[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

But would they? I'd have voted differently if we had PR.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The government doesn't guarantee the pension if the fund fails

This is incorrect, emphasis mine:

Funding shortfall The Government of Canada has a legal obligation to pay plan member pension benefits. If the plan becomes underfunded for any reason (for example, higher-than-expected costs, lower-than-expected investment results), the government is required to transfer additional funds into the public service pension plan. This has occurred before, including during the period from 2013 to 2018.

I don't dispute that they've renegotiated contribution rules, I don't know the history of this pension fund that well. Typically these rules are renegotiated with union agreement.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It seems kind of ok, everyone agrees that they should be teaching some finance basics. I guess I would.jave preferred to see what outcomes this has had in other places (rather than just trying random experiments on our students). It'd be nice to see if Doug could pass this test himself.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I could care less if it tanks

If you have a mortgage, you should care, you should probably care if you don't.

Lets imagine that a $656,6253 house were to go back to it's 2010 price, about $339,030.

If you have a mortgage you now have about 600k in debt on an asset worth 340k.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I hear this quite a bit, and think there's actually a good deal of nuance to it. I've seen places that insisted on comments for everything, and it was silly, a significant number of comments had no value. This made people not read comments, as opposed to other places I've worked with very few comments - when you ran across a comment you gave it more weight (something here was complex, or not as simple as it seemed).

So imo, use comments which can communicate effectively, but use them sparingly for important parts that are complicated, for the rest attempt to communicate with the code itself.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You aren't alone. Forspoken was fun but they gated the gameplay behind a tonne of super slow paced unskippable town parts.

Maybe that's what the like about dark souls series, right in the action rarely out of it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No individual teacher is paid for by that fund, only retired teachers. That fund is large to supply retired teachers with a pension, and can't be used to pay existing teachers.

To insinuate that some how individual teachers pay is increased by that is super weird.

Also Bridgewater is the largest hedge fund in the world, not otpp.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Nobody wants to teach because the pay is ass. There may be a training problem, but there's also a significant pay problem.

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