People thought Pets.com was here to stay as well

meta_ai_x 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

chewy.com is literally pets.com and it is thriving.

Remember HN is mocking the capability/technology itself not the ability of specific firms to survive.

	▲	gruez 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>chewy.com is literally pets.com and it is thriving. Seems like a stretch, considering it's down 50% compared to a year ago. https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:CHWY
	▲	topaz0 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Chewy.com is not pets.com. They're in the same market, but it's not useful to say that a business built around limitless hypergrowth is the same as a business built around medium sized sustainability.
	▲	breezybottom 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It seems pretty clear to me that we've exhausted the possibilities of the transformer architecture. Whatever we're using in 20 years will certainly be a different technology.

The analogy doesn't work at all. Pets is a single small company. The dot-com boom largely survived and was profoundly important.

I just.. I don't know the mental model of the people who speak like this. What is the point you are trying to make..

	▲	breezybottom an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Ok, then people thought Enron was here to stay, until it wasn't. Life is ephemeral.