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It's a 0.10% pay rise.

Either 10% or 0.10x would be correct; they combined them.

Where on earth do they get the 'AYD' from?

Seems like spifk, sporf, or knorkoon might be more sensible.

Never ask questions you don't want answers to. Rule 34.

It's often a disaster recovery type of thing.

Every accusation is a confession, huh?

Flags shall be flown from a balloon tethered to the top of the flagpole.

Normally I'd be against the waste of helium but I'm prepared to make an exception.

Native speaker here and I took forever to get it; I wasn't looking for a pun like that.

My NZ accent would pronounce both the same.

603 for maglevs, 574.8 for steel rail, set in France in 2007 by a hotted up, modified TGV.

China holds the record for a stock train at 487, set in 2010.

(all per Wikipedia)

It looks like the article might be implying that they will be the fastest trains operating in revenue service when they enter service, but that surely needs to be demonstrated with a production train in revenue service.

NZ law just says it has to be adequate for the intended purpose: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2002/0035/latest/whole.html#DLM154837

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a legal requirement for a signature other than a witness’ signature is met by means of an electronic signature if the electronic signature—

(a) adequately identifies the signatory and adequately indicates the signatory’s approval of the information to which the signature relates; and

(b) is as reliable as is appropriate given the purpose for which, and the circumstances in which, the signature is required.

(2) A legal requirement for a signature that relates to information legally required to be given to a person is met by means of an electronic signature only if that person consents to receiving the electronic signature.

"I want this to finish at 6PM" can be easier maths than 11h 15m from now.

1. Most of these are in a metal box, which blocks signal. Adding careful routing to get an antenna in an unshrouded position where it's still physically protected is a pain. Also, in the middle of an apartment building can give you pretty terrible reception in the first place.

2. GPS doesn't provide time zones or daylight savings info. The appliance would know where you are and what UTC time it is, but not which time zone you're in. The manufacturer could pre-program shape files in (yay, more memory) but they become obsolete the next time a politician decides to move time zones or change daylight savings. If this happens to you, your device will keep repeatedly changing to be an hour fast/slow no matter how often you reset it.

   You could have the GPS satellites continually broadcast shape files for the time zone but this would be a big change, use up a lot of the limited bandwidth, and it would take your clock half an hour to set itself.

3. it's like an extra $5-10 in parts and unlike a WiFi module, the manufacturer can't make any big data or ad revenue from it.