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by PJDK 8y ago
Is it just politics that makes this a bad idea or are there other engineering problems?
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by PJDK 8y ago
Such things do exist, at least for general aviation. This is based on memory from landing (as a passenger) at 29 Palms in California many years ago - hopefully an actual pilot might chip in. From your map you get the frequency of the tower
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by PJDK 8y ago
Have you got a source on that part of the terrorism act, it's not something I've heard of.
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by PJDK 8y ago
According to your link, the longest you can be held without charge is 14 days under the terrorism act. The longest ever proposed was 90 days (proposed in 2006), and the longest implemented was 28 days (between 2006 - 2011). https:/&#x
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by PJDK 8y ago
I don't see how this follows. All countries have spy agencies - they usually have two roles to spy on other people, and prevent other people spying on them. This seems like a pretty reasonable state of affairs. How does the fact Austra
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by PJDK 8y ago
Another major benefit of this is that the things that makes it trustable are very easy to understand. If someone asks "why should I trust this count is correct" you can say "well these are the people that counted the votes -
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by PJDK 8y ago
Here's one example https://boingboing.net/2017/09/18/rep-ray-rodrigues.html
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by PJDK 8y ago
Interestingly the lack of tracability brings it's own problems (if you are a terrorist). If some group were to have claimed responsibility for the 2014 ebola epidemic, would you have believed them?
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by PJDK 8y ago
The problem, from a terrorist point of view, is that if your lights go out you don't think "terror attack". A terrorist is looking for maximum publicity for minimum effort, not maximum economic damage.
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by PJDK 8y ago
Not the OP, but my advice would be: Read the "classics" - Code Complete, Pragmatic Programmer, Clean Code etc. Google "best books about programming" and you'll find plenty. When you're reading think about the w
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by PJDK 8y ago
The thing I find frustrating with Milgram is there is three narratives going on simultaneously. 1. The actual reality: this is an ethical experiment and no one is at any risk 2. The pretend actual reality: someone is being (potentially) fat
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by PJDK 8y ago
Fun fact, each new stop sign must be approved, in writing, by the Secretary of State (a government minister!)
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by PJDK 8y ago
The first thing you said is the reason cyclists do the second. The biggest risk is a car turning into you at the junction because you were in a blind spot. It's much safer to be at the front of the queue so you are clearly visible, an
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by PJDK 8y ago
I think you could kind of generalise this to say that a mission statement is only useful if you can imagine some situations where someone would have a difficult call to make and could reference the mission statement to help make the decisio
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by PJDK 8y ago
Does this really describe the world? Yes, people are more viscerally frightened by rare risks, but that is because there is no strategy to manage them. But we deal with every day risks pragmatically all the time (look both ways before you c
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by PJDK 8y ago
I don't know how this article calculates things, but both Solar and Wind require lots of sites, and lots of working at heights. Every time someone goes up on a roof to instal a panel there is a non zero chance that they will fall off a
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by PJDK 9y ago
If someone did this to me, I'd probably smile and nod back. But I'd also spend the rest of the day confused and worried why I couldn't remember who the person was who greeted me like a passing acquaintance.
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by PJDK 9y ago
Not the OP, but mortgage payments will stay fixed over time (assuming interest rates stay the same). Rents increase with demand for housing. Having also recently bought a house, my repayments are comparable to rent, and double up as an inv
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by PJDK 9y ago
The new tuples do allow names, which can be a nice half way house so you can do something like (bool success, string errormessage, foo addedItem) as a return type. A big step up from Tuple<bool, string, foo>!
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by PJDK 9y ago
I think one of the reasons people don't like the idea is this very reason. It's coming from the position "someone is likely to do me wrong and I will be collecting evidence with that in mind". That in itself is a pretty
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by PJDK 9y ago
What is happening is that the court has decided law X is not consistent with law Y. In the UK system, when this happens the courts can order Parliament to review law X to make amendments so the laws are consistent. The Government can choos
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by PJDK 9y ago
What you're asking for is nothing like what this process is designed to be. The Human Rights Act is designed as a way to allow courts to push back on certain kinds of legislation - this ruling is a normal part of the legislative proces
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by PJDK 9y ago
Off topic, but you get around this problem by surveying people's experience of crime, rather than look at police reports. In the UK the survey is called the British Crime Survey and it's pretty robust in it's methodology (alt
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by PJDK 9y ago
Something that I haven't seen much comment on is that the fact this call was false is somewhat irrelevant to the failure of the police here. Even if this had been a real hostage situation, that absolutely required the presence of SWAT
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by PJDK 9y ago
I've seen people say this often, how do you envision it working? What happens to all the employees, assets, shareholders etc.? If VW is "executed" do you mean all the shares are seized and re-sold or do you mean everyone lose
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by PJDK 9y ago
But this is being run by a party you trust with that data in the first place surely? It's capturing the things you are typing into the website's input boxes!
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by PJDK 9y ago
I'm not sure of the origin, but I was once told a truism that any speccing process, if left long enough, will eventually spec out Excel.
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by PJDK 9y ago
Does this assertion really hold up? While every day I use machines I can't easily inspect I also have access to a wealth of very easily accessible information about all manner of physical/mechanical things, plus the ability to ord
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by PJDK 9y ago
So I can't speak for every runner, but for the vast majority placing will not be a major factor. I ran a half marathon recently and came in something like 600th - but that number is largely academic I was only really competing against
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by PJDK 9y ago
The world isn't going to hell in a hand basket, but take a stroll past the McDonald's in Brixton of a weekend evening and you will find some drug dealers.

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