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by pmyteh 1y ago
Depending on how transformative the effects are (and the price drop possible upon genericisation) then there could be a compulsory licensing trade to do here. The drug companies are presumably pricing optimally for profit (but not for maxim
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by pmyteh 1y ago
The traditional response to that was violence against scabs, for better or for worse: it keeps people from breaking picket lines even when otherwise willing. This photo in particular captures something of it: https://en.m.wikiped
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by pmyteh 1y ago
You'll have collectively said "do fidem". The rest is read by the official at the table, not the graduands. The question as to whether this constitutes swearing an oath or making a simple promise was an interesting one for me
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by pmyteh 1y ago
Yes - to a surprising extent. The best diagram I've seen overlays them[0]. The British gauges are the smaller ones starting with W - with W6 being available essentially everywhere and the higher numbers on specially cleared routes to m
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by pmyteh 1y ago
Because of the tight loading gauge in Britain, trying to cram two decks in would make it very small. It's been tried (once[0]) and they weren't able to make it fully double-decker, quick to load/unload, or especially comfor
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by pmyteh 1y ago
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were also US citizens spying for a US ally, at least in theory. Though the Soviet Union had stopped being an ally before they were convicted, of course.
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by pmyteh 1y ago
Some of it is formatting, some of it is just field dependent. SSRN is commercial and "good enough" for many people. It (at least used to) advertise itself as a social network for social science academics. There's also SocArXi
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Switches are not compulsory, they're just conventional. MK, for example, will happily sell you unswitched sockets (and without the "not to standard in the UK" warning for some of their other products). Also not sure what you
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by pmyteh 2y ago
It's a theoretical benefit even with radial wiring, I think, for some smaller devices. A lamp that's designed to draw an amp will have a small, low-current flex which will fail before the main circuit breaker trips (while a 3A fus
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Yeah, those are the same standard - they're still legal. The large ones were used in theatre lighting until recently (wiring is radial and you don't want a fuse to blow 5m above the stage in any case). I think India still uses the
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Spurs have been re-legalised: the Part P changes have now been rolled back to whole new circuits, and spurs and new outlets are back as non-notifiable along with new faceplates etc. That said, you're theoretically supposed to do a full
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Most trade war reciprocal tariffs are carefully targeted for political pressure rather than blanket. Under Republican presidents you might tariff whiskey (easily substitutable, made mostly in red states) and under Democratic ones Boeing or
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by pmyteh 2y ago
To be fair, we've already been through this cycle at least once with animation. The difference between early Disney or even Looney Tunes and (say) late '60s Hanna-Barbera or '80s He-Man is enormous. Since then there has been
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by pmyteh 2y ago
The Scott Trust established its editorial line as "liberal" (in the UK, not the US sense) and it's generally hewed to that. Despite occasional flashes of appearing radical it's an establishment, social liberal paper that
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by pmyteh 2y ago
The ECHR is an international agreement like many, many others. It has special status in UK law only because we chose to: that was the purpose of the Human Rights Act. You can also take complaints of breach to the European Court of Human R
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by pmyteh 2y ago
I was once on a team part of which was putting procurement cards into our (local, British) government. We were doing it to save money: the cost of processing an invoice on paper was ~£10, and effective controls on petty cash were difficult.
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by pmyteh 2y ago
It's clear to me why we might be interested in using AI systems to explore our ethical intuitions, but far less clear why we would expect them to be able to answer such questions 'correctly'. Given there are at least three de
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by pmyteh 2y ago
The limits of judicial review are absolutely contested, and there's a perfectly respectable argument that Marbury v Madison was a wrongly-decided power grab by the judicial branch (albeit now settled law). But it's a long way from
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by pmyteh 2y ago
The federal courts' powers of judicial review have been established for over 200 years since Marbury v Madison. The inferior courts are also organised pursuant to the constitution and have full judicial powers (though can be abolished
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by pmyteh 2y ago
It's (deliberately) a very soft paywall. The LRB offers a certain number of articles for free then hope to attract subscribers, but it's only really a semi-commercial proposition. The whole thing has been subsidised by the editor
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Isla has folded, sadly (though they're still selling replacement parts for now). A shame: their machines really were magnificent. We have also been running through them (mostly second-hand) and selling them on, and it's been a che
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by pmyteh 2y ago
We used to joke that our student caving club was really very safe, having only had seven fatalities over the 50 years it had been operating. In reality we had a lot of expertise and took safety very seriously. The club had always done a lot
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by pmyteh 2y ago
A well-made steak and kidney pie is a thing of delight. Intensely savoury, great texture contrast between the pastry and the filling, lovely with thick-cut chips, ketchup and peas. And satisfyingly bad for you. Even though kidneys are cheap
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by pmyteh 2y ago
There weren't housing shortages in most Northern cities in the 1980s. Significant deindustrialisation had hollowed them out and they were in economic decline. The population in Manchester dropped continuously from 766,311 in 1931 to 39
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Yeah. The big draw was always that excise taxes on alcohol were much lower in France, but the EU guaranteed a right of individual duty-free import for personal use - so the UK couldn't make the money back on entry tariffs. I'm ver
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by pmyteh 2y ago
For many people, $15 lights are fine. My commute only has a very short unlit section and its a very wide and easy to follow path, so the lack of an adjustable beam setting is no big deal. Of course, that means that I absolutely must adjus
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by pmyteh 2y ago
It's somewhere a bit in between those things here. I don't think anyone reading the threads in question would believe that the commentators are being sincere: the tone is not sarcastic but the responses are obviously 'off&#x2
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by pmyteh 2y ago
At least in my experience it wasn't all due to Musk. My part of the academic world was quite small, and seemed to be increasingly uncomfortable with the enshittification of Twitter before Musk's purchase. Observing that the new ow
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by pmyteh 2y ago
The UK had dining cars on many of its long-distance trains, and they've been slowly phased out over the last decades. Two main causes: Firstly, it's very difficult to make it profitable, given the limited number of passengers you
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by pmyteh 2y ago
That's not entirely true. There are places in Z1-2 where people live in flatshares etc. on ordinary salaries. I lived in an ex-council flat near the Elephant with three other people for a few years, for example. That doesn't chang

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