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Re:Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s on Saturday March 07, 2026 @07:18AM (#47286983)
There has been free movement back and forward since 1973. Citizenship hardly matters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Tasman_Travel_Arrangemen...
Re:Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today? on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:06PM (#46653876)
This is quite incorrect. Of the top 10 planted wine varietals in the world [0], all ten are red grapes to red wine or white grapes to white wine:

Top grape varieties by planted hectares 1. Cabernet Sauvignon - red grape, red wine. 2. Merlot - red grape, red wine. 3. Tempranillo - red grape, red wine. 4. Airén - white grape, white wine. 5. Chardonnay - white grape, white wine. 6. Syrah - red grape, red wine. 7. Grenache Noir - red grape, red wine. 8. Sauvignon Blanc - white grape, white wine. 9. Pinot Noir - red grape, red wine. 10. Trebbiano Toscano / Ugni Blanc - white grape, white wine.

There are some wines which are produced with red grapes which are not left on skins so there is no impartation of red colour, but they are really not common and the result is most of the time a bit closer to a light rose than what would be considered a white wine. Perhaps the only style that would be semi-frequently encountered are some French Blanc de Noirs wines, various champagne examples being the most common of these. (And of course standard champagne itself, but I am not sure if that is really considered a white wine). Still, rare. It is also not possible to produce a red wine with a white grape, there is no colour in the skin to impart.

[0]: https://londonwinecompetition.com/en/blog/insights-1/how-the...

Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro on Sunday July 07, 2024 @05:08AM (#40896223)
But that’s your implication the genetic change was widespread enough to effect an entire cultural change. What evidence is there of that?
Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:47AM (#40896123)
What implications?
What do N/S and O/S stand for?

In your example if you have a Spanish car (steering wheel on left hand side of car from driver perspective) driven on UK road (lane on left side of road from driver perspective) then it is still LHD as the left hand refers to the position of the steering wheel relative to the car. This doesn’t change.

Re:Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think on Saturday April 15, 2023 @12:45AM (#35577671)
Also common in Polynesian cultures - see Faʻafafine from Samoa, Fakaleitī from Tonga, Māhū in Hawaii and Akava'ine in Cook Islands. See also brotherboy and sistergirls which is found across Australian Aboriginal cultures.[4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faʻafafine [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakaleitī [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māhū [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akava%27ine [4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-21/sistergirls-and-broth...

Re:Twitter Sues Elon Musk on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @03:17AM (#32079846)
Musk has been saying that on Twitter, but in Twitter's court filing they exhaustively outline that a) it isn't true and b) it isn't even a valid request from Musk under the contract. Considering how misleading and full of shit Musk has been about this whole thing at this stage I am well inclined to believe Twitter.
Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:31PM (#31773831)
And on Mac you just press Cmd + Shift + 5. You get every option you want. Send to clipboard, documents, desktop, Preview.app (to annotate, make changes, whatever), Photoshop (if you have it). Draw boxes of what you want, select individual windows, select the whole desktop, even record video.

On Mac you can have exactly the same (and actually more feature rich) workflow.

Edit: Oh and I forgot one feature which is actually incredibly useful, you can even set a timer until it takes the screenshot. This is great if you need to interact with the window or show state with a highlight for example.

Re:The Australian election map has been lying to you on Thursday May 19, 2022 @09:19PM (#31442283)
It's larger than France and Texas combined in area!
Re:Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire on Saturday May 14, 2022 @07:50AM (#31377059)
A very serious concern and I completely agree. However, it also seems like the kind of government that would have you arrested, killed or family harassed for shopping at a particular store probably wouldn’t permit that kind of particular store?

Again, it’s a valid concern but the GP was about real world use cases and it seems that’s not really one?

And if this is the concern why not use cash or monero or whatever for this particular transaction, surely the concern does not extend to all other transactions you are making?

Re:Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:24AM (#31350351)
This isn't how it works. You need to look at how much of the flows into BTC (supporting the price) are coming from Tether. You will find this is a whole lot more than 16%. So if it drops to zero 5 minutes from now (not going to happen, but just to use the same scenario), then all those flows which supported the price drop to zero. A comparison between the relative market caps doesn't tell you much, it's the buying volume it supplies.

The 24 hour trading volume for Tether is $175B. The 24 hour trading volume for BTC is $80B (as I write this). Tether is the money in the system.

Re:ConstitutionDAO statement on Sotheby's auction on Thursday November 18, 2021 @08:41PM (#29272867)
So significantly more expensive than if they had used an existing structure to accomplish the same goals (shares in a company for example).
Re:Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:48AM (#29026100)
Why are you comparing with the lowest spec M1 chip?

I think this might be the comparison you were after? https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-PRO-5850U-v...

Re:A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017) on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:59PM (#28069293)
I would be interested in reading some detail of the "wall of separation" of church and state being something that the Supreme Court made up. It seems quite self evident from the text of the First Amendment. And the quote seems to come directly from Jefferson?
Re:Submarine Cable Map 2021 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @08:03AM (#27412572)
It’s just offshore oil and gas platforms. Major iron ore has its own rail track and fibre network. There is no reason for it to loop around, cables are two directional.
That is not quite correct. Stamp duty is payable at the time of settlement but it is normally added as a lump sum to the mortgage.
Re:What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:52AM (#26421082)
Can you provide some more details? 10% of the overall budget sounds incredibly low.
Having driven it a couple of times in the last few years I can confirm that the sections without signal are actually very limited. For the vast majority of the crossing you have reception (as long as you are with Telstra).
Re:When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’ on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:19PM (#22261921)
I believe this is not quite correct, there is an additional step. Once you enter the VIN BMW ConnectedDrive will send a message to the car which you have to retrieve through the iDrive interface before it will 'pair' with online services or the app. You need to have physical access to the car.

And if you sell the car and it is added to another ConnectedDrive account (or BMW mark it as sold) it disappears from your dashboard and you need physical access again to add it.

Re:European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @08:54AM (#19318862)
You spent a year there and didn’t work out there was no DST in winter?
The Wiki link lists contest type, winner and margin. It is very easy to compare and see how each candidate has performed.

The facts are, in open primaries Clinton has won 10-4. If you include semi-open it's 11-4. In closed primaries Clinton has won 8-1. If you include semi closed its 10-3. There is no meaningful difference. Sanders underperforms in all primary types.

The only contest type Sanders has performed better in are caucuses, winning 11-4. These are the least democratic type of contest of them all.

Your comment on open primaries is outrageously wrong. Clinton overwhelmingly won the open primaries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidentia...
Malaysia are still in almost full operation. They never stopped using MH. There are currently 37 MH flights in the air at the moment according to FlightRadar.
Re:Mac keyboard shortcuts on Thursday May 15, 2014 @08:43PM (#7753157)
I understand this, but I feel the opposite. I'm a heavy user of both platforms and find the lack of depth in Windows shortcuts maddening. On a Mac, almost every individual operation can be accomplished with a direct shortcut while on Windows, you are often invoking a menu and navigating to the option you want.

I think Mac shortcuts take longer to memorise as they are often a combination of command, shift, option, etc. (although they are helpfully spelled out in each menu) but once you have learned them there is little that can't be done directly from the keyboard with a single invocation.

Where did you hear the black box was turned off?
Apparently the door can be opened.

They enter a code and if the cockpit doesn't reject it within a certain time frame the door opens.

See Helios flight 522.

Re:Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why on Monday March 26, 2012 @10:32AM (#3756837)
They don't have an upper house. Haven't for quite a while.