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by taejo 7y ago
The FHE systems support a couple of basic operations, which you'd have to compile your language translation algorithm down to. It'd be pretty similar to building your language translation algorithm out of transistors.
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by taejo 7y ago
BTW, if I receive spam SMSes on my German number that are sent from the UK, can I report those to the Bundesnetzagentur, or do I need to find the relevant UK authority?
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by taejo 7y ago
In theory, yes, though the performance is not such that you'd want to run complex algorithms on large datasets.
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by taejo 7y ago
Any country can try to extract any tax from anyone it likes, and in general the US does.
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by taejo 7y ago
Yes, and these consumers who requested service in French were told, "no, this will be in English"
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by taejo 7y ago
That's exactly why I thought it was illegal for people requesting service in French to be told, "no, this will be in English"
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by taejo 7y ago
But we make up for it with our good looks and sporting ability! /s While "charm" may not fit the stereotype of an HNer, I'd guess we're more likely than average to rely on communication to make a good impression.
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by taejo 7y ago
> An anecdote from a trip to Quebec city. My wife and I walked up to a hostess to inquire about getting a table for dinner. We greeted her in French. As soon as we started to ask about a table, she stopped us and said, "No no no no.
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by taejo 7y ago
That's great, I would love it if there was something like that that covered a wider area.
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by taejo 7y ago
I've played from books that had tabs with note stems, beams and flags attached to the numbers with the same meaning as in standard notation (this can't distinguish between a filled and unfilled note-head, but in guitar music one r
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by taejo 7y ago
Greatest Of All Time
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by taejo 8y ago
> Exactly which countries are you comparing the US to If one were to take that kind of comment at face value then one would have to assume that those making them consider Eritrea and Burma to be the kind of benchmark a country should co
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by taejo 8y ago
I think it's not just theory: there is in fact a strong correlation between the turnout and competitiveness in a state in US presidential elections.
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by taejo 8y ago
Why would you agree to live in a democracy? Either the majority agree with you, in which case it doesn't matter, or they disagree with you, in which case it would be better for you to be the dictator.
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by taejo 8y ago
In South Africa the 3.5" were "stiffies" but I don't think that word was used with that meaning anywhere else in the English-speaking world (and even in South Africa it triggered plenty of smirks and giggles in middle-sc
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by taejo 8y ago
The Spectator is right-leaning, but it can't be called "something like Fox News", as this very article (which would never appear on Fox News) demonstrates.
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by taejo 8y ago
No, Chinese provinces don't have flags. The SARs do; municipalities have theoretically not been allowed to have their own flags since 1997, but several are still using flags from before then and others have adopted flags since then.
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by taejo 8y ago
Strange: I'm sure I got the PDF through that link, but it's not working for me now.
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by taejo 8y ago
The Internet Archive snapshotted it today: http://web.archive.org/web/20190326133103/https://ling.auf.n...
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by taejo 8y ago
> two regions would end up in different time zones for half the year AIUI, every pair of countries will (like now) either always be in the same time zone or always be in different ones. Daylight Savings Time is being abolished; the choic
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by taejo 8y ago
NASA is indeed where pilots confidentially report aviation safety problems: https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/ It is, after all, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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by taejo 8y ago
They very often don't get to work from home even in Europe.
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by taejo 8y ago
Apparently not; some people are glad to correct their mistaken beliefs about orthography, and others are not. In this forum many people are in the former category, but apparently not you. That's fine, but I couldn't know until you
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by taejo 8y ago
VISA is the brand of a credit card company. A visa is a permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited (from Latin "charta visa", a piece of paper which has been seen).
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by taejo 8y ago
Are you describing the world as you see it (that's descriptive; obviously you are, not sure why GP is asking) or as you think it should be (that's normative).
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by taejo 8y ago
You can also regulate by having fines or substantial civil damages for breaches, requiring insurance to cover the liability, and letting the insurers figure out what practices are needed to get cheap rates.
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by taejo 8y ago
> So how come SpaceX employees don't revolt over the use of their rockets for military payloads? Vonce ze rockets are up, who cares vhere zey come down? Zat's not my department, says Wernher von^W^W SpaceX employee #4512.
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by taejo 8y ago
I only studied mathematics, never actually been a professional mathematician, and I feel like a big difference might be in what we see as "most mathematicians" (if you're working in this area you're probably more right t
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by taejo 8y ago
> The problem with this is that it is wrong. > You can translate between different logical theories by building a model of one in another, so it's not like you loose anything. But it's cooky to insist that we should start wi
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by taejo 8y ago
You're right, of course, that the software can't know, since any test it did could simply be emulated to return the right result. But anyone that software talks to outside of the emulation can know. IIRC (I last looked at SGX a fe

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