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by vinay427 5y ago
Underground (or partially underground) parking garages are fairly common for newer and especially fancier apartment buildings where I live. I'm not sure how common electric car chargers are in these garages, however.
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> Here cash heavy businesses are rare The divide here is certainly not between the US and much of Europe. If anything, the US is far closer to the Nordics than much of Europe based on the statistics I could find [1] and my own anecdotes
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by vinay427 5y ago
This is widely-cited and has become a bit of a trope among many people here in Switzerland, but one famous example that isn't usually looked upon with pride today is the extremely delayed granting of suffrage to women in Switzerland (1
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Fresno (1700/sq. km) also has less than half the population density of Nantes or Nice (4200-4800/sq. km). It's not exactly a fair comparison if the area of the city is far larger unless the last-kilometer transit seamlessly s
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Sure, if you subscribe to a broader definition of "government violence" that also probably includes aboriginal North Americans in militias haphazardly shooting arrows at European settlers that had firearms and had occupied their l
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> This is what Israel has to work with, while seeking some sort of durable peace in the region. This is a situation prior generations of Israelis created in the midst of Palestinians who preferred not to be evicted and harassed from thei
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by vinay427 5y ago
Autopilot also includes the less-capable levels, not just FSD. For example, Enhanced Autopilot uses Autosteer and TACC which are both mentioned in the article.
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From this perspective (Kendi, etc.), it is very much not the same as racism and is not just "racism" being rebranded. The term "anti-racism" really only makes sense when you consider this dichotomy using the more specifi
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by vinay427 5y ago
Telegram still, AFAIK, has no way to backup or transfer E2EE conversations, and no desktop support for them either. Those are non-starters to me. Your encrypted conversations are stuck on the device on which you set them up with no option t
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by vinay427 5y ago
Why not just compare their water usage by calorie/kcal? Nuts can easily be the largest energy source in a meal or used as a standalone snack because they're so calorie-dense. https://waterfootprint.org/en/wate
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by vinay427 5y ago
> Since it’s selecting people based on race. This can also apply to antiracism, which as I understand it [1] is policy that attempts to undo structural racism, not policy that is absent of race-conscious treatment. I think this question
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by vinay427 5y ago
> The only way to not be bothered by stuff like this as a consumer is to not consume anything. It's not very clear, from the above sentence, that you exclude consumption of creative works. In any case, how do you draw a distinction
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by vinay427 6y ago
Personally, I say yes. The US is a huge outlier among OECD nations [1] and this definitely shows in the connection and level of interaction people feel to their representatives, at least based on my experience living in both the US and a co
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by vinay427 6y ago
Paris to Barcelona does actually exist: https://en.oui.sncf/en/train/timetables/paris/barcelona The next direct train takes 6h39m.
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by vinay427 6y ago
> As a Canadian (currently living in the US), I think that Canada would be more opposed to this. We always seem to have a fear of the US amalgamating us. If it helps, Switzerland joined the Schengen area while maintaining its own customs
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by vinay427 6y ago
There are a lot more similarly arbitrary things than just paper and wood which are measured in imperials in Canada. I'm reminded of this (comical) guide I first saw posted on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolgu
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by vinay427 6y ago
There are only a handful of western countries that use this approach. As counterexamples, Switzerland, the UK, Spain, and many other countries tend to have local municipal police departments, and Germany has state/Bundesland-level poli
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yes, that's how a non-permanent visa works in just about every country. Some offer grace periods, but your residence there is still seen as extending a privilege.
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by vinay427 6y ago
I wouldn't. As you mentioned, I would just find an exchange that supports fiat <-> XMR. I'm just responding to the top-level comment that specifically referred to Bitcoin as the preferred currency for these transactions.
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by vinay427 6y ago
The problem isn't just the transaction fees but markups by exchanges (BTC -> XMR, XMR -> BTC) that each take a cut. Last time I calculated this, even after shopping around for cheaper exchanges it was well over 1% in total fees a
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by vinay427 6y ago
Also, this probably goes without saying but if you choose this route, find an area code in which you likely don't know anyone. I have an area code from a state in which I previously lived so I still don't know whether it's a
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by vinay427 6y ago
Darknet markets almost universally advise against using BTC that hasn't been explicitly anonymized, a process that costs money and effort and requires knowhow to do properly. Mixers, tunneling through a private cryptocurrency, or other
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by vinay427 6y ago
With BTC you would need to pay transaction fees, and in practice, anonymization fees (e.g. for mixing services, tunneling through a private cryptocurrency) for many transactions. These would amount to far more than inflation for USD, EUR, e
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Did it appear to these clowns that if I have to use a wire transfer anyway, I can just use a fucking wire transfer? You may have misunderstood what they're saying. The full sentence from which you quoted: > It currently require
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by vinay427 6y ago
Well, the 1800s were also when not bending to the will of European powers was likely far harder and more damaging than not bending to the will of the US (even today) in many parts of the world. There has been some improvement in the overall
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by vinay427 6y ago
I almost think the several countries that remain in the EU which choose to avoid or delay joining the Eurozone are better examples. While the UK evidently had other concerns with EU membership besides the Euro, even pro-EU governments seem
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> Unlike American Wonder Bread, German bread is baked fresh and comes in a variety of flavors besides "white". It probably goes without saying but packaged preservative-laden German bread also exists, as does fresh-baked Americ
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I think that's the point of the person you replied to. An exceedingly minor issue such as "unreturned books" is used for sarcastic effect, but that implication that we should treat library loan violators in this way seems to
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by vinay427 6y ago
I agree. > Not everyone continued to say these "regrettable" things well into the 21st century. Just a short sampling, mostly from before 2000 although more can be found in other articles: https://www.theguardian.com
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by vinay427 6y ago
Not everyone had the same opportunities to know better afforded by a world-class education and extensive travel abroad. Not everyone continued to say these "regrettable" things well into the 21st century. Not everyone was aware th

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