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by vinay427 6y ago
I don't see how it's comparatively well-hidden, let alone harder to fight as a result. There seems to be just as much hidden corruption at the upper levels in less wealthy and non-western countries, except that there's also m
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by vinay427 6y ago
The EU also hadn't approved the vaccine when those stockpiles were exported, and it was to compensate for UK domestic production shortfalls which the EU suffered from a few months later due in large part to the Commission delaying the
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by vinay427 6y ago
It's not common at all in Switzerland, either, at least from what I can tell after living here for years. Salaries for lower-level positions tend to be higher than in the US, but I highly doubt these would be enough to retire quite so
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by vinay427 6y ago
System76 is probably one of the least bold laptop manufacturers because they can't afford to be. As other comments have noted, much of their hardware are largely rebadged devices from other manufacturers such as Clevo, because the main
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by vinay427 6y ago
Assuming you're in the US due to the relative popularity of HOAs there, this has thankfully been blocked in some (particularly sunny) states. At least California, Texas, Florida, and a few others have solar access laws that prohibit HO
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by vinay427 6y ago
I was trying to emphasize this further which is why I (ninja) edited in the second paragraph, but unfortunately it still isn't very obvious: > when avoiding Telegram's non-private conversations
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by vinay427 6y ago
I'm honestly not sure what I'm missing when avoiding Telegram's non-private conversations. There's no desktop client support (unlike Signal which works on a desktop mostly seamlessly, including group video) and no option
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by vinay427 6y ago
It is what Aldi-branded stores still do to some extent in at least Germany/CH and the US. They still have many consistent store-brand products, however. Trader Joe's is really a different animal. It has a interesting rotating sele
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by vinay427 6y ago
> you can't even discuss changes to the laws. This is a type of speech, and there's no reason all speech should be regulated uniformly, just as speech and actions should presumably not be regulated uniformly. We could just prev
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by vinay427 6y ago
Thank you for mentioning this resource. I just found their cartogram map of House votes which provides a rather fascinating district-based map of the US, colored by vote. For instance, the cartogram map of the recently passed "American
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Firstly "accepting a law" implies - in western liberal democracies - a legislative process in which a law is proposed and accepted by some kind of parliament. This is not what happened here - in Switzerland, laws can be given
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I'm not sure it's clear that one is better than the other in general. For instance, I would be wary of a snap election after an event perceived as politically significant (e.g. a declaration of war, a major terrorist attack, etc.)
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by vinay427 6y ago
Granting the right to vote is a bit of a different ballgame because it's a meta-question. Not consulting women (or just everyone, or all citizens, or all adult citizens, etc.) on this issue indicates, to me, that the will of all people
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by vinay427 6y ago
I get plenty of spam calls (EDIT: and mail) here in Switzerland as well. It seems only marginally lower than the number I got in the US, and that's in a much shorter time here. Anecdotally, they seem comparable in practice in my experi
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by vinay427 6y ago
California (not a country, obviously) is otherwise virtually comparable with Switzerland in this respect. Full constitutional amendments and legislative vetoes can occur via referendum. EDIT: In practice, larger cities in California seem to
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Problem is, I don’t drive and don’t carry a state-issued ID. These two are not related in most every state, or at least the several I've checked, which routinely issue non-driver state IDs. They usually look and feel identical to
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by vinay427 6y ago
The article is about the relative opposition to this policy in Malaysia, compared to in many other countries where these things are banned and heavily penalized, and therefore the possibility that this man will become a "cause celebre&
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by vinay427 6y ago
I see, thank you. I completely missed that additional layer.
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by vinay427 6y ago
I believe their point was that they would refuse service to vehicles that used those parts, theoretically making a theft of a Tesla for spare parts pointless. > refuse service to anyone who used parts with stolen serial numbers.
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by vinay427 6y ago
Bluetooth, at least on Logitech devices that support both their proprietary connection and BT, seems to have far more latency in many situations. The difference is Logitech's proprietary setup with Unifying receivers allows multiple co
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by vinay427 6y ago
A transflective LCD already does both of these to a very large degree. They're used by many watch manufacturers that prioritize outdoor use (e.g. Garmin) and/or battery life (e.g. Pebble, now defunct). I've owned two devices
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by vinay427 6y ago
> That's not how quotes work Quotes are commonly used to mark a specific novel phrase. I was not intending to imply that it was a phrase from the article. > The article is saying Amtrak, a half baked VIA, is the closest thing th
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by vinay427 6y ago
In the last paragraph, they claim that Amtrak is the closest thing in the US. > Unfortunately, though, the closest thing the U.S. has to a national rail provider like CN is the chronically under-funded Amtrak
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by vinay427 6y ago
I still see this in the last paragraph: > Unfortunately, though, the closest thing the U.S. has to a national rail provider like CN is the chronically under-funded Amtrak I quoted "Canadian Amtrak" as an expression of my own ma
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by vinay427 6y ago
The last paragraph on Amtrak has nothing to do with CN or the rest of the article. Either the author is just unaware of Canadian National or they chose to include an unrelated point on Amtrak for some reason. CN is not a "Canadian Amtr
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by vinay427 6y ago
More importantly, it had nothing to do with CN, which is not a "Canadian Amtrak" or even an Amtrak competitor. CN is a publicly-traded freight rail company that doesn't currently operate passenger service. There are plenty of
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by vinay427 6y ago
It doesn't matter much for laptops which increasingly seem to depend on Intel/AMD integrated graphics, which are more capable than ever in laptops with more stringent size and power constraints. How many MacBooks sold have discret
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by vinay427 6y ago
Signal's desktop client, unlike WhatsApp and Telegram, at least supports E2E encrypted conversations while a phone is disconnected or off. You only need access to a phone when it falls out of sync which is increasingly rare. That'
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by vinay427 6y ago
Telegram has an incredibly primitive setup for their private conversations (E2E encryption). It doesn't work at all on desktop clients, and there's no supported way to backup or transfer devices so changing or losing a phone means
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Fraud or improper charges are also easily immediately rescinded if using a credit card. I'm not sure how exactly it compares, but every credit card at least in my lifetime in the US has been bound by these same protections. > W

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