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Or simply just passionate people talking about a niche. Consider coffee. You'll find hundreds of articles comparing the most high-end grinders. You even have P
by mgaunard 3y ago
Or simply just passionate people talking about a niche.
Consider coffee. You'll find hundreds of articles comparing the most high-end grinders. You even have PhDs writing white papers on the physics of coffee and how particle size distribution achieved by different grinders affects extraction quality. Those are genuine opinions from aficionados.
The same is true for all kinds of other things. The internet has a lot more than the auto-generated marketing crap you give it credit for.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoThis is true for things that are related to a hobby. There are many things where it basically doesn't exist. Nobody is writing articles comparing server colocation offerings near ${YOUR_CITY}, yet people search for them expecting them to exist.
- mgaunard 3y agoThat's not true, there are plenty of articles discussing these sorts of topics written by actual people. Sniper in mahwah for example will discuss some of this for example from an HFT angle.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoSuch people exist in every city around the world?
- mgaunard 3y agoFinance markets are spread throughout the world and people spend a fair amount of money building efficient networks to route data between them faster than the competition, yes.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoDude, there are fewer markets with a flash boys scene than there are cities in Kansas.