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I agree with your broader point, but it’s worth noting that insurance middlemen exist in many European countries with universal health insurance, so surely some form of this can exist in a more regulated health insurance/provider market.

My comment does not say what you quoted, so I'm not sure which claim you are responding to because it appears to missing most of the context in my comment. I don't necessarily disagree with the text you quoted.

Yes, however it's increasingly likely that the GPT in ChatGPT will not be limited to OpenAI (in the US), so I'm not sure how much ChatGPT will be worth with countless other platforms containing GPT in their names.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/no-gpt-trademark-for-opena...

> I don't like it that they charge such a premium, it makes having data as a tourist somewhat of a privilege.

I obviously don't like that the premium for an eSIM in a place like India is so high, but I think (having a brief look at esimdb.com) $20-30 USD for 10-15 GB is not unreasonable for the substantial portion of tourists to India who are already traveling from another continent [1], and considering it's in the range (±50% perhaps) of mobile data prices for a comparable plan in the UK or the US, I'm not sure it's that much of a privilege for tourists.

To be clear, I don't mean that the premium is warranted, but just that it may not be much of a privilege for many tourists.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/207005/foreign-tourist-a...

Right, but it’s not uncommon for a repo to be private with sensitive data that is identified and “removed” (using something like bfg or git-filter-branch) before being made public.

Naturally, if it’s a key or something else revocable those extra precautions should be taken regardless of using these tools, but that isn’t an option for some types of data and this implies that users have no systematic recourse.

My cousin comment [1] provides a bit more detail, but this is not available on iOS/iPadOS despite Apple allowing apps to save files to the filesystem and many other apps supporting this for years now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39445286

There are no backups available on the iPhone/iPad app, only a device-to-device transfer while setting up a new device assuming your previous device and new device are both iPhones/iPads. This is despite support for apps storing files to the filesystem that was added some years ago now, and many other apps on those platforms supporting backups of custom file formats (or JSON, etc.).

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

Fair enough, but I suppose the "in other countries" constraint isn't even necessary in that case. :)

I'm genuinely curious: do you have any examples you'd like to share? Not that React Native is the same as a PWA, but even in that space I have yet to find an RN app (at least those I know about from their Showcase page [1]) that rivals a native app on iOS, but perhaps it's wrong to assume a React Native app would be comparable to or strictly better than a PWA.

[1] https://reactnative.dev/showcase

I’m not sure they were at all implying that California was exceptional in that regard, to be fair, but at least that urban tunneling involves many costs besides the physical boring.

In any case, I wouldn’t use the UK as an example of tunneling efficiently. Crossrail, for instance, is on the order of more expensive urban US projects and there’s a fairly consistent recent history of either not building or letting existing rail infrastructure decay.

This link provides a decently contextualized comparison IMO, although it is slightly out of date now: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/05/16/us-rail-constr...

It's definitely unclear, but there's also no evidence from the article that the armed police were not among the officers that "stormed the address," as the article states. They were also visible outside, and it would be unusual to see police with rifles in the UK (or the US, for that matter) so it makes sense that neighbours noted that, but the article title as you said points in the direction of armed officers raiding the home.

To be clear, my point is not to draw a false equivalence between armed police raids in the UK and the US. I would, however, say that the problem of appropriately responding to a potential armed threat isn't exactly solved in either country, if that's even possible.

Here's yet another example on a quick Google search, if you're still unconvinced that this occurs in the UK: https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-ne...

> "No action will be taken against the occupants of a Hemel Hempstead home that was raided by armed police after a mystery phone call."

> "One witness described armed officers going inside a home shortly before putting two people inside the home in handcuffs and in the back of a police car."

> US started requiring passports

It’s worth mentioning that the enhanced driver’s licenses and state IDs are still valid, which tend to be easier to acquire and require far less paperwork if one is already getting a license/state ID, so residents of the more populated border states have a somewhat more seamless option.

Yes, it will! I don’t live in the area anymore but would visit partly to experience walking across when the bridge opens.

https://www.gordiehoweinternationalbridge.com/en/bike-or-hik...

Sorry, that example seemed to occur in a public venue so isn’t the most relevant.

This one may be more appropriate: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/11238632.armed-police...

At least to a layman not at all versed in firearms, armed police responses in the UK look a lot like SWAT teams in the US and feel similarly intense, but perhaps there are material differences here. I’m genuinely not sure.

This seems like an incredibly broad generalisation. It happens even in the UK where (except for Northern Ireland) most officers are not armed with any firearm.

One example of several upon a quick search: https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/armed-police-called-to-...

There’s more to it than housing density (see below). For instance, there are also differences in public transport to spread the area of viable housing. Anecdotally, high rent cities such as New York or London tend to not do a great job at providing reasonably priced and efficient transport to nearby commuter towns or suburban areas compared to many in central Europe, for instance.

On densities, cities like New York, San Francisco, and Seattle (high rents) are comparable or higher in density than larger European cities with the exception of Paris (and I may have missed another). London, Berlin, or Madrid are noticeably lower than New York or possibly the other two US cities as well.

(Naturally, the city boundaries of somewhere like London include many less-urban areas so this doesn’t quite capture exactly what either of us presumably mean, but it’s loosely demonstrative.)

Respectfully, I’m not sure what you are asking for. In-N-Out is only in a small fraction of the US so most people from the US wouldn’t know much about it either. I believe that’s why the GP comment provided a little more context which was more or less sufficient for me to understand the comparison.

I don’t think most people including those from the area would even associate the name with French, so there isn’t the same intentionality. It’s the same with indigenous language-origin or Spanish-origin place names in the US/Canada, our place names in general that are often centuries old and conceptually separate from their origins, and feels quite distinct from intentionally trying to emulate a foreign language pronunciation for one language but butchering words in another language (not that that’s unique to the UK).

To be fair, there's a massive difference between the machines I've seen at least in Switzerland and the ones in the UK/US. In the latter, they seem far more anti-shoplifting focused, forcing you to place each item and wait for some delay before you can scan the next item, loudly announcing every step of the process, etc.

There's still some variance in the latter countries between supermarket chains as some are noticeably faster or require fewer taps than others, but the general experience in most every chain is far less pleasant than in every major supermarket brand in Switzerland.

> I mean you can't properly call yourself a liberal by any textbook definition of liberalism and be in ok with firing people for their political views.

Isn't this usage (not being okay with firing people arbitrarily) more compatible with the US/North American sense of 'liberal' than the modern non-Anglo European sense of 'liberal'? Specifically, the emphasis on individual liberties over government regulation, which the US sense of 'liberal' eschewed while keeping the social liberalism dimension. 'Liberal' parties at least in German-speaking countries tend to be very approximately (European) center-right, for instance.

These are mainline trains between Paddington and Acton Main Line which use overhead power lines, not a third rail as with Underground services.

I’m not entirely sure what the GP commenter is trying to say, but I’m also not sure how they imply Sweden, Germany, and China are working together, as I think is implied in your comment in that their power or authority is combined. Could you maybe rephrase what you mean, or how you interpreted their comment?

Not the parent commenter, but I read their comment perhaps more charitably as describing a general societal attitude rather than their personal beliefs that they would instill on their children.

No idea if I’m correct, but it’s maybe worth offering them the benefit of the doubt here.

> Then again I’m in a country where drivers are generally respectful of pedestrians, especially on marked crossings most drivers will actively stop if they see a pedestrian getting close to a crossing.

This seems to not generally be the case in the UK, or at least in any of the large and small cities in England that I’ve spent time in. Except for zebra crossings (which are few and far between at crossings compared to most of Western/Central Europe or even the US/Canada) drivers seem to rarely stop proactively, if ever.

At least for me, this was caused by a OS security permission: enabling Full Disk Access for the terminal emulator app in Security & Privacy (System Preferences) fixed it for me and the setting can obviously be reverted afterwards.

I wouldn’t expect better of Google. An app like Google Photos on iOS should (in my opinion) be banned because it requires access to all locally saved photos, breaking if either no access or selective/additive photo access is used.

> Even your statement hints that our cities are in a state of societal collapse with increased crime

Not the GP commenter, but I don’t see how their comment hints at this. Could you clarify?

> No, I don't think we're living in a peaceful era at all.

This appears to respond to a different claim than that in the parent comment based on my reading, unless I’m misinterpreting the “no” here?

It isn't clear if you meant this as an aside, but Switzerland is a Schengen area country. It isn't in the EU/EEA which (in some sense) necessitates customs checks more so than immigration checks, but nonetheless there are frequent checks on the border with its neighbouring countries which are in the EU/EEA. It's less common by private vehicle, in my experience.

I’m not sure that case is relevant to the YouTube example, as YouTube isn’t refusing to or being compelled to create new works on behalf of Brand, or whatever the closest analogy here would be. Refusing service based on protected attributes tends to be far more explicitly addressed, in the US and likely many other countries.

It also has a recent history of racial discrimination targeting minorities as a result of false accusations of child abuse, so it's worth making sure there isn't an overcorrection particularly in a society where people sometimes still attribute random individuals together based on perceived ethnic origin. See https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/04/how-eleanor-... for one example.