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Ask HN: Idea Sunday 12 years ago

Check out zidisha.org. They explain why micro-financers have to charge up to 40% (!!!) interest to cover loan management costs.

They have a new, eBay-like take on micro-financing. You earn about 5% on your loan, while knowing 50% of loans will fail.

I like their concept and plan to throw a couple hundred into the wind and see what happens.

I've started using PJAX where the rendered page does not have to change when its source data does, and where you don't have large tables/calendars that would have to be re-rendered when one data value changes.

Development is significantly faster, less error-prone, easier to maintain. Development can also be given to people with lower skill levels.

I found 95% concentrations of DEET effective during multiple trips paddling in northern Canada. The alternative was to come back with inflamed skin easy an inch thick.

Buy the 05% DEET in the USA as Canada no longer allows concentrations over 30%.

I started my first job in 1974. My first project was to migrate apps running one of those 402 unit record machines (plus an attached adder/subtracter, plus a multiplier/divider/square-rooter) to IBM mainframes. There were a lot of those patch panels, one for each app. So my first step was to write a 402 patch panel emulator. ;) This freed up the floor space we needed to rewrite the apps properly. Quite a difference from nodejs and Angular SPAs.