Downtown Nanaimo to downtown Vancouver is about 3 hours by ferry including check-in and road travel at each end.

Harbour air takes a little less than an hour, including check-in. The flight is from downtown to downtown.

My province has been giving away free nicotine replacement products for some years now via their Smoking Cessation Program. Once per calendar year you can receive 12 weeks worth of nicotine gum, lozenges or patches. The main idea is that it costs our health care system less in the long run to get to quit smoking. I took advantage of the program twice before finally quitting vaping. Nicotine is a bitch to quit.

I found this little gem which forces your default browser in such situations: https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDe...

As far as I know there have been no hosital closures in Canada, or at least near me in British Columba. There have been postponements of elective surgeries and a limitation on visitors though

Transaction fees are always paid in cryptocurrency and have nothing to do with the exchanges. It's the fee added to a transaction which is paid to the miner when the transaction is confirmed. This fee would be paid even when someone sends BTC directly to another person's wallet. You could set the fee amount to a much lower BTC value in your wallet software before sending, but that would almost guarantee a *very* long confirmation time for your transaction

Sounds a hell of a lot like Black Mirror S03E01

Well, if your Bitcoin is already on deposit at the exchange the limitations of the blockchain are irrelevant. Keeping coins on deposit at an exhange is a stupid idea though, with the various hacks/thefts that have happened. Moving your coins from a local wallet to an exchange to sell is one transaction and any trades you make there are off-chain.

Probably because they are asking for information typcially found on phishing sites, such as name and (partial) SSN. It's also apparently running a stock WordPress installation and their production site throws debug messages and stack traces. Ugh.

AOL!

You're kidding me. You live 300 meters from the bar, and you drove? I have no sympathy.

Tada! JSLinux: http://bellard.org/jslinux/

I actually own my cable modem and router, as well pay for the power it uses. Sure, the cable company owns everything upstream of that. If they want to provide public WiFi why not stick an AP on the pole on the road outside my place?

Well for an improvement you could move to Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Chile, Mauritius, or Denmark....all ahead of the USA if you trust this source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom

This is exactly what I have already done. I've already bought a nice place on the shore in Hainan. I found the people and the local government perfectly to my liking.