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The Darvaza Crater in Turkmenistan is a more photogenic version of this:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210610-the-darvaza-crat...

The original article is off base here. As far as I know, there are no FAA requirements for minimum seat pitch, only for being able to evacuate the airplane fast enough.

As it happens, in 2018 Congress mandated the FAA to come up with some standards, but as of last year it hadn't happened:

https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/Congre...

In Australia, parking at popular beaches is both packed and crazy expensive, with day passes pushing $50, so there's a well-established tradition of giving your parking ticket to the guy waiting to swipe your spot as you pull out.

Of course, the councils running the parking didn't want to lose out, so they've "upgraded" to parking meters that require you to punch in your license plate number, which is then printed on the ticket in large letters to make sure it can't be reused.

For other HN readers who weren't aware (I wasn't), Morse was rabidly anti-Catholic and pro-slavery.

Interesting. Although he really should have gone with a serious, enterprisey name like "Google" or "Tiktok".

Per the site, the fully assembled retail price for the Ploopy Classic would be $209.99-$227.49 CAD if it wasn't out of stock. Even the DIY kit runs $139.99-$157.49 CAD depending on options.

https://ploopy.co/shop/classic-trackball-full-kit/

My first guess would have been that this is from a European company, which often have product names that don't sound quite right to a native English speaker [1], but cursory Googling [2] reveals that Ploopy Corporation appears to be run by a Colin Lam from Mississauga, Ontario, next to Toronto and not even in Quebec. So your guess is as good as mine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plopp

[2] https://www.bizapedia.com/canada/ploopy-corporation.html

I'm quite well aware of what's happening in NZ, thank you, and the reason they locked down the whole nation is because that one case a) could not be immediately linked to another case, implying there were likely others out there, and b) had moved around quite a bit, meaning other cases were likely widely spread. As we now know both these turned out to be true.

Nevertheless, it is still a literally true statement that the entirety of NZ was locked down over one (1) case, because if they hadn't found that one case, they wouldn't have done that.

There's a broader version of that: "You can buy someone, but you can't make sure they stay bought." Applies widely to bribery, diplomacy, etc.

No, that's a literal description of what they did last week:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/new-zealand-to...

One (1) positive case, entire nation placed on maximum level 4 lockdown where you can't leave your house except for a very short list of permitted reasons.

> Saying Covid response is the only thing that could possibly explain the observed differences between Sweden and (let say) Norway is simply wrong.

Nobody has claimed that it is, and in fact in this very thread you've seen it correctly noted that Sweden's approach to old age homes was responsible for a significant part of the fatalities -- although here too there's a lot of debate about whether it's the percentage of % in age homes (a bit higher in Sweden), the Swedish tendency to have larger homes, or the Swedish COVID policy decision to treat people at the homes instead of hospitalizing them.

But, again, if you have alternative hypotheses or factors that you think differ greatly between the countries, let's hear them. Because as a native of the region, I'd struggle to find many, at least when it comes to factors a virus would care about (as opposed to, say, preferring sweeter jam with meatballs).

You're the one asserting they're not comparable here, so please trot out some factors where Sweden is measurably different from its neighbors then.

On the balance, yes, but SUVs have their own risks, notably rollover due to the highest center of gravity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_sport_utility_veh...

Jackfruits are the world's largest fruit, but while they're a bit pungent, they're nowhere near as powerful as the actual smelliest fruit, the durian.

Google Pay is the most popular payment system in India, a country of 1,400,000,000 people.

If you're working for a FAANG or any company of similar scale, it's virtually impossible for an individual contributor to move the needle in terms of stock price. So the rational thing to do is plan and review with an eye to your own promotion, and let the busy bees in Ads lift up the stock price by churning out tens of billions in revenue.

Both are technologies we've expected to have for quite a while, yet here were are, still waiting for anything that's not just a tech demo.

This doesn't seem like the kind of problem that would require a humanoid robot to solve though? It's just that even with current state of the art robotics, things like grabbing cardboard boxes (easily crumpled or dropped, mass distribution within may be uneven or unstable, may already be broken or leaking etc) and stacking them into a stable 3D pallet is actually quite hard, so much so that Boston Dynamics managing to do some parts of this in optimal conditions with uniform, lightweight boxes was hailed as a breakthrough:

https://youtu.be/uuO6oeO0-ts

The article notes that the number of arcades across the country had already collapsed by 80% from 26573 to 4000-odd in 2019, and that's before COVID.

It's not "wrong", you're just parsing it differently. The title means that the poor don't enjoy any additional benefits from that growth, since their expenses scale accordingly; thus theie net growth in disposable income is "nothing at all".

For most employers 7 vs 50 felonies will make no difference, any number that's not zero will disqualify you.

Being upfront about your criminal record (including that it looks worse than it is) and/or explicitly targeting companies that have signed up to Ban the Box and/or the Fair Chance Pledge might help.

This study only covered US cities, and the main factor seems to be housing prices. It would be interesting to replicate this in places where cheap housing is more abundant, be it through liberal zoning (Tokyo), subsidized public housing (Singapore) or shantytowns (much of the developing world).

That's the ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards) rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

It's mentioned in the article, and it didn't just kill off 3-engine planes, but 4-engine planes like the 747 as well. The Airbus A350 XWB has a ETOPS-370 rating, meaning it can fly up to 370 minutes (over 6 hours) on a single engine, or between any two points across 99.7% of the world.

The US also directly funded the mujahideen, the forebears of today's Taliban, back when they were fighting the Soviets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_mujahideen

Not really. Most Gulf states are petrified of militant Islam, and the Taliban subscribe to a creed (Deobandi) that's not particularly popular among Arabs.

Fall of Saigon v2. Although I have to say the speed at which the Taliban took over once the US pulled out is pretty astonishing: it's clear they have a strong level of popular support.

A common nickname for westerners in China is dabizi (大鼻子), literally "big nose". And a mysterious yet common compliment in Japan is to be told hana ga takai (鼻が高い), lit. "[your] nose is high".

Elon has his own agenda and SpaceX is his vehicle to achieve it. If his plan succeeds, we'll have a self-sustaining commercial space industry.

In a sane world, NASA would be cutting their losses and pulling all funding from Boeing around now, since it's already beyond clear that Starliner is not going be better than SpaceX's offerings on any meaningful metric.

Unfortunately there's little sane about NASA's funding and contracting process, unless you look at it from a pork barreling politician's perspective.