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.

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.

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?

This is a good idea, but the name kind of made me think of wanting to require the use of helmets for pedestrians.

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.

It's standard practice to cache images when displaying, as an image viewed once is likely to be viewed again, and then it's good to save on the data and latency by loading it from disk (or even memory).

However, it's also standard practice to have an upper size boundary on this cache and to implement an eviction mechanism for the cache once it has reached its capacity.

This is probably a case of misconfiguration or something overlooked during implementation.

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

I switched from transit to cycling, which saves me around $100 a month on the monthly pass we have here in Stockholm. A bit less so since I still occasionally ride transit and those trips now cost around $4 a ride instead of having a marginal cost of 0.

I'm sure I manage to spend similar amounts buying upgrades and gear for my bike so far, but I also save some time for each trip I make since biking is generally faster from where I live. I also get copious amounts of exercise, so I'm still getting out way ahead

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.

There may be an argument for that, but I'm not sure you can get severance pay in that kind of scenario. Not my specialty though given that I'm not from the U.S.

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

We had that where I grew up, but mostly heavier machine tools like stuff to cut firewood, trailers to haul stuff etc. Cost just $10 a year and you could borrow it as much as you needed. Banger of an idea to be honest.

I know condos exist,

What's your objection to condos in this case?

I live in an apartment co-op which in many ways is excellent. Highly efficient in both energy, economy and effort required from me. I'm not sure that I'll ever want to live in a house, this is probably the ideal state for me.

It would in the very least be reasonable to require this standard in cases where the primary evidence used for the conviction has been disproven.