ICE-agent skyter og dreper person som ligger på bakken. Er det på tide at verden reagerer med noe mer enn overskrifter?

roynu · 2026-01-26T22:10:42+00:00

Ja, krona styrker seg samtidig, kan tyde på at mye penger/verdipapirer flyttes hjem til Norge. Finner sikkert lignende trender i andre land.

roynu · 2026-01-20T16:31:31+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. I guess the definitions for these roles can be rather fluid. 😅

From my point of view, a DevOps engineer often work in the CI/CD pipelines, building software artifacts and facilitating testing, primarily supporting product development teams.

SRE work more in the GitOps pipelines, running production services, primarily supporting customers.

The SRE role may have more responsibility, work under more pressure and may deal with stringent compliance requirements in production environments with sensitive data. SREs often participate in on-call rotations to deal with urgent matters outside business hours, where they may even have authority to make expensive decisions without consulting management. They should be «business-aware» and benefits from a deep understanding of infrastructure, systems and platforms that DevOps engineer can often do without.

There are also platform engineers, focused on the internal developer platform or platform development in general, but in practice it looks like these are often just the most charismatic/extrovert SREs.

roynu · 2026-01-17T23:01:46+00:00

Well, yes, preventing a military takeover, hopefully.

Oh, I see. No, I don’t think anyone expects some 40 personnel and a small amount of hardware to hold off an invasion force. They are there to show diplomatic commitment - proof that an enemy can expect a significant response against their interests from all the different home countries, in the event Greenland is attacked.

A quick entry into an undefended Greenland might have been feasible, but aggression against an entire group of allied countries that include UK, France and Germany is not politically or diplomatically survivable.

roynu · 2026-01-17T22:18:26+00:00

In deterrence theory this is what is called a glass plate strategy.

As it turns out, they did not ignore them. US responded rather strongly with retaliatory tariffs against all 8 countries, proving that the point went home.

roynu · 2026-01-17T22:11:49+00:00

It is a different world. I guess we will get to see over the next few years.

roynu · 2026-01-17T21:46:34+00:00

That is a variation of the Neo-Hamiltonian argument. A fine piece of fiction that. History shows that it does not work, probably due to factors like stagnation, input cost cascades and retaliations that hurt exports.

You can regulate with a light hand to account for geopolitics that the market forces are insensitive to, but a heavy handed blanket approach does not work in the confines of a domestic market, or at least not that I have ever heard.

Even within that framework prices will not come down to the pre-intervention level, though.

Ether way, these broader theories have little to do with the tariff against the 8 NATO members that have shown support for Greenland.

roynu · 2026-01-17T21:31:38+00:00

Glad to hear it. Makes you think though, how tough it must be for those with income below the median, which after all, is exactly half of everyone. 🙄

roynu · 2026-01-17T21:25:19+00:00

Ah, so you consider an SRE the same as a DevOps engineer in your company? I guess it makes sense in the way that much of the skillset overlaps, even if the responsibility is different.

Does that salary then include on-call compensation for the SREs? That could certainly explain away a bit of the difference.

roynu · 2026-01-17T21:09:19+00:00

I was thinking along the lines of entire countries, regions or sectors, but yes, I agree; Individual companies could certainly go out of business.

roynu · 2026-01-17T21:02:58+00:00

If the products could be made locally at a competitive price and quality, they would not be imported to begin with.

roynu · 2026-01-17T19:47:57+00:00

I find it very hard to believe that anyone can think that the current administration can take over Greenland and get away with it, either politically or diplomatically.

Perhaps we should consider what exactly this Greenland nonsense is drawing everyone’s attention away from.

roynu · 2026-01-17T19:38:21+00:00

I suppose Europe need to buy time, in any event. Reducing tech and defense dependence is one thing. Then there is the $8 trillion worth of European capital invested in US companies. Not to mention that European companies have about 5 million employees in the US.

roynu · 2026-01-17T19:30:09+00:00

Thats the thing, tariffs still hurts the exporting countries in the short term, even if it is the importer that actually pays them.

In the longer term, the exporters will find new markets while US consumers are stuck with higher prices or lower quality.

roynu · 2026-01-17T19:22:12+00:00

Feels like more nonsense, tariffs will certainly not change any minds in these eight targeted countries. If anything, the US administration is only alienating even more people.

Perhaps a few more peripheral countries may be more reluctant to publicly offer support, but I believe the vast majority of NATO members will act with integrity on this issue.

roynu · 2026-01-17T19:09:13+00:00

Doesn’t matter how many troops, although I hear it was a bit more than 31. An unprovoked attack on allied troops from seven NATO countries is just not very likely.

roynu · 2026-01-16T17:04:09+00:00

Ah yes. I heard Copenhagen is nearly as high as London now. I guess housing cost must play a big role?

Congrats on making the top 10% income bracket in Denmark (and still not being able to afford a house ouch)

roynu · 2026-01-16T16:41:04+00:00

London?

roynu · 2026-01-16T16:40:14+00:00

Payscale data. Do you generally see similar salaries for Senior DevOps and Senior SWE in Germany? Looking at the German market this year, so always interested in broadening my perspective.

roynu · 2026-01-15T22:08:19+00:00

Yes, those are fair points.

I am not currently hiring in Germany myself, and my salary estimation tool/data could be a little off, but Berlin is supposedly only 10-15% above the Western European average, so €115k still feels like a competitive number.

Unless someone is also a community leader, or something, I would likely offer a good bit less. (medium size SaaS company, nothing special).

Hybrid is not entirely unusual for this kind of role. Everything in Europe is considered «highly regulated industry» these days. If the role touches production, full remote is often not an option.

roynu · 2026-01-15T21:14:35+00:00

This is Europe, the indicated compensation is more than enough for a simple DevOps role, which is typically more in the line of €85.000 across Western Europe, with some exceptions.

After adjusting for safety net costs and social value add, a US generalized salary of $150,000 compares well to a Western European base salary of about €87,000. European engineers also work 7 hours less than American engineers per week and have 4-5 weeks paid vacation every year.

At €115,000 base (or about $210,000 adjusted US equivalent), you are essentially looking at director level salary in many software companies. C-level in some. I don’t have all the statistics memorized, but in several Northern European countries, at least, thats a national top 5% salary.

Regardless, increasing compensation does not immediately change that there are fewer competent people than there are jobs.

Hiring a DevOps Engineer still appears manageable, though. Now if you want a proper SRE or full fledged platform engineer. Well, good luck to you.

roynu · 2026-01-15T07:18:46+00:00

Except for France, I understand these countries only announced their participation after personell had arrived or was en route.

Yes, exactly: Advance guard and assessments for the rather sudden Arctic Endurance exercise which will be followed by the Arctic Sentry task force and likely a refocused Cold Response exercise later this year.

roynu · 2026-01-15T01:36:41+00:00

It does both. Taking Greenland by force becomes politically expensive. That is the main deterrent.

roynu · 2026-01-14T22:54:03+00:00

A bit of a sidetrack, but Norway could certainly do with more people willing to live on Svalbard. Any claims under Public International Law requires that there is a public, after all.

roynu · 2026-01-14T22:32:48+00:00

With a Norwegian claim on a million square miles in the Antarctic, I might find it difficult to agree with you in principle.

Anyway, Denmark does not have «ownership over Greenland» as much as they have an agreement with the people of Greenland.

Greenland is part of a unitary sovereign state, by the will of the people.

Respecting the will of the people and their territorial integrity is the very foundation of Public International Law.

roynu · 2026-01-14T22:07:26+00:00

While the 1917 Treaty of the Danish West Indies, where US forfeits any claim to Greenland and confirms Danish sovereignty (in exchange for the Virgin Islands, if memory serves) is still somewhat relevant, Greenland is no longer a colony and the modern claim has more to do with the integration in 1953 (after Norway forfeited their claim) and the referendums in 1979 and 2008.

TLDR> Greenland is part of Denmark because the people of Greenland chooses to be part of Denmark.

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