Pricing in Canada for mobile plans are downright awful! I can buy a plan from Australia and use it there in Canada for cheaper with international roaming.
I remember only 10 years ago that Canadian telcos still considered moving between state lines as ‘roaming’. I don’t know if it’s still the case.
It's even funnier when you find out that cell phone infrastructure is incredibly centralized. Most calls in Ontario go through Toronto.
The only mobile phone innovation in Canada is new ways to charge customers in ways that nobody else does. E.g. charging 15 cents for an incoming text message unless you have a text messaging plan.
That's about how much it costs (after insurance) to give birth in a private hospital in Australia as well. This is in a country that has universal healthcare. The largest costs are the often the hospital fees.
That doesn't match my experience. We have private insurance while on 457 and the only out of pocket expenses were the genetic extra test for autism and sex of the child and me staying couple nights in the hospital with my wife. About 750 in total. Everything else, pregnancy handling, hospital, midwives, cesarean, anesthetics were covered by the insurance company totaling around 20 000 AUD.
It's mostly taxes, EV cars have no extra tax which makes them cheaper than petrol cars which often have 100% tax added to their price, which is not really the case in most other countries.
True, also there is no VAT (which is 25%) on EV cars, and it used to be free to drive on toll roads (this year we have to pay, but much less than the petrol cars). Also, we can drive in the bus/taxi lanes.
One can only imagine this will change once EVs will start making financial dent. In many European countries there is ridiciolous rule to tax your new car based on the size of ICE. Its for example 2.5% for less than 2000ccm, and can be 18% or more if your engine is bgger than 1999ccm. This for decades was the main reason why all the 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8 litre cars were so popular. This and highly tax gas can make for good argument for EVs. However one has to be naive not to think eventually with enough share market both EV cars and charging your car battery will be taxed thru the roof similar to how petrol is taxed. The value of EVs will get regulated downwards then of course. We also have so much oil left in Earth it will be sufficient to power cars for another 30 years.
You're absolutely right about the financial aspect. Once EVs hit a certain percentage of vehicles on the road, governments are going to notice that their tax revenue from gas powered cars will be in freefall due to loss of VAT on new vehicle sales as well as dropping fuel revenues.
At that point they'll definitely reinstate VAT for electric cars, and possibly levy a tax on public chargers based on how much electricity you use.
But domestic fuel is not cheap here (Norway). Petrol is nearly USD 2/litre, close to USD 8 per US gallon.
Electricity is slightly cheaper than some other European countries but that is changing as more and more HVDC interconnects are built and the prices are affected by the market.
> If you regularly need to move 250k sums electronically inside the Australian economy.
Paying sub-contractors, settling property transactions, the list goes on.
When buying a house, I remember having to withdraw $60k in cash from my savings bank account and walking over and depositing it in another because it would take the other bank 3 working days to clear a bank-cheque. Some banks do offer an over-night inter-bank mechanism, but surprisingly CommBank does not.
I don't think it was designed for what you want to do. Interesting problem: fast efficient payment of GST-incurring and other taxable money in a low doc manner.
Yes, two issues are a) knowing what to escape and b) what is supported or not. I was weirdly surprised to discover that there are some useful functionalities that are basically supported nowhere... except in vim. I think it was variable-length lookbehinds but don't quote me on this.
Lookbehind is restricted in many regex engines that support it (many don't at all). Some require the lookbehind to be constant-length (so if you have alternatives in there, they all have to have the same length, and you can't use quantifiers, basically). Some require it to be finite-but-known-ahead-of-time-length, so something like (?<=a{3,6}) is okay, but (?<=a{3,) is not. Also (?<=a|bb) would be okay.
.NET's System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex is one implementation that has no restrictions on lookbehind. Having used PowerShell for so long it now happens sometimes that I forget when writing regexes for other implementations, as it's really convenient at times.
yeah, typically you would get error if you use variable length lookbehinds
a few do support it (for ex: Python's 3rd party regex module) and sometimes you could workaround with \K (similar to \zs in vim) [1]
And there are other frustrating differences between implementations, for example \g definition is very different between Ruby and Python, character set operations are not found everywhere, etc. Plus, BRE/ERE versions found in command line tools do not even support features like non-greedy and lookaround
My knowledge of Regex is basic.Last year,I ended up writing a piece of code,which was reading an inbound email,parsing some of the data,and depending on the type of the email and the data stored,it then ends up creating a lead record on the system with captured data. I wrote this in Apex,which is a proprietary language of Salesforce and is based on JAVA. Apex should adhere to JAVa implementation of Regex.Some thimgs are still different.The website for regex calculations was showing one info,java docs other,and Salesforce something else all together...It took me a while..
