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Dec 30, 2024 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
@KirkLubimov The income tax system in Canada is unfair to married people. Your income tax is calculated based on your INDIVIDUAL income where your benefits are calculated based on FAMILY income. This amounts to a "marriage tax" for a traditional single-income household. 1/
@KirkLubimov So, if you're a guy in a good job and your wife is a stay at home mom, you're in the top tax bracket while your wife pays no tax, but she doesn't quality for any benefits because she's married to you and your family income is over the threshold. An incentive to stay "single". 2/
@KirkLubimov Self-employed people have another way around this: give your wife a stay-at-home job in the business, which allows you to balance your individual income and benefit entitlement between you. People in normal salaried jobs can't do that though. 3/3

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Nov 7, 2023
Sharing a story about great healthcare in Jamaica. A few weeks ago my mom came to visit me in Montego Bay, she flew in on a Tuesday. Little did we know she'd had pyelonephritis (kidney infection) from the Sunday before she flew in and was in full-blown sepsis on the plane. 1/
She slept a lot when we got to my place, at first we thought it was exhaustion but she kept getting worse. On the Thursday I had an 8 AM meeting but checked her blood pressure before, it was 118/60, a bit low. When my meeting finished at 11:30 her BP was 92/50. Way too low! 2/
I rushed her to GWest Urgent Care Centre in Montego Bay, when the triage nurse checked her blood pressure it was 68/41. As we learned later she was in septic shock. She saw Dr Sharifa Guthrie a few minutes later and was quickly moved to a bed in the back and put on IV fluids. 3/
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Nov 4, 2022
With a massive wave of layoffs reportedly happening at Twitter today there is one particular group of workers who will be hugely impacted: foreign workers on work visas (H1B, L1, etc.). These folks have 60 days to either find another company to sponsor them or leave the US. 1/ Image
Some of these expat workers have families who depend on them, kids in school, etc. Many of them own cars and furniture, some may have even pursued the "American dream" and bought their own home. Now they have 60 days to unwind all that or find another job to sponsor them. 2/
To add insult to injury, someone on a temporary work visa is not eligible to apply for Unemployment Insurance, even though they've been paying into this system. Reason: you can only collect UI if you are eligible to work, and their work visas are specific to one employer! 3/
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Feb 22, 2021
Let's dig a bit deeper into this screen shot posted by @zackwhittaker and talk about why the JamCOVID app's architecture is FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED. This flaw goes way beyond Amber Group forgetting to secure the S3 bucket. It seems security was just not a consideration at all! 1/
When we look at this ACL we see two things: the "Everyone" group having FULL_CONTROL (this is what was fixed last Monday), but we also see an account "opmjmmobile" having FULL_CONTROL as well, with no other accounts defined. This account seems likely the one used by the app. 2/
For an app like this it needs a way to communicate with the server; it typically does this with a user account (opmjmmobile in this case) and a fixed password. This password can either be hard-coded and compiled with the app, or can be fetched from another server location. 3/
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Feb 21, 2021
Allowing abortion only for rape or where the woman's life is in danger: a concept that may seem like a good compromise but when you dig further into it it's a disaster. Let's talk about it and why abortion should be freely available without these restrictions. #AbortionStandJA 1/
Let's start with the woman's life in danger: who makes this determination? Pregnancy and childbirth are risky and can cost a woman her life, even if it is a normal pregnancy. If she doesn't want a baby is it not inhumane to force this risk on her? 2/
Now let's think about rape. Who is to determine if a woman was raped, when it's often just her word against the alleged rapist? The police? A court? What happens if there's no proof at all she was raped other than her own word (as is so common)? Does this mean no abortion? 3/
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Feb 19, 2021
Happy to be back at @UHWI_JA for my 4th #ConvalescentPlasma donation; a full 6 months since I had COVID19 my antibody titer is still very high and I am still able to donate. Image
Couple more pics of the Convalescent Plasma donation process. ImageImage
For anyone wondering what they're seeing in this picture the machine on the left is a cardiac ultrasound machine, which was used to place the access line (the one higher up my arm, which uses a larger bore cannula). The machine on the right is the apheresis machine. 1/
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Dec 24, 2019
One area the US has been very short-sighted in its efforts over the years is in the Jamaican banking system. Their legitimate concern is a significant volume of illegitimate transactions but their solution, enhanced Know-Your-Customer (KYC) requirements is an abject failure. 1/
Because of these KYC requirements, it is very difficult to open a bank account in Jamaica. One typically needs a job letter, multiple references, proof of address, etc., small independent business owners often can't meet all that and just do without a bank account. 2/
The result is that over 30% of Jamaicans are "unbanked", having no relationship with a bank at all. The net effect of this fosters a parallel cash-based financial system for the "average Joe", one in which #MoneyLaundering is very easy because cash is untraceable. 3/
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