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I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by criddell »

nxobject wrote: post #168
MarcelOlsz wrote: post #166

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Maybe it can be like that vim tutor game where you save him by encountering different financial scenarios that you have to solve and overcome.

+1 to that idea! Something like: “you earn this much every month, and these are your recurring expenses, long term debts and goals, and oh yeah an immediate financial challenge. In what accounts would you put hard earned dollars?”

That doesn’t sound very fun.

I say forget the finance angle. Go for a straight up adventure game where you have to save the hero, Cash, from tragedy.

Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by karambahh »

jmkd wrote: post #160
karambahh wrote: post #132

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Mallorca is a mountainous island in the middle of the med. Exporting something from Mallorca seems like a logistical challenge to me. Exporting something refrigerated or frozen, even more so... Maybe store-shelf product such as gummies or something? Fresh juice takes 2kg of oranges per ~1l/~1kg. Plus electricity and handling costs... Still, you'll need a large multiplier on the transformation process: organic EU oran…

I think the best bet for juice would be to export frozen concentrate. And despite the logistical challenges you cite, lemons imported from places like Argentina are now cheaper to buy at Palma's wholesale market than the average wholesale price paid for local fruit, which has subsequently plummeted even further.

Except that lemons are picked for "cheap" in Argentina (and oranges in Morrocco or Valencia), industrially packaged to ports (most likely to BCN or VLC ports) and then shipped in containers to Palma.

Pick the oranges in the middle of the island: not cheap, as stated. Squeeze & freeze the juice (likely around Palma): not cheap, not even including transportation. Ship them back to the continent: probably not cheap either.

Transshipment is extremely costly and even more so at a smaller scale, and that's what we're comtemplating here.

Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by BobaFloutist »

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #158
nxobject wrote: post #144

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The irony! May as well turn the page into a piece of abstract art saying "the domain 'saving.cash' has cost me hundreds of dollars every year". A meditation on having to spend money to earn money, if you will.

Hahahaha I didn't even see the irony until I read this, that's hilarious. That's a great idea, I'll do that this weekend.

Maybe a running total that updates daily?

Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by MarcelOlsz »

BobaFloutist wrote: post #173
MarcelOlsz wrote: post #158

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Hahahaha I didn't even see the irony until I read this, that's hilarious. That's a great idea, I'll do that this weekend.

Maybe a running total that updates daily?

Like domain cost per year / day, and accumulating it daily?

Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by leobg »

jmkd wrote: post #161
bubbleRefuge wrote: post #107

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Do they let anyone pick for free ?

Plenty of orange trees in public places, plenty of abandoned groves around and a handful of eco-fincas where you can pick for next to nothing.

Got some addresses? I know Ecovinyassa, but they don’t let you pick.

Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

voidfunc wrote: post #106
bencornia wrote: post #15

> The way Faulkner treats his characters, I treat domain name projects. I buy them with an intention to develop. And I let them take the lead. They’re the inspiration for the business itself. They guide me towards what they need to become. I’m just the dude behind the keyboard (sorta). I feel the same way about personal projects and blogs. A good idea tends to be self-reinforcing. It just needs someone to uncover it.…

I buy domains and then forget about them only to renew them once a year for aspirational reasons. Its kinda like seeing my family at Christmas once a year.

Promotions/deals?

Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by Breza »

eightturn wrote: post #32

author here : ) happy to answer questions if you have any. We also have a twitter account here if you want to follow along: https://x.com/vidaliaonions

Huge fan here! I read the article when it was new and was enamored with the story. I ordered a small box. The onions were terrific. So I order a large box every year.

Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by Breza »

breadchris wrote: post #14

This feels like a relevant wiki page to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

I wonder how aggressively this would be enforced. Like, if this website let people place an order a year in advance for a specific price, would the regulators come knocking?

Re: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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Post by GrzegorzWidla »

recursivetree wrote: post #87
arraypad wrote: post #83

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I've hung on to spellign.com for a bit over twenty years now. Creation Date: 2005-10-19T05:59:21Z The name still makes me giggle. I'd love to build something relevant and silly enough to put there, but I haven't found it yet. Suggestions are welcome! :)

One place where I genuinely believe LLMs could be beneficial is correcting spellign mistakes. I just don't think the interface is there yet. I want to keep control over my writing. After feeding it through an LLM, it doesn't sound like me anymore and changes random stuff. Rather, i'd like something like a diff viewer that shows you your sentence and the LLM's corrected sentence right next to each other. You can revie…

Isn’t that pretty much Grammarly?
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