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by schoen 1y ago
They're both derived from religious terms or religious metaphors. For me (native U.S. English speaker) the religious reference in "orthodox" is more transparent and that in "canonical" is more obscure, so "cano
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Is it clear that the aviation or maritime communications are "not meant for the public" within the meaning of the German law? I'm amazed to see that liveatc.net has no receivers in Germany, maybe a sign that other people also
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And some of the people I was thinking of who said "castellano" were from Latin America (though this is clearly a minority usage there; maybe some of those people even had Catalan-speaking friends or colleagues or something).
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While Catalan speakers would be very unlikely to say "Catalan Spanish", there is a conception that there are many "lenguas españolas" (Spanish languages, as in languages that are part of the country of Spain). In this fo
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by schoen 1y ago
Hopefully someone has "the Amazing Maize Maze". (Hopefully she's named May and so it's "May's Amazing Maize Maze".)
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I'd contrast this with the game show "Double Dare". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dare_(franchise) I hope the staff didn't eat the food later, as the competitors often had to swim in it or
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It's rumored that God was wary of humans having apple products.
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This is supposed to go in the monthly freelancers thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093191 (and not in its own top-level topic post).
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There are a handful of textbooks that have a nice appendix that defines each symbol (or maybe sometimes tells you where you can go to learn more about the topic represented by the symbol!). That way they can presume that most readers are al
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I don't understand either of those words in this context! (Maybe "a tad"?)
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People in prior threads about the Android sideloading issue often mentioned Cory Doctorow; this is his newly-posted take on the matter.
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Is there a standard for measuring borders for these purposes, in light of the coastline paradox? I don't mean to suggest that there's no sensible way to do it; I just wonder if people might be using inconsistent methods sometimes,
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The web PKI is certainly a potential point of failure in online communications, but fortunately there is almost no history of certificate revocation over content disputes. The biggest targets have been domain name registrars and CDNs. Let&#
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There's a difference between writing and speech, and it is rather amazing to see unedited transcripts of extemporaneous speech. Hesitations, "repair" of ungrammatical utterances, abandoning sentences and restarting them, ch
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Yes, the proper response is that the government isn't supposed to oversee Wikipedia's editorial policy (or other organizations' editorial policy). Wikipedia should clearly have a right to choose its policies without governmen
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UC Berkeley is a public university, so its administration is bound by the first amendment according to the incorporation doctrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R... (Though maybe the actor
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This sequence of events (even though expected!) reminds me a lot of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail speech: > Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was d
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They think they're fighting malware, because that is their main motivation. They're just not also worrying about other effects like making it easy for governments to ban software, or making it hard for people to write software und
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I would watch a full-length movie of Snow Crash in the style of this trailer! I think it may be a high school student project.
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I think it's a striking example of the German culture in question that bypassing credential rules for professorships is "absurd and illegal". In other countries, academic labor unions might be mad about it, but it's theo
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There's a potential family of cryptographic methods where people prove that they paid for things without revealing who they are. https://www.eff.org/files/eff-locational-privacy.pdf (2009) The technical paper ment
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To be fair, they use it quite a lot for exercise and recreation, so it's not like a completely disused open space. Other very expensive cities also have relatively huge parks (like Central Park in New York or Golden Gate Park here in S
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Did you have a PhD or prior experience as a professor? Or was this just like "you're a smart and knowledgeable person, so you're welcome to come be a professor at our institution"? The second is culturally hard for me to
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This is great. It feels like a central example of the phenomenon of parser differentials (and nice use of tools to find them more efficiently). Also, as the lead author's name is spelled the same as an English pronoun, we can anticipat
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I was imagining mobile operators that cooperated to some extent with the changes I was proposing, or at least didn't obstruct them. If it's using existing GSM protocols, the IMEI would have to be rotated frequently (and it's
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When I was working at EFF, I started writing (but never finished) a couple of essays along the lines of "the degree of trackability of mobile phones is an unfortunate accident, and we should fix it". It basically comes from routin
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Is there any way to find patterns in what doesn't make it into Common Crawl, and perhaps help them become more comprehensive? Hopefully it's not people intentionally allowing the Google crawler and intentionally excluding Common C
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Did you share this with an audience that's actively working on Kryptos?
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What I've noticed, especially from visiting Singapore, is that Indian (and other South Asian) religious vegetarianism often involves finding great alternatives to meat, while Chinese religious vegetarian often involves finding imitati
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I think this clue style has been used in published crosswords before, with the additional constraint that the removed letters are removed in order and only once. In the NYT Daily crossword, these are usually clued with "apt letters

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