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Quebec has a lot of rules for contests; advance registration with the government, providing them with a % of the prize value in advance, etc. Probably not wort
by jrockway 4y ago
Quebec has a lot of rules for contests; advance registration with the government, providing them with a % of the prize value in advance, etc. Probably not worth the paperwork when dealing with them internationally.
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- bombcar 4y agoIsn’t that where you have to answer a math question if you win?
- wk_end 4y agoThat's not Quebec specific [0] - in fact, growing up in Ontario, it wasn't until just now that I learned that this was a Canadian thing at all. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question
- Sirened 4y agoI love that the image in the article also includes parenthesis, you just know that someone had to point out that a lot of people would manage to get it wrong without them.
- dmix 4y agoNo it's much more byzantine than simply the skill testing question. Classic Canadian bureaucracy. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Canadian-contests-exclude-Quebec https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Canadian-contests-exclude-Quebe...
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
- mechanical_bear 4y agoAre you ok?
- Izikiel43 4y agoI’m doubting if this guy is a person or an AI
- sebzim4500 4y agoSeriously. If GPT-3 produced this I would assume it had been horribly misconfigured.
- jrockway 4y agoIt doesn't seem like an AI to me. Seems like a human that might have had a couple three beers on Friday night after work, and then wrote an HN comment. I've done it before. It can be weird ;)
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
- dlord 4y agoIt's not required to do so anymore for internationally based contests. https://www-racj-gouv-qc-ca.translate.goog/communications/nouvelles/detail.html?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=643&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://www-racj-gouv-qc-ca.translate.goog/communications/no...