president of CPA Nova Scotia, said under the bill, member accountants could flock to whatever regulator charged the lowest dues, threatening the association’s very existence

Good! Competition between regulators will mitigate rent-seeking. Professional licensing is (mostly) a tax on everyone for the good of the priestly class of licensed. IMO there are very few professions where a license makes sense, and it seems like the complainers are those who would stand to lose their political power over their profession

I tried to hide my identity as much as possible when I made the account. This included using a pseudo-random email address, fake name, fake address, and (unfortunately) fake birthday, as all of those things could be used as foreign keys to try to match my identity

It asks for your birthday to delete/access your data, but I used a fake one when I signed up…

I’m convinced the guy is literally doing this because of how it would look on a map. He took a look at how big Canada looks (partially due to Mercator) and thought “Wouldn’t it be great if the my country was that big?”

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

The best language learning app IMO is Anki. It’s FOSS and very powerful (although the UI isn’t great).

Seriously, once you learn how to use it, it’s incredible how well it works. However it is also much less forgiving than Duolingo. You really need to use it everyday. If you skip more than 1 day, you’ll be so behind that it gets tough to catch up

My apologies, he does make that point. I mis-read into your comment that the poor people using credit cards (who pay interest) pay for the rich person’s credit card rewards. But it’s worse than that, anyone who doesn’t use a credit card (which includes many poor people as you point out) are subsidizing the rich person’s rewards

Good video showing how credit card culture basically makes poor people pay for rich people’s luxury.

That’s not what the video shows. The real issue is that credit cards are a monopoly which takes ~3% cut on almost all consumer purchases in the economy and adds little value

This video is incredible! We need more action on this. Anyone know how one could get involved to ensure there are more reliable indicators of ethical meat

And any really unscrupulous actors will just setup their own encryption…

Conservatism != racism

Frankly I’d love to see more non-racist conservatives on Lemmy! If we want the fediverse to replace big tech, we can’t be a left wing echo chamber

But yeah, you can’t be a dick

I learned the basics of CS from this course online 7 years ago and it lead to a great career as a software dev. Hat’s off to the whole CS50 team for creating such an incredible resource and making it available for free!

This doesn’t read as batshit as Project 2025. The 4 memos they’ve posted are:

1. Build more transport infrastructure
2. Modernize our healthcare info system
3. Prioritize high skilled workers in immigration
4. Cultural programs to encourage Canadian Pride

IMO only the fourth one is somewhat questionable

Certainly cheaper and faster than Western Union, but yeah it’s horribly slow by modern blockchain standards

The whole point of crypto is you don’t need to hold it on an exchange. And there are other real reasons to use crypto today such as cheap & fast international settlement, protecting your assets from authoritarian governments.

I agree there’s lots of speculation, and I’m not someone who believes it’s likely to replace the dollar, but it’s also clear there are legitimate uses

I agree. I think if Bitcoin falls it will be because development has completely ossified and is unable to react to problems. If quantum computing ever gets going, it will completely break Bitcoin’s security model, and they don’t seem to have the social coordination to respond to this kind of threat like other blockchains do

I think there are people who genuinely think it has value. It’s very popular in places like Argentina, Venezuela and Turkey where the local currency inflates so rapidly people cannot save money. To those people, its value is that it holds value better than their local currency.

There is also a lot of speculation in the space, which makes it very tough to determine how much actual value accrual there is

In Canada it’s a politically successful strategy to agitate the suburbs

This is true and depressing. But “the gov’t will probably undo this” does not mean we shouldn’t try

The way that London has done a congestion tax, by law, all the funds raised from it go towards improving public transit. It has been an enormous success there! The transit is much better, the city is less polluted, and if you do choose to drive in the city, you have less traffic to deal with.

I’m sure you can find a niche of people who are worse off in this situation, but Londoners overall are very supportive of it given the fact it has been in place for 22 years now without a gov’t repealing it.