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

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

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

x86hacker1010 wrote: post #88
esperent wrote: post #14

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…

Yah. London I wouldn’t, but some village in the UK countryside sure

We had our car broken into in a quiet Oxfordshire village (Bampton) the other day.

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

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Post by photonair »

Even if the votes are highly accurate, there is no circumstance in which I would want to leave my laptop at a Starbucks. There is a likelihood I may forget, but certainly not intentionally leaving it. That said, there are places where people leave their cell phones, keys, etc just to reserve a table in a food court while they go off to buy their food. I guess this map could be a proxy on which countries are safe to do that.

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Post by 3836293648 »

UltraSane wrote: post #36

For the US this really needs to broken down by state and even county. I know places were you can leave valuables with little likelihood of them being stolen and places where they would be gone in seconds. Small towns where most people know each other are very different to large cities.

That applies to everywhere except for like the Vatican or Monaco. The US is not special

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

This is complete nonsense. I am French and there is no way you can compare the northern suburbs of Paris with its western ones. Or the middle of Auvergne.

It's like asking the question "is it safe to cross here" for any road in the country.

Complete nonsense map. Some more useful questions: Is English spoken? Is water deep? Is there fuel?

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

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Post by Sharlin »

It seems that lower percentage = safer/ more trusting, but that’s the opposite of how the question is phrased, where a higher fraction of affirmative votes means safer. Also, please avoid red-yellow-green gradients because up to 10% of the male population has trouble distinguishing red and green.

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Post by boundless88 »

likeclockwork wrote: post #49

There is no coffee shop anywhere in the world where I would leave my laptop unattended. Even if things are unlikely to go wrong the level of avoidable risk is simply too high. A $3000 piece of my personal or worse employer's property and I'm just supposed to "trust"? Not worth it.

In fact, there are quite a few places that can do this. In the city where I live, Shanghai, China, the security is very good and the per capita income is quite high. You can just walk into any coffee shop in the city, leave your laptop there, and then leave to do something else, and it won't be lost, I've tried it countless times.
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