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by vinay427 6y ago
This does exist for credit cards in the US. There are guidelines by which credit card issuers must abide by customer requests, and they're seemingly always happy to side with the consumer when it's even somewhat reasonable. > L
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by vinay427 6y ago
That's not how Audible works. You buy the credits with your subscription unlike an unlimited-consumption model such as Netflix. As a result, they have a policy of allowing credits to be used for a limited time after canceling: https:&
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by vinay427 6y ago
On returned items, both Amazon US and Amazon DE have been quite helpful. I think Amazon US is even more over-the-top, but I think the local retail standards for this are much higher in the US so it makes sense. On memberships, I don't
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by vinay427 6y ago
I'm not sure this will affect my latency here in Zurich. Quad9 is already impressive with a 2ms ping, which is surprisingly a bit faster than Google DNS and a few other major providers from my home.
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Please don't use "Europe" when comparing unless it applies to all 50 countries. As someone who lives in a smaller European country, I can empathize. At least on HN, it seems like both Europeans (in the regional sense) a
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by vinay427 6y ago
As far as I can tell, the EU tends to lean towards privacy protection for individuals against businesses or other private entities, not against the government, and the focus doesn't always seem to be on governmental datasets being used
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by vinay427 6y ago
I tried browsing /r/whitepeopletwitter for the first time, and as far as I can tell it mainly consists of meme-like language that mocks views typically ascribed to Republicans or, in the case of race issues, white Americans that e
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by vinay427 6y ago
Right, I would agree with this.
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by vinay427 6y ago
I agree. The problem arises when people predominantly of a certain race or sex attempt to define the narrative around racism or sexism that affects another race or sex. It's a little difficult to find that trustworthy, in my opinion.
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by vinay427 6y ago
That's not the same administration. It's perhaps an issue that could have also happened in many other states in the US, but the comment was about the Trump administration.
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by vinay427 6y ago
> "white doesn’t represent a shared culture and history in the way Black does" To be fair, it's not a very high bar. I don't mean this as a slight, but "white American" doesn't seem to represent any sha
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by vinay427 6y ago
> No one forced him to write about patients in a public blog nor write a public blog, he is a grown-up and he made that choice. I'm not sure how this addresses the first paragraph of the parent comment. Their point was that he didn&
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by vinay427 6y ago
For those who are unaware of the German system, "high school" here presumably means the "Gymnasium" or similar track that prepares students for higher education, as opposed to the vocational dual education track that inc
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yes, there isn't a clear divide between "first-world" and everyone else anymore. That being said, I think the wealthier countries that are more industrialized have a debt to pay with regards to climate impact given that they
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by vinay427 6y ago
The "twice as much as even Europeans" is even more deceptive as there's a difference of at least a factor of 2 between countries in Europe. For instance, Switzerland's consumption of carbon per capita is almost 3 times
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Harley for example is seen as overpriced extremely bad quality by almost all bikers outside the US This is true in the US as well, in my experience, for both HD and Jack. I think the point is that the Harley brand still holds value amo
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by vinay427 6y ago
Considering the loose political funding and lobbying regulations in the US (etc.), both de jure and certainly de facto, the wealthy seem to purchase political power on key issues that benefit them. This isn't the same as the power in a
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by vinay427 6y ago
If anyone else was curious about the vaccines purchased by major countries/blocs, I found this graphic which provides a good visualization of it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/29/canada-
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by vinay427 6y ago
I would argue that "European cuisine" is closer to "Chinese" or "Indian" cuisine in scale of diversity as the parent comment mentioned. The other two are just far less discoverable, at least internationally and
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by vinay427 6y ago
Also not the parent. Right now I have a home NAS (on Debian) running HomeAssistant for home automation interfacing and a WireGuard VPN server. I also have a VPS running a DNS server for ad and distraction filtering (AdGuard Home, I prefer i
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by vinay427 6y ago
Have you tried being North American? :) In all seriousness, everything from Geneva to Sion to Chiasso seems relatively close to me in Zurich. The intercity public transit is neither cheap given the distances nor especially fast but they&#x2
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by vinay427 6y ago
I assume you mean standing as a question of law, not morals, in which case it doesn't seem like the ancestor needs to demonstrate that they were harmed by the conviction. > According to the Italian newspaper, any final judgment can
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by vinay427 6y ago
To use a more modern example, this seems akin to saying that, when someone is falsely convicted of a crime and is imprisoned as a result, appealing their judgment with fresh eyes and consequently acquitting them is "rewriting history.&
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by vinay427 6y ago
Without bothering to stoop down to the ignorance in your comment, they didn't compare them to countries. They stated that it wasn't a singular effort, which is factually true as far as I can tell and refutes something you said.
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by vinay427 6y ago
> A fair comparison would be the data of today in EU with the data from 1 or 2 months ago in those countries (per capita). Why is this a fair comparison? Was the EU frozen in time for 1-2 months last year during which they couldn't
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by vinay427 6y ago
You yourself just said, in this thread: > A fair comparison would be the data of today in EU with the data from 1 or 2 months ago in those countries (per capita). Using absolute counts, Switzerland handled the virus better than Germany o
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Europe likes to think they are doing better than the US, but the truth is they are not very different. That's a bit of an understatement. It's just ignorant nationalism if the numbers are often independently audited and widel
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by vinay427 6y ago
It was the EU pushing for the Commission to negotiate even though it was clear the Inclusive Vaccine Alliance (IVA) composed of the four countries were planning to supply all member states. There are multiple sources on this deal including
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by vinay427 6y ago
It's for contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes. It's more of a CalDAV/CardDAV replacement with end-to-end encryption than a Nextcloud replacement, which AFAIK doesn't have E2EE for syncing these bits. Also, as it doesn&#x
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by vinay427 6y ago
I think the actual "problem" that this article brings up is German law, and ProtonMail in Switzerland would be no better from what I can tell (and I live here). From the article: > Tutanota said it plans to appeal the November

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