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by vinay427 6y ago
Thanks, I didn't notice the date of the blog post and certainly didn't mean it as a personal affront because I appreciate the post. I'm going to switch to the nightly branch to try it out!
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by vinay427 6y ago
I got my hopes up a little too quickly. Turns out "now" => "soon". The extensions in question, linked in the post, still display the same message of not being available for Android, and the article says the change wil
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by vinay427 6y ago
Unfortunately not to some here in Switzerland. The average adult here pays around $350 USD/month for just their coverage, according to official statistics. The total cost for a family might end up less than $1400, but not by much. Edit
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by vinay427 6y ago
Source needed on that first claim. I've spent a decent amount of time in some developing countries and I came out with no confidence that these types of labor laws are ordinarily enforced, if they even exist. I think you grossly overes
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by vinay427 7y ago
I generally agree with a minor quibble: There isn't an identity card that can be used as a passport. There are identity cards that are sufficient for limited travel and are unrecognized elsewhere. In the relatively widespread EU++ ID c
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by vinay427 7y ago
Download an APK if you want. Google doesn't have a complete monopoly on Android app marketplaces.
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by vinay427 7y ago
My Android device allows for completely disabling location access (regardless of whether the app requires it) or for allowing access while the app is in use, as you mentioned. I'm never sure if these features are OEM additions or featu
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by vinay427 7y ago
Sure, but doing something "for the hell of it" implies it has virtually no practical value, at least to my ears. It's rather unproductive for someone (not you, in this case) to use a sweeping inflammatory statement when they
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by vinay427 7y ago
Unfortunately I can't easily test this as my phone doesn't have the Google Contacts app and I sync my contacts with a CardDAV server, not my Google account.
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by vinay427 7y ago
The content of these updates is what is potentially concerning. Considering how much Play Services now handles, regular updates aren't that surprising, and like I said Android ≠ Google so this doesn't apply to all Android phones.
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by vinay427 7y ago
Source needed. The amount in the article is staggering compared to what Google claims to collect which is in line with the (admittedly not definitive) DNS query logs I monitor every now and then. Also, much of it (e.g. location) can be disa
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by vinay427 7y ago
Canada does: https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/...
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by vinay427 7y ago
I know you acknowledged broad strokes, so just for the sake of context with another data point, in my current neck of the woods in Europe parents tend to provide and expect even less than most Americans/Canadians. The variance within j
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by vinay427 7y ago
> How about breaking down by religion or something else that at least points to what kind of media/message the group is more exposed to? I'm an American that fits into neither of these groups but nearly everyone I know does, so
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by vinay427 7y ago
Thank you for the correction, I will edit my comment. Sorry about that, I haven't owned an iOS device in a few years and clearly didn't search online intelligently enough to find it.
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by vinay427 7y ago
The difference is there isn't a predominant American legacy airline. AA is only marginally larger than Delta or United. Personally, having never lived in their hub or focus cities I have rarely ever flown them, and it's conceivabl
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by vinay427 7y ago
EDIT: As someone pointed out in a reply, iOS would in fact support this file functionality, so it would presumably be up to Signal to add it. > at least in iOS, you’d realize that you’ve permanently lost all your previous chats because S
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by vinay427 7y ago
It's pretty great where I live in Europe in a country where they don't even operate. If I buy on Amazon.de, they ship products from Germany and items usually arrive within a week including going through customs, as they remove EU
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by vinay427 7y ago
This is an incorrect oversimplification of citizenship law and of the natural-born clause. There are residence requirements for foreign-born US citizens to pass on citizenship to children born abroad, which already contradicts your statemen
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by vinay427 7y ago
I'm not entirely sure what your point is. Tracking individuals affected by an ongoing situation is rather different, and seems to be the norm in most countries that are responding to the virus including the one where I live. Most seem
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by vinay427 7y ago
I agree. I'm curious why you chose to reply to my comment with this complaint when I was directly responding to the claim, which you quite reasonably view to be "misdirection," in the parent comment.
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by vinay427 7y ago
Probably because they seemed to have misinterpreted the text they quoted in their own comment. The participant who takes the screenshot has their own email embedded in their screenshot, not someone else's.
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by vinay427 7y ago
> Most AirBnB hosts and Uber drivers are not just occasionally letting spare space in their homes I don't believe this is true for Airbnb, both anecdotally and from Airbnb's own statement about NYC: > "87 percent of Ai
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by vinay427 7y ago
> I'd say Swedes in general think the US healthcare system sounds awful. It is awful, though the main problem with the system is in the financing of care, as far as I can tell. You would think that would be easier to fix than devel
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by vinay427 7y ago
Another anecdote: Where I am in Switzerland, it's rather unusual to see kids playing together right now (except for presumably siblings). I can see a bit of a school playground from my home and the groups that visit have really dwindle
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by vinay427 7y ago
Minor correction: Egyptians (those traveling on a standard Egyptian passport) require those things, not every other traveler, according to the article. Most travelers require a visa to Israel except for the usual suspects [1], and I assume
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by vinay427 7y ago
> hyper-competitive culture of major coastal metro areas of the US I agree with the rest of your comment so I don't want to generally detract, but I think the qualification of major coastal metro areas includes a lot of places where
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by vinay427 7y ago
To be fair, I think their point in this case is many countries are in proverbial glass houses, some stronger than others.
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by vinay427 7y ago
I'll take a stab at the simpler questions here: > do you actually, you as the patient, choose which medication you receive for disease like that? No, but I imagine patients liable to the advertising might mention a specific medicati
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by vinay427 7y ago
I've lived without a car for years but I still find a license invaluable for the few times I'm moving or helping someone move. It's much (much!) cheaper where I live to borrow a car from a friend or car share service than pay

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