I love it, my only feedback was the I didn't really understand which I was supposed to pick when it showed me N. Korea. Because all I saw the Korean Peninsula, and the north was dark green and the south was light green.
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#32Well done! What are these types of web apps that have no backend called? You still need the CDN, so they're not classically serverless ( https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html )
Website, not web app. Static website if it has no backend. Strictly speaking, 'static' used to mean no JavaScript either, so perhaps 'jamstack' is the appropriate neologism.
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#33Good work.
I couldn’t name 98% of the countries. Realised my geography sucks
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Can you explain how that makes it ironic?
Because it's not recognized as a State by Israel and a few other countries.
It's a big game of cat, mouse, pride, and political points.
-> Around 30 member states of the UN also fail to recognize the statehood of Israel...
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pictures come straight from Wikipedia. From the picture for North Korea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea ): Territory controlled by North Korea shown in dark green; territory claimed but not controlled shown in light green.
China isn't in light green for Taiwan. Is that situation different in some way?
yeah, very different power imbalance and influence :)
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#37Very cool. Are you collecting data on guesses? Would be interesting to see a ranking of countries by how many people can ID them
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#38Give partial score for close guess, I called Benin a Sierra Leone, or art least show my guess and target country
Yeah, I was pretty good in Asia, except for the various ex-USSR "-stans" (I just know Kazakhstan is the biggest one).
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pictures come straight from Wikipedia. From the picture for North Korea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea ): Territory controlled by North Korea shown in dark green; territory claimed but not controlled shown in light green.
China isn't in light green for Taiwan. Is that situation different in some way?
But Taiwan is in light green for China...
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#40Nice, enjoyed seeing how I don't know the political map as good as I thought. If I click "Check" without typing anything and then click "Correct" my score goes up.
The hard ones for me were countries in mainland Africa, island nations in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and small adjacent countries that you associate in a group – say Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, or Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are easy - they go in alphabetical order from north to south.