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Justta commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA    · Posted by u/proberts
jofer · 9 months ago
If you're near a port of entry, you actually can be stopped at any time to be asked for proof of citizenship/visa/etc. See also https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone There are plenty of border patrol stops along highways that never cross a border where you'll be routinely stopped.

In practice, that means "near the border with Mexico" where there are border patrol stations along highways well inside the US that do routine stops, but technically it applies to any port city as well.

_Technically_, if you're a US citizen, you're not required to have proof of citizenship on you. But a drivers license in the US does not show that you are a citizen, and they absolutely can stop you from leaving (at least long enough to mess up your day plans) if you cannot actually prove citizenship in practice. It's just a _lot_ easier to have a passport on you. Passport cards exist mostly for this purpose.

E.g. I lived in Texas for a long time and have a passport card for that specific reason. Driving down to the beach or just going on random trips involves passing through border control stations even though you never leave the US or even get particularly near the border. Your chances of just going to visit a friend in south Texas and winding up needing to pass through a border control checkpoint due to unplanned road closures/etc are pretty high, so it's best to have a card in your wallet at all times that counts. Most remote highways have them as soon as you get back near a town. Most of the time, they'll wave you through pretty quickly, but it's just a lot faster process if you have a passport card and not only a drivers license.

Side note: A friend of mine was a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns. He picked me up at the El Paso airport and we were driving to Carlsbad. We went through a border control checkpoint. They threatened to arrest him on the spot because he had his park service uniform hanging up in the back, but no employee ID or other proof that he actually was a ranger. They said he was impersonating a federal officer. They made a big deal of it and made us wait while they called the park to verify he was employed (and that didn't work because it was about 8pm). We eventually got let go with a warning after he found random online photos of him giving cave tours and convinced them that he couldn't possibly have staged a ton of random folks on the internet to have him in the background of photos.... But still, it was kinda nuts...

Justta · 9 months ago
carry minimum documents especially inside the country.
Justta commented on Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)   reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/mathgenius
peterisza · 9 months ago
Sorry, but this is hard to believe unless your specific Model 3 has a problem.

I have a Model Y, several friends have Teslas, one uses his Model 3 for Uber. Everyone can get the expected range when doing 90 km/h in the summer, and at least half of the range on the highway in the winter, but usually more than that.

Maybe your consumption is that much when going steeply uphill, but then you will have to come back down and your consumption will be negative as it will recharge your battery.

Justta · 9 months ago
One reason for Tesla's success it shows accurate range.
Justta commented on “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”   jmspae.se/write-ups/kebab... · Posted by u/TeMPOraL
Justta · 10 months ago
It's case old saying lost it's relevance. This is absolutely correct in developing countries which only has one main railway station or bus stand for the whole city or town. These establishments targeted one time customer who will never return in a year. Including metro is not valid or violation of the actual circumstance this saying originated. Including Mtro and even if still counting walkable distance of 100 m from the station almost covers the whole city. Doing this in Paris with more strict enforcement of food safety and quality isn't really going to validate.
Justta commented on Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)   nytimes.com/2024/05/14/ma... · Posted by u/Thevet
Justta · 10 months ago
She spoke French and English from childhood, her family spoke those languages. I cannot accept English is her native language. English language as a whole is not fully single language. It has influence of many languages. Only a portion of the language can be considered native that has substantial contribution from England etc. Other parts are not native or something anyone needs to feel their own. Most languages are not purely from a region or a race except some tribal languages. I have no particular liking for the language I spoke as a child. If you go deep some influences on it are forced to suit a particular identity. Maybe not European languages. Test is whether our ancestors spoke what we consider our native language 500 years ago.

Maybe I will shift to a language I have never spoken in life.

Justta commented on The number line freaks me out (2016)   mathwithbaddrawings.com/2... · Posted by u/mananaysiempre
Justta · 10 months ago
Just forget number line after high school. Number line is needed for engineering graphs and economic data
Justta commented on Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
DanielHB · 10 months ago
You are discarding opportunity cost in your assessment.
Justta · 10 months ago
If you consider opportunity cost is above fulfilment don't do PhD.
Justta commented on Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?    · Posted by u/nomendos
Justta · 10 months ago
Use uBlock to remove that element. Dont know if it will save data.
Justta commented on Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family   hms.harvard.edu/news/anci... · Posted by u/jimmytucson
FlyingSnake · 10 months ago
Like I said, I am not sold on the idea because it seems like curve fitting to me. However in the spirit of scientific inquiry, we should allow them to share their ideas.

Purely based on the content of the website, I fail to see anywhere on the website allusions to Hindu Nationalism. The website contains a paper from acadamia.edu showing their analysis. Lastly the claim about "Brahmin circles" also seems malicious because it is being discussed on mainstream media like CNN-News18 or IIT Hyderabad.

https://www.academia.edu/78867798/A_cryptanalytic_decipherme...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQa2ol6w7lg

Justta · 10 months ago
What else it is other than Hindu Nationalistic when It says Indus script is Sanskrit?
Justta commented on Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family   hms.harvard.edu/news/anci... · Posted by u/jimmytucson
empath75 · 10 months ago
There's one good reason to believe that they wrote it down (mostly) unaltered and continued transmitting it (mostly) unaltered, which is that they continued copying it and reciting it well past the point where they even understood what many of the words meant any more, and they developed a lot of techniques to recite it and memorize it based purely on phonemes and developed ideas about how the sounds themselves carried religious power, divorced of any meaning. That's not to say that they didn't understand it at all, but surely if it were going to be altered, they would have updated the language to something more understandable at some point. Instead they wrote commentaries about the text, reinterpreting it over time.

It wasn't really until the 19th century that it was re-translated and the connection to other indo-european cultures and pantheons was rediscovered.

Justta · 10 months ago
Proof that oral tradition started 2000 years before it was written?

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