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by schoen 2mo ago
With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.
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by schoen 2mo ago
Huh! Spanish and Portuguese still use this pattern (verb+noun → noun), like Spanish matafuego 'fire extinguisher' (literally 'killfire'), Spanish rascacielos (literally 'scrapeskies'), Portguese arranha-ceu (li
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by schoen 2mo ago
My German teachers translated "trennbare Verben" as "separable verbs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable_verb
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by schoen 2mo ago
I think an appreciable number of people upvoting this and reading it or re-reading it may not have noticed why it was submitted today (the date on which the story takes place is tomorrow!).
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by schoen 2mo ago
I don't really understand what you mean by "entered into" here, unless you mean loanwords.
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by schoen 2mo ago
I thought etymologically this should be the fear of laws or norms: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BD%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%8... See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antinomianism
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by schoen 2mo ago
Thanks for the explanation! Yeah, I guess it's a similar or at least analogous situation for Proto-Indo-European, where there might be conventional ways to pronounce reconstructed forms, and some evidence about what is more and less li
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by schoen 2mo ago
Is it possible that the Hebrew consonants' pronunciations don't align fully with their cognate consonants' pronunciations in Akkadian? This is certainly true among other Semitic languages, that there are drifts over time in t
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by schoen 2mo ago
A big practical difficulty is the pressure for languages to continue to evolve in different directions when speaker communities are even slightly separated (hence the difference in present-day varieties of English, which is probably growing
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by schoen 2mo ago
It is basically confusing an uncle with a grandfather, or an aunt with a grandmother. These languages are indeed relatives, literally part of the same family, but we usually distinguish whether they are lineal ancestors or not. If you said
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by schoen 2mo ago
Yeah, I'm not sure if I would call it "incompetence", but it wouldn't be hard for the U.S. public or private sectors to afford MMR vaccine doses for the whole population (or merely the portion that has missed doses on th
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by schoen 2mo ago
Apparently there is some active oil production there, but mostly run by Uzbekneftegaz, an Uzbek (not Saudi) company. (I don't follow the Central Asian energy industry, I just found this on the Internet.)
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by schoen 2mo ago
I agree with all of that, but what I saw throughout the thread was many people talking about probable cause and warrants and suspicion. I would love for that to be the rule at the border just as elsewhere, but it's very far away from w
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by schoen 2mo ago
After reading more of this thread I'm kind of frustrated that people aren't aware of the border search exception. I strongly disagree with the border search exception and would like to see it drastically limited or abolished. It i
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by schoen 2mo ago
I would also like the fourth amendment to apply at the border. Have you read United States v. Flores-Montano? The border search exception (which I disagree with) is pretty old. Can you find an era in which Americans in general found it obje
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by schoen 2mo ago
This part is pretty new. I wonder if my former colleagues have done any FOIA work looking into how travelers' disclosed social media accounts have been reviewed or analyzed!
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by schoen 2mo ago
I live in the U.S. (as, I think, does the person who is the subject of this article).
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by schoen 2mo ago
We noted in the border search guide that lying to the agents in response to their questions is potentially a crime in its own right (even if it's not done in order to hide anything illegal). We thought that this made hidden volumes qui
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by schoen 2mo ago
I don't know that there is case law on this but I imagine that "prior to the admissibility inspection" is likely to be treated differently from "during the admissibility inspection" or "during administrative de
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by schoen 2mo ago
Note that border searches of electronic devices are extremely rare overall. There were some statistics from CBP implying a base rate lower than 1 in 10,000 (I think lower than 1 in 100,000) border crossings. I do know two people who have ex
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by schoen 2mo ago
I co-wrote a border search guide for EFF some years ago. I was very interested in finding clever technical approaches but I later ended up feeling that I hadn't given enough thought to the overall threat model questions (even though th
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by schoen 2mo ago
> TLS is supported in hardware, so it takes no more processing power than moving the data around without encryption. Specifically, common PC CPUs support AES acceleration, so you can get the ongoing encryption for an established connec
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by schoen 3mo ago
This property is also not true for "sit" or "crunch".
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by schoen 3mo ago
I've occasionally written comments about the difficult of achieving proof-of-useful-work mechanisms and I should probably find or write a standard post about this question. In order to be as decentralized as Bitcoin and related PoW mec
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by schoen 3mo ago
There's presumably a lot of benefit to having stable and widespread standards in this area (so people can re-use their skills!). So hopefully this is now stable at least within this community.
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by schoen 3mo ago
Could you get people to use the NATO phonetic alphabet for the spelling part? I suppose a challenge is that many people don't know the whole thing, even if they're aware it exists.
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by schoen 3mo ago
I don't think I understand your criticism. The etymological sense of the Pennsylvania Dutch phrase is in fact, as far as I can tell, 'high people' or 'fancy people'. This is not the literal meaning or connotation of
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by schoen 3mo ago
I asked an LLM to help me find the standard German equivalent for "hooche Leit", and it said "hohe Leute" 'high people' (here in the sense of 'fancy people'), which of course doesn't have the sa
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by schoen 3mo ago
I worked on an Alien Tort Statute case that actually went to trial ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowoto_v._Chevron_Corp .) and have met some of the people who litigated this case against Cisco as well as other Alien To

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