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by etrevino 6y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that this essay appears to be mocking materialism by making a far fetched argument?
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by etrevino 6y ago
https://play0ad.com/download/linux/
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You're right, I should have written "subject to". Also, I do think it's likely that any adjustments to the laws were negotiated ahead of time so as to avoid the Queen withholding consent.
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The 1,062 laws subjected to a royal veto in the UK(theguardian.com)
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I agree with you that it was a debacle. It was meant to hold together the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition and once that went to pot it should have been scrapped. I don't think that it removed the Queen's (technical) ability to di
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by etrevino 6y ago
So, I have a new link! And yes, she has agreed to a lot of controversial legislation, including Brexit! This article has the thousand-plus laws she's been consulted on: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021&#x2
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by etrevino 6y ago
It's another Cromwell bio, but I think I found a book that could answer your questions on church-state relationships: God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution , by Christopher Hill. I can't remember any e
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by etrevino 6y ago
So, 90 of those hereditary peers are elected, just, they're elected by other hereditary peers. So, just because you're a peer does not mean you have the right to sit in the House of Lords, whereas before you could. If I recall,
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by etrevino 6y ago
You could say this about a president, too. If one president grabs more power his/her successor can be assured of trying to exploit that power. All of these systems rely on people respecting established political norms. There's
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That's exactly it.
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It doesn't go very far into the protectorate-- that's nearly always a separate book-- but I think that Christopher Hibbert's Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642-1649 does a really good job. More in depth
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by etrevino 6y ago
In my opinion? She would have consented to the final form of Brexit and the IMB.[1] I can't say about the process of proroguing Parliament, but I don't think she has the power to interfere in the running of Parliament. If she g
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by etrevino 6y ago
Well, the article says that we don't really know, it just references a pamphlet. My understanding (and take this for what you will) is that it's interpreted very liberally. So, foreign policy and war are likely taken into accoun
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You're 100% right. The UK would be served just as well by a nonpartisan president.
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I used to work as a scholar of Britain (specifically executions in Early Modern England, but you pick up a lot along the way) and I've tried to explain to a lot of people the amount of influence and control that the monarch actually ho
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Early C++ Working Manual (1990)(drive.google.com)
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“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C(arstechnica.com)
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NASA makes contact with Voyager 2 after longest radio silence in 30 years(livescience.com)
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Ewig is a simple text editor written using immutable data-structures in C++(github.com)
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Why has Reddit suspended Bjarne Stroustrup's account?(reddit.com)
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This is correct. The KGB had several known agents working out of their embassy during the Cold War. Diplomatic cover gave them protection for their activities.
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I don't think it's possible to find the information on the pricing of just the ships' hull/superstructure. But from one paper I found the hull of a commercial ship is a pretty considerable expense (about a third of the
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Cat sitting on keyboard crashes lightdm(bugs.launchpad.net)
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Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure(nejm.org)
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I only recently (last few years) discovered that aphantasia is a thing. Before that I thought that when people were talking about "mind's eye" they were using a figure of speech that was totally unrelated to being able to cr
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I made a NES emulator in Rust using generators(kyle.space)
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A noinline inline function? What sorcery is this?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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GCL: A Tiny Graph Concurrent Library for C++(github.com)
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by etrevino 6y ago
FYI for those who don't know: QALY is Quality Adjusted Life Year. Parent is right that it's problem the best metric to use. I believe that we aren't using it because we don't know the morbidity that results from Covid-
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Internal CDC Document Predicts 3k Deaths a Day [PDF](drive.google.com)
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