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by vinay427 6y ago
This issue involves the Texas government pitched against US legislation. I'm sure there's a more accurate group to refer to than "Americans," which doesn't make sense to me in this context.
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by vinay427 6y ago
For what it's worth, while New Mexico's law covers all governmental bodies, Colorado passed a law last June that only banned qualified immunity for law enforcement [1]. The city of New York also recently did so for NYPD officers [
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They already hypothesized one possibility in their comment: > That means a department will be more likely to reform practices and policies which would cause frequent lawsuits instead of simply instituting policies to optimize for arrest
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by vinay427 6y ago
Assuming we're not talking about the extra-wide sidewalks common in city centers which sometimes also host designated bike lanes, ordinary sidewalks that I've seen throughout the US and Europe are nowhere near wide enough to fit e
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by vinay427 6y ago
They already did this development privately. I don't think anyone has a problem with building out a new feature before it's announced. The problem people have, IMO understandably, is that they pushed this code to production server
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Essentially, yes. In other words, I wouldn't endorse their line of argument or discussion, but I also wouldn't use it to dismiss the point being argued.
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Someone choosing to respond by labeling a contradiction as "dangerous" does not mean there is no proper response, and certainly doesn't (to me) literally showcase the hollowness of an argument. I genuinely don't understa
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> The problem is that he attempted to question the ideological firmaments of contemporary anti-racist training. These firmaments are protected with aggressive viciousness precisely because they cannot withstand scrutiny. Had Bhattacharya
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by vinay427 6y ago
That's definitely fair. I think I tend to see at least a small move in this direction as something of an inevitability, although the India-style approach still tends to respect regional cultures and languages with repression of minorit
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I think this would be fine if one could disentangle political and cultural unity. However, I'm not sure that's sustainable, particularly in the hard times when "pan-governmental" identification seems essential. Given the
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Second-generation Americans almost universally didn't start from a low bar themselves. Many first-generation Americans didn't start from a low bar, either, but that's maybe a different point.
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This tuition agreement which is often implemented as a waiver (so the student pays at most their home rate) is already the case for many exchange programs which have existed between innumerable university-pairs for many years. I don't
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by vinay427 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. That's definitely very fair criticism that I generally agree with. I suppose I personally don't mind the inconsistent and lackluster device ecosystem support because I currently prefer an outdoor watch over a
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by vinay427 6y ago
Honestly, the Samsung OneUI on phones has little, if nothing, to do with Tizen. Have you tried a newer Samsung Galaxy phone? As someone who now has a Pixel, newer Samsung devices come across as far more full-featured (I think this might be
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by vinay427 6y ago
TouchWiz bears minimal resemblance to Samsung's newer UIs, to be fair. Most seem to find the newer OneUI iterations to be significant improvements because they make for a far more full-featured device than stock Android with a more con
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by vinay427 6y ago
> they would provide them with credits or vouchers to let parents decide what is best for their kids. This sounds like the exact problem I would hope to avoid. Further incentivizing those who can pay out-of-pocket for their children&#x27
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by vinay427 6y ago
Just to confirm, you had a bag check for checked baggage after customs and before your domestic flight, and this was done by the TSA? I've flown into and around the US countless times, including international to domestic connections at
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It's an overall benefit for consumers because manufacturers that allow haggling presumably factor it in into their sticker prices because it's such a common practice. The best hagglers are perhaps worse off with the Tesla model, a
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by vinay427 6y ago
I would suppose that more appropriate examples abound. Remaining in those countries today indicates that the action is not just in the past.
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Soledad O'Brien is a former cable news insider who also makes this point of pundits serving as a cheaper alternative, in an interview she did with Trevor Noah [1]. [1] Around 4:35 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8hn
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by vinay427 6y ago
More of a tangent as I agree with your point, but... I think this diversity, while large, is still less than in many other languages. As one example of many, just within Europe there are accents/dialects of German in Switzerland that a
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by vinay427 6y ago
Of course. I agree with what I think you're getting at, specifically that not nearly enough richness trickled down. However, the poorest Americans today are still significantly better off than they were in most any previous decade or
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Definitely, as a fellow German learner. The "flexibility" or unpredictability of word order, largely due to the greater inflection based on grammatical case, makes it much more challenging unless one is a native speaker who can pr
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by vinay427 6y ago
German would definitely be problematic but it's still likely to be one of the least affected, especially in the English -> German direction, and nearly every word would at least has a clear translation. Virtually any sentence in an
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by vinay427 6y ago
Not the original commenter, but personally, omitting NLRB would be my main concern with the title. A "watchdog" seems needlessly vague as it could imply any range of organizations that report on this, but the NLRB is the specific
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Source? I've never heard of this in the US or in other countries I've been in, although I wouldn't doubt it's the case somewhere.
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This reductionism seems like identity politics at its worst. It sounds like you're saying that anyone who identifies as white (regardless of how arbitrary this race is) must avoid using a term you find disrespectful to describe their r
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yes, that's what I said, and even included the second link to make that more explicit. I don't mean to imply that the wealth gap in wealthy countries is decreasing. The point I am getting at is that it's far more difficult to
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The current wealth gap is shrinking, so I'm not sure what trend you're referring to. It may be increasing in your country and many others, but globally the average citizen is far better off today in virtually every material and
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> American's don't have the time or energy to prepare a meal, and they don't know how to. Speak for yourself (or maybe there's data on this that you can cite). I personally very much enjoy cooking and prepare nearly

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