<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kennethh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kennethh</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:48:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kennethh" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Norway's lesson on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The wealth tax is mostly and envy tax, it does not increase total tax revenue and leads to people do overinvest in property (house and cabin) to reduce the taxable wealth. For people starting a business you have to move if you get VC money as you have to pay tax on unrealized gains.<p>The Ministry of Finance has  calculated  that expatriates took NOK 142 billion in deferred income out of the country in 2022 and 2023. Given the current tax rate of 38 percent, this means that we will lose more than NOK 50 billion in tax if we are unable to get them back home before 2027. On the other hand,  we lose  around NOK 0.77 billion in tax each year because expatriates are exempt from the high and uniquely Norwegian wealth tax.
<a href="https://www.nhh.no/nhh-bulletin/artikkelarkiv/2025/april/lytt-til-skatteflyktningene-fa-dem-hjem--og-fa-50-mrd.-mer-i-skatt/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nhh.no/nhh-bulletin/artikkelarkiv/2025/april/lyt...</a><p>The wealth tax increase has lead to less total tax income due to the income tax not being paid to Norway any longer.<p>As usual the upper middle class pays most of the wealth tax, 12% of the population paid wealth tax. If you have wealth beyond 170.000$ (1.76 million NOK) you pay 1% of the amount above. Private home and second house (cabin) has reduced value. Average salary in Norway is around 700.000 NOK.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:37:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044087</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "VPN signups from UK surge 1400% after Online Safety Act goes into effect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>UK seems to totally lost it ways? The politicians seems to be doing everything they can do to harm normal people. Anyone know why UK have chosen this direction?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:48:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44695394</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44695394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44695394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Getting Past Procrastination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember being on a session with the pragmatic programmers (ie the people from the book) and they recommended making a compile error on purpose as the last thing one did before leaving work. The next day you compiled the code and get an error, fix this and they continue working. You are already doing work. This sets your mind on the right track from they day before. I gave used this a bit and it works pretty well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:03:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215707</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "OpenERV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What would be the advantage compared to commercial products like:
<a href="https://les.mitsubishielectric.it/en/products/ventilation_377/residential-ventilation_378/de-centralized_528/vl-sr2-vl-eu5_4049.html" rel="nofollow">https://les.mitsubishielectric.it/en/products/ventilation_37...</a><p>This product cost around 500$ and also has heat exchange.
A friend of mine has installed it and is very happy with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:29:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429426</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great list.<p>Azure Data Studio is pretty good and free to use.
<a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-data-studio" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-data-studio</a><p>Supports of course most MS products but also:
PostgreSQL   
MySQL   
MongoDB   
Apache Spark   
Apache Cassandra</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:59:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326618</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would it be possible to use a device like Google Nest Hub 2. for the similar purpose? It is quite a bit cheaper, I have an old mother which still is clear in the head but often have problems with her mobile phone. Would also be easier for us to share pictures of her grandchildren and such.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:52:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146091</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Caffeine suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was a bit surprised to see that Cold Drinks Now Represent 75 Percent of Starbucks’ Sales. I am guessing most of these cold drinks contains an huge amount of sugar and other sweeteners.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:27:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41043881</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41043881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41043881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Prostate cancer cases worldwide likely to double by 2040, analysis finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The hormone therapy eventually stops working, some of the prostate cancer cells will be able to continue to grow even with low levels of testosterone.<p>Google Gemnini says:
Not a cure: Hormone therapy is not a cure for prostate cancer, but it can significantly slow its growth and shrink tumors.<p>Often used in combination: Hormone therapy is frequently combined with other treatments like radiation therapy or chemotherapy.<p>Side effects: Hormone therapy can have side effects like hot flashes, fatigue, decreased libido, and bone density loss.<p>Your doctor will discuss these with you as you choose the best treatment plan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:18:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942000</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942000</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is game changing that you can include Mermaid diagrams in Azure DevOps and Github markdown files. Makes it easy to include a chart or diagram and keep it under source control.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:48:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776144</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in ".NET Developers Begging for Ecosystem Destruction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What would you recommend as an easy upgrade from the default DI?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:57:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753758</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid boilerplate starters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like a great starting point with good choices of technologies. I see the database is sqlite in development as default, but it is not possible to use it in production as described in the documentation. Would be great with the option to use sqlite in production also since it is easy to use and require less resources.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:42:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201146</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201146</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Turkey hikes interest rate again to 45% after inflation nears 65%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not a very good argument that their subscription service has not increased in price in 17 years. Many online services have kept their price but the number of users have increased a lot. 
The important thing about ShadowStats is that they show different methods of calculation price inflation.<p>Calculating inflation from prices is not easy since people tend to consume more chicken or pork of beef is getting more expensive. If you still only consume beef the price index do not show your personal reality, and this reality is different for all people. 
In aggregate everything that is produced get consumed over time, so the total prices paid is always connected to the total amount of money available.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:27:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165516</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Turkey hikes interest rate again to 45% after inflation nears 65%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was very simply explained.<p>IMF: Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. Inflation is typically a broad measure, such as the overall increase in prices or the increase in the cost of living in a country.<p>Milton Friedman (famous Economists) 
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”<p>My take is that if more money is produced they will chase the same amount of good until the prices increase enough to accommodate  the new money.<p>Carl Barks described inflation in the best way in his 1950 Donald Duck classic: "A Financial Fable"<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Financial_Fable" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Financial_Fable</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165317</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Scott Galloway's 2024 Predictions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Totally agree with Alphabet being the  tech prediction of 2024. They have the user base and only need to come with up with an equal product of Chat-GTP to be successful. Their valuation is also pretty low compared to Microsoft with P/S of 6 compared to 13.<p>Regarding Trump I do not know the legal details of the crimes but I find it very unlikely the courts should decide the 2024 election, the easiest solution would be of course to delay the decision to after the election. This is not an opinion about Trump of being guilty or not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 09:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38899717</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38899717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38899717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Ask HN: Is it advisable to write a back end using Node.js in 2024?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is the security of NodeJS backends compared to .Net or Java? Any libraries that would increase the security for an express app?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 07:05:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38864036</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38864036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38864036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As you get older it take longer to recover. I noticed this the first time around 35 and now at 51 it take even longer to recover. I also notice that real food feels a lot better compared to when I was younger, especially benefitable for me have been to eat more meat which make it possible for me to not to eat directly after training. In general I read that the digestion gets worse the older you are and you need to provide more high quality food ie no pop tarts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 08:36:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38839461</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38839461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38839461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Charlie Munger has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Divorce is about people not wanting to live and share their life together, it is a union where both parties should benefit (why else go into such an agreement). 
In many cases after a divorce the man does not get to see his children due to the women getting more money the less the man take care of the children. This is really bad for the children, research show that children do a lot worse the less they have contact with both parents. 
In the modern western society (Europe/USA) the men get the worst deal and this show in almost every respect (93% men in prisons, double the amount of drug users, single custody (80/20). Women also live longer, die less often of work relegated injuries. In general women gets taken care of by society to a greater extent than men.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:32:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38456597</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38456597</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38456597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Ways in which Tailwind CSS is a better choice than Twitter Bootstrap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bootstrap is no longer associated with Twitter. They used to be called Twitter Bootstrap since the people who made it worked at Twitter but it is almost 10 years since the quited and started for themself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 07:28:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36939698</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36939698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36939698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Profit-Price Spiral: Excess Profits Fuelling Inflation, Not Wages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In mye MBA studies the teacher for accounting had done research on return of equity (ROE) and it showed over time 10+ year for all Norwegian companies it stuck around 9.3%  
If something become very profitable then many companies should start to target that marked and the profit should be less over time. It is reasonable to think the same thing should happen now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 08:09:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36162477</link><dc:creator>kennethh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36162477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36162477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennethh in "Freakwan: A MicroPython driver for the SX1276 LoRa chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are there any mobile phones that also supports LoRa standard?</p>
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