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I don't think there are many people who will confuse an in-house load balancing service used at dropbox with a brokerage even if both are called Robinhood. Simi
by CogitoCogito 2y ago
I don't think there are many people who will confuse an in-house load balancing service used at dropbox with a brokerage even if both are called Robinhood. Similarly, I don't think that people will confuse said brokerage with an old character of English folklore (and no I don't think it's the space that's important).
Context matters. There simply isn't a risk for meaningful confusion here. So what's the issue exactly?
- donpott 2y agoI think it's quite easy to confuse the two if one is diagonally reading the HN frontpage and sees a headline that begins with "What's new with Robinhood [...]".
- ajoseps 2y agomaybe dropbox didn’t optimize naming their in-house software for HN readers
- dylan604 2y ago> I don't think that people will confuse said brokerage with an old character of English folklore I don't know about that. Why do you think people would not link a financial company to the folklore character famous for redistributing money? That's kind of disingenuous claim to me. When I first heard about it, I actually assumed it was a reverse Robin Hood by taking money from the poor to give back to the rich type of scheme.
- Dalewyn 2y ago>(and no I don't think it's the space that's important). That space or the lack thereof is important. To date I only know of two Robinhoods, the brokerage and the load balancer, and I only learned about the second with this thread.