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> Any idea how that plays out when trying to change bags of coins at a bank?

I am not sure. I know they accept rolled coins for deposit at least from business customers. But I don't know what is the minimum legally required service level vis-à-vis coins and what is the customary service level banks actual offer right now. I remember TD having coin deposit machines that were free for TD customers to use but deducted a fee from non-customers, but they discontinued the service a couple of years ago. These days most people use third-party machines like this, which deduct a fee: https://www.coinstar.ca/

It depends on the country. In Canada, there is a limit on the quantity of coins, above which they are not legal tender.

(2) A tender of payment in coins referred to in subsection (1) is a legal tender for no more than the following amounts for the following denominations of coins:

    (a) forty dollars if the denomination is two dollars or greater but does not exceed ten dollars;

    (b) twenty-five dollars if the denomination is one dollar;

    (c) ten dollars if the denomination is ten cents or greater but less than one dollar;

    (d) five dollars if the denomination is five cents; and

    (e) twenty-five cents if the denomination is one cent.*

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-52/page-1.html#h-...

> Looking at the problems Twitter has, why does anyone think Musk can even solve one?

Twitter's biggest problem is profitability and Musk doesn't seem to care about the economics of Twitter.

Steel Bank SBCL Common Lisp?

They are ridiculous. Nonetheless, they are legal obligations.

Considering how many people on the internet talk about using these cards for evading contractual obligations (e.g. cancelling the card instead of going through the contract cancellation process and paying the termination fee, if any), it's surprising their acceptance has lasted as long as it has.

Of course not. You cannot make lemonade with cheese.

Canada's "carbon pricing" (the government tries to avoid the word "tax" due to its negative connotations) is designed to be almost revenue-neutral to avoid this exact problem. 90% of the money is rebated directly to the people. The other 10% is used to fund green projects.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/t...

Indeed. A recent Technology Connections video was on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEHFsO-XSI

Yes! Shakespeare too! "TDLR: They both die". So much better ! /s

The companies can also try to do creative things through bankruptcy courts to avoid any negative consequences, like Johnson & Johnson is doing right now:

> J&J, which also makes products such as Tylenol and Band-Aid, assigned legal liability for the complaints to the spinoff company, which immediately filed for bankruptcy — a maneuver dubbed the "Texas two-step."

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083061992/johnson-johnson-wi...

> Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger.

> Based has been appropriated by the alt-right online as a general term of praise, as if “un-woke.”

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/

Well, TIL.

So if we pick any UK bank we will see the exact same issues?

He would be an idiot if he did it for money.

> Nothing is going to come out of this.

How much would it cost to make it go away? If it's going to cost millions of dollars, the defendant is toast regardless.

"TOO META"

https://xkcd.com/1447/

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught me anything about science, it's that if you do a "meta-analysis" without reading each paper carefully and critically, you can end up proving anything regardless of its veracity. You cannot replace domain-expert scientists spending huge amounts of time painstakingly going over every detail of many papers to weed out mistakes and fraud in order to write a meta-analysis, with a computer program. Well, at least not until we figure out AGI. Until then, it would be irresponsible to rely on such a program for any clinical decisions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249686

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...

https://ivmmeta.com/ (Note the long list of things in the right sidebar which the "meta-analysis" shows have huge positive effects on COVID treatment)

From the video:

"In the famous case of Chile with Mr. Allende in power, he produced an inflation which was one of the major factors that caused the economic catastrophe that led to the replacement of his government by a military dictatorship."

It seems like Friedman in myopically focusing on economics of Chile, while the real reason for the coup was something entirely different. The real lesson here is not to take history lessons from economists.

What-about-ism: What you are saying is wrong because your side does it too

Not what-about-ism: You are right! And here is another example in support of your point!

Probably not, but not because of the population. Sweden's population is smaller (10.3 million) and yet it is home to Volvo and Scania.

That is strange. I have a different model (KD65X80J), but it seems to have all the same options and software. Yet, even though I chose Basic TV instead of Android TV, the internet connection page did not have the option to skip. It might be a bug, as you suggest.

I was trying to avoid it. I am tech savvy. I could not find a workaround. There was no way, at least none I could find despite my efforts, to skip the screen requiring you to connect without connecting.

My new Sony TV wouldn't allow me to do anything without connecting it to the internet during initial setup. I just wanted to use it as a dumb screen to show HDMI signal. But even that wouldn't work without initially connecting it to the internet. I haven't connected it to the internet since and so far it hasn't stopped working, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it does as some point and forces me to reconnect and update it.

I disagree. the government can tell (and has told) everyone that certain bitcoins are radioactive, making it hard or even impossible to spend them. There was a Matt Levine article about bitcoin laundering. It is much harder than I thought.

In support of your position, this article:

https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/

OECD data has an indicator for household disposable income including "social transfers in kind, such as health or education provided for free or at reduced prices by governments and not-for-profit organisations" and accounting for purchase power parity. US has the highest PPP-adjusted household disposable income in the world.

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm#in...

Are we sure external streamers don't do the exact same thing? Apple TV probably doesn't. But what about Chromecast, NVIDIA Shield, Roku, and Fire TV?

It's not EU, it's Schengen. So it includes non-EU Schengen area countries like Switzerland, and does not include EU non-Schengen area countries like Ireland.

It wouldn't have made a difference if the Emergencies Act was not invoked. There is a court order to freeze assets which does not rely on the Act, just existing laws. Even without the act and by the order of the judiciary, the funds would have been frozen.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-judge-orders-up-to-20-mil...

As far as I know, the law does not demand asset seizure, but freezing. And the frozen accounts will be unfrozen when the emergency order expires or is lifted. The goal is to prevent the use of assets right now to finance blockades, not to deprive people of their property forever.