the spelling of "silicone" looks intentional to me. the review is titled "Like the US is the only country to produce tech."
'Craig Wright of Australia wrote, a bit petulantly, “Always the assumption that [Satoshi Nakamoto] must be a bloody yank. The analysis of who Satoshi is is always so limited.”'
This needs a few more upvotes and comments. This is a gem.
I think you could replace Passive Income with anything really. It's anything a person has decided will help them escape their situation and person.
I'm sympathetic to the discussion of promoting a civil and interesting community, however, in this specific example, I believe the lack of sensitivity towards the poster is actually worse than the crime itself.
Guidelines are exactly that, guidelines. When a long time contributor becomes emotional about the brutally honest instruction of killing an industry, which happens to be one he feels aligned to, I would figure the appropriate response is to explain rather than admonish. There is a propensity to over-regulate with respect to the guidelines, which I attribute to a lack of thought, really.
The idea isn't so bad but your copy or communication is really bad. Your tag-line doesn't make sense.
"We provide reviews for tech reports." - Why would I want a review for a tech report? Even the clicking on an example wasn't really enlightening. E.g. Finance. There is no attached chart...
Thanks! We've been trying to contact physical bookstores and online sellers til now. The forums, blogs and clubs may be a better way forward. Amazon does not operate in Australia and the most active marketplace is a minimal free service run by universities (textbooksexchange).
Lowering costs to compete with the near free alternative makes your company a poor competitor in comparison to them. This is because you have much higher costs and probably are not sufficiently different to justify it.
Options:
1. lower costs and essentially adopt the crowdsourced model
2. increase costs and quality and sell a premium product
Either way, the main thing is that you have identified that you do not want to tread water.
scanning through the text, your name jumps out at me, which makes me ask myself what kind of HN consumer would call themselves that... to which the answer is, one with high average points karma
'Craig Wright of Australia wrote, a bit petulantly, “Always the assumption that [Satoshi Nakamoto] must be a bloody yank. The analysis of who Satoshi is is always so limited.”'
from this article: http://fusion.net/story/243056/alleged-bitcoin-creator-craig...