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by pmyteh 9y ago
And there's some staff reporting as well, which is actually pretty reasonable. This is from the Post last August: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/08/01...
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Governments have regulated human relationships for as long as there have been governments. Sex was under ecclesiastical law in medieval and early modern Europe, and adultery and prostitution have been criminalised and/or regulated from
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Google Scholar is doing a reasonable job at solving the OA discoverability problem, though at the risk of us becoming dependent on it. The deposit problem is, as you say, a lot knottier. I personally suspect a linked network of institutiona
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by pmyteh 9y ago
We're very much incentivised by earning a living, but given that journals either pay us nothing or charge us for publication it's not particularly relevant to this discussion. You're right that volume of pubs and cites is the
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by pmyteh 9y ago
I'm an academic. I've never met one who has objected to Sci-hub. Many of us use it, even to get papers we do have legit access to: journal publishers' access control systems are a pain in the arse. Leaving aside the societa
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by pmyteh 9y ago
The product page, which is probably what most people see before buying it, simply says 'faster Ethernet': > 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core processor, dual-band wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2/BLE, faster Ethernet, and Power-over-Ethe
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by pmyteh 9y ago
There is nothing dishonest about their announcement: they are explicit that speed is limited by the USB bus: > While the USB 2.0 connection to the application processor limits the available bandwidth, we still see roughly a threefold inc
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Yes. This use of the word 'recruit' is a Britishism. We rarely say 'hire' for jobs, especially permanent ones.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
To be fair, the 'very high tax rate' it's been put up to is still less than income tax levels, so it's still being incentivised. I used to be a self-employed consultant. The number of my peers who set up one-man companie
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It's basically a sales tax, but with a reclaim of the sales taxes paid on 'input' goods. So If you make cars you charge a VAT of, say, 20% on the sales price, but get back the 20% tax you paid on the steel, and the tyres, a
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Because VAT is regressive. Also, if it were set high enough to collect an entire state's revenue then it would be evaded on a spectacular scale: it's a tax on movable goods, many of which can be bought elsewhere in the EU and impo
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It is released into the atmosphere, and is a very significant source of environmental mercury pollution. More recent crematoria have scrubbers to specifically remove it from the flue stream.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
> A few years ago, after someone somewhere claimed, like you, that Usenet is still healthy, I had a look back at the group to see what it was like: still dominated by those same crackpots. Usenet's not really a single entity. I used
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Its obvious intention was to centralise currency by preventing the states from making their own scrip. The Framers were perfectly capable of writing limitations on the federal government reflecting those on the states if they wanted to - lo
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by pmyteh 9y ago
There's no constitutional definition of a dollar: gold, silver or otherwise. The restrictions in article I section 10 bind the states, not the federal government. Since the suspension of convertibility into gold in the 70s, dollars are
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Buffett doesn't exactly spend it now (he's got famously cheap tastes). He's also giving much of it away while still alive: $3bn more in Berkshire Hathaway shares to the Gates Foundation last year. Forbes claims that's 40
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by pmyteh 9y ago
I suspect they mean living intellectual, which would rule out Lewis as well as many others.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It's not quite obvious. British constitutional theory holds Parliament to be completely sovereign - so the concept of an illegal piece of statute law is a bit alien. The only real constraints on Parliament's freedom of legislation
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It was unambiguously better if you lived in Great Britain or other places which were at war with Germany but not occupied post-war by the Soviets.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Nobody (even those who thought he was the devil) thought Obama was going to be reckless with nuclear weapons. So that is false equivalence.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
The barrister/solicitor split is theoretically that between litigation (solicitor) and advocacy (barrister). If you're a commercial solicitor working in the city it's very much not a second-best option and is very lucrative
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Germany, at least, has: several million people, just counting those of Turkish descent.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Yes. In fact, its major remit is to improve value for money by targeting NHS treatments better. All of its meta-analyses and treatment guidance are available at http://www.nice.org.uk , if you want to explore.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
In Britain, we rely more on guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). It does comparative reviews to make recommendations on the most suitable drugs to use. Motivation is primarily to restrict crazy-expensi
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Airlines don't sink several billion dollars to 'save face'. It's not a high enough margin business.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Yes; motorways (and other 'special roads') are restricted. It's not a matter of crossing them, though - just being at the roadside is an offence.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
> If a pedestrian crosses the street at a particularly inappropriate time is there a statute under which they could be fined? No. There is semi-binding guidance called the Highway Code, which includes sections for pedestrians ( https:&#x
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by pmyteh 9y ago
At least in England, you prosecute them for obstructing traffic. Even if you have a right of way, you have a right to cross the road, not sit down in it.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
> Jaywalking laws would have happened sooner or later. There are no jaywalking laws in the UK. So I don't think that's true.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
This was tried on a fairly large scale in Milton Keynes, a new planned city in the UK founded in 1967. The traffic grid is high-speed (and roundabout-heavy), and there was an extensive network of grade-separated pedestrian and cycle lanes.

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