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ScienceIsSexy420 t1_j6oqlw7 wrote
In the US, any private entity can end its relationship with you for any reason, including violating their code of conduct. Government agencies cannot act this way, nor can any public school.
froznwind t1_j6oqkru wrote
Reply to ELI5: what does ‘social media companies independently deplatforming individuals’ mean? by XinrongZou28
Deplatforming is just another word for banning, disallowing a person from using their platform. Usually for conduct using said platform.
partynextdoor t1_j6oqkh7 wrote
Reply to comment by NdavG100 in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
Lol so what really was your question
[deleted] t1_j6oqins wrote
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fredmull1973 t1_j6oqhqg wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ELI5: what does ‘social media companies independently deplatforming individuals’ mean? by XinrongZou28
If a company is banned from banning someone cuz of hateful speech etc then it’s game on for whatever
DeHackEd t1_j6oqaxs wrote
Reply to ELI5: Subnetting by thelumlaa
A router's job is to find a subnet match in its list of routes, and forward data to that destination. It does this at the binary level. In hardware routers, there's a lookup table that has 3 types of "bits": match 0, match 1, and don't care (X). In particular the don't-care bits must be at the right-most edge and grouped.
Your first /26 is, in the router's table as a 32 bit prefix:
00001010 00000000 00000000 00XXXXXX
(10) (0) (0) (0-63 range)
The tolerable range of bits is:
00001010 00000000 00000000 00000000
to
00001010 00000000 00000000 00111111
(When writing a subnet, you always have the don't-care bits as 0, and most software will assume that if you set any of them to 1, it's a mistake to be pointed out)
This means the subnet MUST be split along a binary point. So you 10.0.0.64 through 10.0.1.63 subnet (which is actually the size of a /24) doesn't work because the numerical range is:
00001010 00000000 00000000 01000000 (10.0.0.64)
to
00001010 00000000 00000001 00111111 (10.0.1.63)
Can't put in "don't care" bits to get the coverage you want.
[deleted] t1_j6oq9o0 wrote
Pope00 t1_j6oq99n wrote
Private schools can have whatever rules they want (within reason obviously). It's like asking why does the military have strict rules. You signed up for the program, you have to follow the rules.
BossDonkeyZ t1_j6oq3ka wrote
Reply to comment by NdavG100 in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
Why not? There is lots of money in the second part
quequotion t1_j6oq1qy wrote
It used to be a secret, and apparently various military R&D happened there--particularly of aircraft, which were also secret.
The surrounding area became a hotbed of UFO sightings, some of which were sightings of actual aircraft.
This fueled conspiracy theories, such as that the wreckage and survivors or bodies from the Roswell incident had been taken there for study or storage.
These conspiracy theories experienced a resurgence in the 90s due to the X-Files, but I am not sure what revived the momentum that led to the pathetic 2010s "raid".
muwave t1_j6opyzl wrote
Reply to ELI5: Subnetting by thelumlaa
You could change your netmask to /22 giving you 4 subnets and 1022 hosts in each, or /23 with 2 subnets of 510 hosts each.
Firefly_officer t1_j6opym1 wrote
A Congressional appropriations bill in the late 1980s had it listed as receiving a suspicious amount of poorly defined ( dark) money. Thats is about it. Everyone who reads Janes knew it was Nellis AFB Groom lake test area S4 for the USAF, which in itself is plenty super exciting, again, if you the type to read Janes. Wright Pat has the Alien bodies and Redstone arsenal has the space ships either way.
Gooselyegale t1_j6opwev wrote
In short Empathy we can mentally insert our selfs in to the act then we would like to feel that way
flyingbarnswallow t1_j6opvgx wrote
Reply to comment by dg313 in ELI5: Why does the order of adjectives matter? by AbleReporter565
Chomsky’s main idea is that while human language is produced linearly (that is, one word after another), it has a deep structure that is instead hierarchical. The full set of rules governing where different parts of speech can go in this hierarchy is waaaay too long for a Reddit comment (and I doubt I could explain it well since it’s been a few years since I really took syntax).
I believe the highest level in this sentence is a VP (Verb Phrase), although I think one might argue it’s a TP (Tensed Phrase) idk, I’m not a syntactician. A VP can take an internal argument (object, for English verbs), but isn’t required to, and in this case it doesn’t, since sleep is an intransitive verb. Embedded in that VP, as in all VPs, is an external argument, in this case the NP (Noun Phrase) “colorless green ideas”, and a V’ (read as “V bar”). The V’ itself contains the V “sleep” and the AP (Adjunct Phrase) “furiously”.
There’s more analysis to be done on this sentence (going into the NP and its adjuncts), but I’ll spare you. The point I’m trying to make is that rules govern the syntax of languages, but these rules are, under Chomsky’s original proposition, unrelated to semantics. He argued it is entirely possible for a sentence to be syntactically grammatical and semantically meaningless, which I think is well-evidenced by the fact that there are some meaningless sentences that seem like English and some that don’t.
Later linguists working with later models have challenged the strict hierarchy of this theory (called the Minimalist Program), and have also challenged its total separation of syntax and semantics.
The other point I should have made clearer in my first comment is that most people use “grammar rules” differently from how linguists use the term, including, I think, the person I was replying to. Linguists are scientists, and therefore take a descriptive view of language. We model what we observe. If our rules don’t conform to how people actually speak, it is we who are wrong, not the speakers, just like how a physicist’s model of particle behavior must be wrong if it doesn’t accurately product how a particle acts. This disqualifies almost all the grammar rules you learned in school. Things like “you can’t say ‘me and my dad went to the store’” or “you can’t end a sentence with a preposition” are obviously wrong, because people do it all the time. If those actually produced sentences universally judged by our mental grammar to be unacceptable, then people wouldn’t do them. The job of syntacticians is not to impose arbitrary rules like these, but instead to discover the actual, implicitly understood rules governing how all real human beings speak, not just those who have been taught to speak in a certain educated register.
lowkey442200 t1_j6opuwc wrote
Reply to comment by NdavG100 in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
Bro …. Aliens ….
Lithuim t1_j6ops8y wrote
Reply to comment by NdavG100 in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
Americans have a long standing distrust of authority and government, including their own.
NdavG100 OP t1_j6opnqq wrote
Reply to comment by The_Dotted_Leg in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
Would i want to know whats going on in secret government facilities? Yes. Would i go with drones and shit and spread conspiracy thories? Never
NdavG100 OP t1_j6op31l wrote
Reply to comment by Budders66 in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
Yes but its soooo unpatriotic to try to publicise every secret government test. I live in a country sorounded by hostile foreign militaries and you dont see them flying around government buildings snooping around so let alone citizens of the country! Absolutely insane!!!
DurticusSchmurticus t1_j6op2pc wrote
If you saw somebody doing something you thought to be enjoyable, you wouldn’t want to try it out?
spirosand t1_j6oov08 wrote
Reply to comment by Viv3210 in Eli5: when will oceans actually start rising? by Just_a_happy_artist
Miami and NYC are feeling the effects, king high tides are problematic. It's pretty much worldwide.
Sand beaches just move with the sea level, so there isn't much visible effect.
The ocean is seldom just calm, so it's hard to see actual photos of direct sea level rise. It's more that more and more places are flooding.
GenXCub t1_j6ooqv3 wrote
Reply to comment by The_Dotted_Leg in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
This is why the Internet Historian video on Area 51 is so great.
It's half informative, half meme-tastic. https://youtu.be/IZ7F6ELO-hQ
The best headcanon is that the Wii Sports theme is playing when you're running through the secret building there.
breckenridgeback t1_j6oomo9 wrote
Reply to comment by Viv3210 in Eli5: when will oceans actually start rising? by Just_a_happy_artist
> The follow-up question is: why don’t “we” see that yet?
We do see it. It has consequences along the coasts everywhere in the world.
The reason it's not, like, submerging entire continents is that most land is more than 9 inches above sea level.
bear4bunny t1_j6ooinh wrote
Reply to comment by Budders66 in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
Yeah basically just this. I couldn't care less what's in there but because it's super secret, I need to know.
The_Dotted_Leg t1_j6oognu wrote
If you had a room in your home that you were never allowed to see inside but you know millions of dollars a year are being spent in that room and rumors say they might have aliens in that room wouldn’t you be pretty obsessed with seeing inside?
japagow t1_j6oqq0q wrote
Reply to ELI5: If the earth rotates (towards the east), how do planes fly? by [deleted]
Because of the difference in air speed pressure and lift above and below the wing. Earth rotation is irrelevant. Next.