I’m struggling to understand why you’re using the term “watermark” here.

Some members of my family have an acute sense of smell, they can detect this just being near the dog bed some mornings.

They choose people like themselves so …

That’s fun, but there’s actually reason to believe that adjective ordering really is based on more than simple convention. In particular it seems to hold across many different languages.

https://medium.com/ontologik/the-universal-adjective-ordering-mystery-not-a-mystery-c10614e50761

Edit: The Chomsky Universal Grammar stuff in that article is bullshit though.

Glad your employer contributes to your HSA, but many don’t, apparently including OP’s.

Ah I understand the scenario now. Thanks for making your point without being unpleasant.

Genuinely perplexed by this thread. Who is trying to bar BPD from accessing classified information? The ordinance in question has nothing to do with classified info.

It’s possible, even likely. But none of the information we’re talking about here is classified, which is why Flynn’s comment is bizarre grandstanding, which is what Crockford was reacting to.

Her claim is that BPS BPD should not be handling classified information, not the FBI. This is indeed true, and none of the examples of sensitive information you list are classified.

Her comment makes sense in this context:

> Flynn, who served in the Navy and said he was likely the only councilor to have actually accessed "top secret" information

We don’t need “insanely fast” speeds. We just need a technology that produces a constant thrust. Proxima Centauri is less than four years away (ship time) at one gravity.

Edit to remove first sentence. 1G of thrust will eventually get you to insanely fast speeds of course.

> I’m sure she can go to a car dealership with a 0 % interest rate on a car loan.

Why do you think this?

You can be illiterate in any language. For most of human history, the vast majority of people spoke a language but could not read or write it.

Wait til you hear about zoning laws.

What’s the “main language” in Switzerland? How about China?

Thanks for making it easy to discount every opinion you express.

I see no reason to think we won’t be saying the same thing about today’s computers in thirty years. In fact I’m pretty sure we will be saying that because, again, that’s consistent with history.

> The general public largely has no idea that AI is going to change everything within a few years.

I’ve been involved with AI research for thirty years, and researchers have been saying the above for thirty years before that.

Maybe this time it’s different, but you’ve got to admit there’s a track record that is not encouraging.

If you know the naming part is bullshit, and your main concern is that it’s a real star you could look at, why don’t you just pick one yourself from a real catalog, and name it yourself?

https://www.astronexus.com/hyg