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by vinay427 6y ago
It's this part that I'm responding to, which appears to be one of the main points that you made: > Had the US implemented these measures 9 months ago, the entire world would have looking at the tail-end of this pandemic I don&#
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by vinay427 6y ago
Every other country? Have you looked at the recent COVID-19 case and death rates in much of western Europe? Many of those countries, one of which I live in (which still doesn't require testing arrival passengers), are still changing th
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by vinay427 6y ago
Most of the countries that have sane case rates and many that are doing terribly with respect to case rate already require this. Some such as the Netherlands added it relatively recently for transit passengers as well, although most only re
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by vinay427 6y ago
Per capita it's really most of western Europe and the US that are struggling, and the US is doing better on vaccinations so far while it has had a higher case and death rate than most but not all of Europe. It's rather misleading
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by vinay427 6y ago
> A month or so after my trip I was sent a fine for not displaying my car license while my car was parked on a public road. I had driven down the road where the fine was recorded during the trip. More of an aside, but what sort of car li
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by vinay427 6y ago
I love that Signal generally seems receptive to features that users ask for. It's far from perfect, as there are certain features I've seen repeatedly requested that are still yet to be implemented, but over the years that I'
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by vinay427 6y ago
To be fair (to iOS users, not to Signal), the device transfer procedure on Android is somewhat more cumbersome as a result. iOS gets the smooth new device-to-device direct transfer of the backup while Android users need to copy the encrypte
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by vinay427 6y ago
I think India's Unified Payments Interface is a better analogy here. From what I understand (as an outsider, so based only on what I've read) it provides a universal API for mobile applications to interface with banks, essentially
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by vinay427 6y ago
> they refund ATM withdrawal fees Most importantly, they do this (as well as priority mailing replacement cards) globally. I have yet to find another bank besides possibly Fidelity's checking account (?) that does this with no state
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by vinay427 6y ago
It shows up for me on GrapheneOS. I don't think the F-Droid search is OS-dependent anyways besides maybe the major Android version number. As the GP noted, for some reason the name is listed with the "3D Theme" addendum in th
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by vinay427 6y ago
Is this in a smaller rural town or a home very far out? Every metropolitan area I've seen at least has near-universal cable TV/internet coverage (typically up to 50-300 Mbps), and even exurbs these days often have fiber.
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Let's say you are company of 5 people, paying 50 bucks a month for a service - how many hours per year can they spend on servicing you before you become a net-negative account? It probably isn't sustainable for a business to
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by vinay427 6y ago
FATCA does not make it impossible to have a bank account abroad. I currently live in a country known for its historical banking secrecy and two different large banks I walked into were able to open an account for me with only one extra form
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by vinay427 6y ago
Bluetooth with onboard music (on some newer fitness watches) really sealed the deal for me. After going through a Pebble some years ago, I realized that I didn't actually care about the "smart" features as long as my next wat
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by vinay427 6y ago
> they have even done better than Switzerland Switzerland is only slightly lower than the US in death rate. I'm not sure the "even" is appropriate here for a country with far more deaths per capita than Austria and Germany
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by vinay427 6y ago
> The Tesla Model S in this video is equipped with summer-focused all-season tires, so traction and handling could’ve been better with the winter tires. This is a bit of a nonstarter for gauging snowy weather performance, in my opinion.
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by vinay427 6y ago
This is a problem. That being said, several major states have a good amount of direct democracy, including allowing for state constitutional changes, and there are often more than two viable candidates regardless of the letter after their n
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by vinay427 6y ago
HomeAssistant or HomeBridge (?) work great for this. At least with HA, nearly every reasonably communicable smart device can be finagled into cooperation and HomeKit sees them all through a bridge. I even have a "legacy/real"
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by vinay427 6y ago
Anecdote: In my experience, a small but sizeable number of homes in suburban areas that are still outside the city enough to be affected by weather-related power outages every several months have whole-home generators connected to city natu
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by vinay427 6y ago
> i also find the contrast ratio too high in dark mode I actually tend to prefer this style of dark mode for messaging or other short-term use apps on an AMOLED display because it's just "off" with no background, but I agr
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by vinay427 6y ago
Right. My point was that the UK controls were (and are through the transition period) immigration and not customs controls while the Swiss ones are customs and not regularly immigration controls.
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by vinay427 6y ago
Pre-Brexit, those in the UK were immigration controls, to be precise. In Switzerland they are in fact customs controls (and not typically immigration controls barring Schengen restrictions such as those during COVID-19).
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by vinay427 6y ago
Good luck paying living expenses for years with only $5k in one of the many European countries that don't generally provide stipends for that. I'm a student in Switzerland where my university recommends more like $2,300 a month.
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Previously, Disney World would not allow those without masks to see or purchase their photos taken during rides. Now the park is allegedly allowing guests to have their photos – albeit with an added piece of digital magic. Honestly, th
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by vinay427 6y ago
Thanks, sorry, I completely missed that.
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by vinay427 6y ago
EDIT: I can't read, sorry. Please ignore. > But each is 6600 JPY. That's more than 600 dollars. That's about $63 USD, not $600. https://fxconvert.net/converter/jpy-usd/6600
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by vinay427 6y ago
A proper surround setup (5.1 is more than enough for a mid-size room) or even Atmos speakers can be had for a reasonable price if you shop around. There's really no substitute (in my opinion) for the experience if you watch movies and
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by vinay427 6y ago
As another commenter mentioned, the US was all too happy to get involved later on. However, France certainly deserves its share of the blame, as do the British for their "traps" in Iran, Iraq, etc. It's especially unfortunate
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Samsung is not a flagship company, their high pricing has nothing to do with performance. At best they are mid tier. Their high pricing has to do with the slew of software and hardware features they include, many of which are executed
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by vinay427 6y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but this happens to me on Chromium-based browsers and Firefox on Android 11. There are sometimes slightly different issues for each browser, but the UI is unusably slow on both. It at least helped sta

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