NATO troops and weapon shipments to Ukraine became a thing after Russia started threatening Ukraine's existence -- we want to help the Ukrainian people.
We as "simple" people can decide whether we trust people like Putin or people like Biden.
Would be interesting to hear more about this — why did they think the new way would improve the situation? Why was the new solution harder to work with? Why was it hard to understand?
Same in Sweden, the Yellow Pages were the business part of the phone book. I wonder how this international alignment happened or if it's just the natural way of coloring phone books.
The constiness of a pointer can be casted away while the constiness of a value variable cannot — it’s UB.
foo::x is declared const, so it’s always const.
The Soviets definitely had extensive and detailed invasion plans of Sweden, a neutral country. Sure, offense is the best defense, but you make them sound as if they were just protecting what was theirs.
It’s a special kind of account, you can sell everything and withdraw the proceeds, then buy new assets outside that account. So you can choose, but not retroactively (unfortunately!)
You can even chose to pay 0.375% on your assets p/a, instead of the capital gains tax. Pretty good.
But you’re exaggerating the income tax situation. ~60% is the marginal tax rate, you only pay that for a part of your income over a certain level.
A recruiter contacted me for a position at the company that I co-founded. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to play along, so the only outcome was a message to the hiring manager.
It’s interesting; I assume you’re using “mental gymnastics” in a derogatory sense but I love those questions and I would love answering them. I’m actually a bit peeved that no one is asking me them right now.
Not saying it’s the reason, but Sweden has higher urbanization than its neighbors. The country also has more people who don’t speak the native language.
Belgium has a similar population size but more deaths (27k).
For software engineers, there are employers in Stockholm that pay much more than 63k USD p.a. A good income combined with the low mortgage interest rate (~1.4%) and the basically tax-free investment accounts (ISK/KF) make Stockholm a pretty good place to make money in over time.
I think the original poster is off by a bit, 350-450k USD for 60m2 is what you pay outside Stockholm. In the city proper, it's ~770k USD for 60m2. Basically this segregates society into the "haves" and the "have nots".
Does anybody know if there’s a Mac app that randomly pops up a “what are you currently working on?” dialog? No automatic stuff like trying to find out using the foreground application and no explicit starting and stopping of activities, just simple sampling?
What if you’re not diligent with the main thing you’re “there for”, as in, doing the work you’re paid for and spend 8 hours/day doing? It’s not “just anything.”
It takes willpower to do something different and raise above the “operational”/“manual typing” level; I can’t see how that’s laziness. Long-term thinking isn’t associated with “laziness” either afaik.
Fixing problems through programming is all about thinking, not typing. If you try to fix something merely by typing, you’re avoiding the main work we’re supposed to do. Otherwise, why even have computers?
I'm coming to the same conclusion; it blows my mind how people can just run off and confidently implement something vaguely related to what was talked about. People seem very sure about what's supposed to be built, its context, and how. No questions asked. (am I the stupid one for not understanding?) Turns out they just made something up in their head that didn't make sense. As a leader, how does one work with such people? It feels condescending quizzing your team members to verify understanding and I can't spend my time specifying work down to the most minute details.
The socioeconomic group that had the most deaths were people of foreign background aged 65 or more. Maybe Sweden just has a proportionally larger group of those?
It’s not as bad as you make it sound; top marginal rate is 55% and you pay 30% tax on a decent/higher-end salary. Yes there are costs for the employer, but that’s the case in other places too.
A ~P75 software engineer can accumulate 1 MUSD within 15-16 years given 7% growth and decent city center living. <10 years for someone really good. Still, it’s not the US, but at least it’s possible.
The median net worth seems to be higher in Western/Northern Europe than the US though. Eastern Europe pulls down the statistics quite a bit.
Canada also has a higher median.
This isn't just for backwards compatibility, OutputDebugString is a crucial function and hasn't been replaced with anything afaik. We use it all the time. Why fix something that isn't broken I guess?