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by eesmith 1y ago
Working out-of-state is different from freedom of movement. For example, if you live in New Jersey and work in New York you are obligated to file tax returns to both states. See also the "Jock tax", https://en.wikipedia
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by eesmith 1y ago
So you understand that an "EU 'governed' [Amazon] region with only EU citizens working on it" isn't actually independent from the US, much less sovereign to either the EU or Denmark, right?
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Then change the parameters slightly and imagine the US using the threat of cutting off Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple services to Denmark as incentive to transfer Greenland to US control.
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If the US government decided to invade Greenland and ordered Amazon to cut off all network connections to Denmark, would this region still operate for Danish users? If it did, and the US ordered Amazon to shut down the region, would it? If
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No, no, no, no, no! There's a long list of researchers who have done horrible things in pursuit of truth. Research ethics exist to remind us that, yes, other things matter.
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If a country's economy profited from child labor, then later that country prohibits child labor, is it hypocrisy for that country to want child labor to be illegal under international law? If a country's industry benefited from Fr
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> How does he think the US got Texas, Hawaii, California, Nevada, Utah, and overseas territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa? There are different meanings for annexation. From https://en.
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by eesmith 1y ago
The "displeases us" you quoted is for "the part of a person's life which concerns only himself". For example, "No person ought to be punished simply for being drunk." For actions "which concerns other
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I point out to self-described "classic liberals" that what they call "cancel culture" was instead described by John Stuart Mill in "On Liberty" as an essential component of liberty: "We have a right, also,
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I've noticed that cancel culture and policing pronouns is far stronger on the right. What Democrat has been canceled as much as Liz Cheney by Republicans? Certainly not the sex pest Andrew Cuomo, heartily supported by the Democratic Pa
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1500 meter running and 1500 meter race walking are two track events with different ambulatory styles.
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You are the one strangely claiming a 401(3)(c) not-for-profit nonstock company is a private equity company. I assume you have changed the topic because you know you are wrong. As the article says, Library Systems & Services is 'pri
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by eesmith 1y ago
Samual Library Inc is a "not-for-profit nonstock corporation ... organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes." Its bylaws prohibit distributing earnings to "directors, officers, or other private persons, exc
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Materials science rolls its eyes every time it hears that hoary joke.
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Related to, perhaps, but not so relevant as my comment was in response to mousethatroared writing 'As I understand it, English lost a lot of characters when the movable type printing press was created.' Also, the long s is not a l
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When is something a dialect in France and when is it a language in France? > It seemed to me that you were overestimating how prevalent or significant these languages were. I said I was in sixth grade , a kid living in the US. I didn&#x
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As I understand it, æ was a letter in Old English while Þe same glyph in Modern English is a ligature, wið no linguistic connection between the two. Last year at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267080 I found that in
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> but I believe that only applies to French writing in English for English people Shrug. Yes, languages have different paths in their evolution. Film at 11. I still like what this linguistics PhD wrote about the specific history of one a
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> and even then, as pointed out, French is spoken by everyone. Yes, as even the Malevil quote I gave pointed out. (At least by school age.) > On top of that, it is more The book was written over 50 years ago, so the Wikipedia article
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Yes, and how do those entirely true observations connect to the non-use of diacritics in English? I pointed out the ship example from the text, which was used to demonstrate how "this early French influence over English, which arose fr
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by eesmith 1y ago
D'oh! Yes, you're absolutely without a doubt correct! The Sun masses 2000Qg. We're going to need a new unit.
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Your link says ſ (the long s) didn't disappear (from English) until several hundred years after the movable type printing press and makes no mention of physical problems when using that letter, suggesting instead removal gave a type a
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We know it's out of date because "This is signalled by setting the MSB of the first octet, and provides for 95-bit integer size, i.e. 32768 YiB (it's so big that we lack a better prefix for it)." ;) In 2022 ronna- became
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by eesmith 1y ago
FWIW, the book was written in 1972. I mean "there were some people", not all people - Thomas, in the quote, came from Paris and spoke French. He did not learn a regional language. I don't mean 'many regions' because
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Only þ (thorn) died with the printing of Caxton's Bible using y-, for cost reasons. The other letters -- ƿ (wynn), æ (ash), and ð (eth) -- went out of use long before movable type printing. https://www.deadlanguagesociety.co
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I thought the article did a good job of explaining how English uses additional letters where French use accents, like the "h" in "ship" to indicate how the s is pronounced.
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In 6th grade, so back in 1982, I read the French SF novel "Malevil". I was astounded (speaking as a US kid here), to learn that French people born and raised in France didn't natively speak French, but instead learned their r
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Bless your heart.
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Since you are from Norway you likely aren't aware that there aren't significant other mining jobs in West Virginia. Or other jobs in West Virginia, with its long history of coal mining, with profits ending up in the pockets of min
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I view this thread as part of bryanrasmussen comment "I would not buy a calculator that hallucinated wrong answers part of the time" with zpeti pointing out that people use a GPS despite how it gets the route sometimes. I don&#x27

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