<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: mcntsh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mcntsh</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:10:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mcntsh" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcntsh in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What action can Iran take today that they couldn’t take a year ago?<p>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 stronger position than they were in a year ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:11:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686026</link><dc:creator>mcntsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcntsh in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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?</p>
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<p>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...</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>He says:<p>1. Strong data governance 
2. Tax implications for layoffs (offshoring?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:29:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799568</link><dc:creator>mcntsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcntsh in "If you tax them, will they leave?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wealth doesn't go straight up, it bubbles up.<p>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 up by the old billionaires.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:30:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795116</link><dc:creator>mcntsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795116</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcntsh in "If you tax them, will they leave?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Then the next question is why does wealth, in practically all industrious countries seem to distribute disproportionally and not uniformly?<p>It's simply because money is compoundable. The more money you have the more you can make, and the more you make means less other people have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:11:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794869</link><dc:creator>mcntsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcntsh in "If you tax them, will they leave?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could argue that the world is way more globalized today.</p>
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<p>You're just saying this because you're American and accustomed to it.<p>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).<p>Anyway, from the metric perspective, most people look at it like... 0 is coat and boots weather, + 10 degrees is jacket weather, + 10 degrees is t-shirt weather, and + 10 degrees is hot. IMO, using "freezing" as the reference kinda makes sense...</p>
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<p>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 majority of cars are diesel hatchbacks.</p>
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<p>Electric cars in general don’t really make much sense in Germany.<p>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.</p>
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<p>you only think that because a bunch of roads were constructed for cars</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:28:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408701</link><dc:creator>mcntsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcntsh in "Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> globally speaking<p>What if instead of comparing people in, say America to people in South Sudan, you compare people in America to people in America.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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 disappeared...</p>
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<p>Agriculture produces food... it feels silly to compare the two.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:12:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721915</link><dc:creator>mcntsh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcntsh in "Reverse brain drain: governments hope to lure talent after US visa change"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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 biased.</p>
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<p>Because Europe offers clean safe cities and good WLB? Again you’re just looking at it from the angle of money…<p>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 like it!</p>
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<p>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?<p>Also Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam et all are large, diverse metropolises. Not sure where the idea comes from that you wouldn’t be able to find your tribe or your cuisine in these cities.</p>
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<p>There’s more to life than money.<p>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.</p>
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