mcntsh

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by mcntsh 16d ago
they've started to get a big bulge on the top-left of the device and no longer sit flat on a table. Oh and they popularized silicon cases that dont go in or out of pockets.
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by mcntsh 26d ago
You said "you can't" (live in the bay, anymore, on less than 200k). The bay is bigger than SF.
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by mcntsh 27d ago
You're moving the goalposts here now to make it seem like the baseline-acceptable lifestyle for someone in the Bay is to live directly in San Francisco and have a short commute in a desirable area with adequate space. By the way, the B
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by mcntsh 27d ago
Looking at Zillow, there are 64 2-bedroom apartments in SF alone for <= $4k. If you expand your search out of the city the number becomes much higher...
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by mcntsh 27d ago
A 200k salary is what... 13k net? You're telling me that income is just surviving in the Bay Area?
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by mcntsh 1mo ago
So the solution to convince the public that these companies aren’t “looking for new ways to screw them over” is to try to go into biomedical research. I guess it’ll be great for Anthropic to have the cure for cancer, but what’s that gonna m
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by mcntsh 3mo ago
my point is, in germany it takes longer than a test to get your license, unlike the US.
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by mcntsh 3mo ago
45 minutes? In Germany getting your license takes most people around a year and costs thousands of euros.
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by mcntsh 5mo ago
> What action can Iran take today that they couldn’t take a year ago? Remove of sanctions, ability to monitize traffic through the strait, guarantees against aggression and a cessation of military bases in their region. IMO, a much stron
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by mcntsh 6mo ago
Every cost is disconnected from the value it generates. Do you pay the price for gasoline, electricity, or food based on the value it provides you?
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by mcntsh 7mo ago
Wasn't this always the idea behind combating inflation? At the end of the day you need to make people poorer to make the dollar worth more...
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by mcntsh 7mo ago
Streetview is such an incredible product - one of the few digital products that still manages to bring me joy every day. it'll be a shame when it's inevitably enshitified.
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by mcntsh 8mo ago
He says: 1. Strong data governance 2. Tax implications for layoffs (offshoring?)
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by mcntsh 8mo ago
Wealth doesn't go straight up, it bubbles up. And thinking about bubbles, imagine what happens when the GenAI one pops. The wealth some new billionaires had will go up in smoke, their assets will go on sale, and they'll be gobbled
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by mcntsh 8mo ago
> Then the next question is why does wealth, in practically all industrious countries seem to distribute disproportionally and not uniformly? It's simply because money is compoundable. The more money you have the more you can make,
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by mcntsh 8mo ago
You could argue that the world is way more globalized today.
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by mcntsh 8mo ago
You're just saying this because you're American and accustomed to it. To you, a 0-100 scale makes sense but to me it doesn't because 0f (-17c) is way rarer of a temp than 100f (38c). Anyway, from the metric perspective, most
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by mcntsh 8mo ago
It doesn’t make sense to base your car purchase on hypotheticals like this. As it stands right now, costs plus infrastructure make electric cars less desirable to own, and that’s why if you drive around Germany, you’ll notice the vast major
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by mcntsh 8mo ago
Electric cars in general don’t really make much sense in Germany. Most people live in apartments without access to personal chargers, combined with high electricity cost you end up not even saving money for the inconvenience.
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by mcntsh 9mo ago
you only think that because a bunch of roads were constructed for cars
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by mcntsh 9mo ago
> globally speaking What if instead of comparing people in, say America to people in South Sudan, you compare people in America to people in America.
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by mcntsh 10mo ago
It's all about picking the right tools for the job. The "cognitive load" might be larger in a vanilla project compared to React when your interface is more complex and interactive.
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by mcntsh 10mo ago
If the author doesn't want to work with NPM and the JavaScript ecosystem he could just get a job writing Spring/Boot, which makes up probably 90% of the jobs at large enterprise companies. I don't agree that this world has di
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by mcntsh 11mo ago
Agriculture produces food... it feels silly to compare the two.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
I think if someone forfeits stability for money then that's their choice. I personally think that's an extremely strange one to make, but I'm one of those people who left the US for more stability, safety, so maybe I'm b
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Because Europe offers clean safe cities and good WLB? Again you’re just looking at it from the angle of money… If all you want is to be in a big Indian diaspora and make a lot of money then I guess California is a good fit for you. Glad you
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by mcntsh 1y ago
I’m also living a 15h flight away from my country/culture/people and I never felt the need for money to make up for it. Sounds like you just value money? Also Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam et all are large, diverse metropolises. Not su
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by mcntsh 1y ago
There’s more to life than money. I’ve worked for big tech in the Silicon Valley, worked for big tech in NYC, worked for big tech in Berlin. Though I make way less money here in Germany, I’d never move back to the US.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Grateful to be living in Germany where this will not be allowed due to strict data privacy rules.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
When I worked in the US I had “Kaiser Permanente” which seemed to be something like an all-in-one system. You have specialists, GPs, labs and pharmacy all in one building covered by one insurance. Could something like that scale to the whol

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