You're illustrating my point.

eBay started as a P2P selling site. It was not for "serious sellers", it was to sell one-off things.

Catering to "serious sellers" and all their affiliated baggage and issues - and having too easy of a dispute process - is what ruined the entire platform.

Ebay is overly hostile to sellers.

It ceased being a site that the casual person could use to sell their household items a long time ago. It is now way easier, cheaper, and less risky to use sites like Poshmark or Etsy for that purpose.

Ebay's great F Up is they tried to become another Amazon by attracting all these giant commercial retailers to set up store fronts - and in that process they screwed up their core value prop, which was peer-to-peer sales.

And it sounds like your parents failed you as well.

My daughter got taught not to take medicine from when she was two.

Stuff like this is not an actual issue for people who look after their kids.

And?

A child can't open the bottle. Even if they could read, they don't have the hand strength. Source: have a child, she is 8 and is just now finally able to open these herself.

If your young child has access to gummy vitamins or melatonin - which means not only are they not on a high shelf, but youve removed them from the child proof packaging - then you have failed as a parent.

Franklin Templeton is a pretty well known investment firm.

The story seems to be about how they are writing crypto memes, and for people without a sense of humor (like the author), they come off as giving bad investment advice.

Why this is being posted to Slashdot is beyond me. This is a story maybe relevant to investment groups or crypto / DeFi groups. Not Slashdot.

The instant thought problem posed by the matrix is... wouldn't it be a lot easier and more efficient to farm and placate cattle or other large mammals in a virtual world than humans?

Your argument falls flat.

I can buy Nintendo, XBox, and Playstation games without subscribing to their app stores. Sure, if someone buys something on the Microsoft store, Microsoft taking a cut if fair. But when I buy a game at Walmart, Microsoft gets no cut (they actually do get a cut, but it is tiny)

I can *only* buy iPhone apps via the app store. These companies want nothing at all to do with the App Store, but are being forced to use it.

These companies don't want to use the App Store at all, so your argument falls entirely flat.

When he dies, someone is going to buy his house and come in and throw 50% of it in the trash and donate the other 50% to goodwill.

The real story would be behind how someone so stupid got entrusted with $6 million dollars in the first place

It's possible, I have never done a side by side with another service.

Honestly searching isn't how I usually use Justwatch.tv... I use it daily to see what new content is available on all the things I am subscribed to. It is far superior to the services native method that buries it.

Amazon Fire TV is very good at universal search.

Also Justwatch.tv is a great app-based option for that.

Texas seems like the last state I would ever launch a service like this in.

I have mild tinnitus. I never notice it during the day, unless I think about it, then I can hear it. If I get distracted again, it will go away.

If I am sitting in absolute silence, then it has more of a tendency to return.

The brain is a powerful thing.