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by frobozz 11y ago
In each of the degree courses I have done, there have been a few sessions on general scholarship, essay-writing, etc. These are not actual modules, parts thereof, or even evaluated, but just part of the furniture of the whole course. What
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It could do with providing some useful information when no results are found, and why it might not have returned any results (available regions, what is a "band", what is a "venue"). At the moment, when there are no re
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> It could be open to manipulation, with people leaving the queue and rejoining from the back in order to get served more quickly. This isn't manipulation, this is pretty much the defined behaviour. In a queue that doesn't clo
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Atlantis is a place of centuries-old legend that may or may not exist in some unknown location. Doggerland is an area under the sea that no-one had heard of until some archaeologists hypothesised about it at the beginning of the 20th Centur
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by frobozz 11y ago
The opposite is true in the case of aphids, which are pretty serious destroyers of crop-yielding plants. Some ants farm aphids for their honeydew. Rather than destroying them, they encourage their population on the growing-tips of plants.
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I suspect that the parent poster is talking about the geology of Hawaii. New Zealand was part of Gondwanaland, and became isolated by continental drift. Anything living there when the islands became separated from the rest of the supercont
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It isn't just about specific relevant degrees, but a question of job level. In the 1990s and earlier, one would undertake a degree, possibly in a strictly academic discipline such as history or philosophy, and, if one didn't then
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by frobozz 11y ago
Yes, given 9 cases, and 3 wrongful acquittals, the remaining 6 guilty verdicts can have at most 2 instances of justice being done (i.e. true positives), meaning that the remaining 4 are false convictions. If any of those acquittals were th
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angdis doesn't say that the correct acquittal of repeat offenders is not justice being served, just that the total number of acquittals of criminals is greater than the total number of times that justice is served. Justice is the sum o
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> repeat offenders ... actual criminals being found "not guilty" One does not have to be guilty of the crime for which one is being tried, to be a criminal. Regardless of the result, if a repeat offender is on trial, then there
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by frobozz 11y ago
Always take it to your union rep first. Your union is your advocate, and is there to help you. They can advise you on the most appropriate next step for your particular workplace. They can take it to HR, anonymously (depending on context),
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> But it goes further. “Being verified doesn't just verify that you are who you say you are; it verifies that you are, by some slightly mysterious criteria, important,” Not only that, but more important than other people with the sa
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This is a good point that I hadn't realised. It seems that both latex condoms and gloves can contain casein. Apparently, this has messed up tests for latex allergy: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article&#x2F
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By default, condoms are vegan-friendly, being made from trees. Non-vegan condoms are the special-needs version (i.e. for latex allergy sufferers), that are not as good.
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It can take about 10 years to recoup the initial outlay on a domestic solar installation, and after that you are actually saving money. The people saving the money are the residents of the property, and there is not enough confidence that t
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Even excellent scores can be demotivating. When one is blocked from internal career movement due to being 'too valuable to the team', and when the only reward on offer is a nice pat-on-the-back and a thumbs-up; One starts to wond
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My gut reaction to your question was to answer "by train". Another option might (considering it's in Norfolk), by canal. Then I thought I'd better look it up. The comment in the article was about Berney Arms[1]. Lookin
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Yes, I'd also add that when you work without commuting, the time you start work is likely also the time you start working. Whereas if you have a long and possibly stressful journey, you might have a bit of warmup time before you are r
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by frobozz 11y ago
Yes, the customer is always right, which means that if someone comes along who is wrong, then they can't be a customer.
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If you had static analysis in from the start, that wouldn't be a problem. If you add static analysis to a messy project, define success thresholds based on the current violation count, and/or disable violation categories that you
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Another point is that the idiom "a penny saved is a penny earned" is incorrect when it comes to loans and investments, because you pay tax on income. A penny saved is worth more than a penny earned. If I borrow at 4% and invest t
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I was no more frugal having bought a house, than when I was putting all my money away towards a deposit on a house, probably even less so. I would have thought that the biggest reasons were (roughly) freezing your shelter expense against in
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The two findings are unrelated. >> whether someone attends university. >> whether a student graduates or not
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCKSS
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It may not affect the legal definition of hourly rate for the purposes of overtime, but there is a clear difference between working 12 * 52 * 40 hours for X money, and working 12 * 47 * 40 hours for X money.
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That's the very reason for heating water instead of space, hot water is wanted year-round. It's used for washing both people and things; Swimming pools are normally heated, even just a little, above the cold water mains temperatur
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I'd rather see this kind of thing heating water, which could then be used either for space heating or directly as hot water (in both cases, as input to a conventional boiler, rather than being expected to provide all the heat itself).
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> Whether or not the designers of pedestrian crossing technology took an interest in our psyches is unclear, as no-one seems able to confirm when the buttons were first made intermittently ineffective, at least in the UK. I would be very
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This says 'Because there is no contact between moving parts, there is no friction. Therefore no lubricant is required. No replacement of spare parts either.' However, there are animations that show it wobbling. This implies that i
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>It's quite possible that the password is for the purpose of logging into the physical desktop computer itself, but still... You've reduced the point of a password if you've stuck it on the very device which needs the pass

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