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by vinay427 6y ago
I disagree with the premise here that "America" describes the continents of North and South America. That is in and of itself the issue here, so I don't agree that the USA is a subset of America because I would refer to the c
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by vinay427 6y ago
This again? I think your point is appropriate when speaking Spanish, Portuguese (EDIT: not Portuguese), etc. However, in common English (no, not just in the US) the word "America" more often refers to the USA. Languages don't
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by vinay427 6y ago
I'm not sure where your country is but at least in Europe, I think British English is more commonly taught because people are (thought to be) more likely to move to the UK/Ireland or interact with Britons/the Irish so BrE is
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by vinay427 6y ago
"Licence" doesn't even look wrong to me as an American. This, along with "grey" and "gray," is one of the few where I don't bother to figure out which one is more common in which country. I'm gen
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by vinay427 6y ago
You may be referring to the initiative in Finland. Here's an article about it: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/how-finland-is-fighti...
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by vinay427 6y ago
> the UK in Northern Ireland had a reputation to maintain Evidently not much of a reputation. In this conflict alone, the British state (army and police) shot and killed unarmed protesters, supported paramilitary groups in extrajudicial
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by vinay427 6y ago
From the ArchWiki: > To remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package: > # pacman -Rs package_name > To remove a package, its dependencies and all the packages that depend on the target
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by vinay427 6y ago
I also immediately regarded this to be an American thing to do, and I am from the US, so I suppose I am guilty of the following. In any case, I find it slightly amusing that even when a (presumably) non-American does something that fits int
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by vinay427 6y ago
I'm unclear why you claim that "private is not the only kind of call." [EDIT below to clarify.] Also, your IP address is only potentially revealed to your contacts, which is rather different from the Telegram situation in whi
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> western stress relieve drugs Alcohol isn't actually western, unless you meant that the specific beverages consumed by some Japanese youth are from western countries or just that alcohol is common for stress relief in the west, in
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by vinay427 6y ago
> How do you recreate the key on a broken phone? What you're looking for appears to be an unencrypted backup, which has clear security implications that Signal (quite reasonably, in my opinion) chose to avoid given that it is storin
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by vinay427 6y ago
> You only get to see the backup password ONCE. They create it for you, it's a giant bunch of numbers written in columns. They show you that the FIRST time you enable backups, which might be years away from the time you need them. Y
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by vinay427 6y ago
This was common practice on a smaller scale for the IRA (Provisional IRA, etc.) throughout the Troubles from what I understand, though the heist you're referring to is particularly notable due to its magnitude and later timing. It evid
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by vinay427 6y ago
It sounds like it's on the roadmap. From the article: > As we move to support additional features the Signal community has asked for – like addressing that isn’t based on phone numbers and chatting with contacts that aren’t saved in
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by vinay427 6y ago
The discussion was about unemployment benefits, which in most every case is not limited to US citizens. I believe that when the person who you quoted used the term "citizens," they meant it in a looser sense to refer to people eli
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by vinay427 6y ago
It's really poorly phrased in the article but I assume what they meant is that LHR is in a time zone that sometimes observes GMT, and otherwise observes BST (British Summer Time) in the summer which is 8 hours ahead. It's not exac
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by vinay427 6y ago
It's probably because the countries that are ranked lower have even larger and more systemic issues with democracy. Keep in mind that most people in the west and the English-speaking world experience a large reporting bias towards the
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by vinay427 6y ago
That's actually a great deal for most people, and I'm really glad to see them finally matching their better MVNO prices. However, it's worth noting that at least from what I can tell it doesn't include Canada/Mexico
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This actually preceded the EU as it was during the Falklands situation, and I don't think EU<->EU cooperation is inherently different if interests are misaligned (which has happened many times between EU members), or if a country
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yep, it actually works terribly in my experience. It's very slow even for web apps, is unreliable in staying paired, and (at least for me) often has issues with file attachments. I would much prefer a standalone app like Signal or Tele
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by vinay427 6y ago
Plenty of European countries are complicit in similar acts of their own, and many more tacitly assist. I don't think many deserve being painted as a victim of this situation. There's an article right now on the FP about the Nether
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It doesn't actually use Bluetooth. When you scan the QR code your browser pairs with your phone and messages are relayed back through WhatsApp servers between the two, so as long as both have an internet connection it should work regar
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by vinay427 6y ago
There are clearly other ways to solve this that don't involve depriving people of food stamps. Most every other developed country has figured out some solution. First of all, in most countries an expired proof of citizenship is accepte
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by vinay427 6y ago
First of all, an ID doesn't need to have anything to do with citizenship. It can also be a claim of residence like a driver's license in the US. Second, if people are eligible for benefits, they are clearly being recorded in some
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by vinay427 6y ago
This is definitely not limited to the US, for what it's worth. The type of informal arrangement you describe seems rather undesirable if we're trying to enforce safety and labor regulations, tax collection, etc. I'm sure ther
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I don't think this works from a European perspective, at least based on the country I live in where the opposite seems more true. I guess it might make sense compared to some east Asian countries as another commenter noted.
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Keep in mind that the 20% VAT in the UK is included in the British prices, while sales tax (where applicable) is not included in the JC Penney pricing.
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by vinay427 6y ago
For starters, I don't see any indication that the parent comment pretends that these things are limited to certain countries. They're simply adding their perspective on India, and we can agree or disagree with the points but most
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> The response to 9/11 seems so disproportionate because it presupposed the existence of thousands more plots, which never materialized. Did they not? There have been several attacks by al-Qaeda on foreign targets annually since 9&#
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by vinay427 6y ago
For the purposes of my curiosity, do you have a list? I'm wondering if those states actually include a majority of Americans.

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