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in korea u can literally leave ur wallet, laptop, expensive bag at your table and go eat lunch or do something else for an hr and come back and it'll still be there (and people are used to it). one of the few places that surprised me more than japan lol. but dont leave ur bike or umbrella out.

what if other people want to use that table? is it okay to move their laptop/bags off?

I actually find it annoying if people put stuff on tables and then walk away for an hour or more, hogging a spot that could be used by others.

Re: Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop

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Voting on a country level here is too coarse, this poll is invalid. I live in Vietnam and I can see it's getting colored red already but that's unfair. If you're in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi, then for sure you couldn't safely leave your laptop in a cafe. But if youuuUse the edit icon to pin, add or delete clips.'re in a smaller town then you'll be fine. But doesn't that apply to basically every country? I assume that…

There's many issues with this.

- MacBooks are not very attractive theft targets anyway, when properly locked you can only sell them for parts. Wallet or camera or non-Apple laptop would be much more telling.

- Except for Japan, most places it depends on specifics. Who is around, where exactly is the branch, time of day/year (in a couple of countries petty theft rises before Lunar New Year when struggling people especially need money), did you leave a whole setup on your table or is it just lonely closed-lid laptop so someone can pretend it's theirs.

- "Safe to walk at night" isn't what people usually mean by "walkable". Most of the countries in the top are not "walkable".

- This does not account for race and gender. Some white male techbro is probably fine walking alone at night in most places in Thailand, but a woman or an Asian person is another story. The other year multiple people were kidnapped and it caused a big drop in tourism, and a few years earlier double murder of Westerners had some official say the woman should be either ugly or not wear bikini.

- China in the top is funny, I'm aware of multiple knife attacks on foreigners (one happened in central Beijing and I was in the city at the time).

Re: Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop

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Voting on a country level here is too coarse, this poll is invalid. I live in Vietnam and I can see it's getting colored red already but that's unfair. If you're in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi, then for sure you couldn't safely leave your laptop in a cafe. But if youuuUse the edit icon to pin, add or delete clips.'re in a smaller town then you'll be fine. But doesn't that apply to basically every country? I assume that…

> Voting on a country level here is too coarse, this poll is invalid.

> I live in Vietnam and I can see it's getting colored red already but that's unfair.

Also, it's a tiny sample: eight votes to represent a country of 100 million people.

Re: Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop

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post #61
post #22

in korea u can literally leave ur wallet, laptop, expensive bag at your table and go eat lunch or do something else for an hr and come back and it'll still be there (and people are used to it). one of the few places that surprised me more than japan lol. but dont leave ur bike or umbrella out.

what if other people want to use that table? is it okay to move their laptop/bags off? I actually find it annoying if people put stuff on tables and then walk away for an hour or more, hogging a spot that could be used by others.

nope, u don't touch it. everyone does it and accepts it and it's not that annoying i guess.
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