This is just a sad consequence of some merchants creating accounts in the thousands/hundreds of thousands and selling them to SEO/Marketing blackhats to use.
The number of simple, yet very cool ideas on HN just baffles me, no wonder HN is an addiction!
Selling an add-on/accessory that clips onto any macbook or even any laptop with similar screen properties as the macbook pro used will be a nice little business!
Correct me if I am wrong, but is there anything stopping anyone from starting a new (better) search engine, and promoting it like crazy? Maybe even pay users a portion of the ads revenue for using the new search engine?
I understand there are economies of scale here, but if a few investors got together what's to stop them from achieving this?
yeah I imagine once a technique is mastered, it would be used all over the place! Not sure if one "company" started offering this service in many places, could explain the similarity.
Paid customer service where the customer pays money (say $100-$1k depending on how serious the issue is) and each company can have a special channel to respond to these paid requests and be compensated (say 80% of the fee the customer pays). That way companies will have the will and ability to attend to serious issues and filter them out from the "useless" customer requests that flood any large size business.
That does not necessarily mean only a small set of neurons in our brains are engaged.
It could be that we use the whole set or a large portion, albeit in a more efficient way!