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by vinay427 6y ago
> render the deeply flawed card payments industry obsolete Honest question: from a consumer perspective, what is deeply flawed about it? I realize this isn't available everywhere, but with my cards I can make payments in virtually a
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by vinay427 6y ago
Do you not see a problem with media outlets requiring sources name themselves when speaking out against someone in a position of power? I'd much prefer the current situation of corroborating a scandal through what is often multiple sou
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by vinay427 6y ago
1. I agree that "proper civil society" is rather questionable as criticism of China goes, but do the others not apply? I think they clearly seem to be points of commentary on the Chinese political system, which isn't a reflec
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by vinay427 6y ago
The novelty of the claim really wasn't my main point, nor was trying to make the US out to be the most democratic country. I don't even live there, and it certainly isn't just in the US that this claim would be seen as novel
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Why is the burden of proof on the poster arguing that India is more democratic rather than the side arguing that US is more democratic? Because they made the claim, and I found this claim more unconventional and potentially more intere
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by vinay427 6y ago
Maybe there is a case to be made here, and maybe you can make a convincing one given more time. However, as it stands there's a world of difference between the rise to (local) power of someone like Kejriwal and the claim that India is
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by vinay427 6y ago
> You can't talk about anything on the political spectrum to the left of Bernie Sanders, who, in Europe, would be a rather tame social democrat. I hear this repeatedly, and I'm not sure this placement of most American politici
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by vinay427 6y ago
Every source I could find indicates this distinction as well as the fact that chemical active ingredients need a bit of time to be absorbed, unlike physical ingredients. Maybe you could provide an explanation for how your claim seems to fit
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by vinay427 6y ago
There are chemical and physical active ingredients used in sunscreens, with many sunscreens containing a little of each. The physical components tend to work immediately as they block UV frequencies as you mentioned. The chemical components
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by vinay427 6y ago
> It might be more interesting to here how EU citizens explain it, or how EU citizens explain driving on the opposite side of the road. There are only three countries remaining in the EU that drive on the left side of the road: Ireland,
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by vinay427 6y ago
The time to naturalize in Switzerland is now 10 years (it used to be a bit longer) unless married to a Swiss citizen, in which case it's shorter. Include that plus the processing time and assuming your friends were in one of the right
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by vinay427 6y ago
This seems like a rather extreme conclusion to draw from your anecdote. Academia is not a single entity, and it is far from "the" source of bad ideas.
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yep, and the same goes for US, Canadian, Australian, and a few other licenses. There's no preference towards EU/EEA licenses but probably due to reciprocity (?) Switzerland implements it for all EU/EEA countries. My point was
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by vinay427 6y ago
It's generally due to reciprocity, so states that allow exchanging German licenses will be much more likely to be on the list, and vice versa.
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by vinay427 6y ago
I think the OP was referring to Pakistan. More problematic in this respect are the UN accords that allow people from virtually any country to drive while visiting any other country, so you can have people from poorly licensed countries driv
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yep, I agree that there are legitimate questions raised which still lack answers. However, I'm responding to the claim that the information the author provides in the summary is not found in any textbook they saw: > So there you hav
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by vinay427 6y ago
I find it strange that the author couldn't find this in a textbook. This is rather common material in a developmental neuroscience textbook or lecture. I've looked through two such books during my (only) course on the topic, and a
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by vinay427 6y ago
You're not kidding. This webapp is so fast (after the initial load) that I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the Reddit mobile website intentionally adds sleeps/delays as some have jokingly suspected in the past. On this sit
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Let's look at infections per capita, where U.S. is currently 12 out of 215--significantly higher than any other western democracy, even those that have done more testing per capita. Sure, but according to that source it's als
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by vinay427 6y ago
Do you have a source for your claim?
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by vinay427 6y ago
They do have that reputation, as in many western countries to varying degrees, but there's large difference (in my mind) between corruption that affects finances and corruption that affects safety. The latter is rather rare in a place
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by vinay427 6y ago
This article is about the Fifth Amendment, and at least as the article describes them, the different situations and resulting precedents are more nuanced than your comment seems to imply.
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by vinay427 6y ago
I find it mildly ironic that you link to a clip from the PBS NewsHour while, from my reading, you also imply that objective reporting or investigative reporting don't exist or are dwindling. There are clearly some sources left that are
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by vinay427 6y ago
Sure, that's definitely a worthy point that I gladly agree with, although it's a different point. I would maintain that older Android devices generally feel less out of date, feature-wise, than iOS devices of a similar vintage bec
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by vinay427 6y ago
This misses the point in my opinion. Android doesn't depend on Google for much of its functionality, unlike iOS with Apple. For example, I can install a command line-style launcher, animated wallpapers, alternative app stores, and othe
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by vinay427 6y ago
I agree that those are different, but I subconsciously read it as "need not be" and later assumed it was a mistype of that, not "needs not to be," as it's closer to the former than the latter.
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by vinay427 6y ago
I've actually found that it doesn't usually make a noticeable difference for soy yogurt whether I heat the yogurt to 45 °C or some lower temperature or even at all, at least when using a electric yogurt maker (or other device with
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by vinay427 6y ago
You're actually correct in how you used it, as a native English speaker, although I think "need not be" is the preferred/correct form. I think this expression is a little less common in the US compared to the UK.
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by vinay427 6y ago
There is a possibly looser regulation on this in the US as well: https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer... I've seen airlines offering compensation worth well more than these minimums, howeve
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by vinay427 6y ago
While your points stands, it's not actually a crime in several states in India. Source, unfortunately lacking references in some places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_India

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