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thecollateon Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

our website https://collate.cc - want to make it easy to shop baby products and cosmetics with safe ingredients

thecollateon Opinion: How Apple could have prevented the iPhone-slowdown controversy

What happens if you charge your throttled iPhone. Does the performance improve while charging vs running on battery ?

It’s blazing fast.. Hoping to see more successful Rust based applications.

thecollateon Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts, but They’re Still Easy to Spot

I just boosted couple of posts on Facebook. Every single one of them had likes from Bangladeshi click farms. I am not even kidding. Each of the likes had western sounding name with about 30 friends all of who were posting in Bengali language.

I am not sure if Silicon Valley show got the idea from Facebook or otherway around.

thecollateon 28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon

I think pricing trends monitoring aka camelcamelcamel.com would be enough for Walmart to figure this out. They don't need to actually talk to each other IMO

thecollateon 28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon

I am surprised that there is so much margin. Is this because:

1. Amazon product delivery is so convenient that users don't mind paying little extra or

2. Walmart discounts products valuing their warehouse space more. Thus not realizing there was demand for the product elsewhere or at a different time.

Seems like it would be simple for Walmart to figure out this arbitrage and shelve products for longer time. Any thoughts ?