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by pmyteh 8y ago
The maps on the comparative pages could use a different (ideally equal area) projection. At present, the free-for-all status of Svalbard is extremely prominent :-)
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by pmyteh 8y ago
> > pulled the kill chord. > pulled the plug Kill cords are a thing (on powerboats, particularly) and the original metaphor is fine. > > For years, Lidl is expanding operations. > For years, Lidl has expanded operations. &
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Huntington's normally first appears in a family when the carrier is late in life, so it's really not that simple. Not uncommon to already have grandkids before you know. The average age of onset reduces as the generations go on. A
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The George Soros philosophy – and its fatal flaw(theguardian.com)
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That particular story is an urban legend, but fatal shunting accidents are sadly not. See https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/fatal-accident-at-grosmont-n... for a recent example (an amateur on a preserved steam line in th
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by pmyteh 8y ago
I don't know about the USPS's implementation, but the UK's Royal Mail not only collects ID for this service, but sends an unredirectable letter to your old address saying 'we're starting a redirect, contact us if th
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by pmyteh 8y ago
There are non-trivial numbers of diesel-mechanical (IC to wheels via a gearbox) and diesel-hydraulic (IC to wheels via a fluid coupling) trains out there. The British class 172 Turbostar is an example of the former, most other class 1xx DMU
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by pmyteh 8y ago
It's pretty strongly believed that they were cut in Shakespeare's day too. Something to do with limited legal opening hours and other things that had to go in the programme meaning there simply wouldn't have been time. I have
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by pmyteh 8y ago
There have been more than 3 deaths in 18 years: you can look up the accident reports. Just because the Guardian focuses on three cases doesn't mean that those were all there were. The oil rig death statistics are also difficult to inte
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There aren't many crew on these boats, though. That its a small absolute risk doesn't stop it being relatively dangerous. The maritime union guy suggesting it was as risky than oil rigs was an eye opener for me, as that's one
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Because salience still matters. A show with few viewers who love it enough to want Netflix might get renewed. A show with few viewers all of whom think it's mediocre has no future in any commissioning system.
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by pmyteh 8y ago
This is a great example of the power of norms and conventions. As sibling says, Erskine May in the UK bans tendentious titles. It's not a statutory restriction and could be easily overturned by the House of Commons if it wanted. But no
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Not primarily a popular uprising, but definitively a revolution and not a mere palace coup. The wars went on for many years, large numbers fought on both sides and there were significant social and political changes as a result. And yes, Cr
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Oliver Cromwell would like a word: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War (There have been plenty of other revolutions and uprisings, though most were either elite coups or unsuccessful).
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by pmyteh 8y ago
It would, though it'd be a tricky research design to pull off well: too many moving parts (it turns out to be difficult even to partition video by speaker automatically, let alone everything else). On a more conceptual note, sentiment
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by pmyteh 8y ago
Indeed, and it has been shown that people don't in practice: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jinfopoli.3.2013.0464
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by pmyteh 9y ago
The Express is now a seriously disreputable paper, and you should be sceptical about anything they print. It's been losing readers and journalists for years, and is now largely full of sensation and puff pieces.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It's well known what p-values show. But they are, in practice, used as a gatekeeping mechanism in academic journals in many fields (including mine). Worse, getting p<0.05 is informally seen as a measure of practical significance, ra
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Peh. I've been a victim of violent crime five times. I was punched in the chest on my way to school age 11. I was chased by a gang of kids and punched several times in the back aged 16. I was pelted by eggs while crossing a park twice
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by pmyteh 9y ago
For NHS hospital doctors (including heart surgeons) that's true. General practitioners may be salaried or equity partners (the system is largely by contract to doctors' offices rather than directly employed). There is also a small
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by pmyteh 9y ago
The press had many problems, but this isn't close to a lie. Sensationalistic? Maybe. But to accuse the journalist of lying is claiming that the article is (1) false, and (2) that the journalist knows it's false. They're big c
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by pmyteh 9y ago
> No, it's not, in general; the purpose of representative democracy is to allow the actions of the state to give effect to the desires of the people, on the premise that even most people with the requisite ability to effectively dec
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by pmyteh 9y ago
No, I'm arguing that the concepts of unresponsive elites, and a shadowy deep state, are distinct. The latter is a lot rarer (and, frankly, a lot more sinister) than the former. The idea that the actions of the state don't correlat
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That political elites (publicly) disagree with the public doesn't mean there's a deep state. It just means that your democracy isn't very responsive. 'Deep state' is being thrown around a lot these days. It's p
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by pmyteh 9y ago
I read his politics somewhat differently, as instinctually an FDR-era liberal. No time for 1960s liberal posturing precisely because politics is serious. I mean, irreverent too. But not as a substitute for commitment to a cause.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Flanders and Swann, a British duo of a similar era, are the closest I know of. A different (and generally slightly gentler) kind of humour, but also evergreen and excellently performed. Madeira m'Dear?, All Gall, The Gas Man Cometh, Be
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by pmyteh 9y ago
There's precedent for this in some fields. The UK's Rehabilitation of Offenders Act prohibits asking about most old convictions in most circumstances precisely because it's better for society to give opportunities for ex-cons
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It's not exactly conservative vs liberal; there are divisions on sex and the nature of being a woman even within the body of radical feminists. I'm simplifying extraordinarily here, but one position might be "sex between me
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by pmyteh 9y ago
UK legal position is more nuanced than that. Money-for-sex is generally legal, but on-street soliciting, two prostitutes sharing a flat, some forms of advertising, and many other aspects of the sex trade are crimes. So you may be legal, d
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It's even worse than that, sadly. The tech is called 'driver vigilance devices' and are common on the railways. Although they're better than nothing, it turns out that real drivers end up operating the device automatical

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