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Sometimes I write on https://schleiss.io I also work on https://rubus.xyz

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Diseconomies of Scale

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

In 1990, Brazilian Interest Rates Hit 790,799%

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rubus.xyz 4y ago

Complexity in Open Source Projects

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accu.org 5y ago

OOP Is Not Essential

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schleiss.io 5y ago

Living with a single hose portable air conditioner in the city

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schleiss.io 5y ago

Looking at my life as a solopreneur

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Leland Stanford, Founder of Stanford University

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schleiss.io 5y ago

Measuring complexity in popular Open Source projects

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groups.google.com 5y ago

The Ten Commandments For C Programmers by H. Spencer (1987)

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schleiss.io 5y ago

Measuring potential complexity in some Open Source projects

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www.martinweigel.org 5y ago

Why success stories are just propaganda

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schleiss.io 5y ago

Measuring potential complexity in popular Open Source projects

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schleiss.io 5y ago

Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects

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www.coryzue.com 5y ago

Stop worrying about edge cases

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levels.io 5y ago

With jobs gone, will robot owners pay people's income?

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docs.microsoft.com 5y ago

Free HotJar alternative by Microsoft to understand your users

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remotehunter.xyz 6y ago

Show HN: Probably the 1001st job board on the internet

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schleiss.io 7y ago

Fixing Twitter's Design with uBlock Origin

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schleiss.io 7y ago

Why the demise of companies is a good thing

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schleiss.io 7y ago

Show HN: Firefox Web Extension for growing your Instagram account by hand

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schleiss.io 7y ago

The shortage of good .xyz domains explained

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schleiss.io 7y ago

I looked at 4000+ .xyz domains only to find out most are for resale

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schleiss.io 7y ago

What it looks like to promote a pre-revenue side project without an audience

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schleiss.io 7y ago

On the importance of user onboarding for side projects

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github.com 7y ago

Show HN: An Instagram Web Extension for growing your account by hand

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schleiss.io 7y ago

Open Sourced My Instagram Helper Web Extension for Growing an Account

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schleiss.io 7y ago

Why you won't find your favorite .xyz domain anytime soon

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schleiss.io 7y ago

Why Today Is the Best Time to Compete with Google

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www.indiehackers.com 8y ago

What it looks like to promote a pre-revenue side project without an audience

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home.snafu.de 8y ago

Mozilla stomps IE

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Square Banking 5 years ago

I can't really tell. I haven't taken a loan yet.

Let's just hope for all borrowers inflation remains "transitory" and growing, than it isn't such a big deal.

Square Banking 5 years ago

I'm curious about the small business loans. I'm from Europe and the animations suggests for a $9000 loan a total repayment of $10305. Let's assume you make $5000 in revenue per month and they use 10% as a repayment cut per transaction. That would yield a 20 month long repayment schedule. The "interest" would be roughly 7% annually. In today's world, isn't that greedy? In today's world, Warren Buffet can issue a 0% coupon bond[1]. I'm just perplexed. Especially since it's Square and not Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan.

According to the St Louis Fed, the average interest rate for Small Businesses was about 3.5 - 5% [2]. For me this sounds like an incredibly bad deal.

[1] https://cbonds.com/bonds/698053/

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EEBXSSNQ

Yes, I realized that too, therefore I put the machine on the desk to suck in the air of the middle of the room instead of the coldest air on the bottom of the room.

But how come the room doesn't get colder overall? Is it sized too small? My apartment here is about 36m2 with 2.7m tall rooms. The unit has 14000BTU which is one of the largest portable air conditioner that you can get. Even if I were to close the doors to the other rooms, it would only be able to cool the room by 1 degree during the day (8 hour span). In the night it does its job well by lowering the temperature to the outside temperature but it won't go beneath it.

Author here, I just had to get some thoughts out and complain how bad these portable air conditioners are.

I just don't understand why the appliances space attracts so little innovation or startups. Even though they are at least 400€ a piece and could generate lots of revenue on mass.

On Friday I listened to the newest Macrovoices episode with Philip Verleger [1] where they argued that America has far too few engineering students to even create a green energy revolution in America. The expertise was transferred primarily to software engineering jobs.

Dr. Verleger apparently was one of the key players in created the oil futures markets, so he probably knows a thing about this space.

[1] https://www.macrovoices.com/983-macrovoices-276-philip-verle...

In Vienna (Austria), we recently had a discussion[1] about the expansion of broadband internet. Unfortunately, politics gets in the way about where, how and who finances the cables such that only new buildings receive fibre optic cables. It's such a tragedy. I always thought that a startup needs to get in this space to disrupt the establishment.

[1] https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000126622224/wiens-problem... (in German)

I can emphasize with the argument that complexity is a source of income. But, I don't think that it's intentional. Rather, the constant change of developers introduced little inconsistencies that over time accumulate and generate complexity. Recently, I even looked at some open source projects[1] to measure the complexity by counting import/include statements.

[1] https://schleiss.io/measuring-potential-complexity-in-open-s...