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by pmyteh 5y ago
I think this is a fascinating question. There does seem to be an association between 'better' names and higher quality, and I've been wondering why that might be. Older journals have a wider range of available names so choo
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It's not new (not even new in rail applications). One of the key drivers for cheaper and easier footbridges is to close level crossings. In the UK we have tons of crossings - footpath, private road, and highway - dating back to Victori
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by pmyteh 5y ago
It's not really a problem in practice. The UK follows EU food labeling rules, at least for now, and so this is a real (not hypothetical) situation. The easy way is to make it clear through trade dress. Parmesan is normally sold in wedg
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That's absolutely true. I understand that this particular piece is a step beyond that: a 'must run' segment that was mandated by corporate (something for which Sinclair has form).
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Disney was on the ropes several times. Hand-drawn animation is a hugely expensive hits business, and at the beginning there wasn't a library providing huge ongoing royalties to tide them through the gaps.
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Although any union is able to represent members at any workplace, it's worth noting that this does affect future claims for recognition (and so collective bargaining rights) for other unions. In particular, if an employer refuses to re
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There are several different branches of Quakers, as a result of various splits over the centuries, with different worship styles and somewhat different theology. The most evangelical branch (EFCI) often refer to their congregations as &#x27
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It's an interesting article, but I don't think the premise is likely to be true. There's no particular reverence for trees in Quakerism (though there is a concern for the environment in general, as the author notes) and meeti
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Given that the Pulitzers are only given for work that appears in a US publication, that's not terribly surprising. And saying that the Guardian 'doesn't do real journalism' is fundamentally unserious. I have huge probl
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The other way around: he said you should only buy BRK.B if it's trading at a discount. The A shares are convertible to B (though not vice-versa), so if A is trading at a discount it will be quickly arbed away.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
There was a fairly large polling miss in 2015, yes - and the traditional in-depth postmortem by the British Polling Council[0]. Nevertheless, the conclusion from the inquiry was that the shy Tory effect "...is unlikely to have been a c
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by pmyteh 6y ago
For what it's worth, the 'shy Tory' effect isn't really a thing, at least in British opinion polling. Maybe in the 1992 General Election, when it was coined, not since. Polling errors go both ways, most polling misses tu
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At one point the Post Office's own barrister had to tell them in no uncertain terms that their attempts to prevent disclosure might amount to a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice (a pretty serious crime). The Post Office mig
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For the early versions on Archimedes hardware, yes. Later versions had increasing amounts on disk, which increased the boot time from 'nearly instant' to merely 'fairly quick'. Although recent versions of RISC OS are now
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It wasn't how it worked then, either, at least for any value of 'then' in England for the past thousand years or so. Yes, premarital pregnancy was strongly discouraged. But it still happened a lot . And both of GP's fam
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by pmyteh 6y ago
I agree, FWIW. The case when a property is uninhabitable because it's being rebuilt seems fair. Getting a discount just for leaving something empty (or using it once a month) does seem regressive. Fortunately(?), councils are basically
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It does, and it's very likely that we'd eventually win in court if it became an issue. But AIUI, we'd need testimony to 20 years of continuous access as of right to our house (not any of the others on the street). As a ne
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It's actually up to the local council[0]. Oxford at least give you a month zero-rated, then start charging again (I'm in this position due to a messy move). [0]: https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/second-homes-and
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by pmyteh 6y ago
AIUI they (often?) will take it over, but only after it's been made up to the same standard that a new road would need to be for them to adopt it. Which is quite the undertaking, especially when you need to persuade each individual fro
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And worse - not all properties are even registered: there's no complete cadastral survey. It's now compulsory to register land on sale, but there are lots of pieces that haven't been sold in decades or centuries. This can res
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Certainly in cases of collision the owners of the vessel retain liability even with a Suez Canal pilot on board[0]. It's possible that they then have a claim against the canal company for provision of negligent piloting, but I don&#x27
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by pmyteh 6y ago
The Metropolitan Line of the London Underground was partly funded on that model. They bought farmland, built out a commuter railway to it, then either built housing or sold land at a profit in order to get capital receipts to part-pay for t
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by pmyteh 6y ago
I mean, they're dead in the sense that we're not going to build any more - but not in the sense that they're actually all shut down yet. People in Europe have long memories of Chernobyl. I live in the UK, which is a huge dist
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by pmyteh 6y ago
This is one reason why, when the UK had capital punishment, a premium was placed on speed. The condemned cell was set up a few yards from the scaffold and the idea was that the time from the executioner entering the cell to the trap being d
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Arguably they were expected to provide security against external threats, but otherwise no: any social services were the responsibility of the parish in the early history of England. National poor relief laws date to the late 16th Century,
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by pmyteh 6y ago
The state's parens patriae jurisdiction (where originally the King, as 'father of the country' and latterly the courts can take decisions on behalf of those who cannot take care of themselves) goes back centuries - far long
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by pmyteh 6y ago
This is exactly right. Where the NHS won't pay you're free to go private. This case, and that of Charlie Gard, were quite different. The dispute was a welfare one: whether the best interests of the child (Alfie) were to be allowed
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by pmyteh 6y ago
As long as you're being paid minimum wage and the other (limited) employment protections that apply to people with 'worker' status, then it won't matter at all. It's not illegal to have people as dependent contracto
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Lots of businesses in the UK operate with employees not working 40 hours a week. Some of them have 'zero hours' contracts where work is at the discretion of the employer, at hours of their choosing, and with little notice. If it m
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Not in London (which is mostly where Uber works) and the number of private hire licences (again, the category which Uber operates in) are not IIRC limited anywhere. And in practice the value of a taxi over a private hire licence not much hi

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