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aasthaj··on Show HN: Reagent – graph based framework for building AI agent with UI
This is great!
aasthaj··on AI Writing Is Dead
AI writing is bland. It does not make me think. It is dead writing.

An essay on how important new ideas are lost when writing is outsourced to AI.

Writing is not a goal oriented process of dumping your thoughts on paper. The act of writing itself generates new ideas that define your essay. (Paul Graham discusses this)

Writing allows you to find unity in variety and link different ideas together.

This is because humans are not one-dimensional. They are creative. They are disobedient.

AI is not disobedient.

Writing allows me to be creative and disobedient, magnifying the search for unity in variety.

aasthaj··on Clerky for Canada: Open your Canadian subsidiary in few minutes online
If anyone has tried to open a subsidiary in Canada or has any initial feedback on the problem based on our demo video, we'd love to know. Thank you!

For reference our website: https://www.getsiva.co/

aasthaj··on Reducing costs by setting up an entity vs. using Deel (and other EORs)
With remote work, there are many startups hiring globally in different countries. They typically use Deel (and other Employer of Records like Pilot, Remote), but these services can be pretty expensive as you grow to 5+ employees with 600/mo/pp (or $36k/yr). It's also hard to offer those employees great benefits or equity, especially if you hire them as contractors.

The other alternative is to set up your own entity, but that can be operationally complex and involved many moving pieces (e.g., laywers, accountants, compliance, banks, etc).

At Siva, we have launched a solution to help your startup expand to Canada at significantly lower costs than an EOR. We hope to become the one stop solution for everything a startup would need to expand to Canada (and other countries in the future): incorporation, bank accounts, accounting, compliance, and benefits.

In this blog post, we talk about the differences between using an EOR vs owning an entity in Canada - would appreciate any thoughts / feedback if this has been a pain point or if we can help you expand to Canada.

Link to blog: https://getsiva.substack.com/p/canada

aasthaj··on The Beginning of Infinity: brief summary on explanations
Understanding David Deutsch’s book The Beginning of Infinity will not only provide you with the best explanation (we have so far) of epistemology (theory of knowledge), but it will also provide you with a lens through which to view the world.