pmyteh

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by pmyteh 5y ago
It has been. The standard of admission is generally 'internationally recognised state', not 'good government'.
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Eh. Modern political cleavages map very poorly onto seventeenth century religious divisions. I'm a Quaker. Early Quakers were radical (rejecting the religious authority of priests and the fighting of wars), conservative (looking backwa
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by pmyteh 5y ago
This is slightly mitigated by elite graduate schools selecting good candidates from elsewhere (unlike for academic hiring). The large majority of Oxford DPhil students didn't go to Oxford as undergrads; I went to Leeds and most of my c
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Yes - formal tenure was abolished under Thatcher's government in the 80s. The academic job market here is also brutal, but it's brutal on admission to lectureships (tenure-track assistant professorships in the US). Once appointed
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Cricket is somewhat like this. Preparing a 'good' pitch (not too green or uneven, which favours bowlers, but also not too flat and lifeless) is hard. And in the longer forms of the game the pitch seriously deteriorates over the da
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The promotion of 'work reform' is not what the author is describing as sanewashing. It's the co-option of a more radical movement, followed by an explaining away of the radical parts of that movement to make it mainstream-acc
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Grade crossings are fine for passenger multiple units (have pickup shoes at both ends of the train and a gap either side of the crossing) but not great for locomotives. The other big problem (in addition to the ones you've outlined) is
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The Tribune Group (of MPs) is a centre-left ginger group. It's named after the magazine (indirectly; after an earlier and more left wing MPs group) but they don't control the magazine itself. The magazine is now owned by Jacobin,
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The cap was never really intended to be a fixed price for electricity: the main purpose was to ensure people with an arbitrary supplier (chosen by previous tenants, or the landlord, say) and who weren't canny enough to notice they were
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Go there on a clear sunny day, it's gorgeous. And, given the absurd prices that flats there go for, 'flooded capitalist block' would be closer to the mark...
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by pmyteh 5y ago
This is very true, and important context. One minor nit: the Sinn Fein revoicing was done by the BBC, but not for that reason. The government had required them not to broadcast SF and IRA 'propaganda' and the revoicing was a way t
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by pmyteh 5y ago
A note for people not familiar with the UK: £60,000 per year is about twice the median pay for a full-time worker, so the definition of 'middle class' used here (at least in the headline) is pretty tendentious. Also, the "Tax
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by pmyteh 5y ago
It takes weeks to get comfortable using a different insulin to manage your blood sugars, and the results on older NPH insulin are going to be much worse than a more modern one. Doing that, and damaging your body, just to avoid avoidable bur
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by pmyteh 5y ago
No, you're right. Those sections are included in the Highway Code to inform drivers, but it's not the placement in the code that makes them law - that's the original Act that the Code refers to.
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by pmyteh 5y ago
That's not an argument about forging trademarks - it's an argument for respecting patents (if the Pessimizer manufacturers got one) or trade secrets (if they didn't). You can make an argument for trademark law on the basis
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Not parent, but part-time PhDs aren't entirely uncommon (at least in the UK, where I am) and I'm currently supervising one. There are two major difficulties and one major advantage over the full-time version. The advantage is that
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Yeah, there's a lot of adaptation to local norms. We don't have much snow-clearing equipment because it's so rarely needed (and no-one wants to pay taxes to have it just on the off-chance). Scotland does better because they h
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by pmyteh 5y ago
That's right. It's for co-decision, so the Council and Parliament jointly need to agree a final outcome. This vote does not 'ban targeted ads' so much as lay down a marker that the Parliament wants targeted ads banned as
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I think it's probably just our age. My 6 year old is into Lego and he likes both: making an elaborate set, then after he's bored with it adding the parts to his box of bits and making baroque flying vehicles and rickety 'resc
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Change of law risk is also a business risk. You can see this most clearly in situations like companies constructing tax avoidance schemes. Everyone involved knows that the law may well be changed to close the loophole being used. So the que
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by pmyteh 5y ago
No. It's the Queen putting the interests of the royal family (the institution) above those of one of its members. The monarchy in Britain is basically by consent these days, and has held its position since the abdication of Edward VIII
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by pmyteh 5y ago
FWIW in the UK it's a legal right not to join or support unions (closed shops are outlawed), and unions can't charge non-members dues (no agency shops either). Lots of people (both company-owners and ordinary citizens) have proble
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Sometimes, but not necessarily always. I'm in UCU, the UK academics' union. We're quite often on the same side as the students, and not on the same side as the government. We get substantial support from students' unions
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I'm normally quite good at claiming England & Wales only, but you definitely get a point for this one :-)
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Huh. TIL! I knew Scotland doesn't have a coronial system, but I assumed given the relatively recent reforms to treasure in E&W similar rules would have been brought in UK-wide and cases would just go to the local Sheriff. Looking a
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Fungi, flowers, fruit, and foliage (growing wild, not cultivated) are one of the corner cases - they're specifically carved out by s.4(3) of the Theft Act 1968. There are a few others, as I said: mineral rights, wild and semi-wild anim
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Yes indeed (and, even more so, the culture of non-corruption which reformers tried to put in place at the same time). But, like in the chemical plant, it is possible to run a government with minimal levels of corruption and many (better-g
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The entire basis of modern public administration (and one of the reasons it can be more bureaucratic than market mechanisms for delivering services) is that it attempts to rigorously exclude cronyism. The reason for civil service tenure, fo
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by pmyteh 5y ago
It's not that complicated in the UK. In the vast majority of cases it's either Treasure[0] (which has a special procedure: report it to the local coroner to deal with) or it belongs to the landowner (unless you have an agreement w
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Yes. Or, assuming the old mechanism still works, using *Configure Language to boot into BASIC by default every time the machine starts. My guess is that the RISC OS version of BBC BASIC will also have slightly better compatibility with thin

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