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by eynsham 2y ago
On the homepage there is another (non-pop-up) message: ‘Use contactless to pay as you go at adult rate’.
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by eynsham 2y ago
On the homepage there is another (non-pop-up) message: ‘Use contactless to pay as you go at adult rate’.
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by eynsham 2y ago
This is in theory a problem with most ticketing systems: people can buy the wrong ticket and then get stuck on the way out. The message on the machines is a bit misleading because it suggests that wherever one travels behind the ticket barr
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by eynsham 2y ago
>formal logicians are quite isolated in philosophy departments Few generalisations hold of philosophy departments across traditions and regions, and this is untrue of departments in the analytic tradition of which Dennett was part. Philo
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by eynsham 3y ago
I agree that the segment north of Birmingham was important for removing bottlenecks, including those that affect services from London. That is precisely why I think it makes little sense to regard HS2 as meaningfully cancelled only for thos
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by eynsham 3y ago
This misses the main benefit of HS2 which is making the network as a whole more efficient by eliminating bottlenecks. When people say ‘we should improve regional rail services’, they ignore that HS2 is what that looks like. And, frankly, if
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by eynsham 3y ago
> I’d like to see metrics for Turkish. Turkish is in figure 1; its blob is on the lower end. > developed over the years for efficient military communication purposes A crude statement of this view would be pseudohistory. It’s common e
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by eynsham 3y ago
I suspect that there will be substantial limitations on reliability for quite some time. Photoshop has the same limitation; but problems are usually fairly easy to spot. Vetting LLMs’ output with high reliability, however, would take nearly
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by eynsham 3y ago
How are ‘vital’, ‘essential’ and ‘pivotal’ superlatives?
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by eynsham 3y ago
Blackstone wrote approvingly of constitutional arrangements under which ‘each branch [is] armed with a negative power, sufficient to repel any innovation which it shall think inexpedient or dangerous’ ( Commentaries , Introduction, § 2). Of
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by eynsham 3y ago
Do you have a specific criticism of his suggestion in this particular case, or an alternative suggestion, or a reason nothing needs to be done?
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by eynsham 3y ago
AAVE has a perfectly coherent grammar of its own (try e.g. ‘AAVE grammar’ on Google Scholar.) It is as grammatically ‘incorrect' as Scots.
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by eynsham 3y ago
The standardised register has some Katharevousa features that perhaps aren’t very common in ordinary speech.
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by eynsham 3y ago
> recent results from El Salvador I don't think that generalising from one example is a good basis for public policy. > cruel treatment of murderers and violent criminals The whole point of Bukele’s approach is that it does away
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by eynsham 3y ago
Then it unhelpfully conflates classism with mismanagement of the economy and concomitant fiscal constraints on legal aid and the NHS.
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by eynsham 3y ago
Right, well, again, it would be very hard to meaningfully respond to climate change ignoring half of emissions. It’s plausible that very little should be asked of the bottom half, who contribute under ten per cent of emissions if we follow
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by eynsham 3y ago
But it is the middle class’s problem. If we take the Oxfam figure that the top one per cent cause sixteen per cent of the world’s emissions, it’s impossible to achieve sufficient reductions in emissions without action by the ninety-nine per
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by eynsham 3y ago
> wholly captive media Who exactly has captured The Guardian , The Times , the Daily Mail , the Financial Times , the London Review of Books , and the BBC all at the same time? > a non-representative electoral system that can sym
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by eynsham 3y ago
I don’t see a single equation in this article on a putative ‘math equation’.
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by eynsham 3y ago
I think the title is inaccurate; the Démocrate de l'Aisne also uses a Linotype machine: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/patrimoine/histoire/patr... .
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by eynsham 3y ago
Britons aren’t as inane and simple-minded as you make us out to be. > it’s the _royal_ post office No it’s not. Perhaps you have confused the Post Office with Royal Mail. > The royals don't keep going because their subjects think
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by eynsham 3y ago
No, it’s spelled LaTeΧ, with a chi.
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by eynsham 3y ago
This is partly because access to university education has widened tremendously. Modern academic research is not really TikTok-based.
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by eynsham 3y ago
If the only information I had about a personal trainer were their obesity, I wouldn’t. If I were satisfied that they had a long record of success, I would. Philosophers’ work can be and is best assessed by reading it. I do not think that po
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by eynsham 3y ago
There is more to philosophy than moral philosophy, and I don’t see why philosophical findings would be devalued by the moral failings of philosophers any more than cardiological findings would be devalued by the alleged unhealthiness of car
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by eynsham 3y ago
What is the basis of your experience of philosophers? I know lots of philosophers who are well-versed and interested in, i.a., physics, mathematics, cognitive science, linguistics, biology, neuroscience, psychology, and history. Some of the
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Pakistan shuts down internet on election day(dawn.com)
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by eynsham 3y ago
Netblocks also reports outages: https://www.dawn.com/live/elections-2024#1812175 .
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by eynsham 3y ago
Yes, obviously in saying they can’t intervene enough to cause a problem for the whole website I envisage the possibility that they could intervene often enough to cause a problem for a part thereof.
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by eynsham 3y ago
> just as bad I fail to see why asking for evidence is the same as denial that there is any. > while emoting obfuscating and cobbling the terms of "moderator", "editor", "contributor" together and confuse

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