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by pmyteh 7y ago
Even so, it's very difficult to kill a political movement by logical debate (or even by making them look silly). I had the misfortune to know Mark Collett (another one of the BNPers) at Leeds University. We managed to stop him making m
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Nick Griffin's electoral success was not killed by his appearance on Question Time. In fact, a bunch of minority political positions have had a good deal of political oxygen from BBC appearances: I'm thinking mostly of Farage in t
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Digital Object Identifier. It's a permanent, unique ID for a digital resource used mostly by libraries and researchers.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
This is true. A PhD is very close to an apprenticeship model: study at the feet of an expert doing simple work, prove your competence (master's degree/prelims) to start working on your own account under supervision, finally submit
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Maybe the liquidity (though for a buy-and-hold retail investor the iShares has plenty) but the costs are comparably minuscule for both: <0.1% pa.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Interesting. Do you know why the government didn't simply buy them on the open market when they came up and retire them? A 20% premium seems like quite a lot.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Some philanthropic donations are kinda prestige-for-cash deals. My employer, Oxford University, accepted a large chunk of change from Wafic Saïd to endow their business school. If they hadn't taken it, he'd certainly still have th
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Not uniform across France, either. If you try your broken French in out-of-the-way villages in Brittany, you will generally once again get your smiles and encouragement. In Paris, more of the evil eye. The Netherlands is interesting. It&#x2
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by pmyteh 7y ago
My part of political science has been (attempting to) follow scientific method since the 1940s. Its results have been... underwhelming. The main reason for this, bluntly, is that people are really damned complicated . They're difficul
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by pmyteh 7y ago
So here's an example of a Steve Bell editorial cartoon. He's a leftwinger, in the fairly angry and vicious tradition of British satire, but this is a fairly restrained one: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The BBC has all kinds of problems. Waiting for a 'line to take' from politicians is emphatically not one of them.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
They're both true, though. Expectations of decent parenting are lower: just taking both my children to the park gets 'wow, that must be a handful' comments that my wife doesn't get. At the same time, I'm not assum
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by pmyteh 7y ago
This gift is earmarked for the humanities, so it certainly won't train scientists. And quite a chunk of it is going on a new building, which will pay off in decades to come, if at all. I work at Oxford, but I'm really quite unsure
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Very common in theatrical lighting, where a somewhat-focused beam is wanted but the not-quite-crisp edges characteristic of a Fresnel lens are an asset rather than a liability. For example: https://www.strandlighting.com/glo
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The devil is, as always, in the detail. Here, the 'air pollution' is oxides of sulphur, which are a consequence of the use of nearly regulation free dirty bunker fuel by ships. If the measurement is CO2, or other pollutants, it&#x
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by pmyteh 7y ago
It was, though it didn't last until the 1960s - the Married Women's Property Acts in the late 19th Century ended it. The problem with mortgages was more quotidian sexism, I think: women weren't considered to be serious enough
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by pmyteh 7y ago
This year's Christmas BMJ actually contained an RCT of parachute use when falling out of aeroplanes. It found no effect. It turns out that study design can also be a problem, even with 'gold standard' designs like the RCT...
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by pmyteh 7y ago
The internal politics are still interesting, though. "The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court" by Woodward and Armstrong looked (amongst other things) at why Nixon's new Chief Justice Warren Burger seemed unable to push the co
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Very little oil. The French imports are effectively surplus nuclear, as I understand it, while the Netherlands imports are more mixed. We do have a lot of gas still.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Yes, there are standards. The full Australian accident report finds that the 3 times in 29M flying hours that this issue occurred were within the standard (for a non-catastrophic issue, as they found this was). The systems did indeed cross-
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by pmyteh 7y ago
For a handful of organisations, yes - though the adoption of limited liability structures en masse dates only to the late 19th Century, at least in England. To put it another way, we managed to run the industrial revolution with pervasive
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by pmyteh 7y ago
A little pedantic, but: the 707 was one of the first jet airliners. Britain's de Havilland Comet beat it into service by six years, and the Soviet Union's Tupolev Tu-104 by two.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Many newspapers, but by no means all. British national newspapers have, as a class, lost money for decades - plenty of people have been willing to subsidise the losses in return for the influence of owning one - so the economics were bad (a
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by pmyteh 7y ago
I can't see that him being "just" a postdoc has very much to do with anything, especially when covering stuff like this which is foundational rather than cutting-edge.
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by pmyteh 7y ago
Indeed. The court ruled that all four of the alleged offences were crimes in England and Wales, and the fourth was properly characterised as rape. (In case it's not obvious, parent's first quote is the court's summary of Assa
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by pmyteh 8y ago
It is an extradition case: the US have made an extradition request for conspiracy to hack (only). Assange is currently held for that as well as the Bail Act offence.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
> Everybody gets something from the deal Everyone except the patient, who continues to pay the exclusivity premium but would (assuming option 2) have paid less.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Places with partisan vote counting can avoid problems with this kind of thing by having partisans for multiple parties working on the same ballots, perhaps with a neutral overseer.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
A lot of council staff too. Election administration is a local government responsibility in Great Britain, and so many councils use their own staff as well as temporary workers. When I worked for Darlington council there was an all-staff em
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Published in Britain as 'Most Secret War', in case anyone else us looking for a copy and surprised that they're all American and/or expensive...

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