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by pmyteh 6y ago
You might get fired for... supporting your bosses' decision to fire someone?
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Interesting. I've never had any trouble VPNing in for journal articles (in the UK) though there are a few specialised resources (normally expensive databases) which can only be accessed from the library itself. Mind you, Oxford is spar
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Yeah. I'm British, and a few years ago spent several weeks travelling around the US by Amtrak. Not one of my trains was actually on time, and the Sunset Limited (LA -> New Orleans) was over a day late. Our trains aren't great f
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by pmyteh 6y ago
No, it's extremely inconvenient that we can't straightforwardly compare public opinion in authoritarian countries with non-authoritarian ones. FWIW the consensus in political science is that the Trump white house has substantially
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Trump was never popular, at least if you define 'popular' as having positive approval ratings. Maybe in inauguration week. Not afterward[0]. He was obviously popular with some people, but not the country as a whole. Not sure why r
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by pmyteh 6y ago
The concern isn't only coercion, it's also vote buying (which was very common at least in the UK before the secret ballot). If you can take the money and then vote for someone else, retail vote purchase falls apart. The existence
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It's not just one study, either. This isn't the area of political science I work in. Amongst those who do, it's an essentially universally-held belief that term limits for legislators are empirically a bad idea. It's a s
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Jennifer Rubin is not a progressive. She's a prominent (anti-Trump) conservative columnist, hired by the Washington Post as balance/provocation. Her blog is even called 'Right Turn'.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
This depends a lot on the field and the lab. Humanities PhDs have terrible career prospects, but are not generally exploited as cheap labour like PhDs in a lot of science fields. I agree with you about grants and impact scores, though.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It is quite possible to do research as a hobby. It is very difficult to do proper research training as a hobby, and essentially impossible to do a research apprenticeship (which is what a PhD is) outside of an environment where you are bein
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by pmyteh 6y ago
I suspect that's partly because the Queen is a symbol of Britishness, and partly because Elizabeth has been a really good constitutional monarch. (And I say that as an ardent Republican. I'd certainly elect her our first ceremon
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Yes; the Queen's own (extensive) property would remain hers, but the Crown Estate would almost certainly remain with the state. It's a holdover from the days when there was little separation between the King's own money and t
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by pmyteh 6y ago
No. This is a question that comes up in the UK in the context of unaccompanied irregular migrants. If they're under 18, local authorities have certain responsibilities towards them, over 18 not. They do age exams, looking at various ph
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It's not absolutely unknown: "With this ring, I thee wed" from the Book of Common Prayer marriage service seems to me to be SOV (with an adverbial bit in advance), though it's definitely archaic. I imagine it features a
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Handing over to another judge is what recusal is, no? It also should be noted that district judges are independent office holders, and Arbuthnot's position as Chief Magistrate is largely administrative - she doesn't have the power
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by pmyteh 6y ago
In Britain, we deal with this problem partly by allowing proxy voting, where you can expressly authorise someone else to vote (in person) on your behalf. I had to do this once when my wife had an unexpected business trip after the postal vo
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by pmyteh 6y ago
This isn't so much of a problem in the UK, where separation of powers is much weaker and the executive have a nearly-built-in legislative majority. Of course, that does bring other problems...
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Extradition cases are the responsibility of the magistrates' courts. In practice, they're not given to benches of volunteer magistrates, but to the group of District Judge (Magistrates Court)s who sit in a single court (Westminste
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by pmyteh 6y ago
The list of people who can witness passport applications in the UK is quite interesting. It's got all the usual jobs you'd expect (lawyers, doctors, clergy etc.) and then a set of other jobs which are wildly diverse: childminders,
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Bluntly, college costs are not going to be dropping, at least this year. Universities still have the buildings, the infrastructure, and the staff that they bought to deliver in-person classes. That those staff are now having to do more work
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by pmyteh 6y ago
There's a lovely LRB piece by Francis Spufford that covers (amongst other things) the accounting and procurement shenanigans required to avoid Concorde getting prematurely scrapped in the 80s, after it was clear it was a dead-end: htt
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Absolutely! Though in two of those cases we held on to the territory against the wishes of the inhabitants because we wanted to keep strategically placed military bases: the Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas and the Chagos archipelago (now the BI
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by pmyteh 6y ago
It's not a real paywall - if you hit the (fairly small) 'no thanks' button the modal goes away without registration. Bit annoying, though.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
> A dedicated menu button on mouse is hard to discover. For what it's worth, it really wasn't. The meaning of at least the left and menu buttons was literally the first thing you would find out when being shown how to use the m
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Well. Even the pi 1 is vastly faster than even the fastest Acorn workstation. The two major flies in the ointment are that RISC OS has never had a wifi stack (use ethernet or an external wireless access point) and that some of the old softw
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Yes. Most apps were 'installed' as a self-contained directory beginning with a '!', wherever you wanted. Double-clicking on such a directory ran the '!Run' script within it, which started the app. You could ope
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by pmyteh 6y ago
My suspicion is that, by the time it became obvious that such things would be essential (maybe 1994 onwards) then the writing was already on the wall. RISC OS was a relatively niche system even in the late 1980s, and it was clear to even to
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Tangerine computers too, back in the day, Acorn (technically a fruit)...
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by pmyteh 6y ago
The first is probably Fraud by False Representation if you do it in England and Wales. ("Made a false representation, dishonestly, knowing that the representation was or might be untrue or misleading, with intent to make a gain for him
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by pmyteh 6y ago
Yes! https://github.com/pmyteh/RISJbot

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