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Needs a (Sri Lanka) tag or something.

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The domain name specified next to the title has a '.lk' TLD.

Which I would bet most to the HN audience isn't familiar with.

We're all part of today's lucky 10,000!

> HN audience

The audience that by definition would go "What is that? Mh! Nice to know!".

Technically true and also unhelpful.

Why? A poster suggested geo-context was «needed», to which was noted that said information is present in an expectable place. The "homework" of translating '.lk' is one click away.

You know what's better than one click? Zero clicks. My time is a precious commodity.

ah yes, '.lk' for 'sri LanKa"

I wonder if there's a "wk" and what it stands for

Protonmail, a Swiss company, uses a Montenegro TLD. TLD isn't a good geolocator.

> TLD isn't a good geolocator

Yes. ...In general. Specifically, this one is a title that comes from a news company with TLD consistent to it. Had it been reported by The Guardian or the NYT, they would have titled it differently.

Yea I had to read it first to figure it out, so now I know and I’m informed about another nation…

Edit: urgh I know it’s a shit comment, but frankly I’m so disheartened with seeing another country go down it’s just depressing

To the best of my past information, the immediately preceding government seeked raising consensus through suicidal tax cuts. Given the widespread trend in """live-for-the-day""" politics, another example but little new (dramatically or farcically).

Edit: it is one case in which the following appears exceptionally justifiable:

https://thediplomat.com/2022/06/sri-lanka-sends-2-ministers-...

> Sri Lanka is sending two government ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel - one of the necessities nearly exhausted amid the Indian Ocean island nation’s economic collapse. // The development comes as Washington and its allies aim to cut off energy imports from Russia in line with sanctions over its war on Ukraine. Since the invasion in late February, global oil prices have skyrocketed, sparking a number of countries to seek out Russian crude, which is being offered at a steep discount

Ah yes lk== Sri Lanka. Obviously.

For that matter it cannot be obvious that 'Colombo' is the name of the capital (again, of /one/ capital) or that 'Ceylon' was used for the place and/or that it still is. It's notions, like so much the rest. Things you meet and catch up with.

And we know all ccTLDs are accurate, like how .tv always means the site is owned by people from Tuvalu.

Very not relevant to the case in question, in which the TLD follows the norm: it is the title of a local paper.

The person I'm replying to said that people here ought to know what country a site is relevant to based on the ccTLD. My point is that ccTLDs get used for all kinds of reasons, most of them quite irrelevant to the country they've ostensibly been assigned to.

> said

No, that is not what I said. I said (there implicitly and concisely, then explicitly nearby) that in this occasion and context - national news website issuing a title that implies "in this Country" - the TLD was revealing and will probably in general be revealing. This reasoning is of course not valid in general for other cases.

In Bayesian terms, had the TLD been '.tv' the chances of the subject being Tuvalu would have increased only slightly, yet with other multipliers set as high given such a title.

I’d say the same for other countries as well

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