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by vinay427 6y ago
I think they may have meant UI, at least more than UX. The visuals of the interface feel like they're from about a decade ago, and while I don't really mind this on my minimal Linux desktop environment because it's at least c
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> Capitalism doesn't care how hard you work. It doesn't even care if you deserve the status you have (high or low). It cares about money above all else, even more than you. Can you please explain this part? I have no idea what
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Yes, absolutely. I think this is despicable and should not be tolerated. However, it's the scale and widespread nature that differs. Most Americans will never be confronted with or even know people who have been confronted with this so
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The Uber Eats order I placed recently (in CA) felt more like a political campaign than a restaurant delivery service. It didn't exactly drive me further towards a Yes, no pun intended.
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Not to defend the intelligence apparatus in the US (and several other Western countries) but hypocrisy would imply the US is actually acting on its intelligence to target or influence its own people along a similar vein as many authoritaria
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The routes in Switzerland are infinitely less remote, to be fair. I've lived in both countries and it's really orders of magnitude different in this respect. If you're on a (passenger) train in Switzerland even in the most ru
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Please don't use Brexit as an example indicative of all ballot iniatives and referendums. California (especially SF and possibly a few other cities), Switzerland, and a few other places have a large number of referendums on their ballo
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What is distinct about the direction of Tim Cook's Apple Inc compared to any previous Apple Inc?
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They said "also," and didn't deny that it may be lazy. Since when is the lazy solution, by this definition, also automatically the illogical (or even "bad") one?
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I've started doing this and have ended up depending on my password manager to track which emails I need for logging in to a service, which is a bit of a hassle although I think it's still worth it for the reasons you outlined. For
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Well, German (among others) does this as well in many cases, and it's otherwise far more phonetic than English in orthography. It's not some unique Anglo insistence, in this case.
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Here's a source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/28/us-election-... It's happened in 2016 and possibly before that (?) as well. I think it's probably a good idea for most demo
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OP did literally say that they didn't handle the pandemic well. I don't think they're trying to avoid that. If anything, per capita figures would make this even more clear when comparing with the current situation in India an
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The streets in LA are also ridiculously wide with few barriers and obstacles unless you get into the hills. This is a recipe for drivers speeding up, and never bodes well for bicyclists or pedestrians who don't benefit from the wider s
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> The only reason it’s not more common yet is the price, costing about $2k-$3k to wrap a whole vehicle Tesla charging thousands on the Model 3 for any color besides black, at least in the US and the UK, is a great opportunity here. I con
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> In North America cars are generally bought or financed by dealers and sold to customers. Dealers don't want cars to last more than a month or so on their lot unsold. I agree that this is common there, although I'm not sure ho
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Your question has been answered multiple times in this thread and the answer appears to clearly be no. Apple will not allow an app to even mention that they can get it at a cheaper price on another device. Personally, I think if Apple will
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As a consumer, I really like(d) my US bank accounts besides some technological limitations. If you can afford to pay your bill every month (worth emphasizing), credit cards have far better benefits and are more consumer-friendly than in s
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How does this change if we consider the truth levels of the facts that these media outlets report? I see no reason why several remarks from the VP debate, in this instance, should be reported as reality. This is probably true on both sides
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Several of those listed in the Vocabulary section of the OP. * assist (to mean attend) * "How is it called?" * possibility (to mean opportunity) * actual (to mean current) I speak a few other European languages with some proficien
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How likely is a version of a language to even survive when it contains several features considered incorrect by virtually any native speaker (including in Anglosphere EU countries)? Particularly in this day and age with global media exposur
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Something else, presumably, although their justifications usually involved racism of a far more explicit and direct variety than is commonly found today in the US. It's not very difficult to find quotes by rather recent leaders such as
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I really hope you mean today, as in people who are currently alive. Have you read about any history, perhaps including European colonization abroad?
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> Biden vs Trump is all you need to know about state of democracy in the USA. Why is that all you think you need to know? There are something like 30 other things to vote for on my local ballot that matter and this is true to varying ext
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> the tap water is terrible compared to what I get from my own tap at home. I suspect this is just because it's not what you're used to rather than an actual quality judgment. I feel this about my home city when I travel elsewh
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> Its disingenuous that state run schools don't have their own moral instruction as well. No one is saying otherwise. The survey says that parents have a desire to provide moral instruction. > Although I can't find it but I
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> Many "tasty beverages you would call beer in the US" barely qualify for a drink in germany, either because it tastes like water with a drop of beer or has almost no real taste at all (ie, tastes artificial with flavor). That&
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> None of this is unique to the US — the EU is similarly "interconnected", as is Switzerland. I live in Switzerland, and the response here to the virus and most other incidents are far more federally managed than the cantonal s
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The SBB equivalent is Switzerland is even cheaper! 165-185 CHF/year (a bit lower in EUR) and now it's cheaper for younger passengers, which means many people get it without really thinking about it because it almost inevitably pay
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The fertility rate is about identical or even a little lower among Swedes with at least one foreign-born parent [1], although there is some difference for foreign-born Swedes [2]. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure&#x2F

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