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by vinay427 4y ago
> Americans may find that inconvenient, more radical tongues call it a sign of US imperialism that .com is often associated with the home for US companies. I'm not sure why you felt the need to try and make some point about US imper
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by vinay427 4y ago
Out of curiosity, which parts are these? I’ve used it up to Preston several times and didn’t notice much out of the ordinary (compared to trains in Switzerland, for instance).
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by vinay427 4y ago
Not the OP, but Wikipedia [1] lists the number as 25-35%, listing this book [2] as a source in which page 261 seems to provide numbers ranging from 32% to 24% in the centuries leading up to colonization. It's not clear what the source
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by vinay427 4y ago
I'm aware. As for the urbanization, that's about on par with the US (82% for Canada, 83% for the US according to this metric [1]). More to the point, most of those areas outside of Toronto and Montreal have middling-to-no usable p
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by vinay427 4y ago
That may be the point of the comparison, as I understood it, with urban areas that don't require cars more of an exception than a norm. This is certainly the case in the US as well (NYC metro, DC metro, SF metro, university towns, etc.
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by vinay427 4y ago
This is false. There is a distinction between the Commonwealth in the broader cultural sense (Commonwealth Games, etc.) and the Commonwealth realm. The former regions in the British Empire which are now republics, such as India and those in
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by vinay427 4y ago
The west, as it is typically viewed, consists of far more than just the US and "a lot of European countries." There are plenty of places in Europe where public transport isn't as common as it should be, let alone other contin
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by vinay427 4y ago
This charge was finally removed a few months ago at their UK locations, so it seems more or less inevitable in the US given that the UK is often a vegan/plant-based testbed for many US chains: https://plantbasednews.org&#x2F
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by vinay427 4y ago
On the other hand, from a user's perspective only one SIM card and data allotment is needed. I much prefer two devices that I would own anyway over two SIM cards with (in most cases) separate monthly subscriptions or data packs.
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by vinay427 4y ago
To be fair, they at least said “seems to be,” which is a bit better than many Europeans who say similar things about Europe on this site, which I find even less excusable and seem to see daily. On topic, it is quite common in a few other Eu
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by vinay427 5y ago
It would seem rather silly and ironic for the British to adopt a prescriptive stance now. Candy has been used in English since about the 15th century, independent of the US. The same applies to many other differences in which the British mo
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by vinay427 5y ago
I don’t find it fun. It’s about as fun as seeing “European thinkers” do the same about the US, as someone who has lived in both regions, although one direction is perhaps more vocal than the other. Whether it’s a positive or negative miscon
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by vinay427 5y ago
Most Car and Driver pieces, even the relatively objective car reviews, tend to be better than average in this regard, with more editorialized pieces especially entertaining. It’s one of the main reasons I subscribe to the physical magazine
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by vinay427 5y ago
That makes sense, but I’m not sure that’s what the GP comment was talking about. For instance, both Samsung and non-Samsung Android devices have threaded/serial message notifications (?) which are very helpful for conversations, wherea
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by vinay427 5y ago
Luxury automakers have often been more restrictive and exclusive about features, mostly because they can be. BMW was known for their annual subscription CarPlay option which required ongoing payments for what was clearly a one-time software
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by vinay427 5y ago
Somewhat related: I first stumbled upon this evidentiality while Wikipedia surfing about Bulgarian and a few other (South?) Slavic languages a while ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_grammar
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by vinay427 5y ago
I’m not sure which part of the GP comment you’re responding to here. No one is suggesting inequality can't also be a problem, but this doesn’t negate a lot of the growth being positive-sum. Consider a country like Switzerland where I l
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by vinay427 5y ago
That's perhaps true, but not necessarily relevant to word length. Much of the added information in German relative to English is encapsulated in articles, which are around 3-5 letters, which I suspect is not the most significant factor
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by vinay427 5y ago
Also in Switzerland: an ambulance was called for me in the middle of Zurich, they arrived after driving only a few kilometers, performed an EKG, and didn’t transport me anywhere. I was billed over $700 for that, which I had to pay out-of-po
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by vinay427 5y ago
This sounds like a use case better suited to Sidecar to use the iPad as an external display. I’m not sure I see how it benefits very much from the additional Universal Control features, but having never used it I’m quite open to being wrong
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by vinay427 5y ago
> Police is very strongly biased the world over, even if it’s not PC to admit it. Do you mean that the PC view is that 1. the police are not strongly biased (which doesn’t fit the view of political correctness at least in the countries w
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by vinay427 5y ago
Your point stands about tips being considered offensive, but isn't avoiding that rationale part of why tips almost always follow the service in question? I understood one possible reason being that people want their (hopefully diligent
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by vinay427 5y ago
> Because that person is paid $2.50/hr for their work. This is an illegal wage according to federal minimum wage laws. I can't imagine the GP commenter should be responsible for labor law violations beyond reporting it to the r
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by vinay427 5y ago
Yes, thanks for clarifying, that’s what I was referring to.
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This sounds like it fails to recognize much of colonial governments, which were typically in the case of the British a very far cry from simply installing an unelected leader or otherwise manipulating leadership through extortion and othe
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by vinay427 5y ago
Yes, but this quote leaves out the distinction they made. The GP goes on to note the difference caused by who the people in the region support. In real life, as far as I can tell, most people in that region ended up supporting independence
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by vinay427 5y ago
> Then women were allowed to vote in the 1920's. In a rights-review, black men were seen as higher standing than women. Did you actually mean to respond to my comment? I acknowledge this and mention Switzerland, where I lived for ye
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by vinay427 5y ago
I'm curious what the article's source is for this claim. Naturally, democracy can be defined differently, but there are reputable sources that disagree with this [1], and even if considering limited suffrage to preclude democracy,
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> Only a few countries have been electoral democracies for a long time. Eight countries — Canada, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States — have been electoral democracies for a century o
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by vinay427 5y ago
> Was coconut oil manufactured and consumed in large quantities before industrial age? Was it a staple of local diet? Probably? Coconuts were certainly cultivated and used in prominent societies dating back to 1500 BCE or earlier, and th

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