RestlessMind

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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> and I see firsthand the way these people just waste time walking around with a coffee-cup shooting the breeze, or sitting in half-day meetings. This point is a bit naive or misguided. Slackers are to be found in a fully remote setup as
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Ireland has been specifically called out and excluded in TFA due to its unique tax situation.
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> The latter is basically stuff that is either cheap or free in certain places Healthcare is absolutely not free anywhere. It maybe that the costs are indirect via government taxation and benefits are curtailed via rationing or simply un
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
The methodology finally addresses a pet peeve of mine to adjust based on prices and hours worked: "we ranked 178 countries using three measures. The first is GDP per person at market exchange rates. It is simple and intuitive, and wide
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What is the richest country in 2025?(economist.com)
45 points by RestlessMind 1y ago|71 comments
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
OpenAI was not an entrenched interest until 2023. Yahoo mattered until 2009. Nokia was the king of mobile phones until 2010. Technology changes very quickly and the future of things is hardly decided by entrenched interests.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
I think the real underlying premise is that Elon is unhinged, cannot be trusted and just makes stuff up. Self driving Teslas were going to launch "next year" since 2017. DOGE was going to find 1-2T dollars worth of waste in our bu
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but most kids do follow rules. Only a few have hacker spirit, which should be over represented here on Hacker News, but is not that prevalent in society.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
This is not happening in a vacuum. The reasons are - Instagram inspiring me with beautiful stories of my friends visiting these exotic locales, cheap and easy ways to be a tourist thanks to low cost airlines and AirBnB, ease of spending in
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
I was planning to spend a few weeks in November working from Mexico City. It seems to be a cool place with cheap CoL, great food and lots of entertainment options. Some friends recommended a few AirBnB's as well. But it seems I am a vi
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Why Are Protesters in Mexico City Angry at Remote Workers?(nytimes.com)
9 points by RestlessMind 1y ago|5 comments
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Because some children might have the bad luck of being born to dumb parents who do not value education. Ensuring that those children should not suffer and every member of the society grows into a well-educated adult who can contribute back
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> These jobs are being offshored to India. That was inevitable the moment remote work caught on. Software engineers in rich countries were stupidly short-sighted to cheer on the remote work. If your work can be done from anywhere in the
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> Why? Because I have a right to sleep peacefully in the morning until a certain time. Just like I cannot host loud dance parties at 2AM on a Saturday or start mowing my lawn at 6AM on a Sunday. For people to coexist peacefully in a soci
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> Even for Capital gains to trigger, there has to be some kind of transfer/sale. The way rich people avoid capital gains tax is to borrow against their stocks. So they get to enjoy their wealth without paying back to the society.
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Europe Got Tough on Migration(nytimes.com)
3 points by RestlessMind 1y ago|2 comments
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> In the US we see a severe and dramatic event: falling income and rising stock market Inflation adjusted median wage has been increasing since mid-90's: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Gmail as a product was simple - a better version of Yahoo or Hotmail where you don't have to worry about storage size nor have to sort emails into various folders. Search worked magically and spam filters were better than anyone else.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
They never charged everyone. I was on Android back then and never paid a dime. Neither did anyone I know who was using Whatsapp on Android
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
I was on Android back then and never paid for Whatsapp. Neither did any of my family or friends who used Android phones back in 2012-13
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Correct. I used Android phones back then and so did all my family members and most of my friends. No one I knew paid a dime for Whatsapp.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
I used Hangouts including the dogfood versions internally at Google. Problem was it was too complicated because it was designed by Googlers for Googlers. So it supported desktop and mobile, work email and personal email and phone numbers, t
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Genuine question - what is your retirement plan? I have seriously looked and didn't find one yet which doesn't need population growth and/or productivity growth.
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Traveling to Europe? Here's What to Expect from Tourism Protests on June 15(nytimes.com)
2 points by RestlessMind 1y ago|0 comments
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The reason Indians are lost(economist.com)
5 points by RestlessMind 1y ago|2 comments
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
If everyone thinks that government will take care of them when they are old, they will prefer spending time on "self actualization" (whatever that means) instead of the boring dull work of raising kids.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Then you just fall back to a small trusted circle of family and friends. Or, what we used to call a tribe or a clan back then.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
"Investing money" is insufficient. You still need kids and the newer generations at the end of the day. Think where you are going to invest and how that investment is going to provide returns. Stocks? Those companies actually need
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
These people were outliers and they could pursue their passions and contribute to the societies because vast majority of adults were rearing a bunch of kids. The problem is that for the last few generations in the Western societies, everyon
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> I don't think we need nearly as much as most people think. It completely depends on what standard of living you want. People who would be considered wealthy by 1920's standards are considered poor today.

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