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by pmyteh 6y ago
Just FWIW this isn't at all how British unions work. Closed shops are illegal and workers are selected by the employer, not by the union. Seniority might come into play if a workplace with a union recognition agreement wants to imple
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by pmyteh 6y ago
The judges are definitely human, but their biases are very strongly those of the judicial system, not those of the executive. They're all well-off lawyers, and mostly privately educated, white, and male - so there is an 'establish
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by pmyteh 6y ago
This is astute. Employment law in England and Wales has a long history of regulation taking a while to catch up with 'new' ways of operating, but effectively covers everything at issue here. Flexible hours? Absolutely fine. Flexib
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by pmyteh 6y ago
For taxis (which you can hail on the street) the fares are fixed. For private hire vehicles (which you can't) they aren't. In both cases there are 'fit and proper person' requirements to get a licence, and in London ther
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Yes. And the 'paid so you are the customer, not the product' thing has limits. That was one of the original value propositions of cable television, but it turns out to be more profitable to get a platform monopoly and then sell ad
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Work have just given me a new HP Elitebook with a trackpoint, so they're not completely unknown on other makes. Not saying that machine's any good, mind - I haven't had a chance to play with it yet.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
In most UK workplaces with union recognition, the contract is negotiated between the employer and the (recognised) unions, but applies to all employees. Closed shops are illegal, so free-riding on the union is quite straightforward.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Not really, at least in the UK. You can join any union that will have you, and there are several big 'general' unions. But most employers will only recognise a single union (if that) per group of workers. So, if you're an aca
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by pmyteh 6y ago
We're about to get our own: News UK News (from Murdoch) and GB News (fronted by Andrew Neil) are starting, expressly on the Fox News model. It was thought until quite recently that the requirements for 'due impartiality' and
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Parliament overruling the decision about warrant specificity is quite straightforward. The wording in the Act was somewhat ambiguous about how much specificity was required, so the court ruled that it be interpreted tightly in accordance wi
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It's clear that the ban on Sinn Féin members speaking on television was an abuse (by the government). But given that the BBC sidestepped the ban by having them re-voiced by actors (purportedly making Thatcher furious) it's difficu
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by pmyteh 6y ago
This was a case about hacking, rather than surveillance. That's not authorised by RIPA, but under earlier 1994 legislation, and needs a specific warrant from the Secretary of State.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Yes! When I see US jurisprudence getting tied up in knots about whether given rules 'are jurisdictional' or 'are merely mandatory' I can really see the benefit of the decision the HoL took in Anisminic . And it does per
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by pmyteh 6y ago
One problem with this idea is that collective action problems exist. I truly want this new world, but my employment and promotion decisions are based on the old one (closed journals are older, and most of the prestigious journals are old an
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by pmyteh 6y ago
This is absolutely true in theory, but in practice Parliament can find it... a little difficult to legislate so as to overrule some exercises of judicial power. This case touches on one of them: the Act establishing the Investigatory Powers
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by pmyteh 6y ago
And there are other (better) right-leaning sources listed as reliable for politics. The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, for example.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
That was the usual pattern in the UK too, until GDS. (We used to have world class computing facilities in the past before outsourcing them, but that was pre-Web). Credit to those involved (and to Francis Maude, the Conservative minister who
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Yes. We prosecuted him for jumping bail by going to the embassy, but he's served his sentence for that. He's only being held for possible extradition.
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The abolition of the maximum wage was arguably a consequence of organisation by the PFA under Jimmy Hill. I agree that the picture is mixed.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
(Most) English prisoners only serve half the given sentence in prison before being released on license, so he won't go back to prison for that. I don't know if he can be held pending a US appeal on the extradition case, given his
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It's fully functional, though not straightforward. Needs a bit of setup, and doesn't handle multiple machines particularly well. That's the perl version I linked. There's a similarly functional android version, I think.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
My usual plug for TagTime[0], which handles this in a slightly different (and in my view better) way: it stochastically tracks your time by randomly sampling times to ask you what you're doing right now . Fair in expectation, timeless
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by pmyteh 6y ago
There's nothing inhuman about any of the three school pictures here. They're built to a human scale (not too tall, decent amounts of internal room), have generous numbers of windows, and are set in outdoor space with grass and tre
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by pmyteh 6y ago
I had to look up the word 'sociophysics', which isn't used in my part of the discipline, so probably not! There are a lot of physics-derived tools that are coming into increasing use, though. Half of social network analysis s
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by pmyteh 6y ago
There are registration databases, but there are issues. Who trawls the (now huge) database to find the registered studies which never reported? In any case, that could indicate a file drawer problem publication bias or simply that the fundi
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Attitudes towards the replication crisis seem to me to vary between researchers in any given social science discipline. Those (careless?) empirical researchers whose careers are being retrospectively ripped apart are inevitably horrified (a
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by pmyteh 6y ago
That is essentially impossible with the high constitutional requirements for amendments and the current extent of polarisation and constitutional hardball. Even for things which are almost objectively broken: the electoral college, for exam
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by pmyteh 6y ago
There's no requirement in Congress that amendments are germane to the purpose of the bill, unlike in the UK. This kind of 'Christmas tree' bill, where all kinds of personal favourite measures are added to some kind of must-pa
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by pmyteh 6y ago
No. ISBNs are issued by publishers, from delegated blocks, and there's no unified listing. For books in the collections of large libraries (like the LoC) there will be a public catalogue entry with the ISBN attached, but they don'
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Our system of courts is at base very similar to the US, and is adversarial. The only significant parts which aren't are the coroner's courts which investigate deaths using an inquisitorial process. [Edit: we also sometimes have pu

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