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by pmyteh 6y ago
Depending on what you're trying to do, there's also newspaper3k: https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper It's quite easy to get "good" extraction for large numbers of outlets/articles witho
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by pmyteh 6y ago
I apologise - you're quite right, I've misremembered. It looks like the Financial Times hasn't joined IPSO or IMPRESS either.
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by pmyteh 6y ago
That's a slightly odd reading of the situation. The Guardian is a member of the other regulatory body IMPRESS. The history of both organisations is a bit complex, but the short version is that press self-regulation in the UK has been s
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by pmyteh 7y ago
If the parties have stable factions and their internal elections are FPTP, then sure. The two right-wing factions of the British Labour party just rolled over the party's left-wing by running a joint slate of candidates while the left
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by pmyteh 7y ago
This is one of the more famous results in political science: Duverger's Law. It's normally phrased as "in a first past the post system, the number of effective parties tends towards two". It's... a useful model. It
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by pmyteh 7y ago
This is right. Generally, rail dominates air for journeys of up to three hours, and is competitive up to about 5. Many of the domestic air routes (and closer international routes like London to Paris) are really only for people connecting o
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The early Quakers considered the use of pagan gods' names-derived days of the week and months of the year to be idolatrous and didn't use them. You still find use of phrases such as 'first day school' and 'on the 21
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by pmyteh 7y ago
You might also enjoy a follow-up article of sorts, also published in the Christmas BMJ, reporting the results of an actual RCT on parachute use: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k5094
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by pmyteh 7y ago
It has grown in real terms, but not as fast as either demand or costs. Healthcare inflation is very high, and greatly outpaces the CPI index that we use for 'real-terms' comparisons. Basically, the same funding in 'real-terms
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by pmyteh 7y ago
I think this is generally excellent advice - and for one reason beyond the obvious 'don't get crushed by massive debt'. In many academic fields, there are many more new PhDs than there are available careers. Just think - in
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by pmyteh 7y ago
I would be very cautious about this article; the botometer tool used to do the classifications is known to be problematic and the study is not available for dissection. I used to work with people at Oxford University who studied this stuff,
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Don't think so: the wording is consistent with a flight that was intending to make an intermediate stop, but cancelled it because of an inability to land and went on to their final destination directly.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
There's no intention to capitalise here: Simon Hradecky (who runs the Aviation Herald) runs almost all his headlines in a standard format: (Crash|Accident|Incident|Report): <Airline> <aircraft type code> at <place> on
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by pmyteh 7y ago
There was also ARMBE, an embedded Basic code editor. It sucked, though.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
There's BBC Basic in RISC OS Open; you can configure a Pi to start up at the Basic prompt like an old BBC if you like. It's not the only implementation, though: the language had also been cloned as Brandy Basic (GPL) and also reim
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by pmyteh 7y ago
It's not a clone as much as a later version. After the demise of Acorn Computers development of RISC OS continued, but split (somewhat acrimoniously) between two different companies, both producing different versions from diverging des
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Ask HN: How best to introduce young children to computing?
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by pmyteh 7y ago
And it would be regulated as a firearm in the UK ("a lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged"; section 57 (1) Firearms Act 1968). There is also a specific list of p
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by pmyteh 7y ago
It's a follow-up to a previous article bemoaning the lack of a randomised controlled trial of parachutes and arguing that they should not therefore be accepted as a valid 'treatment' for falling out of an aeroplane ( https:&#
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by pmyteh 7y ago
In England, you get (essentially automatic) early release at the half way point. He's now held on remand for the extradition proceedings: didn't ask for bail, and essentially no chance of him being granted it given what happened l
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by pmyteh 7y ago
This isn't true for antidepressants, at least. Yes, each new generation has been oversold while it's in patent. But the efficacy of newer drugs has actually been very similar and the side effect profile generally better. Consequen
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Steam trains ran on the Metropolitan and District railways, which have a larger loading gauge. The Northern, and the other deep tubes like the Central and Bakerloo, have always been electric. The tunnels are also regularly cleaned; I doubt
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Instant Runoff Voting is essentially STV in the degenerate case of single seat constituencies rather than multi-member ones. So you're both right! It is in some sense the same system, but it plays very differently in that the results a
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Magistrates actually handle all extradition cases at first instance. Because it's such a specialist area of law, they're all handled by a single magistrates court (Westminster) with a set of specially experienced magistrates. Appe
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The UK has the Equality Act 2010 ( http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents ) particularly parts 2 and 3. There is a private right of enforcement through the county court. I have a friend who is a w
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by pmyteh 7y ago
In addition to wanting to work in a steel mill, you'd have to want to be the only woman in a steel mill , which adds an additional layer of difficulties to what is already a difficult job. Likewise men in unpleasant female-coded jobs
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by pmyteh 7y ago
British law is not all statute; some of it is "common law", which is essentially judge-made caselaw. The prorogation does not contravene statute, and wasn't held to. There is a long line of caselaw going back to the 1600s abo
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by pmyteh 7y ago
It's been done in a variety of other Westminster-model countries, using several different models - a lot of former UK colonies moved away from the Queen as head of state on independence. The closest eqivalent in kind is probably Irelan
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by pmyteh 7y ago
And there are statements by the leave campaign saying that single market membership was on the table. Different parts of both campaigns saying different things to different audiences. And please don't accuse people of dishonest argumen
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Some do, but not the majority (in the leadership or the party). And the party activists (even the leftwing ones) are overwhelmingly remain. That's one of the reasons the votes at the party conference yesterday were so interesting: it w

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