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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.

> 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 suc…

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.

> 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 …

US “bank cards” as in US payment processors such as Visa, not “US bank” cards.

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)…

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 n…

> 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,…

Given that their reply is on decreasing development fees, it seems that they understood the sarcasm.

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.

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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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, …

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.

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…

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 get…

> 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 …

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 i…

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 do…

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.

> 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 an…

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 imple…

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 simi…

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. Ire…

> 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. …