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by jpatokal 8y ago
Yes, that's what the article says, but the IUCN disagrees: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/40556/0
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by jpatokal 8y ago
They're not -- the common wombat is, true to its name, still very common, and it's only the northern hairy-nosed wombat that's endangered. They are, however, all now protected from hunting, so wombat hams no longer feature on
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There actually are "rules" for adjective order in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Order For example, size precedes color, hence "large red ball".
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Interesting to see how both the Suez Canal and the Trans-Siberian Railway "distort" the map: without them travel to eg India or the Far East would have been much slower.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
In most European countries, your taxes get you all that and universal health care, reliable unemployment benefits and free higher education.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It is illegal in some countries like Australia.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
In Australia, despite vociferous opposition from the CC lobby, it's legal for merchants to charge reasonable fees to cover CC costs and many do. Free Amex acceptance, in particular, is quite low.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The data that G Suite organizations and users put into our systems is theirs, and we do not scan it for advertisements nor sell it to third parties [...] Google does not collect, scan or use data in G Suite Core Services [including Google
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Oyo's CEO was indeed "wealthy": so much so that he'd get a a whopping $4 in pocket money every month when in school. Better off than the average family in Orissa, sure, but not exactly trust fund territory. https:&#x2F
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Oyo's trick seems to be that they're not building hotels themselves (which is obviously slow and very expensive), but they're applying branding & quality control to existing unbranded hotels and taking a hefty cut in exch
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I had always conflated selling the London Bridge with "selling" the Brooklyn Bridge, as in "...and I've got a bridge to sell you": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker Glad to hear th
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by jpatokal 8y ago
True factoid: one remarkably useless chindogu was a device that lets you hold a camera at arm's length so you can take a photo of yourself -- now known as the selfie stick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie_stic
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I presume the writers are not in the US. $1000 goes a long way in India or the Philippines.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Those were written by William Safire, who's to speech writing what Mozart was to composing music. Previous HN discussion of what's been called the greatest speech never given here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by jpatokal 8y ago
No, it's more to do with the ambiguity of the Arabic original ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām . The "Sham" bit here can be refer either to the present day state of Syria, hence ISIS; or the historical gre
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The actual name is ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah, "Islamic State". The Arabic acronym Daesh ("D.S.") is considered derogatory by IS itself.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Crises are amplifiers of both positive and negative. I previously worked at a company in prolonged existential crisis, and while my team (working on a potential way out) and immediate management was great, there was a whole lot of backstab
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If you're handling timezones, and you're not using tz files, you deserve any pain heading your way. Timezone rules change constantly and trying to roll your own is disastrous. (And I say that in the grave baritone voice of per
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's not just space: Mini (kei) cars are subsidized via much lighter taxation, which is why they're so popular in Japan.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Given that Uber/Lyft track every inch of the car's journey, it seems entirely feasible for them to automatically catch some types of bad driving (exceeding speed limits, illegal U-turns, frequent hard braking, etc). But current
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Was there Cyrillic text visible on Intel 386 chips after decapping?(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
So what happens when your car breaks down? Do you need to push it yourself?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Not the reforms themselves, but what followed. China's growth since then has led to the largest poverty reduction the world has ever seen, and that didn't happen because a bureaucrat flicked his pen, but because hundreds of milli
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that: you can link WeChat to some credit cards, or get money transferred to your account. However, it's difficult to impossible to do this outside China and/or without a Chinese mobile number
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It makes perfect sense if you look at this as a get-rich-quick scheme: brand as first ever sovereign cryptocurrency, launch IPO, mint money. And I'll take you up on your kind AMA offer: why would you live there for two years?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Sweden in the 1920s was indeed in a comparatively sweet spot, but so was much of Western world before the Great Depression and WW2 hit. However, by modern standards, Sweden was still quite poor and agrarian: life expectancy for both men an
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I think you're referring to the Sky Couch, which isn't just an empty middle seat, but converting three economy class seats into a bed (just) big enough for two to snuggle up. https://www.airnewzealand.com.au/econom
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> You should always be looking around. If for no other reason, than so that you can make sure you don't accidentally get bumped by someone else. You're going to have to explain this one a bit more. (I also take it you'v
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Many would argue that the logic is correct then.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Per the article, the collapse was recorded by a security camera and the footage is being analyzed by the investigators, but it has not been made public yet.

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