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by vinay427 6y ago
A tangent, but I'm really glad California allows any state resident to use any public library in the state. In the state where I grew up, I was fortunate to live in a town with excellent library resources, but it was not something ever
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by vinay427 6y ago
> A sufficiently motivated individual could traverse the major landmasses of Denmark by bicycle in about a day[0], we don't need no damn states. Well, that hasn't stopped similarly-sized Switzerland with 26 cantons. ;)
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by vinay427 6y ago
That source doesn't support the GP comment. End-to-end encryption 1. doesn't exist yet for any user, and 2. does not mean free user calls will be less encrypted than they are today with server-client encryption. Zoom is not claimi
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by vinay427 6y ago
The E2E encryption hasn't been released yet. Currently and in the future, according to their announcement, all calls will at least be server-client encrypted. Paid ones will apparently be optionally E2E encrypted. https://ww
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by vinay427 6y ago
Maybe I misread, but the GP doesn't seem to be talking about impersonating a user on Signal, but rather impersonating that user on other websites that depend on SMS 2FA sent to their phone number that is now visible through Signal.
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by vinay427 6y ago
Quite frankly, I'm surprised there hasn't been an uptick in cases here in Switzerland. At least in the city where I live, few people wear masks on public transit or in grocery stores and virtually no one seems to do so in restaura
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by vinay427 6y ago
I did specify "(mostly)" which I think is rather accurate. It's rather close to a completely single-provider model (in each of the constituent devolved regions, as you note) compared to the system in Canada, for instance. &gt
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Especially in Europe where the existence of a national healthcare system is not a religion but a norm. An NHS-type system is not at all the norm in Europe. Comprehensive and universal health insurance or even single-payer health insura
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yep. German, which I'm learning, also unsurprisingly has this. I don't know that it's appreciably more difficult than the English two-word compounding given that the preposition can move around in all of these languages. I th
820.
by vinay427 6y ago
If anything, the Democratic party is far too broad already even compared to a modern Labour party. I think the platform is more alienating than the breadth, in this case.
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by vinay427 6y ago
There's no common official record on where someone lives in the US, as well as many other countries in the anglosphere. You don't officially register at an address when you move there, although updating drivers licenses which are
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by vinay427 6y ago
It's most certainly not just the US. In the (western European) country where I live, for instance, even a static protest or demonstration with no chanting or marching and only a few participants requires non-trivial and somewhat expens
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by vinay427 6y ago
I think this is what the "serve" in popular US police mottos like "protect and serve" that some departments use was intended to convey. I suppose the message got lost (in more than a few cases in the US) somewhere betwee
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by vinay427 6y ago
One side of this coin is that the police have a monopoly on lawful force and therefore should be held to a higher standard. The other side seems to me that police derive their tasks from laws (handed down by the same institutions) and a cer
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by vinay427 6y ago
Both have overseas territories, except that means virtually nothing in and of itself. Do a majority of Hong Kongers (let alone Taiwanese) support the status quo or closer integration with mainland China? Did they choose to join in the first
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by vinay427 6y ago
I've never heard of these companies that pay donors and every donation that I have been to was whole blood or RBC, administered by the Red Cross (in the US and otherwise). Would what you wrote apply to a lesser degree for whole blood o
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by vinay427 6y ago
Because this government decided it was a problem, then chose to look the other way when Cummings ignored these rules. Countless people have been forced to let their loved ones be buried or cremated without traditional ritual closure, or hav
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yep, I replied to the other comment but I'll concede that I was using this term too specifically and inaccurately. In any case, my point wasn't in opposition to the social welfare systems in Scandinavian countries, for instance, a
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by vinay427 6y ago
That's a fair point actually, thanks.
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by vinay427 6y ago
> socialist (the Scandinavian kind) Surely there exists better terminology for this than a highly regionally contextual qualifier. Perhaps democratic socialist, or social democrat, or something involving welfare? Overloading the word wit
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by vinay427 6y ago
> They also added a "HuaweiAltModeGlobal" which causes no end of trouble for anyone in the networking field who commonly uses say tcpdump and USB router sticks. I'm not familiar with this. Could you explain what this means
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by vinay427 6y ago
Just in the US, there's also org, gov, and edu, not to mention the countless trustworthy ccTLDs in other countries.
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by vinay427 6y ago
That would only work if the Hebrew keyboard layout they were using had this mapping of letters. Most language layouts for non-Roman scripts don't optimize for phonetically approximating the corresponding English letters (presumably on
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by vinay427 6y ago
I moved from SF to Zurich, so just to add another data point to corroborate this, you can live relatively cheaply here while I really couldn't in SF because housing doesn't really have a cheap (and adequately safe) alternative. Me
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by vinay427 6y ago
I definitely only meant it for the TSA, and I'm glad you pointed this out. However, I suspect that in these countries that have the financial constraints you describe, opting out may not always lead to decommissioning them because inst
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by vinay427 6y ago
These scanners did disappear. They aren't the current millimeter wave scanners.
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by vinay427 6y ago
A lot of this and some other design inefficiencies are due to modern EU pedestrian collision safety mandates and testing, which I think is a fair compromise to make, and they have since been adopted in some other places as well but they lon
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by vinay427 6y ago
It isn't, in more than just the English-speaking world. See another user's comment in reply to my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276920
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by vinay427 6y ago
That works if the statement is actually technically correct. That's not evident in this case.
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by vinay427 6y ago
Thank you, apologies and I've edited my comment.

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