Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
toth
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
12 ms
·
151.
▲
by
toth
12y ago
How does it hurt them? They are matching buyers and sellers of ads across different exchanges, how are buyers and sellers hurt by this? Yes, the traders pocket a spread for their trouble, but they also save you the hassle of checking all th
152.
▲
by
toth
12y ago
Yes, and they miss the fact arbitrageurs actually help most people. If these arbitrageurs are keeping all the prices in different exchanges in line, it means that your average ad seller/buyer does not need to spend time and money on re
153.
▲
by
toth
12y ago
I got the impression that writer of the article thinks that this arbitraging is supposed to be hurting someone, but it's not clear who. If the traders are arbitrating prices between different ad exchanges, their net price will be zero