Assuming non-wasteful delivery methods, I’d still call that a win as vaping is generally less harmful to the health of the user.

Quitting is of course preferable, but I support harm reduction policies in general

You’re playing into the hands of the owners by pitting different groups of workers against each other. I suggest that you stop doing that.

190k is definitely not on the high end by Silicon Valley-standards: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/san-francisco-bay-area

It’s irrelevant to the matter of whether they should strike or not, as well.

China does a variant of this where the whole country is on Beijing time. 99% Invisible did an episode that covered it here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/matters-of-time/

Basically the local Uyghur population in Xinjiang code switch and maintain an unofficial local time which aligns more closely with the movement of the sun.

I think this is basically testing:

1. If you have been practicing your leetcoding recently, and
2. If you’re decent at leetcoding under pressure

I mean, the pay is still way ahead of anything outside FAANG, really.

I’m struggling really hard to see which voter is on the fence between Trump and Stein. Wouldn’t it be more likely to be on the fence between Stein and Harris, or Stein and the couch?

Try moving to some leaner cut of beef, or maybe something like chicken breast, and see what happens.

I assume you’re hungry enough to want more than the 600 calories you would find in 150 grams of protein.

If this is the case, I’d assume you’d need to focus on food that is more dense in protein relative to other macro nutrients.

If not, I’m not sure how I could help you out with advice. I think I could probably easily scarf down 3000 calories a day, to the great displeasure of my body. Luckily I love to exercise which generally keeps things in check

The Swedish state-run media puts out a very good comparison between all the parties each election year which I use to understand what position each party has. It’s been generally easy to figure out which party is closest to me using that tool. It can be used for the three tiers of elections that we have in Sweden.

Other than that I try to look at polls to see whether it would be generally better for me to place a strategic vote on a party that is not my first choice.

Couldn’t you just start a recording on your regular video camera, do the training, stop the recording and then play it back?

I’m not sure this warrants a different application, to be honest.

iirc it’s basically to appease the Cuban voting block in Florida who are against the regime in Cuba (because they got kicked out/lost property/whatever). This group holds some amount of sway in federal elections on account of Florida being (having been?) a swing state.

I believe Obama was in the process of mending the relations between the U.S and Cuba, and then Trump got into office and promptly reversed it as a giveaway to this group that now votes Republican.

I’ve always been writing comments and using variable names in English, at all jobs I’ve had. Probably also the non-professional code before I started writing code professionally.

Part of this is that I’ve been working in a lot of companies with non-Swedish speakers, and another part is that it’s just kind of been expected that the code and everything around it is in English.

The developers get less, but it ends up costing more to employ people in the EU. In the US, the rule of thumb - for white collar, non-executive jobs, at least - is 1.4x the salary for TCE (and it’s often reasonable to round up to 1.5). For EU employees, it’s between 1.5 and up to 1.8. Norway is 1.7; I don’t know what Sweden is, but I’d assumed it’s around the same.

So I get where you’re coming from, but this is really not true, and I’ll provide you with some numbers as to why it is not true.

Let’s check out the median salaries for senior engineers in Stockholm using levels.fyi: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/levels/senior/locations/greater-stockholm

As levels.fyi automatically converts to local currency, this is specified as 800k SEK, or 76k USD in today’s currency exchange. We can multiply that by the factor you provided for Norway, giving us 137k USD.

Now let’s plug in the numbers for San Francisco: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/levels/senior/locations/san-francisco-bay-area

3.375m SEK, or 321k USD. Using your factor for the U.S, we get 448k USD.

The contrast is of course the largest for San Francisco which is the most high-paying area for engineers, but the thought experiment is basically replicable for any city with a tech scene in the U.S, which is most comparable to Stockholm, which is the most expensive city in Sweden and which has a tech scene.

Essentially the TCE cannot explain the discrepancy in salaries in tech between Europe and the U.S.

Before we inevitably go there, COL does not adequately explain it either - San Francisco is very expensive, but Stockholm is far from being a cheap place to live either. Even when adjusting for this factor, the total amount left after living expenses is quite significantly higher for someone on a U.S salary.

It’s basically a fool’s errand to try to logically explain this discrepancy. The honest answer is that capitalism follows no strict logic, and pay becomes whatever the people with the money can get away with. They just happen to be able to get away with far less in Europe.

As a caveat, you can definitely find cheaper devs than those prices when looking outside of the U.S. 90k would get you pretty close to the top in Sweden for local companies, for example.

That the buildings are owned by the collective of the tenants, which they are in this case.

200k or more is pretty normal for a unit in a coop here as well. Unfortunately.

Financialization of housing was a huge mistake, one we will pay for the rest of our lives.

Mood honestly

Yeah, it really is a perfect item for communal ownership.

This is considered standard equipment in all apartments in Sweden, both co-op and rentals.