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by pmyteh 5y ago
The adjustments are only 'down' from normal, so not as such. I do have some issues with health economics on this, though, as do (for obvious reasons) disability rights people...
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by pmyteh 5y ago
If it's to be recommended for NHS use it can't cost anything like that to us; the maximum threshold for NICE is normally something like £20k-£30k per Quality Adjusted Life Year. Interestingly, it looks like it hasn't had a NI
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by pmyteh 5y ago
South Yorkshire's not that rural, compared to the wilder bits of North and East Yorkshire. Penistone and Barnsley are both in the Sheffield travel-to-work area so I doubt they're depopulating fast enough to decommission water mai
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I gave you an answer. You can suck it up, complain, or leave. And yes, those choices are unpleasant. If this was supposed to be a 'actually it all comes down to the threat of violence' gotcha then, sure - if you insist on your pro
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by pmyteh 5y ago
In general, you have the same three choices you have in any other situation where you don't like what's going on: loyalty, voice, or exit. In the first, you decide to accept the general will in order to maintain your individual cr
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I can't speak for the US. In Britain you don't really need photo id for much. A driving licence, if you drive (plenty don't), a passport if you want to go abroad, or something if you're young (or look young) and want t
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Politically you may be right. As a piece of policy, it's a solution in search of a problem. Even in places like the UK (which have ID-free voting) personation is essentially a non-problem. Literally a handful of votes a year. If you wa
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by pmyteh 5y ago
'Social media' in the web 2.0 sense is post 1996, but there were plenty of websites with comments sections and online forums before that. Cases over intermediary liability for online content have some antiquity; in Cubby v. CompuS
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by pmyteh 5y ago
There was case law before s.230 was passed, which said what parent claimed: if you moderated your content you carried liability as a publisher, if you were careful not to look at what went up on your service then you didn't. s.230 was
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by pmyteh 5y ago
RMT and ASLEF; Unite don't tend to organise train crew. London transport is an interesting case. I wonder the extent to which they have well-paid secure jobs because they can and do disrupt London. Bus drivers have a much worse deal,
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Yes; there are also a significant number of guilty pleas. They obviously vastly reduce trial time, though not the cost of investigation etc.
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Some of us are humanities scholars and social scientists, and aren't nearly so well-versed in technology as most of the others here. I'm personally consistently surprised/impressed by people who have taken CS/hacker rout
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by pmyteh 5y ago
There was, subsequently, published a Christmas BMJ article reporting the results of an RCT of parachute use jumping from planes. Apart from a few minor confounding problems with selecting the participants, it's very good science! Found
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I live in Liverpool, a moderately large city in England (and work in the city centre). An hour's cycling , let alone driving, will get you basically out of the city. And, for all that there isn't space for vast exurb-style tract
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The issue isn't so much that character(0) is a zero-length vector and "" is a length 1 vector containing the empty string, it's that you can't necessarily rely on other people's code returning one or the other:
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The surgeon noted in the case report that he didn't carry out a full primary survey on the ground, for reasons that seem a bit weak in retrospect.
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by pmyteh 5y ago
It's mostly lower because the scope of private medicine in the UK is generally a lot narrower: it's used for getting fast access to specialists and elective surgery, and a nicer room in hospital. If there's a serious complica
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The authority of English local government is highly constrained, and very little of what makes London attractive to kleptocrats was put in place by city hall (either under Johnson or his Labour predecessor or successor). Most of the Russian
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Indeed. It's a fascinating, if counterintuitive, model. Remove all the usual signals that make drivers confident in what's going on, and so we have to think (and look) much harder and drive much slower. It has the consequence of g
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by pmyteh 5y ago
...because drivers slowed down, no longer being confident that they had effective priority and could drive at or above the posted limit as long as they stayed within the lines.
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The official rationale for speed cameras in the UK is to reduce speeds in areas of danger, not to raise money from speeding fines (though the "safety camera partnerships" have certainly tried to do the latter too). So the cameras
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Those guidelines recommend 60-95% ABV (and note that effectiveness drops off sharply below 50%) but also report that at least some pathogens are killed in seconds with exposure to 40% ethanol. If all you have to disinfect your ad hoc instru
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The BMJ report states that the onboard medical kit had local anaesthetic available (though it also states that "in the heat of the moment, neither I nor Dr Wong were able to calculate the percentage of lignocaine in it" and isn&#x
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Commercial toasters (and, I imagine, commercial electric kettles) are 'good' in the sense of being well-built and long-lasting. I've got a 1980s Dualit toaster which is essentially bomb-proof (the clockwork timer will eventua
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by pmyteh 5y ago
This is interesting. Do you have a link to further reading?
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Leaving aside the suggestions of fraud, this is also a good demonstration of Goodhart's Law: "A measure that becomes a target becomes a bad measure". There are good reasons to believe that, for example, selectivity of admissi
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I teach introductory quantitative research methods to communication undergrads, most of whom have no calculus. (Which is essentially optional in the UK as it's taught at A Level after most students have specialised away from maths). Th
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I briefly interned for Sherrod Brown (D-OH) when he was a congressman. His political positions were not always mine, but I found him honest and competent. I think he's done good work, at least within the constraints of what's poss
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I saw the number 1 on that list, the famous 'Gatting ball', live. You could tell that something odd had happened because Gatting was obviously bowled and yet didn't immediately walk off, and also that there was a loud 'o
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by pmyteh 5y ago
British Sky News is quite decent, and reasonably well respected. Despite its ownership, it certainly isn't at the level of Fox News (or even The Times).

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