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  • I'm all for women's right to choose. How would we make money, I think we'd essentially be funding US medical treatments, which I'm ethically fine with, but would prefer to have my taxes go towards things for Canadians.

    My understanding is that we can't have a private system along side the public system without "funding" the private system by WTO rules. Besides the fact that running a private system beside a public system is parasitic (i.e. we are assuming an infinite supply of doctors and nurses).

    I think we should probably focus on paying our existing nurses and doctors better, and getting our hospitals back in working order.

  • For my local team: Generally a container (docker) for local dev. My team uses go so sometimes a Makefile without docker is enough. For other teams i've mostly i see docker.

    for multiple apps this can get more complicated, docker compose, or skaffold is what i generally reach for (my team is responsible for k8s clusters so skaffold is pretty natural). I've seen other teams use garden.

    hashicorp makes something called waypoint which i've never used. Nix people seem to be well liked as well.

  • I think of OOP as encapsulation, abstraction, and polymorphism primarily. Inheritance is definitely taught as part of it, but it seems like most people have found that to be the least used part of it.

    It seems like you understand oop, but find it overrated, from your post it sounded like you didn't understand it -- but maybe you meant you didn't understand it's popularity.

  • Voting for for trump does make them worse people, they are objectively supporting a racist. Trump family stole money from childrens cancer charity. That's bad. Likewise I didn't write off Peterson for his personal life I wrote him off cause his arguments are rooted in the bible.

    Really what makes peterson and trump so bad is that they are completely self centered, and self gratification is their only goal. They care about nobody else.

    I'm sad COVID didn't kill them.

  • I read one of his books before i knew who he was, and found although the advice was mostly common sense (if a bit context free) advice, followed by long rants about traditional family's, and backed up by bible. I found myself thinking "what about behaviourism research?", you know there has been progress in the last 100 years. I'm ashamed that the traditional family shit didn't tip me off.

    I've found him come up in my google feeds often too, It's insidious.

    In terms of convincing your brother about how off this guy is, generally there are how to approach things on line (i.e. you can't always take a logical approach). I've also encountered this kind of thing in my extended family, I've got distant aunts that likely voted for trump, and they are otherwise decent people (i.e. not racist, and supportive).

  • Personally i prefer go, but these are pretty standard languages; so learning the in's and out's really isn't all that time consuming (you aren't going to have to change how you think about programming like say rego). Since you have python experience these should be no big deal, but maybe worth playing with a bit if you are trying to get a job in either language and need to cross off that bullet.

    As for expanding your learning, i'd try something like functional programming (haskell), or query language like rego above. Neither of these will be great for your resume though.

  • The whole "article"

    Canada Post reported a before-tax loss of $254 million for its second quarter. Revenue dropped by $78 million, or six per cent, year-over-year. Canada Post announced a transformation plan in June that targeted the e-commerce market for parcel delivery but ruled out staffing cuts.

    Canada post costs money to run, it doesn't lose money, just like our hospitals and schools cost money, they aren't lost we are paying for these things so we have a nice place to live.

    It's a small thing, but it's a huge difference of meaning.

    If there was anything else at all in the article explaining the increase being unnecessary then maybe...

  • I think it is hard. All their platforms look the same, it's difficult to find their voting records. Even their promises can't be trusted.

    And since the candidates you hear the most about tend to be the leaders there's a bias to vote for a party, rather than your representative.

    Beyond that issues are often things I'm not particularly knowledgeable about, so I don't know say how bad bringing in pay for healthcare would be for the public system (you've got to read studies to know that shit).

    In make believe land I think that only impacted and experts would have a say. So corporate interests wouldn't get quite so much say, and distribution would be better. And farmers would get more say on ag related issues and technical people would get more say on things like DRM... But really that also probably just turn to shit.

  • That's 9%/year annual rate of return (assuming 2% inflation), which is good, but not unheard of (here's the calculator i used. This ignores all the money they put into the place while they lived in it (roof's and heaters etc aren't cheap). It also discounts that they need to find a place to live in 2021 where all houses just got much more expensive then back in 1986.

    That whole time they were paying property tax.

  • This stinks. I'm not a landlord, I do own my own house.

    And at least the corps have to pay tax on their profits

    I wish i payed 15%. I'm not even counting on the rebates they get for setting up shop places, or developing "doing research". Corporations quite often do not pay their fair share. Corporations do buy up swaths of real estate.

    Private owners who bought when things were cheap and are now multimillionaires got all that money effort-free and tax-free thanks to the principal residence exception.

    Almost nobody got their shit effort-free, you still have to go in with the bank and pay them a shit tonne of money. Principal residence only applies to first residence, and you still have to pay taxes on your residence (I know, because I pay them).

    And here's some news for you: housing was always relatively expensive, people who bought gigantic mortgages took on a whole pile of risk, made the banks rich, and sometimes came out richer for it; that doesn't make them bad.