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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • doyliotoLemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.worldThis is a cool idea.
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    15 days ago

    There’s a story about how Bill Gates plans to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years (on causes like eradicating polio, decreasing child mortality, etc) and all the Lemmy comments are “he’ll still have a billion dollars” or “he shouldn’t have that money to begin with”. Can’t we appreciate some good in the world?


  • 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


  • doyliotoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    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






  • doyliotoBuy CanadianAny alternatives to Duolingo?
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    3 months ago

    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









  • 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



  • 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