite of Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?, published in The Atlantic in 1982. Much of this article is just quotes from the original. It bothers that the priceonomics.com author took someone else's work, repackaged it, and now people prefer reading & sharing the 'new' version rather than the long-form original.
- scktt 8y agoa link[0] to the original is helpful in your cause. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
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- ianai 8y agoYou’re not wrong. But this is somewhat how the modern era operates. An idea will simply not penetrate as far in an older, long form, printed media as it will in an online compressed format.
- lquist 8y agoPriceonomics is a YC company and I believe that posts by YC companies are highlighted to other YC founders, so that might be what leads to this article being upvoted on HN. I agree that it doesn’t make much sense when this is essentially content marketing that repackages a single, superior, primary source. Edit/Update: I was incorrect here. Please see children comments
- giancarlostoro 8y agoThat's fascinating, I had no idea HN did this to specific users. I'm still wondering what the site looks like for a moderator / admin compared to a regular user and what kind of pages they've got etc.
- wheels 8y agoAll that's highlighted for YC founders are the nicknames of other founders. So we can see which posts and comments are from other YC founders, but there's no special annotation just for posts at YC-funded domains (in this case, there's nothing highlighted).
- giancarlostoro 8y agoFair and insightful I would say, when the parent comment mentioned it I figured it checked for the domain of a YC company or something, but this makes sense, as filtering for YC companies might just be a bit more work than it's worth considering you wont always be able to accurately mark every submission as relevant.
- wheels 8y agoI believe the goal is explicitly not to skew things towards YC companies. The one special bonus that YC companies get is the ability to post job openings. The two posts from YC founders on the front page now aren't about startups at all.
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- kbenson 8y agoTo be fair, I believe this is being posted here again because the current top article is about De Beers, and there's reference to both this and the Atlantic piece throughout the comments of that. I would hope that pricenomics at least verified the portions they quoted as still accurate, which would make it more immediately useful, as the original is now some thirty-plus years old and things might have changed in small or large ways.