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by econcon 6y ago
No one putting gun to their head to cough up $4500. They are paying because of their own weakness or maybe because of market forces as they can't get their fix elsewhere. I can easily justify it ethically as "it's what my of
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by econcon 6y ago
Dad can provide a minor credit card/debit card, they are very popular these days with spend limit. Many platforms allow you to set spend limit. It's also possible to turn on a heater and forget to turn it off by a minor and accure
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by econcon 6y ago
For starting forums for example Discourse is great with plenty of free plugins. But nothing like that exists in E-commerce atleast I've not used anything which atleast solved some basic e-commerce problems with free plugins. Yet there
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by econcon 6y ago
I think they get acquired by big companies which provides nice exist to founders for majority of small businesses. How about comparing number of new businesses started/companies registered?
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by econcon 6y ago
Imho America is the only country where it's easiest to make money and where probability of your business succeeding is much higher than elsewhere. Partly due to America not trying hard to kill incentives which capitalism offers to entr
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Ask HN: Why open source free E-commerce ecosystem sucks?
5 points by econcon 6y ago|4 comments
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by econcon 6y ago
I started a filament brand based on developed at garage tech: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho... I feel really good knowing that I am competing with others who are using machines made by re
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by econcon 6y ago
Escorts and strippers (sex workers) also can't perfect with social distancing in mind.
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by econcon 6y ago
Social media is polarising, if someone thinks their life is shitty - social media magnifies it several hundred times untill you've become very sure only your life suck and all people are having it easy other than you.
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by econcon 6y ago
Isn't this what Google's Spanner does?
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by econcon 6y ago
And government makes boatload of cash by changing tariffs, port clearance, and tons of other fees etc... If you remove all of them, we can get wayy cheaper price than what we get.
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by econcon 6y ago
It's also true in china. When I used to live in china, for same day delivery in Shanghai I had to book a cab for $40
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by econcon 6y ago
>There is definitely a problem with subsidising the destruction of US small-scale businesses while favouring Chinese businesses and subsidising death of American citizens via fentayl. You can find extreme examples in anything. But let me
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by econcon 6y ago
>The trouble is that we are subsidizing the shipment of items from China. I don't see any problem if taxpayer is the one is paying cheaper price as the end result. It's not like Chinese are charging full rate and sending for di
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by econcon 6y ago
Doesn't it make sense that flying dragons fossils are often found in South East Asia so chickens appeared there?
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by econcon 6y ago
If your CTR on ads drops for all advertisers on facebook. What can you do? How can you figure out of its just a technical glitch or someone purposely wrote bad code to create this situation where Facebook is benefiting at expense of every o
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by econcon 6y ago
Payoneer is a joke company. Sometime back we were using epsyments to pay the salaries of our post Soviet nation based contractors, they were better but I think now it doesn't work anymore? And Payoneer was always very difficult to sign
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by econcon 6y ago
Nearly all products, markets and human interactions operate on specific model which makes some assumptions, those assumptions often end up as rule - so that the model stay predictable for the people governing it. By not following those assu
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by econcon 6y ago
If we really take the macro view, it seems Facebook is a bank which can print money at its whims. Sure, advertises commit their billion dollar adspent but Facebook can always claim their commited amount have been spent and populate the dash
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by econcon 6y ago
Yea how are they even flying? Haven't read the article but I guess it's one of those things where the operator had the skills but isn't getting official stamp from some institution because of some agenda of creating artificia
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by econcon 6y ago
I remember having read that south East Asians have more neanderthal DNA than Europeans.
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by econcon 6y ago
This is actually very popular usecase among dropshipping too, being locked to one store reduces conversion rates. We can make subaccount in stripe, so it's easy to specific different subaccount for different product. While WooCommerce
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by econcon 6y ago
I think their point is unless you are seeing 50-50 ratio in everything, there is descrimination and bias. Not that I support this view but I think he could have put it more clearly.
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by econcon 6y ago
They can do that but then there are people like me, who need no weekend off, no vacations, can work more than 60 hours a week - I am ready to take all leadership It has infact opposite effect on me, the more I work the more I am escaped fro
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by econcon 6y ago
>Why do men chose to live a life they regret later? I was discussing our experiences with my sister, we are only 1 year apart. She felt very valuable since she turned a teenager and I felt pretty worthless as a guy I had to study hard an
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by econcon 6y ago
By having a time limit. When I was new and over excited young guy I started with the assumption that we'll be working on it for a really long time but it rarely proved true. Truth is most projects will be shelved before even they are c
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by econcon 6y ago
I don't think it's true, a lot of my German friends have been traveling for 3 years in south East Asia without having any real job while I hear from German old men that new generation is not as passionate about working as they wer
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by econcon 6y ago
I also sell 3d printed models online so I've made like 20+ e-commerce websites so far. Most of them are niche website and get 5-10 sales each and some even get zero sales but some websites are seasonal in nature and in some season or e
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by econcon 6y ago
I've a multiple stores and some stores get 5 sales a month on $10 item and for that I can't afford Shopify. I am looking for something which I can host on my own as I've nearly free servers (I receive digital ocean credit thr
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by econcon 6y ago
Yes some of my websites sell 5 items a month and Shopify gets expensive for that too

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