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by foldr 1y ago
I mean phone thefts can happen anywhere, but I imagine that’s also true of other places. If you’re a phone thief you’re going to go to the areas where people have nice phones, I assume.
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by foldr 1y ago
I know that there is a lot of media reporting of knife crime and phone theft. However, I am contributing my personal experience to the thread. You could search YouTube for videos of people complaining about crime in any major city. This is
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by foldr 1y ago
I’m just honestly reporting my personal experience. Why would I want to deliberately go to a dangerous area that I have no reason to go to? Is that normal behavior for people who live in large cities? People doing drugs isn’t a danger to me
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by foldr 1y ago
The OSA doesn’t make any provision for the government blocking access to websites that are critical of it. This is a pretty long slippery slope that you’re talking about, where the government directly enforces the rules instead of OFCOM, an
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by foldr 1y ago
I haven’t personally noticed London getting any more dangerous over the past 10 years that I’ve lived here.
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by foldr 1y ago
Mostly just for geographical reasons, no? If you have a free travel area covering a large swathe of continental Europe then it's inevitably going to include mostly EU member states. AFAIK there has never been any substantial objection
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by foldr 1y ago
We don't yet know how OFCOM will categorize Wikipedia. This was a preemptive legal action.
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by foldr 1y ago
The Schengen area is only loosely connected to the EU. Not all EU member states are in the Schengen area, and not all Schengen area member states are in the EU.
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by foldr 1y ago
>elections don't change anything no matter who wins [not you, but who I was responding to] The Brexit referendum was in the 2015 Conservative party manifesto [1]. If Labour had won the 2015 election then there would have been no ref
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by foldr 1y ago
The Brexit referendum ought to have shut up the “your vote doesn’t make any difference” folks forever (regardless of whether or not they were in favor of Brexit). But they tend to have short memories.
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by foldr 1y ago
The Bill of Rights was never repealed, so there’s no “used to” about it.
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by foldr 1y ago
200 years isn’t a very long time in British historical terms.
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by foldr 1y ago
Compared to what? What more reliable source of data are you using? Also, I am not your bro.
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by foldr 1y ago
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/economy/explore/public_figure/El...
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by foldr 1y ago
If you check the parent comment, the 'most' applied to the fraction of mysteries, not the the fraction of instances of the construction that the analysis is supposed to apply to. But anyway, this isn't an exception. The overw
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by foldr 1y ago
Sorry, I don't understand what you are getting at. What is the significance of the quoted sentence?
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by foldr 1y ago
The people they’re citing are either authors of usage guides or linguists who are simply noting that the usage has been deemed incorrect by some of the former.
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by foldr 1y ago
That’s a regular case of across-the-board extraction from a coordination (where ‘try’ has a nominal direct object rather than a clausal complement): What did you try ___ but spit ___ out? The examples in the linked article involve extractio
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by foldr 1y ago
You can actually construct this using regular VP ellipsis (or possibly Right Node Raising?) in English, but it sounds weird and doesn’t convey the same meaning. So I don’t think so. “I’ll try to ___ and see if I can go to the store tomorrow
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by foldr 1y ago
I don’t think that’s anything like the meaning of “I’ll try and go to the store tomorrow”. There’s no implication that anyone is trying to stop me. Also, your abbreviation analysis would still leave a syntactic mystery, as that sort of elli
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by foldr 1y ago
It's not an insurmountable problem, but it's a problem that you don't have if you execute your business logic only on the server.
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by foldr 1y ago
It’s difficult to ensure that it’s always the same logic when client and server software versions can get out of sync. You can try to force the client to reload whenever the server redeploys, but realistically you’ll probably end up dealing
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by foldr 1y ago
If you want to make some kind of point about Taylor Swift that involves her being nude then you can do it with a cartoon or something. There's no artistic or parodic merit in creating a plausible-looking fake nude.
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by foldr 1y ago
We had a huge thread about some publisher's edits to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , with a lot of people seeming to think that it signified the end times. I wonder if this will get as much attention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by foldr 1y ago
No-one can rationally justify their basic values. If you think there’s no inherent value in learning about the universe we live in then I won’t argue with you. Just as you wouldn’t argue with someone who denied that money was valuable. You’
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by foldr 1y ago
I don’t think basic scientific research needs to be justified by narrow economic considerations as it has inherent value. But it’s a commonplace observation that you can’t predict what kinds of scientific research will or won’t have practic
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by foldr 1y ago
Science has more value than just economic value. But I think it’s rather obvious that a lot of large European and American industries exist largely as a result of scientific and military spending. Boeing and Airbus are the examples that spr
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by foldr 1y ago
It doesn’t always work like that in practice. I can’t read a bunch of papers on fluid dynamics and composite materials and then build a modern airliner wing. If you fund the science, you get the experts.
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by foldr 1y ago
I’m not sure how you summon up the nerve to ask Europeans to “deprioritize protectionism” given the economic policy of the current US administration. I think many Americans still don’t realize that the country has lost all credibility as an
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by foldr 1y ago
Minimization on Mac is essentially a legacy feature. There’s rarely any reason to use it.

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