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by eynsham 4y ago
I think the argument is fundamentally hobbled because its authors refuse to cite the current political situation as a reason for its opposition to the changes. There have been times and places where the proposed balance of judicial and legi
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by eynsham 4y ago
It’s almost as if there are vested bureaucratic interests in Britain’s constitutional democracy as in any other state.
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by eynsham 4y ago
I missed the bit where immigrants had military superiority over us and were in the business of excluding locals from meaningfully exercising political and administrative power without the approval of the competent authority in the metropole
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by eynsham 4y ago
Libre Office Draw works surprisingly well.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Not everything is about the US. The UK has a long tradition of local government, and devolution proposals in circulation don’t blindly ape foreign models, whether from NJ or elsewhere, whatever their overall merits. Obviously there are adva
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by eynsham 4y ago
Nonsense. Which?
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by eynsham 4y ago
A sponge and press often suffices.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Some people are Chinese.
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by eynsham 4y ago
> just someone getting upset about lack of depth There’s a difference between a lack of depth and a fabrication. > relevant specialist knowledge It’s pretty simple to understand the gist of the problem: modelling something and actuall
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by eynsham 4y ago
Yes?
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by eynsham 4y ago
Yes, in a finite system Russelian paradoxes don’t arise as easily (although see Ian Rumfitt and Timothy Williamson, once again, ‘Logic and Existence’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1999 for one interesting view that infinitude is
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by eynsham 4y ago
> To "quantify over" something is, in effect, to treat it as a variable whose value will range over some set. As a phrase, it makes clear what is a variable in your description. That’s a rather non-trivial claim: see e.g. Willi
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by eynsham 4y ago
So long as it doesn't slow or otherwise impede the dissemination of the full paper I don't mind personally.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Ah yes, HMG, obviously the same as the US government.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Hm, the Mark 5 carriages were introduced in April and October 2019, so it could have been either just from the year.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Was that on the new trains?
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by eynsham 4y ago
Some of them, but they don’t do it much. But they have quite good maths/TCS knowledge overall (one did part III maths at Cambridge, one seems to know all of Barendegt’s lambda calc book…)
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by eynsham 4y ago
This is something of an anecdatum, but of the formally trained philosophers and logicians I know, none regard arguments of the sort Lucas/Penrose advance as viable.
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by eynsham 4y ago
The NP came up with Bantustans too.
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by eynsham 4y ago
There are other problems, including the cost of living crisis. This is an attempt to fix that. Maybe the tradeoff isn’t worth it, but it’s not very constructive to just deny that there’s one worth analysing. This sort of policy, if implemen
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by eynsham 4y ago
I don’t see why that has to be read as an ‘xor’.
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by eynsham 4y ago
The idea of Pakistan was created by Muslim intellectuals, not the British.
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by eynsham 4y ago
Is there anything specific you have in mind that Smith had which ‘modern race activists’ don’t? Smith certainly seems extraordinary but that Douglass remark seems to be (at least in isolation) rather unclear—what sort of ‘understanding’ is
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by eynsham 4y ago
I use a compose key and the British layout. It’s fine for French, Spanish and German at least, and I can add my own sequences (e.g. for logical notation).
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by eynsham 4y ago
Political union is implausible. Kagame and Museveni can’t even accept domestic term limits. If they won’t hand over power to another one of their countrymen, why would they hand over power to foreigners, especially ones with whom disputes o
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by eynsham 4y ago
Do you have a substantive criticism of the article? Or do you not have any factual disagreement with it? In that case, not everything ‘crazy’ is crazy to the same extent, and trying to brush over crimes like this as just to be expected is u
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by eynsham 4y ago
Apropos, Peter Campbell on the maintenance of escalators in the LRB : https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n05/peter-campbell/why-d... .
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by eynsham 4y ago
That’s perfectly reasonable. Unfortunately, Jaishankar seems to think of this as revenge against the Americans. He shouldn’t. Commentary from abroad should never be regarded as a threat to sovereignty in a mature democracy; India has the ri
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by eynsham 5y ago
The RfC is passed but the effect of that is to make a request. Imagine you and I were to form a committee to discuss, e.g., landscaping in municipal gardens: we might pass a motion to suggest planting different flowers, but that would amoun
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by eynsham 5y ago
> publically announces That’s how RfCs work—they’re public by nature, so that people can comment. It’s hardly feasible not to then promulgate the outcome. > they stop accepting certain forms of donations They haven’t. This is a propos

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