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by frobozz 9y ago
Part of the point of a jury is to have multiple disinterested individuals ruling on the defendant's guilt. That in itself forms a partial test of the process. You could run a trial with multiple independent juries, or record a trial a
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If you can do more outpatient work, you can reduce the bed count, the cost of having a patient taking up a bed in a hospital is very high, even if they are as close to perfect health as possible and are just waiting to be discharged. This
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I imagine the meaning is 'tool for doing open source', rather than 'tool that is open source'.
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That first point is one of the main thrusts of The Rise of the Meritocracy. A true meritocracy is unlikely because of the advantages that the entrenched higher classes pass on to their descendents. In part this can be higher ability due to
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It then goes on to say > What is your state or city doing to address this safety issue and prevent severe injuries and fatalities? So the negligent party is implied not to be the individual driver who is not giving due care and attention
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Also, where does the author get the idea that preventable is an antonym of accidental? Just because someone failed to take certain steps to prevent an accident, it doesn't mean that they deliberately caused the accident.
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I agree. Most of the least competent developers I have worked with in the past have been contractors. I assume the instability appeals to them because they can move on before anyone realises what a pig's ear they have made of everythi
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Conventions set collaboratively by the team as a whole gain better traction than those dictated by a leader. Common ownership does not end up with a random patchwork of technologies. Teams make collective decisions on them. I might like to
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Why do you ask? What change in your own behaviour would the different answers elicit? Is this just an intellectual exercise? In that case, it's a reasonable question that might lead to an interesting conversation. Are you thinking of
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by frobozz 9y ago
That's true, but the current PM has long been opposed to the ECHR. Even when apparently in favour of the EU. With the overpowered repeal bill, she can use Brexit to get us out of anything with 'E' in the name, without bother
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One reason is because they have survived. A fresh graduate, or a one-year-in second jobber could be a genius with encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject. They could also be utterly incapable of doing the job. Their Dunning-Kruger overconfi
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There is a difference between ı and i in both cases. I don't know what you mean by 'related to capitalisation' The reason I raise Turkish specifically is that the similarity between the characters presents a potential homogra
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Yes it's not bad but not great either. It would only help in certain situations (hello vs Ꮒello). It also becomes tricky if you permit Turkish, as you would have to allow mixing of ascii and the dotted vs dotless i. There are also go
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This is an awful idea that conflates country and language and adds another place where governments can marginalise minorities. Should administrators of north African tlds be empowered to forbid Tifinagh characters? Which character sets sho
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I would have thought food prices were less seasonally dependent than they are now, on the grounds that out-of-season food simply didn't exist (outside of preserves that were made during a seasonal glut). An avocado in a British superma
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90% of 43% is still nearly 40% That's a better result in favour of independence than Brexit.
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They have a better mandate than UK leaving the EU: 92% pro, from a 43% turnout = 39.56% of the electorate in favour of Catalan independence. Compare to 52% of 72% = 37.44% of the electorate in favour of Brexit.
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Those people didn't "never win" did they?
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Possibly, and i certainly agree that there's benefit in a recipe suggestion tool that is linked to your inventory. It's also a good idea to have something tell you what's coming up to use-by, to reduce waste. However, that t
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> keeps you from cooking with rotten food If only we had some kind of olfactory or optical equipment stuck on the front of our faces that could help determine the rottenness or mouldiness of food. Failing that, perhaps producers of packa
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IANAL That may depend on whether they are John Paul II's notes (and the Bishop of Ombi's etc.) or Karol Wojtyla's. And whether the published work belongs to The Church or to Dziwisz.
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Here's the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/world/europe/entrusted-to... . It isn't just The Pope's notes, but notes that predate his inauguration as Pope, and it isn't
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I see. When I see "immutable", I think of Prolog and Erlang (e.g. once X is 6, X can't be matched to 5 in the same scope) rather than languages that simply prefer byval over byref.
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I'd even say immutability can be a disadvantage. I normally only use a repl when I don't know what I'm doing. My normal process with a repl in an immutable language goes like this: 1. Assign something to a name 2. Realise tha
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On reddit, several defunct formerly NSFW "pussy" subreddits (e.g. /r/wetpussy) have been repurposed to contain pictures of cats instead. Apparently some reddit user has made it a mission to grab them whenever they crop u
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Taking a stimulant wthin a short period of waking up can interfere with your natural waking process. That might be why you felt bad. Rather than quitting caffeine entirely, waiting two hours after waking (e.g. when you get to work) may als
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That sounds like a ludicrous system, designed specifically to encourage fraud. > If it is true or not I don't know, but is a real concern if so. This is the most important part of your post. The same could be said of sea monsters a
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Voting still requires registration, which requires eligibility. At this point, you are also checked for uniqueness, so you can't just keep moving house to get more and more votes. You can't just turn up at any polling station and
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"Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service: Evidence from India" is 66 characters.
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> The OP believes the distribution of human capabilities and preferences is independent of national or racial origin, The OP has misinterpreted my comment as a racist attack on Indians. My point was that corruption (or perception thereof

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