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I made an interesting post on eBay business practices and it was flagged. I think it could have promoted interesting HN discussion of the dynamics driving these business practices.…

* This is my email to eBay after having been blocked from listing a full group of computer parts at one time by their lovely policy...why is this particular company so stupid? * Wh…

This "new" technology is 10 years old. Why is it catching on now?

Hello, Thanks for the welcome. Really the contribution was satire not bullshit. Sometimes satire will give valuable insights about societal phenomena, e.g. possible irrational exub…

Wheel.io is a IOT miniature wagon wheel start up that is coming soon. Preorders starting next week. Get in on the ground floor of a Zeitgeist wave surfing hipster managed blockchai…

How correlated is Bitcoin price to the stock market rise and low Federal Reserve rates?

That's a pretty lazy answer. Why not last year, or the years before? Bitcoin is nearly 10 years old and monetary policy has been "easy" that whole time (in the US and Europe). Why …

Coinbase seems to piss me off. They have obscure ID / KYC verification requirements that change with the level (monetary value) of your transaction. After I opened my coinbase acco…

Who will buy the goods and services the robot workers produce?

Maybe people should like build houses / apartments and tax speculator owned vacant units.

Google is increasingly returning irrelevant results in the effort to deliver the targeted content their advertisers want. I predict a future for a subscription funded search engine…

So why was it written, what is the motivation of the author?

The problem is the advertising model for content monetization. This is the same reason TV is mostly crap.

I don't know what you mean. My comments are not newsworthy. I am not practising arbitrage. I am commenting on HN because that gives me some recreational utility. What is inconsiste…

It is also possible that Satoshi Nakamoto was an alias for an NSA project. I have no special knowledge either way on this matter.

The internet and modern computers are the result of Government and University funding (e.g. DARPA, UC Berkeley BSD) and corporate R & D projects like Xerox Alto / Start at PARC and…

My experience, from shopping in Walmart quite frequently, is that they are highly disorganized and un-nimble. I guess this affords the opportunity for persistent arbitrages. For ex…

I am not sure what the point of these news stories is. Arbitrage opportunities have existed throughout history. How is it newsworthy? However, a basic understanding of economics wo…

I believe in the future we will move more toward a subscription funded model due to privacy concerns and people desiring higher quality content.

Not everyone has a smart phone. I don't. Believe it or not you are not required to have a smart phone function in the word. At best it is a pointless waste or time and money gadget…

Is $999 an competitive price for a cash register? Just curious.