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Chris Skinner
Personal blog · thefinanser.combusinesseconomics
Chris Skinner's personal blog at thefinanser.com covers business and economics. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Chris Skinner's finance and tech blog, including a 2009 post reprinting Julian Gough's Cobra Effect short story about the Hargeisa goat bubble, plus posts on tech hype and CXMT chip pricing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
You're not missing anything, and this lovely flowchart from NIST shows just how rare actual use cases are: https://thefinanser.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/NIST-flow... However, the execs making decisions about hot buzzwords like "blockchain" or "AIOps" etc neither understand nor care.
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on “How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss”Submitted How banks are getting around open banking and PSD2 as a story · 126 points
HN discussionFor a hilarious short story about the Cobra Effect taken to extremes, check out Julian Gough's "The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble": https://thefinanser.com/2009/05/the-great-hargeisa-goat-bubb...
Comment linking /2009/05/the-great-hargeisa-goat-bubble
on “Incentives and the Cobra Effect”Submitted India's Billion Digital Identities as a story · 42 points
HN discussiontl;dr: "Who benefits is what matters, not the official explanation" is how you prove anything you want. Boeing benefits when Airbus has problems, that doesn't mean Boeing sabotaged them. And even on its own terms: Qualcomm collected royalties from Huawei on every handset sold (per their 2018 licensing deal), so Qualcomm had direct financial incentive for Huawei to sell more phones, not fewer. The "cui bono" doesn't…
Comment linking /2021/06/usa-v-china-or-huawei-v-hsbc-a-timeline
on “CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate”Submitted What's the problem with COBOL? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A global currency is coming, whether you like it or not (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The unbankable banked as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you like change, don’t work for a bank as a story · 1 points
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