I guess we'll find out in time, but that's sort of my point. Trump's well known to fold (TACO), maybe he would have shown up to the table anyway, or written us a letter!

Almost always use parameterized style tests, always have a name field, I don't use full sentences tho, that seems like too much. Don't believe I've ever seen a test like that either

These toy examples feel like strawmen to me

Fucking love this song. Originals excellent too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

I think he was way more influential getting people on the side of peace, and treating each other reasonably. People tend to throw everything out if the messenger has faults.

I think most people would agree the bed in was tone deaf, and stupid, and that he had massive faults; we don't have to throw out an essentially very positive and influential message.

Assuming he pays 25% tax, which i'd be very suspicious about, he's about 2 million short of his current "fair share".

26 000 000 * 0.25 = 6 500 000

26 000 000 * 0.33 = 8 580 000

If he's deferring till retirement, then likely his tax rate is less, and the bank is lending him money which he can spend freely and call a capital loss lowering his effective tax rate when he does incur those taxes.

The thing about being this wealthy is you can afford to pay people to find ways to lower this rate.

I don't think i'm "mad" about this, but concerned. This kind of inequality leads to violent upheaval, and is currently the cause of a whole pile of unnecessary suffering. If we didn't have people that were this wealthy and some of that money was distributed to say education, healthcare, UBI, we could all have a much healthier pleasant life.

But I am pretty sure every economist agrees that a wealth tax doesn't make any sense mathematically

I find it difficult to believe you could come to this conclusion in good faith, given how many serious economists advocate for wealth tax.

This economist wrote an award winning book on the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century, where he advocates for a wealth tax.

If the internal sponsor of an idea get bored or loses support from colleagues, the project just halts.

Yeah, i kind of agree with everything you've said, and history as i remember it kind of backs up what you've said about tf2.

But I don't agree that they don't care about story and only do it for marketing. I think halflife's episodes are all about an attempt at continuing that story.

I think that the Cave and Glados bits of portal are a large part of what made those games (of course the gameplay loops are really tight there.

I think the only way to know would to be an insider. I also don't think it really matters, the games they make are good.

oh yeah, not saying it's a good thing at all...

No dead cells. risk of rain 2 at 71? nahhh

Stagnation is way different then reduction, I'd also be fine with that, as i suspect would be other home owners.

Tank "to suffer rapid decline, failure, or collapse" is different from stagnate. The OP said:

In all seriousness, all levels of government are moving too slowly on housing affordability. They should be trying to reduce prices to prepandemic levels, or, even better 2010 levels.

This jives with tank, but not with stagnate.

Would you prefer posts like this or go to GitHub directly? Might be good to have something on the side bar mentioning

It's just not my kink, like I wouldn't call my partner by a family honorific.