GissaMittJobb

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

The U.S is different in that car insurance has to cover medical expenses for others when you are at fault, combined with the risk of driving quite frankly being higher in the U.S. With medical costs being extremely high in the U.S, prices follow that fact.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Car insurance is expensive because cars are both risky and highly destructive. Hence, making a market for them involves high prices.

Regardless of what you think of insurance companies, there's just no way around this - you could nationalize car insurance and it would still either be really expensive, either on the policy level or else born by taxes.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago

I think the poster was making a joke based on this image (or similar ones):

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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