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601.
by Tor3 3y ago
Possibly - but my impression is that the GP is rejecting as impossible what I'm stating - that in fact you could use cryptographic libraries in the US, because they were, indeed, available. GP seems to argue that they could not hav
602.
by Tor3 3y ago
Those of us who were active back then did see the software. It was not kept off servers. It's just that I don't think archive.org was active at the time so we have no way of showing it to you, I believe. Edit: As for Napster and
603.
by Tor3 3y ago
But I remember the time. The software could be downloaded from inside USA. Mid-nineties the internet wasn't particularly large and (what's nowadays) simple measures were in place. In practice you could get it from the US even if y
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by Tor3 3y ago
From what I remember, what was illegal was exporting a (useful) encryption library, and that Wikipedia link supports my memory: It talks about exporting munitions. I remember at the time that even though libraries existed inside the US t
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by Tor3 3y ago
Check out this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouAG4vXFORc&pp=ygUMbWFpbmZyY... It does a reasonably good job at comparing mainframes to a regular server setup. It's not about SPEC or GFLOPs etc.
606.
by Tor3 3y ago
Hearing is pretty essential if you're a pedestrian, when you're not in an environment with sidewalks and traffic lights everywhere. When I'm walking around where I live (in two different countries) I have to constantly be aw
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by Tor3 3y ago
Why shouldn't he? If you do, you're breaking the license.
608.
by Tor3 3y ago
The sounds my wife can't separate are sounds which aren't separate in her native language - the mapping is trivial. It's the same with others from her country, it just varies between individuals (but strongly correlated with
609.
by Tor3 3y ago
But many children grow up with deaf parents - one or sometimes both of them. And they learn sign language to perfection, as any child can learn languages to perfection. It's hard to see that the ability to also hear will make them not
610.
by Tor3 3y ago
I too have to ask why this is "trivially false". We hardly have even anecdotal references to people who never heard language until after five (except for stories about children raised by wolves and couldn't learn to speak -
611.
by Tor3 3y ago
Search "kitten vertical lines experiment" on the Famous Search Engine. Kittens not allowed to see horizontal lines for the first few months would never be able to see horizontal lines, ever. It's at least somewhat like that w
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by Tor3 3y ago
Oh, right. I forgot all those Dutch speed skaters who used to train in Norway a couple of generations back. Ard Schenk.. Kees Verkerk and many others. The majority of them learned Norwegian completely accent-free (you really had to listen t
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by Tor3 3y ago
It's very very rare. Though it's not a cut-off at age 12, it just gets more and more rare (and takes longer) from around ten and older. Not sure if it's so much about the vocal tract, it's more about the brain's abi
614.
by Tor3 3y ago
That's in the "counter" or ordinal number area. Numbers themselves are extremely regular: 20 is just "to-ten". The age of twenty is considered a very special occasion in Japan, and celebrated semi-publically (20 us
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by Tor3 3y ago
There are hundreds of loanwords (e.g. a University of Oslo article "NAMN OG NEMNE 37 – 2020" (Nynorsk, except for the introduction)), though it's rather complicated. That particular article includes discussion about a word wh
616.
by Tor3 3y ago
As vintermann said - there's no evidence for any group arriving earlier than any others. We know that the "Norwegian" population in modern Norway are a mix of the original European population and the Yamnaya and others, we do
617.
by Tor3 3y ago
Well, not at my local Coop. They have three cashier stations, nowadays one or two of them are manned (and the third person is free to assist customers where needed). In my other living place, Japan, the MaxValu supermarket has, I think, aro
618.
by Tor3 3y ago
> "There's no way the average person can match the speed of a cashier who does that every day," Absolutely true, and not only that - the cashier has a conveyor belt while the self-checkout counter has a slightly inconvenie
619.
by Tor3 3y ago
Same around here. Self-checkouts is hugely successful. I'm much slower going through the scan procedure than the person working at the conveyor belt is.. but that's more than offset by the fact that there are a large number of sel
620.
by Tor3 3y ago
Yes, it's just a huge continuum. I call it "Scandinavian" for short.
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by Tor3 3y ago
In writing, I totally agree - even though I will speak the reversed form often, I don't use that in writing. If I for some reason aren't writing the actual numbers (22) I will write "tjueto", not "to-og-tjue"
622.
by Tor3 3y ago
Again, it's not a dialect of bokmål. That would sound like bokmål is actually a spoken language and there are dialects of it. It is not. It's the other way around - bokmål is an attempt to create a written language with common e
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by Tor3 3y ago
I never change my dialect when I travel in Norway, for any reason, as long as the one I'm speaking to is native. But some people are extremely sensitive to how others speak, and may unconsciously (and some consciously) try to mimic
624.
by Tor3 3y ago
Small nitpick: Sámi people aren't more indigenous to Norway than just about anyone else, it's just that the various people tended to live in slightly different places. Norway's always been a place where people came from every
625.
by Tor3 3y ago
Bokmål and Nynorsk are both systems designed as a common form of writing. None of them were ever meant to be a spoken language - they are "best effort" of trying to make a unified way of writing. That doesn't mean that it&#x2
626.
by Tor3 3y ago
Counters are a different story than numbers. The numbers are highly regular, with the tiny exception that numbers 4 and 7 technically have two variants, where in certain areas one is preferred more than the other, and the pronunciation of 9
627.
by Tor3 3y ago
Nynorsk and Bokmål are both _written_ forms only. Norwegian spoken language is a huge continuum of dialects - there's no official spoken Norwegian (unlike e.g. Swedish, where something called "rikssvensk" was introduced by th
628.
by Tor3 3y ago
For some reason many languages use an irregular system for numbers. Well, reasons are historical.. things may have made more sense in (e.g.) Old Norse than modern Danish, for example. Japanese though.. now that's regular. One, two, thr
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by Tor3 3y ago
As for the "exactly as written".. I had a teacher like that, in middle school. He was from the north but did not speak his real dialect, instead he transformed his natural speech into as close to spoken "nynorsk" as he c
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by Tor3 3y ago
I think you meant "parents" not patients - I was a bit confused at first :-) What happened to you is probably that your friends, for your sake, tried to "speak" Bokmål to you (Bokmål is a written, not normally spoken lan

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