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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.
  • This was a building in Budapest, "P" stands for "pince", as in basement, "FSZT" is "földszint", literally "ground floor", "MFSZT" is "magasföldszint", "high ground floor" meaning mezzanine level, and "1E" is "1. emelet", "first elevation", so that was highest.

    The quality of the elevator still made me think of taking the stairs though.

    Fun fact, Hungarian is the only language I've heard of that uses Latin letters and also has multi-glyph letters as long as four glyphs, so "sz" is considered one letter like in Polish I think, but "ddzs" is also one letter.

  • Hotrods
  • Capitalism is not equal to smuggling or free markets. Capitalism means the private ownership of the means of production, and a market economy is possible under other systems.

  • This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.
  • And it's numbered different building to building, sometimes level 1 is nearest to surface, sometimes it's the deepest one.

    And if you think that's confusing, I've ridden this one elevator once, it had four buttons arranged in a square: "P", "FSZT", "MFSZT", "1E". Guess what order the floors are in.

  • Undecided voters give Harris a look — but not a commitment — after the debate
  • To be fair, it's hard to criticise leftists for not voting reliably for the Dems if they keep moving right. I imagine your parents didn't really become leftists, it's just that Dems moved to where the Reps were decades ago.

    Supporting a Holocaust-sized genocide is not really "any issue" either. The reason why it still makes sense to vote for Harris is not because that genocide does not matter, it's that Trump would start another one on American soil while endorsing the former as well.

    You've basically got the Goldman Sachs candidate, or Hitler from Wish. I hope people turn out for Goldman Sachs-lady, for all our sakes in the world.

  • This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.
  • I did a quick search, it seems it's similar to imperial and metric in that it's only the US doing 1st floor as ground floor. It's for various reasons, but in most European languages the word used for the numbered "floors" either means "horizontal division between floors" or the first "construction over the previous floor", so it makes sense that the first is the first above the ground.

    It's like the basement, the ground floor is special.

  • Apps can now block sideloading more easily and force downloads through Google Play
  • the only thing the app does is start transactions and check with the server if they’re paid

    Yeah, but the whole PCI DSS thing means that the app must still be secured. That doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be tied to Google Play, but explain it to them.

  • Apps can now block sideloading more easily and force downloads through Google Play
  • IIRC they did coupons exclusively in their app a few years ago where I lived (haven't checked since), and they hiked the price of everything, so if you don't install the app, you get a 20% surcharge in effect.

    That goes for every single shitty chain store as well.

  • The Product is . . . Comprehensenility
  • What would predictably happen is that the health insurance company would still withhold care, and the life insurance company would deny the payout based on the care being withheld. Then they both would be like "sue me".

    And eventually they would merge and be just one company.