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Thought this was Clickhole.com and was waiting for the payoff to the joke

This is cool! I'd be interested to see it include more jurisdictions (I'm from Guernsey which is low tax but high rent, and I wonder how that evens out.)

I couldn't find any locations on the Channel Islands. Where did you get your place list?

I read the Paul Graham article mentioned here immediately before reading the Neil Gaiman exposé, and it left a sour taste in my mouth. PG is an incredible writer and contributor to…

I did a degree in Politics and then an MSc in International Relations, which are not subjects where there are definitive "canons". To put it another way, you can go very far down t…

The only time I've heard of negotiating net is in certain Gulf countries where employers will pay all your taxes for you. Not a thing in the US or Europe though.

> Bu şehirdeki polis teşkilatı faaliyetlerini arttırdı. Interestingly the -ki suffix here was borrowed from Persian (another Indo-European language like English), and effectively h…

Surely it is AWKward?

This initially sounded impossible, but in reality the results are unsurprising and the interpretation is the strange part. All the children depicted were 9 years old while the adul…

"I think it's something that’s aged sitting there because it’s a number, so we have to understand how that number got there because the number was so big that the control panel did…

A Dutch friend once said that the one word from his language that has had universal reach was "apartheid"... I'm sure that if there are any truly global words they are probably one…

In Turkish those are "anne" (an-ney) and "baba"... And "mama" means baby food!

Given that this is a place with a disproportionate number of "internet randos" who have experienced the same problem, I'd say that it's worth asking - and then weighting responses …

Sounds like a real concern until you consider that the Suez canal is the only waterway from the Mediterranean to Asia and that cables can also be sited on land.

You likely have your own reasons for submitting the news, but it does echo China's official position on the protests - Chinese embassies and news sites have been running stuff clai…

It didn't, but I ended up finding it in the settings. Cheers!

Great work - there needs to be a good place to write for free without the site then trying to sell the writing on. I've signed up to your newsletter but it took me a little scrabbl…