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I'm sure many people have remarked on this before, but the expectation of TV being grey when tuned to a dead channel is probably somewhat unfamiliar to younger readers, who may exp…

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…

Huh! Spanish and Portuguese still use this pattern (verb+noun → noun), like Spanish matafuego 'fire extinguisher' (literally 'killfire'), Spanish rascacielos (literally 'scrapeskie…

My German teachers translated "trennbare Verben" as "separable verbs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable_verb

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 to…

I don't really understand what you mean by "entered into" here, unless you mean loanwords.

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/antinomia…

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 …

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 la…

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…

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 distin…

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…

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…

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 …

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 lik…

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…

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!

I live in the U.S. (as, I think, does the person who is the subject of this article).

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…

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…

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…

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 though…

> 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 c…

This property is also not true for "sit" or "crunch".

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 orde…