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by vinay427 5y ago
Your point of course stands, but from what I can tell (as someone very much not an expert, i.e. glad to be corrected), the history of the adaptive immune system is far more continual and definitely precedes mammals, with the "fully-fle
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by vinay427 5y ago
> Also, I hate to use my skin color and "immigrant" status to make this crucial point which a lot of my other immigrant friends agree on - some government run by a bunch of elite politicians who are immune to everything trying
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by vinay427 5y ago
> But a person having lesser melanin than me criticized my country in a similar way, that would be considered hate speech in Canada. Did you read the pertinent definition of hate speech in this situation? It doesn't include banning
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by vinay427 5y ago
Yes, although their MyQ cloud platform unfortunately has a very transient reverse-engineered API due to the lack of an official option, AFAIK. This seems to be a regular issue for users that set up an integration between MyQ and a unified p
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by vinay427 5y ago
Not the OP but as a resident, it's available at my address near the edge of the city, albeit in a larger building rather than an older individual home, so I imagine it's accessible to most people in the city limits. The city has m
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by vinay427 5y ago
Right, I genuinely do understand why people use it, and don't have a problem with that decision. My point was just that the E2EE chats not being able to be backed up or transferred to a new device/install isn't a feature, and
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by vinay427 5y ago
> Secret chats - the e2ee chats self-destruct between users and stay on the device where it has been initiated. Is this supposed to be a feature? Telegram themselves claim that this inability to backup chats is at least part of why they
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by vinay427 5y ago
> This alleviates #1 above, but I don’t think it would ever fly in the US. Both of these are already the case in many parts of the US. My home state had refunds on plastic/metal/glass containers for ages, and CA (for instance)
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by vinay427 5y ago
I agree that it's obvious to both of us, but there are regularly comments that seem to indicate that it's not always the case for people from other regions. No one needs more generalizations about the continent. :) (Or about any c
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by vinay427 5y ago
With the major caveat below, on the face of it, it doesn't seem much less arbitrary to tax by citizenship than by residence in certain cases. For instance, as someone that grew up in the US and went to public schools, I certainly used
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by vinay427 5y ago
It seems quite unusual to be double taxed according to what I could understand from the relevant laws. The first X amount of earned income is exempt as you noted. The amount above that, if a tax treaty is in place with the other country of
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Alternatively, there is an argument to be made that these quotes are antiracist in the context of present society (in the US, although not exclusively).
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by vinay427 5y ago
> European so I don't need domestic health insurance Just a reminder that Europe is not a country, and this statement is not accurate for many Europeans. It's perfectly fine to say this about a country in which you understand t
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by vinay427 5y ago
I didn't say, and wouldn't say, that the US wasn't involved in MENA. I can understand how my previous comment may have implied that, for which I apologize, so it's worth clarifying. There's simply a difference in sc
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by vinay427 5y ago
Certainly. I think this is, to me, the clearest case for why the US has a moral imperative to contribute to mitigating the ensuing problems in that region (just as western Europe has one for much of the MENA region, ...), including hosting
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by vinay427 5y ago
To be fair, in many places with universal coverage of health insurance, the owner doesn't know they won't get sued for medical expenses. The European countries that have often been mentioned here (Germany, Switzerland, etc.) most
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by vinay427 5y ago
The IoT device can certainly work like that. The comment is specifically talking about Google Assistant support, which as HomeAssistant users have experienced, does require cloud server access even if this seems unnecessary in cases when th
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by vinay427 5y ago
> im a member of the racial majority so take my words with a grain of salt I guess. In that case, I probably will, unfortunately. The incidents I encountered directed at me almost never involved a witness who belonged to a racial majorit
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by vinay427 5y ago
The shield and your comment list the UK and Scotland separately here, which (at least for now) is not accurate as I'm sure you're aware. Are there separate agencies involved that merit including both flags?
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by vinay427 5y ago
> I suspect if you make your way closer to the midwest you will meet less of these people, and more people who treat you like just another person and couldn't give a fuck how you identify. As someone that grew up somewhere in the mi
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by vinay427 5y ago
I'm not sure how this is a response to what I said, quite frankly. It seems like you see an argument that I wasn't making, so I'm a little confused. (EDIT: To clarify, I don't disagree with what you said about the plight
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by vinay427 5y ago
I would argue that benefits have also come from moralizing about certain practices. Consider smoking cigarettes, for instance, which has seen dramatic decreases in use over several decades in the US [1]. I suspect that the large amount of m
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by vinay427 5y ago
Well, the US has already set that precedent. I was referring to the even more egregious century or two of direct colonialism involving cultural/moral imposition and the rewriting and dismantling of indigenous history (and economies) th
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by vinay427 5y ago
The "whole world" in the GP comment is nowhere near accurate. That being said, for starters, Australia still has restrictions on residents leaving without requesting special permission and at least at one point had a ban on re-e
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by vinay427 5y ago
Your point of course stands, but the "for once" from a European perspective makes this sound more like a now-satiated lion complaining that the dog kills for food. (EDIT: Changed wording here) Regardless, I hope that the US is abl
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by vinay427 5y ago
> I dislike the American corporate environment, their soulless "corporate culture" media materials. There is this one American school of "how to become successful" and that's it. Ironically, a lot of people in th
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by vinay427 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm genuinely not sure how the comment you replied to is implying that? I read it as saying the US woman should have adjusted her behavior.
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by vinay427 5y ago
That's not surprising or particularly notable for a rapid antigen test, which is why they're not used as a full replacement for a PCR test in most countries. The BD rapid test he used seems to be one which a paper [1] indicates ha
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by vinay427 5y ago
Thank you for suggesting this. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it aims to provide non-Western (not just non-US) perspectives and coverage. Based on the few articles I browsed so far, it will likely become one of my regulars so I ap
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by vinay427 5y ago
I'm not sure they were drawing a specific comparison between the US and some other country, and there's quite a bit more diversity among European countries. There are at least many in which speed limits are stringently enforced us

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