Senior software developers definitely can make that much in parts of Europe, and not just at banks or the big 5. But also 100k USD isn't what it was 5 years ago.
As far as I know the Netherlands only legalized consumption and sale, but not production? Which just lead to higher demand for products what were still largely supplied by criminal groups.
Possession is still technically illegal, tho it hasn't been enforced since the 1970s.
That said, since December 2023 there has been fully legally-produced cannabis on the Dutch market. While media tends to call it "state weed" ("staatswiet"), it's not nationalized, it's just licensed production. Currently it's only available in a number of cities, chiefly in the South of the country, but more cities should be onboarded onto the system this year.
That was hard to discover, thanks for your explanation.
I was looking in "Firefox Settings -> Search -> Search Shortcuts" for a way to add it. I guess the functionality is not used very often, but it would be nice to have a hint on how to add new Search Engines there.
I don't know any language that offers this, I just wanted to say that I have also thought about this feature at times - but when reading your pseudocode I didn't initially get it, because of the OR, which already has its meaning - instead one could use "either", like "either(a, b, c).either(beginswith, endswith)...".
If the postal service would be that important in the eyes of the Danish and Swedish governments, then they wouldn't have re-structured their postal services as a state owned company, but kept it a state agency.
But they didn't. In turn the postal workers are no longer state officials, which comes with a loss of job security, but instead they gained the right to strike.
You can petition the government to undo this semi-privatization of course.
Strikes are regulated in Denmark and Sweden, and usually need to be organized by a proper union, and can be deemed unjustified by a court - like it happened in this case, until that decision was overturned again. This makes your fears of "socially conservative" "unions" unlikely. :)
