vinay427

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by vinay427 14d ago
To the extent this is the justification, why is Canada included?
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by vinay427 25d ago
> The UK is not a federal system like the USA, and so there is very little that counts as UK law as such. This seems quite far-fetched. Parliamentary sovereignty alone would be unthinkable in the US model, where US federal legislatures h
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by vinay427 2mo ago
Similar story here in Switzerland, with a 0 minute ride (they decided I didn’t need to be transported) that resulted in a bill of about 600-800 CHF.
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by vinay427 2mo ago
> I think they should stick with toponyms, instead of trying to be some sort of political arbiter. This can mostly work for sub-national names, but doesn’t really address cases such as Taiwan, Cyprus, etc.
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by vinay427 2mo ago
This isn’t the case for these watches in the UK as well, as they only work on certain partner networks, but I’m unsure whether this is due to the GP claim or something else.
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by vinay427 3mo ago
> This is exactly what they’ve been asking for. This doesn't directly follow from the first part of your comment, and more importantly seems inaccurate with respect to Anthropic's public statements on this situation. For exampl
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by vinay427 3mo ago
US “bank cards” as in US payment processors such as Visa, not “US bank” cards.
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by vinay427 3mo ago
I’m not sure what the featured article has to do with Europeans? In any case, not only are the vast majority of people not in Europe but surely Europeans (in any sense of the word) are not the primary groups targeted by a “hitler salute” in
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by vinay427 4mo ago
While neat that a government operates this, I’m not sure it’s a viable alternative for most users given that the servers are AFAIK all in Norway. For example, the latency from my network was 150-200ms (compared to 6ms for the Speedtest.net
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by vinay427 4mo ago
> Argentina's ministry of education did something like this with university software. The one used by students to sign up and by teachers to track grades, etc. For what it's worth, this seems roughly equivalent to Moodle, which
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by vinay427 4mo ago
Given that their reply is on decreasing development fees, it seems that they understood the sarcasm.
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by vinay427 5mo ago
I don’t live there, but for what it’s worth, this seems to be followed fairly consistently in the San Diego area whenever I’ve visited.
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by vinay427 5mo ago
To add to this, I notice this more frequently in the UK and EU countries than in some other parts of the world (although it varies within each country quite a bit).
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by vinay427 7mo ago
This can be a relevant reminder at times, but based on their phrasing, I think they’re aware: > Personally I prefer […] looks extremely dated to me now. Compare to the GP comment, for instance, where this may still be the case but is les
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by vinay427 8mo ago
There were apparently 19 (I had only been to 4-5), but apparently they closed a month ago roughly in line with the closures in the US.
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by vinay427 8mo ago
In the US, you also wave your phone over the card reader, it goes "Pling!" and that's your stuff paid for. The GP comment is not about paying (although it can do that too [1]), but rather about providing their Amazon account
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by vinay427 8mo ago
Some quick Googling says this brand is Australian. This pattern of making Europeans, Australians, and virtually everyone else on the internet “American” when it’s convenient is getting a little old.
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by vinay427 8mo ago
> The numbers are centigrade, which for the local market is mostly very obvious and widely understood. 22 is roughly room temperature, so it's good that's at 12 o'clock. I'm aware of centigrade, I've lived in pla
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by vinay427 9mo ago
This has a few other issues to me compared to many similar dials. It’s unclear what the temperature numbers actually mean if this isn’t an automatic climate control system (or is in manual mode). The part that rotates also appears to be sym
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by vinay427 10mo ago
From my reading, the GP comment isn’t claiming otherwise, but just that that sort of VPN ban isn’t enforceable in advance of some of those changes. They do directly suggest they don’t know how long this will remain the case.
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by vinay427 1y ago
In particular, this is already done using a digital ID for foreign residents (at least on most visas) in the UK, which was phased in over the past few years.
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by vinay427 1y ago
> I don't believe the US had that kind of issue or, they did, it was so long ago that nobody remembers. There is still a similar issue of not knowing whether an area code is for another country in the North American Numbering Plan.
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by vinay427 1y ago
I tend to agree, and the vast majority of policies that I've seen (e.g. US states) do in fact target the use of phones, not possession. Schools in the CA bill can continue to implement or exceed those requirements as they see fit.
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by vinay427 1y ago
I’m not sure what ‘the US’ means here. In California it’s now required (as of next year) for schools to limit or restrict student phone use, and several other states have done similar things as mentioned in the article [1]. [1] https:&#x2F
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by vinay427 1y ago
The GP comment specifically refers to the contemporary connotation, and at least in English there is some consensus around constitutional governments in this modern sense (e.g. Ireland, India, Germany, etc.) as opposed to those that aren’t.
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by vinay427 1y ago
> My personal theory is that this is because you can make every sound you hear in English using the Devnagari script, but not the other way around. This is not very close to true. English (even a given accent) has a rather high number of
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by vinay427 1y ago
At least with a physical ID document, you don’t also need to provide your boarding pass at many updated TSA checkpoints. https://www.afar.com/magazine/no-need-to-show-tsa-your-board...
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by vinay427 1y ago
Message history still can’t be backed up on iOS, and also can’t be moved between Android and iOS in either direction AFAIK. There are far more gaps here than just imperfect users, which is often a UX problem as others have noted.
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by vinay427 1y ago
Having lived in both countries for a while, I find the Swiss plugs nowhere near as satisfying, and the flat (non-recessed) wall outlets are also prone to plugs becoming loosened due to weight, similar to the US/CAN/JP plug. I do q
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by vinay427 1y ago
> Unlike other parts of India such as Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderbad -- it's tropical and lush with much less pollution than what you might see in those other parts of India. Somewhat ironically these are relatively low pollution as

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