pmyteh

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by pmyteh 5y ago
Because s.230 expressly provides for them not to be treated as one. The worry at the time was that information services making editorial decisions (taking down harmful content, in particular) would be treated as publishers, and so liable fo
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Sure. And people writing 's.230 allows Facebook to have its cake and eat it, by allowing them to control their content and yet have immunity from responsibility for that which they choose to leave up' have a point. But there'
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by pmyteh 5y ago
No. All that s.230 does is declare that platforms are not the 'publisher or speaker' of content provided by another 'information content provider'. It isn't a common carrier provision, so platforms are allowed to ma
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There are a bunch of planned new towns in the UK from the 20th century, as well as 'model' factory villages from the 19th. Some of them are really nice, some less so. Milton Keynes is the most interesting, I think. Well loved by t
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by pmyteh 5y ago
You shouldn't be paying that. The highest price flexible tickets in standard class (£169 each way) are only needed if you're traveling in the peak, which in the morning leaving London stops at 9:06am. So you should be paying the s
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by pmyteh 5y ago
No; NASA run a confidential notification and aggregated warning service for aviation safety incidents: https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/
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The reviews for JOSS happen on github[0] but the journal's not prescriptive about how you develop your package as long as the code is public. The criteria for the JOSS review are very clear[1]. I don't want to oversell the depth o
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by pmyteh 5y ago
I'm currently reviewing for JOSS, and have done so before. In many ways they're a very strange journal: the paper is nearly an afterthought, and the review is focused on the code. But I like them. As you say, the editors take thei
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Spiked! is not a left-wing outlet, libertarian or otherwise. They're a group of former doctrinaire Marxists who swung to the equally-doctrinaire libertarian right after the fall of the Soviet Union. There's a whole nexus of organi
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In the UK there is (still, in some places) milk delivery to the doorstep in 1 pint bottles. These are all a standard size, and they're all branded by the dairy. But interestingly the dairies are perfectly happy to use another company&#
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Prosecutors can commit to only asking for a particular sentence, but AIUI they can't formally tie the hands of the judge. The sentencing guidelines may also suggest a sentence far below the theoretical 150 year maximum. One thing that
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All states have a right to leave the EU by treaty - it was inserted to defuse a previous bout of Euroscepticism that argued by analogy with the US civil war that union author a secession right was tyranny. I can't see its use being ref
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Online publication is deemed 'continuous' as long as the material is up. 'It's an old article' isn't a defence if you're on notice that it needs to be taken down. Incidentally, the robots.txt file for one
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by pmyteh 5y ago
But they do. In Scotland (and the rest of the UK) judges can bar publication of a wide range of material about a court case, in advance or retrospectively, and enforce it by order. That order has penal consequences if broken. If you don&#x2
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by pmyteh 5y ago
'Traditional' journalists are often mendacious bastards, but also, as a general rule, not stupid enough to flout court orders. And looking at paragraph 70 of the original judgment it doesn't look like this case was anywhere
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The judgment isn't vague at all. It sets out, in 90 paragraphs, the legal and factual basis for the case, ruling much of it against the crown (mainly on the basis of delay) and some against Murray. And it goes through each criticised p
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by pmyteh 5y ago
70 years? The Contempt of Court Act was passed in 1981 and is used routinely for anonymity orders.
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The judgement is available[0]. It doesn't read to me like the judges were out to get him: they specifically reject the majority of the allegations of contempt made by the crown. Paragraphs 70-90 contain the interesting bit, and 70 is a
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Nope. The UK also has plenty of tarnished conscience (we were the mandate holder for Palestine immediately before the creation of Israel and played communities against each other, as we normally did in our colonies). The French also played
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It's free. There used to be a radio licence, but it was discontinued once the income from the TV licence was enough. B&W licences are only for B&W TVs and are now rare.
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You tell the tax office of any unusual deductibles, and they give your employers a 'tax code' which tells them how much allowance to give you (but critically not why, to better protect your privacy). Even this isn't needed in
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That's absolutely true on a political level. I'm not so sure that it would apply to breaches of judicial assurances. British judges are cranky, have a strong sense of the dignity of their office and role, and would personally face
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The principle of specialty prevents a requesting state changing the charges after extradition, without re-requesting the extraditing state. I mean, the UK has no way of stopping it, but it would undermine the legal comity that the US needs
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by pmyteh 5y ago
You're right about the imports. Not sure the lobbying campaign would go like that: party discipline in the UK is too strong for picking off sympathetic MPs to be a useful strategy, and political advertising is very heavily regulated.
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The two lead divers (Richard Stanton and John Volanthen) both got the George Medal, the UK's second highest civilian award for gallantry. I think the knighthood is seen more as a kind of national treasure long service award these days.
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That's certainly not true in the UK. The British Red Cross use it, and the military presumably do in war zones, but everything else you'd think would have a red cross tends to have something else. White crosses on green first aid
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The modal number of citations for an academic paper is ~0. 200 citations is a very successful paper in any discipline.
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Fortunately(?) most of us will never be in a position where even 10 people ask to do that...
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It is blocked in the UK, but only using the usual 'good enough' quasi-voluntary measures that cover the bigger ISPs. It's accessible through my more hacker-friendly home broadband. Hilariously, it's also available throug
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Consular services will generally not protect you against another country whose nationality you hold.

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