econcon

Making profit is like digging for water. Can use crystal ball or tarrot card or pair of sticks, as long as you are digging in the right spot where water is found - you'll make money.

Problem occurs when you dig wrong spot over and over.

For example, in Covid time I saw that people were printing face shields and other stuff, I quickly figured out that there will be major filament shortage in time to come and started creating filament: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

I made €7000 in less than a month.

I left the software space and I now make and sell filament: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Same is true for most developing countries like India, Pakistan, etc...

The people have control over others through muscle power and threats and law can't reach them as they also control all guardians of law.

In a union, how can poor exist without rich, how can rich exist without poor?

See, people will leave their country for better country if there is opportunity to do so which is plenty in EU when you compare the average quality of life of a German Vs Bulgarian

If Bulgaria is losing its people, maybe it's the intended effect of the free movement of labor?

I make €8000 euros per month after tax, working 3 hours a day - it has considerably good effect on my life and I've more time to explore new problems where I can make more money. If I was trapped in a job, I could never look for new opportunities

Just ship it mantra has worked for me.

I created filament even when my tolerance was slightly off, I managed to label it +/-0.03mm and sell it in market even with limited colour choice

Problem is it's not the VC's job to help minorities. And even if one VC chooses to do so, they might make their fund less competitive compared to other funds.

We can make a simple law:

If a VC has to operate in US, they must reserve X amount for the minorities.

If VCs think it's unfair and that minorities are not good investment then VCs can figure out how to "uplift" the minorities by creating much needed programs and network for them.

I think we can check it by comparing large reactors with nuclear powered submarine or warship

It can be solved if we've interconnected grid all over the world and then we can setup very large reactors at some safe Island away from people.

Today, we've Ultra High Voltage DC transmission technology which can cover whole planet.

In India it would be true, 40% of MLAs in India have serious criminal charges filed against them.

These are charges which courts found real enough to have herring.

Is it possible to create engineered bacterias at home? Or it can only be done in advanced institutes with big machines which average Joe can't afford?

Wow! I like these chemical and biological processes which can alter the materials.

Guys! Can you suggest an easy way to convert PET plastic to PETG? Can we make bioengineered bacteria for this process.

I make 3d printing filament from plastic waste (currently using abs) and I can find lots of cheap PET plastic but it's not good for printing but PETG is.

Hello! I've dual axis laser micrometer which has a sampling rate of 100 of times per second.

I can use microcontroller to read the measurements and want to dynamically change the puller roller speed. (It's a geared down stepper motor)

Pinch roller (puller) is very simple, it uses steel rollers which have sandpaper pasted (with epoxy) on it for gripping fimament - it can pull with force of 10kg before it slips.

I want to achieve tolerance range of +/-0.02mm in diameter

It's a good project.

If you print a lot, here's my project using which you can create tons of cheap filament:

https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

If anyone can contribute diameter control algorithm, please let me know!

I think you are confused with Discourse Vs Discord

Those who are tired of government blocking, make a $5 droplet in Germany or Netherlands and set wireguard.

When I was in India, I was getting much better speed on vpn compared to direct connection. How can this be possible? Page loads appeared significantly faster through digital ocean server.

I was under impression, VPN adds overhead and reduces speed?.

I often do market research and blocking gets in way, I can decide what website is good for me what isn't. Government shouldn't have any say in that.

> it's something China has been doing to great success and the Asian tiger economies (primarily South Korea) did as well.

When india imposed duties against chinese steel, the steel sector grew but soon the Real Estate sector accrued high input costs and real estate became expensive.

Same happened to automobile sector in india, yes few people gain from protectionism at expense of others.

I'd go on 1 foot and tell everyone, quality of skilled labor in india is bad not because of lack of quality education but because they are not able to afford quality tools which international market has to offer. Primary reason for that is those tools are only available to you if you work for big companies, goverment has put lots of taxes/tarrifs/duties on that which is HUGE relative to what people make there.

India has taxes duties more than europe but doesn't offer its citizen as much benefits as europe does.

Like Indian comment producers were found colluding to keep the domestic cement price high.

If there was competition from foreign players, this would have not happened

You can a have a quadcopter drone clean every panel with a soft brush/microfiber cloth and return to base at recharging station and repeat.

Have a swarm of these and cleaning will not be an issue.

If you go to /r/WooCommerce you'll see growing pains and that people are not happy in general with WooCommerce and plugin developers have to work extra hard to support ever changing WordPress.

There is a need of stable (not frequently changing) e-commerce app that can be hosted and supports stripe/PayPal and "shipment tracking".

WooCommerce requires yearly payment for shipment tracking.

When discourse is available for free, there is no reason why WooCommerce alternative which can provide more out of box support can't be free.

Today what options people have? WooCommerce, Shopify (SaaS) and legacy apps like Magento, Presto, Opencart.

This is not enough - most e-commerce development happens on agencies selling their services. We can certainly provide more out of box features with help of open develop model.

If having kids is profitable or not is open debate.

Most people I know would love to have kids but they don't want to have them with a wrong person.

And what is considered "wrong" have changed over time.

Many people want to have kids on their own terms, not the terms of their partner. They want to have zero compromise in personal freedom - so they don't takers for that offer resulting in them not having any kids.

Trying to create Discourse like E-commerce app that will make it easy for people to sell anything

It will have all features that WooCommerce have but much stable and easily customisable.

Ofc, I am aware of it - I am only comparing poor Vs rich. Privileged Vs underprivileged. Not comparing countries with other countries.

White people are on average will have more socioeconomic freedom, so less reasons to walk around in a band or associate with anyone for survival value. This naturally leads to drop in birth rate.

Poor people have more reasons to band together, pool their money to afford nicer things. And they've more reproductive pressure because of this reasons, so they are bound to grow population wise. This is seen nearly everywhere even in places where there are no good social weflare programs like India.

It's a curse that comes with freedom, individualism and prosperity - you've end up with no reasons to reproduce or find it very difficult to associate with someone because it seems so limiting.

There is a really nice free app called "Discourse" for making forums but no such nice app for launching an e-commerce website with free plugins ecosystem.

Is there a specific reason that free high quality forum software can be built but not e-commerce?

No one putting gun to their head to cough up $4500. They are paying because of their own weakness or maybe because of market forces as they can't get their fix elsewhere.

I can easily justify it ethically as "it's what my offering is valued by market". All my engineering education skills have not gone waste, those sleepless nights, missed dates - all paid off finally!

Revs up Lamborghini bought on installment paid with $4500 check

Dad can provide a minor credit card/debit card, they are very popular these days with spend limit. Many platforms allow you to set spend limit.

It's also possible to turn on a heater and forget to turn it off by a minor and accure mega electricity bill and same is true if your data is being charged per unit data consumed by your internet provider. In none of those cases, refund would be provided.

For starting forums for example Discourse is great with plenty of free plugins.

But nothing like that exists in E-commerce atleast I've not used anything which atleast solved some basic e-commerce problems with free plugins.

Yet there are tons of e-commerce websites.

It seems many of them are using plugins by some private agencies which sell maintenance service.

I think they get acquired by big companies which provides nice exist to founders for majority of small businesses.

How about comparing number of new businesses started/companies registered?

Imho America is the only country where it's easiest to make money and where probability of your business succeeding is much higher than elsewhere. Partly due to America not trying hard to kill incentives which capitalism offers to entrepreneurs