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by vinay427 7y ago
Ironically single-origin coffees (or chocolates, etc.) are vastly more interesting to most people because they are so unique and can change unpredictably. There are ones with tasting notes resembling oranges, tomatoes, etc.
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by vinay427 7y ago
Right, the only medication I sometimes bring from the US now is acetaminophen/paracetamol because it's the only one I've found that's much cheaper there. The rest are probably cheaper in Germany so I would just go there
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by vinay427 7y ago
This was already implied in the question. They're asking why something like ibuprofen is different.
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by vinay427 7y ago
It's not even close to the intense measures in Italy or Spain (for example), however. There's a good bit of discontent about that among people I talk to in Switzerland, but there's no good option so that's expected whate
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by vinay427 7y ago
To be fair, every western country has missed this boat as far as I can tell. People are similarly confused and angry in the country (in Europe) I live in even though the testing rate is far higher here.
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by vinay427 7y ago
Why are these two the alternatives? In the wild, these animals wouldn't exist. They were born into a life of forced slavery, rape, and murder but that life otherwise wouldn't exist.
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by vinay427 7y ago
This is why I love soy milk without additives. It fills all of these criteria plus my additional criteria of being infinitely more ethical to sentient beings.
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by vinay427 7y ago
The alternatives that the US supports are European (Ericsson and Nokia, IIRC) so I see little benefit for at least EU countries regardless of their ties to the US to choose Huawei in this case.
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by vinay427 7y ago
Not sure how that makes sense when the alternatives to Huawei proposed and supported by the US are European, primarily Ericsson and Nokia. Where is the self-interest in the US pressuring European (mostly EU) countries to use EU competitors?
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by vinay427 7y ago
A similar argument applies to every other country most people recognize to be democratic, even more so to countries with an unelected legislative body like the UK. The checks and balances in the US are relatively strong but not unusually so
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by vinay427 7y ago
> The US values free speech very much, yet for some reason you will have a hard time to find any podcast who isn't dependend on or tied to some coporate interest (and be it the Nord VPN thing they are selling). I'm not sure I u
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by vinay427 7y ago
What's different about German cursive? I live in a German-speaking country now and I haven't really noticed any defining differences where I am, though I also wasn't looking for them. Throwaway ballpoint pens seem to be the n
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by vinay427 7y ago
The point of Whole Foods (at least for those I know) isn't quality of produce. You can get similar quality produce by spending more at most other supermarkets. The point is the diversity of specialty items which I haven't really f
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by vinay427 7y ago
It's also what was used for much of the colonial period in India because of the British, so it's not exactly off-base. Fahrenheit is still often used among older populations in many ex-British colonies.
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by vinay427 7y ago
It's sufficient for nearly all city braking in my experience, sometimes with a little extra planning required, and with the exception of certain emergency braking situations. The only time I generally had to use the brakes were to comp
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by vinay427 7y ago
PS/2 seems entirely rotationally ambiguous without looking at the pins, or at least seemed so to the younger version of me. It still stands out as the most painful part of computing during my childhood.
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by vinay427 7y ago
At least they didn't learn lessons from PS/2, which is circular and mostly rotationally ambiguous, or at least seemed so to the younger version of me. That was the bane of computing during my childhood.
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by vinay427 7y ago
First of all, I'm not saying I know better than parents. I'm saying society can find people that know better than parents. Second of all, this seems like a question of semantics. I don't know what exactly you mean by elitism,
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by vinay427 7y ago
I might agree with this perspective if third-parties weren't involved, but unfortunately when dependents, often children, are added into the mix I think there is some justification for regulating away options that (at least objectively
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by vinay427 7y ago
Sure, though many people aren't deciding between flying a 737 MAX and driving or taking a bus. They're often deciding between flying on a specific flight that uses a 737 MAX and flying at a different time and/or on a differen
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by vinay427 7y ago
> Yes, by removing the headphone jack on high-end phones, just like Apple did. No, this is clearly incorrect. As I said in my original comment, there were water-resistant phones with headphones jacks years before Apple released one witho
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by vinay427 7y ago
> To do away with the point of failure that you so aptly illustrated by getting salt water in your phone? That's Apple's point of failure. The rest of the industry (mostly) has worked out how to make a headphone jack water-resi
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by vinay427 7y ago
> To do away with the point of failure that you so aptly illustrated by getting salt water in your phone? That's Apple's point of failure. The rest of the industry (mostly) has worked out how to make a headphone jack water-resi
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by vinay427 7y ago
It's actually quite remarkable to me that I can have such a different experience as a longtime Android device user and both of these experiences can coexist. I could never go back to the iPhone interface, and every time I have to use s
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by vinay427 7y ago
I'm curious why you take the battery life claim about the Light Phone at face value. My assumption is that most every company tests in optimal conditions that users won't achieve in real life, so I think it's generally fair e
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by vinay427 7y ago
I don't really care about the price of the phone, because I'm sure it's more expensive to produce on a smaller scale than mainstream manufacturers, but the plan is $30 for unlimited texting and calling? Really? You can get un
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by vinay427 7y ago
It's still very low even given the battery size. The updated Nokia 3310 has a traditional display with a 1200 mAh battery and is rated for a standby battery life of 31 days. At 950 mAh that would be just over 24 days. I would expect an
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by vinay427 7y ago
It is required to get one in your country of residence when it expires (and licenses that are valid for life can be limited to two years), or if it is lost, stolen, or damaged. That's not what I would consider "without time limits
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by vinay427 7y ago
Yes, and this is true in virtually every country. The licenses of almost every country are accepted for visitors in any of those same countries, thanks to some UN conventions. An international driving permit which uses a standardized format
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by vinay427 7y ago
These are different types of changes like lane narrowing or lane marker omitting that don't aim to make driving less intuitive, but to decrease the perceived safe speed of travel. They're trying to make driving feel more difficult

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