assuming i learned, lol :D

ECC encryption seems semi preferred now a days i thought

Sometimes home owners will sell their house after retirement for something smaller, live off the difference, then sell that house and use the money from that for long term care, or inheritance.

There's also the obvious: they worked for something, possibly quite hard, why do they have to pay the price for others? Presumably they've been paying taxes all along, and have already been contributing to the greater good.

I guess my feeling is, it's not so simple to just wreck housing prices. I absolutely feel like corporations, and probably some ultra wealthy don't work that hard and get most of the rewards (or aren't even people), like if the money has to come from somewhere there is a clear set of people who could afford to lose some wealth, and not materially effect their life; and that's not necessarily single dwelling home owners.

Selling and purchasing aren't the only time you'd feel it. Any time interest rates go up you'd also feel it (now you get to pay more on large amount). With very large principals you'd be paying it for longer. Anytime the mortgage goes up for renewal no bank would want to touch you, or maybe they'd love you, just with really unfavorable terms (idk much about banks).

Having a large mortgage when the asset tanks can be thought of having a big debt where the collateral for that debt is suddenly with way less.

I finally see what you are trying to say. You wouldn't mind losing value in your house, so "the statement remains false" for you.

All i was saying originally is: lowering housing prices would be hard to pull off politically because there will be a significant portion of the 65% of canadians that own houses, that would mind losing that value.

The statement was all home owners want prices to increase.

This statement was never made.

I don't shop at home Depot cause of the ownership. Is Lowe's the same?

In the past when. I've done this calc renting was worth it till you'd lived at a place for about 5 years. Don't think this flat statement is true even now

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.

and feel dead inside.

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.

We use build kite, I like it better as an end user than other things I've used (circle ci, Travis, bamboo). I haven't been on devops setup end of it much so can't really talk to that end. I've liked what I've used of gh actions as well.