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- Comment on MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style 4 days ago:
In this study, the researchers asked about 200 non-lawyers (native speakers of English living in the United States, who were recruited through a crowdsourcing site called Prolific), to write two types of texts. In the first task, people were told to write laws prohibiting crimes such as drunk driving, burglary, arson, and drug trafficking. In the second task, they were asked to write stories about those crimes.
To test the copy and edit hypothesis, half of the participants were asked to add additional information after they wrote their initial law or story. The researchers found that all of the subjects wrote laws with center-embedded clauses, regardless of whether they wrote the law all at once or were told to write a draft and then add to it later. And, when they wrote stories related to those laws, they wrote in much plainer English, regardless of whether they had to add information later.
Emphasis mine. That’s not to say what you’ve mentioned doesn’t happen, but even non-lawyers wind up writing this way. The article is interesting and worth reading.
- Comment on MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style 4 days ago:
The researchers had a couple of hypotheses for why legalese is so prevalent. One was the “copy and edit hypothesis,” which suggests that legal documents begin with a simple premise, and then additional information and definitions are inserted into already existing sentences, creating complex center-embedded clauses.
“We thought it was plausible that what happens is you start with an initial draft that’s simple, and then later you think of all these other conditions that you want to include. And the idea is that once you’ve started, it’s much easier to center-embed that into the existing provision,” says Martinez, who is now a fellow and instructor at the University of Chicago Law School.
- Comment on “Is anyone out There?” - HamRadio 1 week ago:
Certainly! It’s a bit of an unspoken duty to encourages others to get licensed. It’s one of the accomplishments I most adore.
You can do it in person, but hamstudy should also provide remote options as well. I did mine from a beach on a Pacific Island!
- Comment on “Is anyone out There?” - HamRadio 1 week ago:
I assume you’re in the US, so you can use hamstudy.org. From there you can schedule your exam online and take it online. I did my Tech from a beachside resort in Philippines during the pandemic, and my General and Extra from an AirBnB in New Mexico. Two of my examiners were Australian, and each of them in different parts of the US as well.
With daily study, you should be able to knock out each license level in about a month each.
- Comment on “Is anyone out There?” - HamRadio 1 week ago:
There isn’t much risk being unlicensed
This is awful advice considering how utterly simple it is to get licensed.
Speaking for US licensees, one only needs to memorize the question bank (legal and encouraged) and take the exam.
It can be done remotely. I did all of mine remotely, and have never set foot in any club or classroom.
Operating without a license will quickly become apparent to any experienced operator. Do not do this.
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on On fire 2 weeks ago:
A recording, from Blue Note Records?
- Comment on I do this every time 5 weeks ago:
I set mine for 99:99 and wing it.
- Comment on lemmy.radio turns 3 today! 3 months ago:
Here to echo this–it’s nice to have a quiet little instance for when the world news gets to be a little too much. Thank you for taking the time to set this all up and manage it.
- Comment on More like a "To-Don't" list.... 3 months ago:
this is fine
- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 3 months ago:
That’s a great question, I don’t know. It may be client dependent. It for sure blocks posts, though in the client I use (Voyager), I think it lets comments through as I think I’ve seen them, but I’m not sure.
- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 3 months ago:
Configure these and the Lemmy experience is enhanced tenfold:
- Comment on Why cables have that strange cylindrical thing? 3 months ago:
TL;DW: These are called ferrite beads. Their composition is such that they dampen or eliminate unwanted RF from traveling along the wire and causing interference on other devices.
- Comment on Day 667 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
I’ve been lurking in your posts since day one, I admire you commitment!
- Comment on Contributions for lemmy.radio (and more) 5 months ago:
Ben, this is great. Your labors of being an admin cover such a wide amount of work it would be hardly fair to be expected to also shoulder all of the consumption costs as well, especially as a user base grows.
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 5 months ago:
This helps explain why days seem shorter as we age, the Earth is spinning faster due to the conservation of angular momentum. The days are literally shorter.
- Comment on FaKe LaNdInG 👁️ 5 months ago:
I’d have been more interested in the animations if they had used KSP.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
That infernal
+ Cwhen doing differentials got me often. So simple, integral even. - Comment on S3 Buckets for Storing Files 5 months ago:
If your VPS’ S3 supports tokenized urls for object management, I’ve considered setting up a homebrew Dropbox-like solution using
rsyncand cron. - Comment on startless 5 months ago:
Which side did it land on?
Yes.
- Comment on Why do people call Michael's house from GTA 5 a mansion? 5 months ago:
I wish there was a way to aggregate communities across all instances, where the community name is identical, rather than having to go out and seek each and every community on a per-instance basis.
- Comment on lemmy.radio (un)scheduled downtime 5 months ago:
As always, thank you for shouldering the burdens of administering the instance. While I know you’ve said no before to financial contributions—I, and probably others—would still be happy to contribute, even if only to cover the amount equal to your hosting costs.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 5 months ago:
This is the function of exclusive social or networking events. Often either an exclusive invite list or very high plate price. You’re either invited to the table, or pay to be there.
Once you’re at the event, you’re either known, or engage in small talk where details are revealed. Here strategic partnerships form, or there are quid pro quo for access to secondary or tertiary networks.
It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.
- Comment on Darn 7 months ago:
The horrors persist, but so do I.
- Comment on Hidden Innovations of Golf Video Games 7 months ago:
I couldn’t pate the whole text in a single comment so here it’s on a pastebin: pastebin.com/nnhVS0DP
- Comment on A Shiddy Product 8 months ago:
It’s not my favorite knickknack in the house, but it is a solid number 2.
- Comment on Could gunpowder be chemically addictive for humans ? 8 months ago:
The constituent parts of gunpowder is sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate. None of these chemicals are psychoactive in humans.
- Comment on How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs? 9 months ago:
Caveat to that, Amateur Extras can use their licenses in reciprocal countries. Details: www.arrl.org/us-amateurs-operating-overseas
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 9 months ago:
Clockwise and anticounterclockwise
- Comment on Its all over 9 months ago:
Uh, I don’t know that
