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by vinay427 5y ago
Those actions are precisely what one might expect of a multinational organization aiming to build consensus. It sounds like you’re implying some sort of behind-the-scenes loyalties, whereas I would suggest they’re more of a necessary featur
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> It’s mostly the US that has an insane vacine policy. Source? There are plenty of other countries that require vaccinations and/or tests. I was recently checking Singapore, for instance, which still seems to require one dose of a
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It doesn’t help that this has been codified into the names of various organizations, like the Council of Europe (ECHR, etc.), EEA, EU, and others that all refer to different subsets of countries on the continent. I suppose this renders any
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by vinay427 5y ago
I think, given the context of the thread, they mean that a layman would be more likely to want a TV with Netflix built-in as opposed to an external device that typically performs better and is more flexible.
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> Math in US high schools ends at what most countries would consider a middle school level. I agree that the nationwide baseline is abysmally, or even tragically, low. This is clearly problematic in and of itself. However, there isn’t a
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This sounds identical to the system in the US: a mix of AP and more recently IB. It is interesting to me that the IB program has somewhat high status even in countries with (optional) academic tracks that are often more rigorous than the AP
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Well, that would be most countries, even in the West. Few places have an NHS-style comprehensive and universal coverage system, and in most of the rest (spanning Germany, the US, etc.) there are various levers of private insurance regulatio
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> And then, we get into the business of telling Europe whether they should put up with higher natgas prices because we have an opinion about nordstream II. There are more than enough voices within Europe doing that already. The US simply
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> After 20 years in California, I have unlearned a lot of this. Hmm, I’m curious which part. If anything, I seem to notice even more of this tendency in much of Southern California compared to the upper Midwest where I also grew up. The
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It might be advisable to take their point in good faith by considering what they may be saying instead of resorting to mentioning something about US foreign policy. Based on the definitions I can find of murder in various dictionaries, it s
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> unecessary bad practice against the benefit of the user Are there not noticeable battery life consequences of socketed RAM? From what I can tell, and I’m sure others here would know more, this often comes up as a reason for the battery
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What is the connection with this article? As far as I can tell, the homes presented here don't seem to exemplify or even closely depend on US or European building practices. For instance, I'm not sure how many homes are rated for
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It seems like a much more prolific version of Discord, where the focus is clearly on large groups, and it handles this surprisingly well. I’m not sure why people used to draw comparisons with Signal, to be honest, given that anecdotally vir
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To be fair, iOS updates also feel ancient compared to the Android live-update method which just requires a slightly longer reboot. On Android, I sometimes ended up on major releases and didn’t even notice because it just showed up upon my n
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Aluminum MBPs that had batteries that were swappable without opening the case existed as well, in the first few MBP generations around 2006 or so.
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> Coming from NL Given the Canadian context, do you mean the Netherlands or Newfoundland and Labrador?
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“A little thicker” is a bit of an understatement. At its thickest point, it’s apparently 71% thicker than the thickest point of the 16-inch MacBook Pro (2021), and 55% thicker at its thinnest point compared to the thickest point of the Mac.
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by vinay427 5y ago
> these new web apps like Google Docs are terrible, we should go back to MS office 97 ». I didn't say that, and quite frankly, this almost sounds like a disingenuous interpretation of my comment. As I said, I'm genuinely curiou
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by vinay427 5y ago
I don't think the GP comment implied otherwise, but rather suggested Ireland/Dublin as a response to the UK and the US being named in the title.
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I genuinely don’t understand what people are referring to when they use PWA in this context. Do the latest versions of Google office suite apps qualify? How about Outlook in the browser, or maybe TensorBoard or Slack? I would generally desc
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by vinay427 5y ago
I happened to read it correctly, but it’s definitely ambiguous. Little can describe the locality of the infighting or the amount of total infighting, where the former was the intended meaning.
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As the type of person that has license plates from various places hung up on my wall, I think this is a very cool endeavor, and I’m very excited to see where you go with this. Some of these are huge improvements over the existing plate desi
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> This is also why the US keeps sales tax separate instead of rolling it into the price of the item like Europe. Even in a relatively federalized (by European standards) country like Switzerland, the VAT is set nationally. This isn’t the
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> the idea of Framework is that the user decides what to include. I agree that this is true, at least in theory. I also had a preorder for the Framework laptop. In practice, the problem is that modularity in this case seems to come at th
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Honestly, I’m not sure I see this. They made the charging cable USB C at one end, shipping a standard USB C PD adapter and even mentioning that a USB C to C cable can be used with the same adapter to charge the same laptop. I don’t think th
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> This isn't much different than Rome, which of course the US is modeled on. Do you have a source for either of these claims? I can’t seem to find a clear one, especially for the latter claim.
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This entire recall election for the governor seemed to stem from press coverage that sparked a limited movement. Considering the result seemed too close for comfort throughout much of the campaign process, I wouldn’t exactly consider the go
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This distinction isn't quite so clear-cut. At least in Ontario, any form of documentation listing the voter's name is sufficient [1], which they explicitly state can include a credit/debit card. The more stringent voter ID la
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National ID is certainly not a requirement for voter ID, and there’s no reason I can find so far that state/local ID couldn’t be mandated instead. While you’re correct that most countries that require voter ID have a national ID card,
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by vinay427 5y ago
What point are you getting at, here? The generalization in your comment isn’t true, for starters [1, 2], and it doesn’t address the premise of the parent comment that there may not be sufficient fraud to warrant stronger ID requirements. Fr

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