irrationalactor

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by irrationalactor 7y ago
Back when every person in the office required their own secretary to do the work that they now do with Saas, did you call secretaries rent-seekers? Saas is productivity growth at work. Rent-seekers add no additional productivity to the econ
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
Loving Mailbrew so far, but it's too half-baked at the moment for me to be willing to pay $10/month for it. For context, I happily pay for 1password, fastmail, workflowy, notion, stratechery, NYT, Spotify, blackblaze, 2 VPNs and c
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
I love Tailwind but hate having to deal with build tools and purgecss and package management and [insert modern workflow hassle] just for a little side project. Is there anything similar to Tailwind that doesn't require any build proce
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
The sterile world you desire is not one I'd like to live in.
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
In fairness, all start-ups are "run like a circus." That's the point of a start-up--to figure out new/better ways of doing things. Most of the time it doesn't work, and then you try something else. If you want the s
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
From the guide it sounded like you need a Finnish limited liability company to be able to service domestic Finnish clients. Or would Finnish companies be able to pay an on-site freelancer with an American LLC just as easily?
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
Anybody have experience as to whether this applies to an American living in Finland? Due to FATCA and the US's draconian tax laws around ownership of foreign investment assets...I'm wondering if it wouldn't make any sense to
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
The problem isn't that you don't make your own toilet paper. It's that an oddly high percentage of people you're competing against for the most desirable jobs do make their own toilet paper. By contrast, you appear les
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
Whatsapp's dominance everywhere outside the US has nothing to do with the generous texting plans here. These were common all over Europe as well. The reason the US has been slower to transition to data-based texting is due to our size
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
Have you ever read about the history of the USSR? If you include the millions who died in various famines as well as those that were executed directly by Stalin, the number of victims of the USSR has been estimated to be anywhere between 6
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
Amazingly, none of these options are great. Bookmark OS comes close for me, but the ugly UI ruins the experience. Nothing is more annoying than the Russian doll experience of seeing a hacky version of macOS doubled up inside of the chrome o
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
On the contrary, the idea the US government created this money from nothing is the backwards perspective. How does government deficit spending happen? Via the sale of debt (ie. Treasury bonds). The reason people are willing to buy US govern
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
That depends on your relative definition of "widespread." Was globalization widespread in 1919 compared to 1819? Absolutely. But the globalization of our collective economies in 2019 is dramatically higher than it was in 1919. Als
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
Except, most companies make the world a better place. On the whole, private enterprise is almost entirely responsible for humanity's rise out of impoverished suffering over the past 200 years. The global interconnected nature of priv
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by irrationalactor 7y ago
Having worked in the field for a few years after graduation myself, I've come to think of "strategy consulting" as mostly bureaucratic arbitrage. 8 times out of 10, the organization knows exactly what needs to be done. Howeve