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Because it's interesting. Evidently, others agree otherwise it would not have been upvoted to the front page. Perhaps, it's because a large portion of the HN a
by runjake 5y ago
Because it's interesting. Evidently, others agree otherwise it would not have been upvoted to the front page.
Perhaps, it's because a large portion of the HN audience is in America, where autonomous regions are more or less alien to our understanding?
Edit: Puerto Rico, the Native American reservations and a bunch of islands. I'm ready for vacation, folks. Thanks for the corrections. This article is still neat, though.
- bobthepanda 5y agoThere is an analogue that exist in the US; the Native American reservations. Most Americans would prefer not to think about them too much.
- kgwgk 5y agoYou have autonomous states, [edited out: A mild oath of exasperation, annoyance, frustration, anger, or surprise]. And Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
- atdrummond 5y agoThis strikes me as an unnecessarily antagonistic reply.
- runjake 5y agoFWIW, I'm the parent he was replying to and I was fine with and appreciative of his correction. It seemed the appropriate amount of antagonism, given my error.
- dang 5y agoPlease edit swipes out of your posts to HN. We're trying to avoid that kind of thing here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mmarq 5y agoAutonomous regions (regioni a statuto speciale) have much less prerogatives than American states. They receive more transfers from the central government and can legislate on some limited matters. Imagine Kentucky receiving twice the fiscal transfers of Ohio and being able to legislate on fishing and museums, while Ohio can’t. That’s the gist of it.
- aaron695 5y ago