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by vinay427 4y ago
> The Patriot Act got extended without fuss That’s not quite accurate. Specific provisions from the original act, fewer each time, were extended. > It contains many sunset provisions beginning December 31, 2005, approximately four yea
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Yes, and I believe the US response to that should be condemned to the extent that it escalated the conflict, not used as a whataboutism to excuse Russia's actions today.
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Are you referring to the cooperative policies between the US and various European countries? I'm not aware of the US unilaterally moving weapons to the Russian border without an arrangement with the host country.
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This doesn't seem to be the fault of Nikola's manufacturing process: > Nikola told Iveco, which said the final torque on the passenger seat belt shoulder anchorage was not installed to specification. Iveco is an established com
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Europe isn't a monolith. Have you read through the notes for countries with more restrictive regulations, particularly the yellow and blue labels? With reasonable-enough provisions to ensure equivalency to the public school system, it
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Did you mean to reply to my comment? It’s not clear what this has to do with what I said. I never mentioned the US at all, let alone census-designated ethnicities in the US.
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As far as I recall, institutional racism in western European colonial powers seems to predate extensive interaction with societies in Asia, and typically stems from the colonization of Africa and subsequent slave trade which depended on a d
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Those aren’t iMessage group chats if they’re using SMS/MMS.
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No, I believe they meant Safari underneath, which is often used as shorthand for the specific rendering engine based on WebKit that powers Safari on iOS and comes with its own quirks. Chrome does not use the same engine on any other platfor
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This appears to be the case in Switzerland as well, or at least various intersections in multiple cities that I would be repeatedly stuck at while living there, so I'm not sure this is a fundamental problem. Level crossings aren't
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I believe you're mostly right, so I stand corrected; apologies for the error. However, the Data Protection Act 2018 [1] does complement and supplement the GDPR in UK national law, including certain data not covered by GDPR, and more sp
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As far as I can tell, yes. It was implemented in the UK (as in EU countries) by incorporating it into national law, but can be reviewed at a later date as some UK politicians have claimed to support. https://ico.org.uk/for-o
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> (Unlike as in the US, where it seems being able to steer it is sufficient to get your licence). Source? I will gladly agree that standards should be greatly increased in the US for operating both four-wheeled and two-wheeled vehicles,
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What do you mean by “otherwise not unconstitutional?” I suppose the point of the ruling is its unconstitutionality, and the state of California is one of the only places in the world in which voters are free to change that through a constit
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It’s easier to interpret without starting with the assumption that comment replies are for disagreements. It sounds like you more or less rephrased what I said.
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Ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft already won an exception to AB5, mostly through funding what ended up the most expensive ballot measure in the state's history, just to have that apparently struck down by the Alameda County
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> If you ever wondered why nearly every European country is in the EU There are many others, to be fair: Iceland, Switzerland, most of the Balkans, parts of Eastern Europe, the UK, and at least 5 microstates.
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> a province that discriminates against my mother with its regressive laws Can you elaborate? I only very vaguely follow Quebec news so I'm curious what you're referring to.
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I find it somewhat concerning that charging tourist visa fees for third-world visitors is listed as an exception, as if the fees and often more laborious interviews and documentation that the majority of people in the world face doesn’t neg
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I’m not sure what US bars you’ve been to, but I definitely haven’t seen anywhere near that level of difference to a pub in the UK. There’s often more of a focus on food and meals in a pub than a typical bar that’s branded as a bar, but both
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by vinay427 4y ago
You do realize that a minority of people in India speak English, right? As a starting point, this source lists about 128 million people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
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I’m sure it’s one factor but probably not a defining characteristic. There are several countries with more similar home sizes to the UK in continental Europe that at least anecdotally seem to prefer meeting in homes, sometimes even more tha
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The Google Photos app on iOS is still an egregious abuser of this, requiring access to all photos to run at all, rather than just selected photos or no photos at all. I’m still not sure why it would need that if I only intend on using it to
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Switzerland has what may be one of the more comparable health insurance systems to that in the US. I definitely thought twice or three times before contacting a doctor (and ended up not doing so), and somewhat regretted an ambulance being c
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I think they meant tunnels in general that affect people not in cars, including motorcyclists, because of their lack of a loosely airtight or climate-controlled environment. As opposed to a tunnel specifically for bicyclists and motorcyclis
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I believe that’s my point. From what I understand, an incredibly broad interpretation of something like the interstate commerce clause or another enumerated power would seem necessary for such a federal ban to supersede state laws permittin
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> Pence just asked for federal legislation banning all abortions. So I think you are wrong to say the Republicans are trying to return it to the states, thy are trying to ban it. It’s worth mentioning that the constitutionality of such a
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> For example .gov is impossible to get for non-US entities I'll gladly concede this point. I do agree that ICANN favors the US for .gov (and .mil). It would definitely be preferable if these weren't approved at all or at least
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> To be honest you're splitting hairs, and in practice it doesn't make any difference. This seems like a (probably unintentional, and partly due to my lack of specificity) straw man. The spectrum doesn't range from Austral
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> It works mighty well in other countries. Very few countries have a single-payer system without health insurance providers, in case you're unaware. It's far from the norm in Europe and the developed world, or anywhere else for

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