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by vinay427 5y ago
Yes, exactly. San Francisco has a higher population density than most larger European cities (London, Madrid, or just Valencia) but the "outskirt parts" of the city seem more evenly spread out, whereas its European counterparts te
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First of all, this article is about seed oils, not plant fats. Secondly, does the world in which this argument exists consist only of the west? Your mention of olive oil as the exception and a “western diet” seems to indicate so given that
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by vinay427 5y ago
> we do make fun of US that need to take the car for that! Only if you live in the outskirts of the city/town/countryside you'd take the car for shopping. This seems similar to the situation in the US, with the major diffe
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> and allow you to turn it off. Source? On Android with Google Play Services, which almost always applies to Android TV as they’re essentially the same OS, there are no UI toggles to turn off the spying. You can check this using a DNS pr
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I definitely wouldn’t call Samsung phones inferior clones. They seem to drive most of the feature development in Android in recent years, with Google catching up by mainlining them a few years later. It seems like only Samsung and Apple are
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I’m unsure how you interpreted “downplaying the racial element” and “a dimension in this story” in the GP comment to mean “exclusively.” There are numerous alternatives I can think of that the commenter could have used to indicate exclusivi
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Extending this logic, I assume most larger nations would be included for similar reasons, certainly the more western and/or developed ones, which seems rather reductionist and somewhat unproductive. Perhaps a more evidence-based approa
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Both this comment and the GP comment seem exceedingly ideological to me. The actions of the EU on the internet are not categorically “stupid”, but their laws are also not always for someone's benefit (relative to organizations subverti
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I’m sure this is true, but I’m curious if you have any experience with this in another country? The one European country in which I’ve been in a university setting seemed to have similar tenure-pressure dynamics as in the US.
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by vinay427 5y ago
You might be interested in other senses of the word “equality”, as your confusion seems to stem from assuming one particular sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_of_outcome
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This wouldn't necessarily indicate the vehicle being used or its owner/registrant for tax purposes. Additionally, mobile network triangulation isn't usually as accurate as GPS or other satellite systems.
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> It’s the opposite of the situation in the US It varies by city/state, as some other comments noted. In any case, in a few smaller towns I've been to in the UK, there are numerous crossings that seem incredibly unsafe to me fr
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by vinay427 5y ago
I don’t see how the history of GSM is very pertinent to the present scenario. At least in the last several years I’ve used phones from Europe or Asia or other networks in North America and they all just work with first-party or MVNO SIM car
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by vinay427 5y ago
Many of those telco plans in Switzerland that just add a data eSIM don’t actually work with something like an Apple Watch, which is why I assume the GP asked at the store. At least the Apple Watch requires a mobile network to offer a specia
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> Most US providers still seem to live in the mental world of selling SIM-locked phones, they are no smooth experience for customers bringing their own device. This was true 5-10 years ago. Nowadays, nearly every mobile network regularly
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by vinay427 5y ago
There was a thread on HN a few days ago [1] that discussed a similar idea. The prevailing notion seems to be that the far larger number of independent banks in the US makes coordinating on this sort of system far more challenging. In my exp
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by vinay427 5y ago
Zalando is famously an exception in multiple countries I’ve been in, to the extent that some shop there because of their lenient return policies. I’m not sure how unique Switzerland is here. It seemed relatively similar in Germany, for inst
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Yeah, I understand. It's definitely not ideal and I don't want to sound like I'm condoning it because it really should be improved. I'm just not sure there's an obvious solution given the US/Canadian regional&#
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> In the EU? Most instances were in Switzerland as I mentioned, although a few were in the EU. Some weren't defective items but rather unneeded items. Returns based on changing one's mind, even if the item is in unused conditio
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On the other hand, after growing up in the US I have to do the same when shopping in Germany or Switzerland. It’s almost unheard of for stores here to offer compensation such as a refund or exchange for many situations commonplace in the US
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by vinay427 5y ago
I would tend to agree with this. I’ve rarely received a refund or other compensation at least in Switzerland (not in the EU) for things that would immediately be handled in the US, particularly for retail purchases. The Costco and Amazon ef
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by vinay427 5y ago
Yep, some Swiss platforms have a similar messaging system but others (e.g. Ricardo.ch, probably the most popular?) just offer contact information instead. It might also help that it's increasingly common to pay over the TWINT mobile pa
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by vinay427 5y ago
Right, I assumed that was the main intent but was responding more to the specific claim that "rest of the world use 3rd party platforms to chat."
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Please don't assume that wherever you live is the same as the rest of the world. SMS messages are not exactly unusual in Switzerland, and I've had at least a few friends prefer them in most every other country I've been as we
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It seems like you're still enjoying the "mm thickness saved" unless the prices of older phones were so low that damaging them was of no real consequence to you, making cases worthless. Those devices were often thicker but sti
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Telegram doesn't support bots and most other advanced features for E2EE conversations either. It seems at least as valid (IMO) to speculate that WhatsApp's lack of API/bot support is due to an additional technical hurdle than
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Same. Also an American, and while I don't personally use it for some of the same reasons I try to avoid Facebook Messenger, I'm certainly not "triggered" by its success, whatever that means. It's at least nicer than
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What would you consider to be legitimate criticism of Telegram rather than just being “triggered at Telegram’s success?” I’m curious where you draw this line, and where you found comments from users identifiably from the US who you believe
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To be fair, it doesn’t even have feature parity with Signal for “one specific conversation,” which I might have been fine sacrificing to use Telegram. Among other things, there’s no multi-device E2EE support or message history backup for E2
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by vinay427 5y ago
Sure, but it’s for some reason framed as a WhatsApp competitor even in countries where Facebook Messenger is relatively popular, which seems silly to me. It appears to fill a similar feature niche as Facebook Messenger, not WhatsApp, even i

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