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by cal5k 4y ago
This is called the "Travel Rule", and it's part of an international effort to regulate crypto transfers analogously to bank transfers. When you send a wire transfer, you include the address of the recipient and your bank incl
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by cal5k 4y ago
This exact thing happened when I created a Facebook account so I could see our company's Facebook ads. It was a brand new account, no activity at all, and now I can't see or manage our ads even though they're running. It&#x
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by cal5k 5y ago
This. Invoking the Act in Canada was a blatantly political move, and they will not easily give up such powers once they get a taste of them. As is always the case with government.
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by cal5k 5y ago
I've read the Act. It's quite rich that it proclaims to still be tethered to the Charter, and yet the act allows government to compel people to do a job against their will, ban protest in specified areas, seize/confiscate ass
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by cal5k 5y ago
I've seen a lot of commentary about the fact that the Emergencies Act provisions "expire" automatically after 30 days, and include "safeguards", ergo there's nothing worry about. People getting hung up on the t
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by cal5k 5y ago
>The assholes in the Truck Tantrum are — by and large — WASPy conspiracy believers. They are the exact _opposite_ of minority, and exactly why they need to be laughed out of town. Okay bigot.
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by cal5k 5y ago
You should seek to understand before parroting talking points like this. First, federal jurisdiction includes: mandating vaccine passports at the border, firing employees in federally-regulated industries that are unvaccinated, and preventi
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by cal5k 5y ago
> okay so this is an unlawful protest that has a detrimental impact on residents, the environment, and local business. The pearl-clutching about this protest has been something else.
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by cal5k 5y ago
Life expectancy differences are entirely attributable to lifestyle. Americans are, on average, more likely to be obese than Canadians. As for "fundamental right", this is not really how rights work and it's dangerous to defin
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by cal5k 5y ago
If you want an extreme example of how bad a single payer system can get, look at Canada. Not only do we have a single-payer system, we've actually banned private pay of any kind for "medically necessary" services. The net eff
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by cal5k 5y ago
It's common for one farmer to plant and harvest thousands of acres pretty much by himself, at least in North America. Labour, particularly up in Canada, is often in short supply which makes moving livestock around impractical - and not
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by cal5k 5y ago
You're basically arguing that authoritarian governments are great at wielding their absolute power towards their policy objectives, which is not a particularly controversial statement. To suggest this means that large bureaucracies are
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by cal5k 5y ago
Wealthy people generally have a pretty good handle on how to efficiently allocate capital. Unless it was inherited, most wealthy people alive today were not born that way. Government agencies and politicians have proven, by and large, to be
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by cal5k 5y ago
You'd think this would be a wakeup call as to the value of limited government, but I'm not sure that's the message everyone is getting. Bureaucracies are generally incompetent in direct proportion to their size.
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by cal5k 5y ago
Not just higher fees. Our GDP/capita relative to the US has been in steep decline. Cost of living is also higher across the board on everything from food to electronics, above and beyond what straight foreign exchange would suggest. Ga
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by cal5k 5y ago
Until you use your credit card. Interchange fees in Canada are a full 1% higher than in the US, on average. You pay for this in higher prices on goods and services. Or until you buy something in USD. Foreign exchange fees in Canada are a mu
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by cal5k 5y ago
Canadian banks are the most profitable in the western world, because we pay the highest fees in the western world. A lot of it is hidden - Canadian banks charge outrageous sums of money for foreign exchange fees. Credit card interchange f
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by cal5k 5y ago
Canada as well. All Commonwealth countries seem to be reading from an identical script at this point.
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by cal5k 5y ago
> I think we should collectively focus on priorities. Nobody operates that way though. Too much discussion of public policy seems to be oriented around "if only 'we' could just..." rather than "How can policy ali
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by cal5k 5y ago
Bingo. Carbon taxes in Canada really function as yet another power grab, with the federal government promising to rebate the taxes back to Canadians. In effect it's a case of "Just trust us with the money... we promise we'll
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by cal5k 5y ago
This is only a slightly more exaggerated version of what's going on in Canada: >Cabinet would appoint a chief censor, called the Digital Safety Commissioner, to provide “advice on content moderation” and issue compliance orders on F
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by cal5k 5y ago
This is the problem, isn't it - until Canadians feel the pain acutely, they will accept absolute appalling mediocrity without so much as a peep of complaint.
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by cal5k 5y ago
That's absurd. Money is not virtual to me, it directly translates to goods and services I can purchase to improve my life. Doubling the national debt in a year will lead to either a) inflation, b) higher taxes, or c) both, all of which
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by cal5k 5y ago
Better outcomes as measured how? I received both vaccine doses while visiting Texas, months before my friends in Canada. I was also going mask-free in Texas over 3 months before I was able to do so in Alberta. When I returned to Canada, I r
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by cal5k 5y ago
Canadians love flattering comparisons to the US. As a Canadian, however, this pandemic mostly revealed how dangerously incompetent most levels of government are in this country. Canada has had some of the longest, most evidence-free lockd
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by cal5k 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but Canada's system differs in a few ways from the US. There's no right to have a lawyer present , only to speak to a lawyer (usually by phone). So you're on your own in the interrogation room. If you're
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by cal5k 5y ago
There seems to be a lot of ignorance in this thread about interrogation techniques. The Toronto van killer interrogation is really instructive as to how the best interrogators conduct themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by cal5k 5y ago
Eh, here's the thing: politicians will use whatever crisis is available to them to cynically further their own agendas. I'm sure plenty of them are tweeting away about how this heatwave is a clear sign of climate change (because t
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by cal5k 5y ago
> However, decentralized immutability means that nothing can be done should an unintended action occur with your account. The alternative is the current state of affairs. In Canada this means banks unilaterally decide what is mutable and
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by cal5k 5y ago
Shareholders and employees are people. Corporate income taxes represent a form of double-taxation because shareholders are taxed on realized gains (in capital gains or dividends), and employees are taxed on income. Moreover, capital gains t

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