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Re:Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys) by ivoras on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:28AM (#12699704)
Shame it fails for the trap of natural language ambiguity. So on the front page I see "England -> capital -> London" and at a glance I thought the capital (as in money) flows from England and is accumulated in London.
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Re:Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys) by OJFord on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:54AM (#12700387)
I agree in general (and it's the fault of freely user-definable keys/attribute) - but that's not a great example, since the arrow aren't read as a direction of flow.

Perhaps that reveals that a forward slash might be a better separator though - like a URI.

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