Quick question for anyone using Stripe to take payments online: are pay-outs sent as domestic transactions, i.e. wired to you from an instance of Stripe based in your own country of operations, or are they wired to you as a payment from overseas?
(Would appreciate some signal-boost on this query, because Stripe's FAQ is super opaque, and it turns out that their email-based customer service systems have been almost entirely turned over to LLMs... )
@patrick@PaulGrahamRaven
Can confirm. And for those unused to European non-domestic payment: there's very little difference as far as balance or payment schedule is concerned. Accounting must understand which part of funds relates to domestic sales due to VAT differences, and the way to account for that is to look at sales transactions, not payout transactions.
@PaulGrahamRaven I suspect it depends a lot of your country/account currency. With a french+euro account, we receive a SEPA wire from an IBAN in Denmark
I feel like there's a very real possibility that if we engineered the opportunity and circumstances for Elon Musk and Javier Milei to start a really terrible band together, we might through sheer distraction get at least two of the current crop of rampaging manchildren off the gameboard for a little while
@polinski Re: urgency loops -- would "Pianoblivion" off of Wreckage.Systems be an example? I love that one for its restlessness.
But I'm also curious about the ingredients of the urgency loop: in the RFTC tracks in particular, there's a stacking of layers going on, but I feel like there's also something happening with the interaction of chord progression and riff/melody that I don't quite understand, but which is nonetheless doing something with regard to kicking things up a notch.
Each successive blog post from Sean Bonner reads more and more like the longer-each-time manic and self-knotting letters you might get from a smart cousin who got into Scientology during a low period at university, and who keeps trying to explain to you (and by proxy to himself) that really it's all quite rational and there's nothing to worry about, which only makes you wonder how often he speaks to anyone outside of the echo-chamber
And the whole post is basically about how much of a predictable clusterfuck some recent "drop" turned out to be, and it's all very sad, because this is a very smart and creative person who (if you ask me) inducted themselves into a cult while trying to deal with the one-two punch of a major relocation between countries followed by pandemic lockdown isolation, and I do wonder how long it will be before we can have a conversation about the psychological damage of that era.
And yeah, I know we're not supposed to diagnose at a ̶d̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ distance, esp. if we're not actually mental health professionals, but all the same I'm pretty sure we will look back on the early 2020s as a period of fairly extreme psychological distress. We can discuss the causality, sure, but the basic fact of social isolation causing serious cognitive warping needs to be put on the table without all the "stop denying the pandemic!" stuff (which is another manifestation of the same thing).
Every time I see a picture of Geert Wilders, I somehow expect it to be accompanied by a detailed longread on how Harry Enfield finally got the sociopathic serial-killer movie role he'd longed for through his entire career
Wondering, not entirely idly, if there's perhaps some combination of filter terms which might block out all discussion of this year's US election without also, in effect, blocking out the entire internet...
... and now wondering if that latter result would actually be such a bad thing?
The freelance life can be incredibly nerve-racking at times, but it does have its upsides---such as when a sunny day on which you're a bit tired happens to coincide with a period of relatively low deadline density, and you can just decide "nah, fuck it, I'm having today off, actually".