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But then some countries have visas on arrival that are less of a hassle than ESTA.

What do I need to do to get unbanned? I have filled in the provided Google Docs form 3-4 times to no avail. I got banned almost immediately after joining. My best guess is that I g…

You can keep your purchases these days. Though I when last changed countries I did find that I lost some purchases. I would guess it can happen when an item is not available in the…

Normative approach versus a descriptive/empirical approach.

I was banned too. I filled in the form 2-3 times already, but I never heard back from them. My working theory is that I was banned due to using a VPN (Mullvad) with a location set …

I don't think debating counterfactuals is a productive way to have this discussion. I also want to point out that the reason I mentioned Gui Minhai was to counter the claim that es…

I'm not sure why you think I'm American. The group that was being attacked was something like 'Westerners who criticize China' (I can't find the exact quote since the OP is no long…

The US certainly flirts with this kind of politics too. However: - Snowden was an American citizen. Gui Minhai is Swedish. - Snowden didn't get kidnapped abroad. The possibility se…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai Can you though? Gui Minhai was a Hong Kong bookseller who had become a Swedish citizen. He was kidnapped while in Thailand and was moved to…

I strongly disagree. If you care enough about an issue to repeatedly go outside during a pandemic and protest, then you are not ignoring it. The set of 'Westerners' does not exclud…

I don't understand how you can give 'American cops routinely kill people' as an example of human rights violations that are being ignored. Is change lacking? Yes. Is there outrage?…

The app doesn't get killed that quickly because it has location services on in the background. It's the same reason that Google Maps doesn't get killed in the background when it's …

"While I haven’t tested the beta myself, it appears it gets to run the whole time you’re on that SSID and it can implement whatever protocol it wants to talk to your proprietary se…

The actions of India in Kashmir have certainly been strongly condemned as well. What happens there is terrible. Perhaps the Kashmir situation got less media attention than Hong Kon…

It strikes me that in at least some of these examples, the subject may know the best decision, but they might not know that they know it. For example, you might have prior experien…

I think it might be mostly that you're not in an English speaking country. Based on accent, a lot of spam calls appear to originate from developing countries.

Have you noticed that in Singapore all the nurses are Filipino though? I don't think they earn much and I reckon that has to help with getting costs down... I also disagree that he…