Interesting Links for 31-12-2016

[andrewducker]

Africa's naming traditions (tags: africa names ) Insurance firm to replace human workers with AI system (tags: japan ai insurance jobs ) Nobody should ever do business with this company (tags: xkcd business data funny names ) Russia vows to delete all White House videogame saves (tags: games funny satire russia usa hacking ) Inside the Lab

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[kalimac]

My reaction to most of the 25 "masterpieces" is that architects have finally gone completely bananas, something I had first suspected when I encountered the work of Frank Gehry. At least it's more entertaining-looking than the ugly boxes most of them had been making for most of the previous century.

[cahwyguy]

A friend of mine sent me this link, which you might find of interest: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37974267 "The farmer who built her own broadband"

[andrewducker]

Thank you - I'd seen the headline, but not bothered clicking through, and it was more interesting than I expected!

[anef]

I'm really pleased about the Chinese ban on the ivory trade. Now if they can ban using endangered species in traditional Chinese medicine that would be another huge step forward.

[andrewducker]

They've done some of that:
https://news.vice.com/article/china-outlaws-the-eating-of-tiger-penis-rhino-horn-and-other-endangered-animal-products

(And https://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/aug/08/sales-of-shark-fin-china-drop-70 to a lesser extent)