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Comment · 28 days ago
One of my cats brought home what I thought was a dead mouse. Turns out it was a very much alive bat.

Rabies in bats is rare in Switzerland but still possible, so I had to go through post exposure prophylaxis.

Comment · 5 months ago
IIRC, that's the movie they play on loop at the kids section of Landesmuseum in Zürich.
Comment · 10 months ago
IME Sanjay responds to CLs way faster than I expected.
Comment · 2 years ago
One of the comments mentions he had a heart attack a few weeks ago and was recovering at home when he passed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Butantan is not a company, but a public research institute run by the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
Comment · 8 years ago
Some South American countries under Mercosur, which is being slowly replaced by the Union of South American Nations.
Comment · 8 years ago
You could add a fourth under certain conditions:

Say one parent is German and the other is British, and the child was born in Brazil. If the kid is entitled to Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, they get to keep all four.

Comment · 9 years ago
There are French and Italian speaking regions too (well, there's Romansh, but that's tiny).

But in all seriousness, in the main cities you can get by speaking English.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
There were also some privacy/bureaucratic slow downs (my girlfriend had to sign a monster of T&C regarding data sharing with her doctor).
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
It probably relies too much on internal technology that is not open source.
Comment · 14 years ago
I've moved my Apple account between 3 countries now - while I can't update some apps through iTunes, the updates are always available on the devices themselves, and if I try to buy an app purchased in another country, it downloads it without any hassle.

The Mac App store is a bit different - you cannot redownload apps purchased on another country (so when I reinstalled Mac OS and needed to install iPhoto, I had to revert my account to the previous country).

Comment · 14 years ago
Those are called Mersenne Primes, and are in the form 2^p - 1, where p is a prime number.

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