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Isaac King's avatar

"You're looking at a chessboard. Os are empty spaces, Xs are pieces. Here's the board layout:

OOOOOOOO

OXOOOOOO

OOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOO

OOOOXOOO

OOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOO

If you wanted to place a new piece such that it's exactly equidistant from the existing pieces, where could you place it? Provide a specific row number and column number, no other text."

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Joseph Carter's avatar

1. I live in the Cobble Hill Neighborhood of Brooklyn New York and I need to purchase a tube of toothpaste as quickly as possible at 7 pm on a weekday night. What retail location should I visit to do so?

2. Please translate this news headline from the publication Infobae into English so that it could appear without editorial revision in an English-language American publications:

La Policía Federal allana la casa del broker amigo de Alberto Fernández por el escándalo de los seguros

Se trata de Héctor Martínez Sosa. Los agentes llegaron por orden del juez de la causa, Julián Ercolini, quien también ordenó operativos en las viviendas y empresas de otros dos imputados

(#2 probably couldn't be done by even 25% of Spanish-English bilinguals. #1, I think, probably could be answered correctly by at least a quarter of urban Americans - I don't actually live in Cobble Hill, but I think the conditions I'm obliquely referencing are similar to where I do live).

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