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mcntsh
·hace 18 días·discuss
my point is, in germany it takes longer than a test to get your license, unlike the US.
mcntsh
·hace 18 días·discuss
45 minutes? In Germany getting your license takes most people around a year and costs thousands of euros.
mcntsh
·hace 3 meses·discuss
> 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 stronger position than they were in a year ago.
mcntsh
·hace 4 meses·discuss
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?
mcntsh
·hace 4 meses·discuss
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...
mcntsh
·hace 4 meses·discuss
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.
mcntsh
·hace 5 meses·discuss
He says:

1. Strong data governance 2. Tax implications for layoffs (offshoring?)
mcntsh
·hace 5 meses·discuss
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 up by the old billionaires.
mcntsh
·hace 5 meses·discuss
> 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, and the more you make means less other people have.
mcntsh
·hace 5 meses·discuss
You could argue that the world is way more globalized today.
mcntsh
·hace 6 meses·discuss
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 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...
mcntsh
·hace 6 meses·discuss
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.
mcntsh
·hace 6 meses·discuss
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.
mcntsh
·hace 7 meses·discuss
you only think that because a bunch of roads were constructed for cars
mcntsh
·hace 7 meses·discuss
> 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.
mcntsh
·hace 7 meses·discuss
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.
mcntsh
·hace 7 meses·discuss
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...
mcntsh
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Agriculture produces food... it feels silly to compare the two.
mcntsh
·hace 10 meses·discuss
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.
mcntsh
·hace 10 meses·discuss
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 like it!