pmyteh

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by pmyteh 8y ago
Very much so - they've got a very weird position on the right, and have done for some time now. There's an interesting article at the LRB that explores the Spiked/IoE/related nexus: https://www.lrb.co.uk/
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by pmyteh 8y ago
There's a long tradition of actions in rem (against 'the thing') in law, especially in admiralty actions. If you're, say, the Port Authority for a harbour, and a foreign ship fails to pay its harbour dues, what do you
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by pmyteh 8y ago
That wasn't so bad - the damage was concentrated on one of the transepts (the short 'arms' of the cross-shaped floor plan) and took out the roof but not the walls. The damage was repaired in four years at a cost of only a few
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by pmyteh 8y ago
It isn't heinous; it carries a maximum penalty of two years (which is actually one year, given automatic release) and normally much less than that. The courts do, though, take a dim view of scofflaws. And especially those who successfu
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by pmyteh 8y ago
In Britain, you actually can. This is a result of the "criminal lifestyle" provisions; once the government has proved that you've made money from an ongoing course of criminal activity you then need to specifically show that
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Only if union membership is both required and restricted. In each of my workplaces, union membership has been optional and open to anyone who works there. It's weaker bargaining-wise than a closed shop with entry requirements, but we&#
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by pmyteh 8y ago
From the FDR data in the report, it seems that the AoA sensor disagreements on this flight didn't start until after takeoff. I don't know if this is the normal failure mode.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
<raises hand> And political scientists! (No-one listens to us, of course). More seriously, the case for standard First-Past-The-Post voting is really bad in terms of its decision-making properties. It's really only as dominant as
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Rear exits aren't absolutely unheard of: the 727 and the DC-9 family had rear stair exits, and the 727 one was used in flight at least once (by 'DB Cooper' - probably not successfully though). I don't fancy the chances o
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by pmyteh 8y ago
And taken the lion's share of London to Paris, which was also huge. But a combination of high-speed day trains and low-cost air has killed off many of the very long distance trains and most of Europe's sleeper services. So it&#x27
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Measles is not a completely harmless disease. In most people, it runs like you say. In a small number, it leads to encephalitis or a number of other sometimes-fatal complications. It's not something we'd want to be endemic again.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
'Neocon' is a label applied to a group of formerly-liberal foreign policy hawks, who moved to the right in the 1960s and subsequently. They were some of the strongest voices for military intervention in foreign countries during an
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by pmyteh 8y ago
If you find them that problematic, stick with halogen lamps. There's no shortage of supply, they're slightly more efficient than plain tungsten filaments and they give better light. FWIW if you're looking for nice non-ele
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by pmyteh 8y ago
You're quite right, the Queen does have root. But she's not allowed in the server room after That Incident with Charles, one of her predecessors in the job. And it's been so long since her personal credentials were needed tha
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by pmyteh 8y ago
I agree. The problem with a second referendum, though, is that the vote is to stay it won't be "the country" changing its mind. The country doesn't have one. If 5 percentage points of the previous 52% change their minds,
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by pmyteh 8y ago
I think 'handsInTheAir()' got thrown a while ago; the trouble is that the government's error handler sucks, and so does its parent's (Parliament). But, by design, exceptions don't automatically propagate from Parlia
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by pmyteh 8y ago
I hope not; in addition to negotiating an exit deal, there's also a stack of legislative changes that need to be made before exit (deal or otherwise) which are stacked up and waiting. It's nearly impossible to see how that can be
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by pmyteh 8y ago
The current BBC headline is "Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May's deal by 149 votes", which is a better summary of the situation. For a variety of reasons (legal, procedural, and political) MPs can't simply resolve to reject
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by pmyteh 8y ago
It depends a lot on the circumstances of the individual and their lab/supervisor. If the environment is supportive and a sufficient stipend is provided, then it's achievable without rich parents. The environment is very difficult
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by pmyteh 8y ago
The question is one of enforcement. Parliament can certainly order the production of documents, and send the Serjeant-at-Arms to threaten consequences if the documents aren't provided. That was enough in November to get the documents c
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Not exactly true. You can separate off the paper component and then do "something" with the plastic/aluminium composite that remains: http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/protect-whats-good-enviro... I doubt it
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by pmyteh 8y ago
...and the accident investigation data and reports are expressly restricted from being used in legal proceedings (Chicago Convention, Annex 13) with the intention that the process is for preventing accidents, not for prosecuting scapegoats.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Fair use for news reporting, basically. Their justification is in the email chain at the bottom.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
The River Thames through Oxford is locally known as the Isis, so there are dozens of businesses called things like the 'Isis Guest House'. Many of them have rebranded.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Yes, there are substantial privacy implications from social media research. And they're particularly problematic on a platform where privacy controls restrict access to certain data/conversations to particular friends (and Faceboo
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Maybe, maybe not. But I have a number of academic colleagues working on marketing/news/misinformation on online platforms, and Facebook has always been a problem for analysis. It's next to impossible to get raw data unless
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by pmyteh 8y ago
No extradition for civil judgments, so no. In principle, the successful litigant could seize any assets Musk had within reach of the UK to pay the judgment. Not sure how straightforward that would be, as it'd depend on how Musk's
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by pmyteh 8y ago
And, critically, the variance varies by discipline: science subjects hand out more firsts and thirds, while humanities subjects might give two-thirds of their students two-ones. So, as a single grade it's not particularly meaningful ev
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Ireland doesn't want to leave the EU. It's entire economy is based on EU membership. And they fought a war of independence in the 1920s specifically to avoid being in a 'mini union' with the UK. This kind of 'it w
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Thirty years ago, maybe. It's now got extensive co-decision powers and is a serious body in its own right. In fact, there's an argument that the in-built government majority in the Commons makes that far more of a powerless rubber

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