post_meridiem

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   by post_meridiem 8y ago

   If you don't drive drunk, what do you lose from starting the engine via breathalyzer, rather than via key turn? Why is one more intrusive than the other? Most governments already require you to carry insurance, have a license/trai
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   by post_meridiem 8y ago

   "be sure you're ready for that level of intervention before you ask for this level of investigation." There's no good reason not to, for example, have every car use a breathalyzer to start the engine -- those driving dru
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   by post_meridiem 8y ago

   I'd also be interested in something like a WordNet similarity comparison score; i.e., how semantically different are words that are used together. To me, that's a better measure of linguistic creativity than unique words or rhymin
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   by post_meridiem 10y ago

   I'm Swiss German and don't understand half of the Swiss German dialects. Swiss German must be the ultimate hard case for machine translation.
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   by post_meridiem 10y ago

   Wow. So sorry to hear. 'baldfat' and 'stevoski' too.
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   by post_meridiem 10y ago

   The 4th does state that it is "The right of the people to be secure in their [...] papers [...]." I'd love to witness a judicial argument that seeks to extend this to code/binary 'goods.'
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   by post_meridiem 10y ago

   The problem is that in the U.S., we don't have a fundamental right to privacy. Constitutional guarantees of privacy are either specific (e.g., to practice religion) or indirect (e.g., search/seizure). But I do agree that it should