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by vinay427 2y ago
Is that not true for Portugal, or Finland in the other direction for example? I haven’t seen clear reasons for why a 1-hour offset would seriously affect economic relations particularly if it doesn’t affect when businesses are operating. Sp
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by vinay427 2y ago
This is a well-established phrase in computer science and programming languages, and it’s likely that its use here is meant to be evocative of those principles rather than of an anthropomorphic sense. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by vinay427 2y ago
A modern Mazda MX-5 Miata can apparently get through that at 1230mm or so, although a taller driver with the top open may have to duck. It's the first car that came to my mind when trying to think of one, so there may be other modern e
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by vinay427 2y ago
IANAL so this specific case notwithstanding, that sounds like a gross overgeneralization of the Supremacy Clause, which at least in interpretation is largely constrained to the powers that the Constitution gives the federal government. htt
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by vinay427 2y ago
Zooming into a map, a picture, a webpage, or quite frankly most things would be rather awkward if you didn’t know where it would zoom in (or if it would always zoom into the center of the screen, for instance). As another comment mentioned,
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by vinay427 2y ago
On the off chance car culture in Kenya is anything like in India (which I would not assume by default), at least a decent few will have headrests covered by a seat cover and rear seat belts stuck behind the seat or otherwise unavailable.
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by vinay427 2y ago
There was maybe a more constructive way to phrase this, but I agree with the sentiment. I think people from the US should be included in the 7 billion, at this rate. For instance, this is probably the worst part about being in the UK while
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by vinay427 2y ago
It’s not clear at all that the vast majority of people in London commute by public transport. The sources linked below, one during the pandemic in 2020, and the other a series of estimates, suggest the figure is more like 25-35% but I wasn’
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by vinay427 2y ago
For those interested in playing with or doing research using model internals, the TransformerLens [1] project appears to be the leading open-source tooling in this area. It allows for loading dozens of different models, adding hooks, displa
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by vinay427 2y ago
If you mean the one linked below, it seems very much on the iOS App Store (US). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exit-strategy-nyc-subway-map/i...
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by vinay427 2y ago
In particular, TfL Go also has a focus on upcoming nearby departures rather than directions which Google Maps and Apple Maps prioritise. For anyone with some public transport familiarity, it’s quite nice being about to see your approximate
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by vinay427 2y ago
There are a variety of differences between having representatives vote with your interests and voting yourself, such as practicality, time expenditure and access to advising and expertise, etc. That’s perhaps why many direct democracy syste
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by vinay427 2y ago
> something like an US driving license looks easier to forge than Thai biometric passport I'm not sure this is the right comparison, in general, although I agree with your point (below). I suspect that one benefit of accepting domes
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by vinay427 3y ago
I’m not sure this addresses the parent comment specifically mentioning the first amendment. I don’t think anyone was saying that the US is unique in having free speech laws or that those laws are a free-for-all. However, it seems to at lea
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by vinay427 3y ago
Not the person you replied to, but reading the line below in the GP comment, I assumed the founder was exclusively a patent attorney with no product-relevant background. The GP certainly didn’t argue that, as you said, and perhaps I was alo
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by vinay427 3y ago
It is at least valid in the meantime, and doesn’t affect travel rights like the immigration examples mentioned in various countries, but I agree that this is mildly annoying.
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by vinay427 3y ago
The bag tax is 10p [1]. California has had a similar one since 2016 with a 10 cent fee [2]. Anecdotally, the fee seems to work well in both places, or at least single-use plastic bag use seems relatively low as most people seem to bring a r
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by vinay427 3y ago
Yes, Royal Mail tends to be far more expensive than USPS for letters and smaller parcels, including internationally (e.g. UK to US costs far more than US to UK), but they have relatively reasonable pricing on medium-sized parcels in my expe
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by vinay427 3y ago
It does have TV in the name (Apple TV+), which the Oscars doesn’t cater for. Apple seems to be doing just fine (Ted Lasso, etc.) at the Emmys considering most of their originals are TV series AFAICT.
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by vinay427 3y ago
This is not universally true. All of the US cards I’ve used on non-US websites, probably multiple times a week in multiple European countries for years now, have worked either without a billing address (if the website doesn’t support it) or
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by vinay427 3y ago
For those who liked this, I frequently come back to this visual which displays the distribution within a city in an arguably more visually appealing format: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/2/7480993/population
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by vinay427 3y ago
> And this notion of separation into "undesirables" in Gulf countries is also just plain false. The UAE just granted visa-free access to Indian nationals. This isn’t exactly a convincing argument for the claim here, which to be
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by vinay427 3y ago
One major difference is that most people, at some financial burden, can choose to change insurance providers whereas in many countries with universal systems (single-payer or otherwise) the government guidelines for what the national servic
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by vinay427 3y ago
This is usually the case in the UK, at least at major pharmacy chains. It’s definitely convenient (similar to the US-style bottles) for traveling to easily indicate that any medicines you have are on prescription in your name.
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by vinay427 3y ago
> We wont even allow people to import drugs from canada. This seems false based on countless anecdotal experiences and various sources online [1]. Individuals with a valid prescription can have that (once issued by a Canadian/provin
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by vinay427 3y ago
In my experience this seems to be much less of a problem now with contactless payments, in both directions. US cards that used to require swipe-and-signature or chip-and-signature instead of chip-and-PIN seem to just work in when tapping (a
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by vinay427 3y ago
I’ve driven in the US and the UK (among other countries) and haven’t paid before filling up in either. Is this a result of paying with cash or other non-card methods, as pumps in the US seem to require inserting the card first probably as a
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by vinay427 3y ago
Is that intended as a correction? It’s a different claim, as far as I can tell, and the data I could find points to ICA in fact being the largest supermarket chain in Sweden by turnover. https://www.esmmagazine.com/retail&#x
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by vinay427 3y ago
I agree with your broader point, but it’s worth noting that insurance middlemen exist in many European countries with universal health insurance, so surely some form of this can exist in a more regulated health insurance/provider marke
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by vinay427 3y ago
My comment does not say what you quoted, so I'm not sure which claim you are responding to because it appears to missing most of the context in my comment. I don't necessarily disagree with the text you quoted.

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