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by pmyteh 7y ago
Well, there's now a hard (rather than implied) constitutional limit to the executive's power to prorogue Parliament. And the political calculus on the Brexit endgame has changed. And the Prime Minister has been publicly slapped do
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I strongly recommend people read the judgment, or at least the summary. It's very clearly written, and it would let people argue about what the court found, as opposed to what they think the court might have found.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The majority of people in many Labour supporting seats in the North of England are in favour of Brexit. The majority of people who actually voted Labour in those seats are not. That's a subtle distinction, but it's hugely impo
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by pmyteh 7y ago
People voted for 'leave'. At the time, what 'leave' looked like was deliberately left open, by both sides. It's now received wisdom that that 'leave' meant that people wanted no deal Brexit and they wanted
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Unlikely to happen straight away. Due to a quirk of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, a successful VoNC now would allow the Prime Minister to run out the clock by refusing to resign, waiting the maximum two weeks to attempt a superseding
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Very few laws in the UK requiring a prime minister either. That said, there is one missing power which is critically important: the Queen acts by convention on the advice of her ministers, and by convention that is the advice of her prime m
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The High Court ruled it non-justiciable as inherently political (a similar approach to the 'political question' doctrine in US federal courts). The question the Supreme Court grappled with was whether the actual act of prorogation
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by pmyteh 7y ago
That's the major difference between Presidential systems and Parliamentary ones. In the first, the head of government is directly elected and the legislature separately, and in the latter the legislature chooses one of its own as head
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by pmyteh 7y ago
You can differentiate the two by looking at which is closer to pre-illness behaviour. I've been on citalopram for ten years now, and my mental state and personality on the drugs feels very similar to how it was before I became ill, apa
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The British opinion polls are all over the place at the moment, yes. It's very likely that these are not sampling issues, though. British politics is currently in a period of realignment with the position of all parties in flux. Electi
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by pmyteh 7y ago
It's an increasing struggle to get a good sample for surveys, as the rate of people refusing has been going up continuously since surveys were invented. This has methodological implications for survey researchers that are quite serious
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The web page you have linked literally has "A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet" at the top of the page. The internal organisation of Ox
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The union movement has a long history of solidarity, which amongst other things generally includes boycotting unionbusting companies.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
If you attempt an 'aggressive or creative' interpretation of the rest of the criminal law, you will very likely be going to jail. People have been trying innovative forms of theft for centuries, and the laws are broadly enough dra
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by pmyteh 7y ago
So specifically his sentence for skipping bail to the embassy is now over (you normally serve only half the amount given, which is now over) and he's now just being held in the extradition case. He'd normally be given bail for tha
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Post Captain was the permanent rank of captain, equivalent to the modern rank of Captain RN. Post Captains in the Royal Navy commanded ships of 20 guns and up, and the rank and title were retained when on half pay without a ship. Smaller sl
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by pmyteh 7y ago
You're liable for damage to the other party if you're at fault for a maritime collision, so there's at least some countervailing economic pressure against taking the risk. Your insurers will not be happy with you if you neg
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Just a small nit: almost all high-speed systems still use fixed block signalling, but with in-cab signal indications as you say to give more warning time (and a constant reminder rather than having to spot a signal as it goes by in a flash)
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by pmyteh 7y ago
That's true of attempts to remove the guard, but I don't think it's true of automating the driver. Automatic train operation systems are expensive to design and maintain, and their advantage is mainly in precision: if you&#x2
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Differing technical vocabularies, I think: I meant Parliamentary as opposed to presidential or semi-presidential (the two other main categories of Western-style democracy in political science). Americanists in particular see our insistence
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Prorogations are routine. Prorogations to suspend Parliament to stop it doing things inconvenient to the executive really aren't. As with so many things with Brexit, it puts us beyond the conventions of Parliamentary government. I agre
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Interesting. I haven't read his column, and that really isn't something I would have guessed from the book. It's nuanced on Microsoft as a company and pretty empathetic towards the people working on the project who are the ch
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The west coast HS2 route threads between Birmingham and the existing West Coast Main Line, with a branch to Birmingham and a branch to join up with the WCML at (IIRC) around Crewe. It's a little less direct than the existing route, but
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Academic incentives are awkward. Computer scientists and other quants find it difficult to build careers in this stuff as it's often either too derivative to be cutting-edge ML ('you applied last year's tools to an education
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Benefits are a much smaller part of the package. Health coverage, for example, is nationally provided. For most of my employers, the main benefits would be vacation (which would be pro-rata), pension (ditto), and sick leave (effectively dit
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by pmyteh 7y ago
In Britain, it's definitely something you need to watch out for. > indirect discrimination - putting rules or arrangements in place that apply to everyone, but that put someone with a protected characteristic at an unfair disadvanta
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by pmyteh 7y ago
I've mostly worked in public-sector bureaucracies, not software companies, so my experiences won't line up exactly. In each case, the rule has been strictly pro-rata. I've generally felt that the company has had the good end
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by pmyteh 7y ago
There is an entire book on the creation of Explorapedia, I sing the body electronic: A year with Microsoft on the multimedia frontier by Fred Moody (my copy is ISBN 0-340-64927-5). It's fascinating for its insights not only on the me
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by pmyteh 7y ago
For what it's worth, my only interaction with dang was being gently chided for a slightly glib dismissal at the top of a comment I made. The phrasing I used is very common (and treated as harmless) where I was brought up in Yorkshire.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
This. TagTime (which is Free, made by the Beeminder people, and plays nicely with their goal tracking product if you want it) is scheduled such that you are equally likely to be 'pinged' at any moment as any other, with an expecte

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