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

Interesting. Private rental, if you don’t mind me asking? They fall under the same rules, for context for the rest of the readers.

I’m going to guess here and the poster can fill in details - I guess that they live in a rental owned by the municipality.

The rents for these are not market-based but instead based on a fairly complex system of pricing based on the standard of the apartment, with rent increases being negotiated by the renters union.

This system has some merits - it has definitely kept rents pretty low for rentals in Sweden generally - but has also been a part of shaping the very dysfunctional housing market we see in Sweden today.

Basically, Sweden had low standards of housing in the mid-1900s, at which point the left-wing governments started a program called Miljonprogrammet, basically a housing program to build a million homes, which should be affordable and of high standard. This program started in 1965, hence my suspicion that the OP lives in this type of apartment.

The program is considered a bit controversial today as the areas built under this program are now basically the high-crime areas in Sweden in many cases. This is not inherent to the program though, but instead a consequence of the fact that this program was so damn successful at fulfilling its job that Sweden had an affordable housing surplus for decades after that program was started. Affordable housing construction basically stopped once the program was over and only co-ops and houses were built after (an overstatement but broadly true). Later, right-wing governments ran programs to sell off this housing stock to private interests which managed them in a slumlord fashion, leading to their current reputation.

Anyway, the current situation of housing in Sweden is that the housing market is bifurcated - you can apply for municipal rentals, which have waiting times upwards of 20 years in attractive cities, or you can get a massive loan and buy either a co-op apartment or a house. There’s generally a shortage due to the lack of building for so many years. If you manage to get a municipal rental, you can expect to pay a rent that is far lower than servicing a loan in a similar area, but the standard of the apartment will usually be lower.

For what it’s worth, I think that reintroducing a program such as Miljonprogrammet again is the only true way to curb the housing market situation in basically every rich country with a housing crisis. The whole concept of gentrification only exists in the context of housing scarcity. It’s pitting workers against workers in a really nasty fashion. A better way forward is to build housing like there’s no tomorrow. Government-owned, high standard, low-cost housing.

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.

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.

Voluntary layoffs - probably the best form of layoffs if you ask me - still come with severance packages that have to be paid. Very few people will be interested in quitting just because you ask them, but a good many will do it if you sweeten the deal.

Basically we have 3 variants here:

Regular layoffs - have to pay severance + can select who leaves RTO stealth layoffs - don’t have to pay severance + can’t select who leaves Voluntary layoffs - have to pay severance + can’t select who leaves

Any morally bankrupt business would of course want a fourth variant where they get to select who leaves and don’t have to pay severance, but thankfully this option is generally not available to them.

Anyway, voluntary layoffs are the best out of a selection of bad choices for the workers, but come with the most downsides for the morally bankrupt business.

Only has to work once, you pocket the savings on severance packages one time and then go back to regular layoffs.

Dystopian as all hell, but such is the corporate world.

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.

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.

Given that they own all of the source code (CLA is required to contribute), they can just stop offering the code under GPL, unless they happen to have any GPL dependencies not under their control, in which case this would not be viable.

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.

I’m not entirely convinced of this being the case. Adjusting tyre pressure is something that is always looked at quite seriously by pro cycling teams, but it’s not going to be something that would be impossible to overcome by just buying several more tyres to have the desired range of properties available for the conditions of any given race.

Regardless, this will be an interesting space to follow in the future.

I see. Is price the current limiting factor, in that case?

The reason I’m asking is that if this is actually true and ready for deployment, it would be adopted by every single competing cyclist in the world - they are crazy about managing efficiency and removing the possibility of getting a flat would be even more valuable.

Hence there’s something missing, however I don’t know what.

Airless tyres are generally less efficient with regards to rolling resistance though, right? How does the wasted energy compare to the reduction in replacement rate?

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.