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by vfdfv 11y ago
Same deal if you stand in line at a car impound lot. I once got my car towed on a snowy night, one of ~1000 other cars towed that night in Minneapolis (on Christmas Eve no less!). The line at the impound lot was filled with poorer (looking)
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by vfdfv 11y ago
Cool, I've also done a lot of thinking/work related to multiword expressions. A couple years back I did word segmentation on Khmer too. I'd be curious to hear more about your work!
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by vfdfv 11y ago
A related idea is linguistic "compositionality" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_compositionality I don't have hard numbers, but I know from experience that a large share of multiword expressio
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by vfdfv 11y ago
Just speculation, but at least in the US it is/was marketed as "legal weed". Nearly everyone that I knew trying it did so because their weed connect dried up. Is the weed situation much more lax in the UK than in the US?
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by vfdfv 11y ago
It's worth pointing out that the scripts of many widely spoken languages do not have a word divider (e.g. the space character in English). Mandarin, Japanese, and Khmer are some examples. I'm aware of some studies that try to dete
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by vfdfv 11y ago
No, K2 is much more harmful than LSD and marijuana. And it never would have caught on if marijuana were legal.
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by vfdfv 11y ago
I am certainly no expert either, but maybe your piano tuner was referring to the practice of "stretching" an octave: The tuning described by the above beating plan provides a good approximation of equal temperament across the ran
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by vfdfv 11y ago
Perhaps you should get 11 years for paying your taxes.
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by vfdfv 11y ago
He didn't force his friend to join ISIS. His friend is the one providing "personnel" to ISIS, by joining the organization, if that's in fact what happened.
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by vfdfv 11y ago
> But there's a pretty cut-and-dried case against Ali Shukri Amin even without the Twitter drama. This isn't a teenager sentenced for a few tweets. Absurd. What crime did he commit? "Radicalizing" someone is not a cri
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by vfdfv 11y ago
Why are wanting a LTR and wanting sex on the first date incompatible?
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by vfdfv 11y ago
Ok, I was not asking to try and undermine your point. Just curious...
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by vfdfv 11y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what minority group do you belong too?
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by vfdfv 11y ago
My one and only experience with them happened in Belize. I had been snorkelling and turning over rocks when all of the sudden, before I even noticed it, there was a cloud of black ink and a little octopus darted away. Now as an adult I woul
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by vfdfv 11y ago
Sorry for wasting your time dang. I am actually not new here, so I don't have the excuse of not knowing the guidelines, but I am normally much better behaved. It won't happen again!
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by vfdfv 11y ago
"Then, in the Spring of 1971, US military officials gave the order to round up all of the pet dogs on the island and have them killed. About 1,000 pet dogs were taken – some straight from screaming children – and gassed with exhaust fu
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by vfdfv 11y ago
Well I don't know exactly how we're defining who is and who isn't a third world American, but the reasons for poverty are a lot more complicated than being "ignorant". Mental illness, trauma, stress, physical disabi