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kenned3
4y ago
Opps.. thanks.. i've fixed it..
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4y ago
I'm not sure you intended to come across as condescending but it does read this way. "The major sense I get from Canadians whenever I arrive back is an enormous sense of financial illiteracy. Like they just don't know or care
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kenned3
4y ago
"You don't have to be nasty because I suggested you might be privileged in some way." it is always external factors isn't it? He's privileged, I went to the US for years because i am privileged.. Everyone else who
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kenned3
4y ago
"highly skilled I lack a university degree which in my experience has made it almost impossible, despite trying." I'm in the same boat, highly skilled and lack a university degree. I left for ~8 years and came back. The TN v
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kenned3
4y ago
F-me.. responded to teh wrong thread...
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4y ago
"especially for musicians like me: what happens when you're in a studio with your band, you want to play an mp3 on your phone, but you have no way of plugging your phone to the mixer or the amp?" Is this common? what percent
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kenned3
4y ago
Strava's social aspect is easy to control. Dont follow anyone, and you can even boot others who follow you. You can also mark yourself "follow by request" which seems to facilitate cheating as well (you can see their KOM, b
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4y ago
I've had my GPS go haywire and tell me my average speed was 833km/h. Do you think it is unreasonable to assume strava should have flagged this? Strava needs to take more ownership of the rampant cheating. It is costing them user
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4y ago
I gave up on Strava long ago and now only use it to "benchmark" myself. How well did i do on this ride vs the last time i took this trip? The cheating on Strava is just shameful. you often see people with impressive KOM scores,
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5y ago
I do the exact same thing (buy the cheaper versions most of the time). My dad was in the trades and he bought "good stuff" for his actual trade, but also bought 'affordable' stuff he needed around the house. The idea is
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5y ago
I gave up on Amazon some time ago and just use aliexpress now. Might as well remove some of the middle men and amazon is basically "everything made in china" anyhow. I've been burned a few times with amazon sending me made i
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5y ago
"Primarily Mandarin speakers I have known were taught, and believed, that the "dialects" were basically the same as Mandarin, just with different pronunciation." I am going to take a guess that you do not know many manda
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5y ago
Yes, Cantonese speakers write using the same syllabary, but they are not (with occasional exceptions) writing Cantonese, but Mandarin, translating to it as they go. I assume you are aware that there are millions of people in Hong Kong who c
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5y ago
This. If anyone thinks North America isn't actively involved in propaganda as well, they are delusional. The amount of "anti-china" comments i come across on the internet is shocking, and I can tell the posters have never lef
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5y ago
This is an absolute nonsense response. Ever heard of mailing your phone in for "major repairs"? Why do they need to do 'component level repair at every retail outlet"?
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5y ago
"especially the "high-end" market with better ingredients and such." This isnt really the case. One of my old coworkers was seriously into kitkats and has eaten them from almost everywhere in the world. Here's the
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kenned3
5y ago
They are using housing to jump the queue for immigration : https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=653... it gives them a place to flee later in life. many of the houses bought by foreigners are
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5y ago
they also use this to jump to the head of the line for their PR. https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=653...
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5y ago
This is such BS on so many levels. First, how is this still an issue given affordable housing was his platform in 2015? October 5, 2015 Infrastructure: The Liberals want to invest $20 billion in public transit over 10 years, almost $20 bill
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5y ago
Yes. The physical keyboard was so much faster and accurate vs the "on screen" version most phones have now. The BB was also built like a tank. i once had mine fall off while i was running down 3 flights of granite stairs. It h
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5y ago
Lets share our Bell/Rogers stories.. Long ago i cancelled Bell because they would not stop the constant telemarketing calls and I wanted a new phone number and this was my only option. After i did this, they sent me a bill for $660 in
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kenned3
5y ago
Agreed. TekSavvy customer for many years now, will always do what i can to support such an amazing company. while every other ISP was folding, teksavvy stood up and said it will not hand over customer names without a proper court order.
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This is why i only buy "Dumb" TV's and connect a third-party "smart" device to them (Firestick, etc) Smart device wants to do some crap like this, in the recycle bin it goes but the TV which cost far more is still g
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5y ago
Well, prior to CAT they had OATS, which has been around for a very long time, but was only "top level" messages (not a deep trace into the stack). If you combine crosses with OATS you can still get some of the data you are looking
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5y ago
you can find this information online, trades (orders after they have been completed) are "public knowledge". insiders are required to report their trades (search for "sec Edgar"). it is hard to make money knowing that a
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5y ago
These types of orders are sent as "crosses" where "citadel" reports they are both the "buyer" and "seller". As an example, according to the NYSE FIX Spec, this is 54 (Side) = 8 (Cross). This is how th
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5y ago
This is what CAT was built to address https://www.catnmsplan.com/ you send your order to your broker/dealer, they send it to their OMS, which sends it to Citadel, who sends it to their internalisation engine.. All of t
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5y ago
Not exactly. Most exchanges require the client details to be sent to them (encrypted) so the regulators can see who is behind the orders on a real-time basis. Canada for example is behind the times here, but has a program to address this :
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5y ago
Indeed it is : https://www.catnmsplan.com/
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yes, they do, It is called "CAT" https://www.catnmsplan.com/ Broker/dealers send order data to the regulators daily. It isnt 'wrong', you agreed to this when you opened your account,and the broker&
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