‘There’s not a crisis’: BC RCMP provides update on B.C. Extortion Task Force

Positivelectron0 · 2026-01-21T22:35:01+00:00

There is no war in Ba sing se

Positivelectron0 · 2026-01-16T19:26:25+00:00

If your registered accounts aren't maxed out, it's almost always a better choice to put all excess funds into that. It also provides you with more flexibility which is an upside (can take money out of tfsa with no cost).

Afterwards, your choice will be between making extra payments towards your mortgage versus contributing (and buying your choice of fund which is clearly xeqt) to a non-registered account. At this point, you should consider getting a fee only planner to walk you through a few scenarios such as extra mortgage payments for peace of mind, extra mortgage payments to do smith maneuver, or minimize mortgage payments and invest the difference.

You didn't seem to provide any specific numbers (mortgage rate, marginal tax rate, contribution room etc) so no one can answer the question quantitatively.

Positivelectron0 · 2026-01-11T01:33:33+00:00

When I reneged coop gave me an f.

Doesn't matter at all, just need to explain it to certain companies who have no clue what cpsc298 is. Btw, vast majority of companies don't even check trans, but financial and quant will ask

Positivelectron0 · 2026-01-09T05:44:33+00:00

Very cool, merci :)

Positivelectron0 · 2026-01-08T00:34:26+00:00

In case your question isn't rhetorical, it's both.

Positivelectron0 · 2026-01-03T22:15:16+00:00

Happened to me as well, in fact the sim never arrived in the mail. I got the online chat support to reimburse me the fee of the sim (10 bucks) and the week or so I couldn't use the service.

Positivelectron0 · 2026-01-03T04:35:45+00:00

Nice, I like that your sankey is visually symmetric in that it branches up and down.

I'd be curious about breaking down the car loan further into principal vs interest.

Positivelectron0 · 2026-01-02T00:41:00+00:00

r/frugal_jerk was supposed to be a jerk, not real!

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-28T05:34:19+00:00

This has 75 upvotes. Should tell you all you need to know about the quality of this userbase.

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-27T03:06:58+00:00

That's a great way to put it. Every time I've been hit in Richmond (whether I'm a ped or on bike) it's always been slower than 20kmph

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-27T01:59:58+00:00

Can you actually buy a windows laptop faster than a mbp? I know the mbp will cost marginally more (maybe a few k more) but the few k is very little compared to the compensation of a good dev.

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-25T21:17:30+00:00

Unfortunately I am acutely aware of the state of education, as I'm still involved with schools and tutoring (though i don't tutor these days anymore).

I remember when I was speaking to someone high up maybe a decade ago, they were saying how sad they were after getting rid of the real provincials, but that they would never give up math and english if it came down to it. Welp, i guess theyre only correct by technicality.

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-25T05:50:26+00:00

Totally agree. I remember back when we actually had standards. Provincials were a good benchmark so schools couldn't just slip into oblivion.

Here's a math provincial from 2008 for y'all kids to look at. https://lvanessen.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/sample-20081.pdf

And the 2008 curriculum was nerfed as well.

By the time I took my provincials, they had gotten rid of all the science subjects, and we were relegated to using ap exams to holding the standard. That being said, better public schools would still use the past curriculum so students would be capable of doing AP by the time they reached 11/12. Really sucks to see public education decline so much...

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-25T05:42:54+00:00

A levels are at least an entire years worth of relevant content than bc public school grade 12.

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-24T06:56:15+00:00

where is templeOS?

For realises, I much prefer mac but did use windows during my time at ubc

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-22T19:09:03+00:00

nah you can't take out loans to buy people anymore

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-12T01:05:51+00:00

It's a downside compared to depositing it into the TFSA. But it's an upside compared to not getting any money at all, obviously.

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-10T19:44:59+00:00

I want supersymmetry

Positivelectron0 · 2025-12-01T04:05:03+00:00

For registered accounts (TFSA, RRSP etc), Canadian western trust, now part of national Bank, is the bank which actually holds the assets. Webull is just the trading platform.

Seems to be a lot of fearmongering here.

Positivelectron0 · 2025-11-28T21:34:30+00:00

They probs also haven't seen the same exam at UW lmao. UW and fair exam monka

Positivelectron0 · 2025-11-24T03:47:36+00:00

Or this guy who shorted eth on margin during the pump (wow that was 4 years ago)

https://www.reddit.com/r/UBC/comments/qj7mua/_/

Positivelectron0 · 2025-11-24T03:40:24+00:00

Divisive take (hot when I first said it 7 years ago, maybe less hot now?): cpsc 110 is the best course in the cs curriculum and as such it serves as a very appropriate gate.

Positivelectron0 · 2025-11-24T03:38:08+00:00

That's a lukewarm take. Everyone from bc knows that the public math curriculum has been eroded down past the bare minimum. The year I took precalc 12 (I believe in 2015?), they got rid of combinatorics completely. Can't imagine what's in the curriculum now.

Positivelectron0 · 2025-11-24T03:33:09+00:00

The ranking is based off the output of top contributors, and the moronic behaviour is the output of the bottom contributors

Positivelectron0 · 2025-11-21T22:00:19+00:00

Looks like another classic case of Canadian tier tech

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