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by pmyteh 9y ago
The Guardian is a (social) liberal newspaper, not a socialist one. I've never seen them argue for central planning in an editorial, and I've been reading them on and off for nearly 30 years. Not is it particularly fond of economis
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by pmyteh 9y ago
I actually did a fairly robust empirical analysis of the extent to which brand owners did 'register their name in many of them' back when the round of ICANN gTLD expansions was happening. The conclusion was that both currently-fas
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Research. Some sites serve different content or adverts to different countries; some countries filter particular content. To research these effects you need endpoints in several different places.
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"Sci-Hub does not add any value to the scholarly community. It neither fosters scientific advancement nor does it value researchers’ achievements." Well, that's bollocks. Obviating the need to use seven-click uncookied login
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Using social media appears to diversify your news diet, not narrow it(niemanlab.org)
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"sense of shared identity" may be a bit loose; I meant in the sense of not feeling a constituent part of a common political community. Plenty consider themselves European (I suspect rather more in the UK since the Brexit vote made
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Yes; in political science terms the EU is a very interesting hybrid between an intergovernmental organisation ("we the governments") and a supranational government (which could theoretically be "we the people"). The stru
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"Here" in GP's comment is stated as being The Netherlands. Europe does in general have stricter data protection laws than the US, though I don't know them well enough to know which bits of this leak would be illegal here
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Depends on the jurisdiction (and the crime). In the UK, for the most serious (indictable-only) crimes, then no. But you can ask the judge to end the trial after the prosecution case if no reasonable jury could convict, including if as a mat
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It can be done very quickly with multiple units (powered carriages without a separate locomotive). In the UK this is known as "portion working" and is a routine part of some routes' timetables. The slight difficulty doesn&#x2
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by pmyteh 9y ago
It matters. Anything except a truly random sample of the population (essentially impossible) invalidates the statistical guarantees of polling. Consequently, polling involves a large number of processes to both get the most representative s
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by pmyteh 9y ago
There are others. Mine (idnet) doesn't filter and is very good. Andrews & Arnold is famously hacker-friendly and high quality and also doesn't. Of course, when it becomes a legal requirement things might change.
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Sorry - I should have been clearer. I'm in the UK, where there is a pretty sharp distinction between the taught Masters, taken both by intending academics and by others (but in neither case are you in any real sense a colleague of the
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by pmyteh 9y ago
I'm all for people getting called what they want - and the staff in question have earned the professional rank they're insisting on, so it's only polite to follow their wishes. The broader point that formal academic titles ma
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by pmyteh 9y ago
The train goes to a yard off High Speed One (built to the standard European UIC GC gauge) rather than anywhere on the domestic network. It won't be double-stacked anyway, as the structure gauge through Europe is too small for that to b
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by pmyteh 9y ago
Indeed; it was one of the things I liked best about living there. The buses were spectacularly frequent, clean, cheap, and had convenient connections with tube and rail. A triumph, all things considered.
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Pain management, optometry, and many other non-psychiatric disciplines also rely on self-report. There's no bright line between the 'objective' and the 'postulation'.
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by pmyteh 10y ago
Sure. And people also beecome combative when the person arguing with them is being a dick. Case in point: my previous post has attracted a rapid slew of (not exactly undeserved) down votes, and precisely one person (you) even attempting fac
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by pmyteh 10y ago
She probably became combative because you were deploying the lump of labour fallacy and in doing so either explicitly or implicitly blaming women working for the failures of economic policy since the 70s. Although this would at least make a
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by pmyteh 10y ago
Quite true. Analogous things happen in print, though: people often read only the sections of papers which interest them (and, at the extreme, consciously skip those op-ed columnists which raise their blood pressure).
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This is something some colleagues in my research team (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, part of the University of Oxford) are studying. The evidence doesn't seem to show an effect: while there's definitely partisan s
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by pmyteh 10y ago
The online advertisement market has got much less lucrative per impression since then. It's resulted in most online news sources trying other things to keep the lights on (donations, as with the Graun; paywalls, as at the NY Times; nat
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by pmyteh 10y ago
Properly stuffy is "To all whom these presents come, greeting", common opening words of English letters patent, one of the oldest forms of "to whom it may concern" still in use. Can be found on grants of arms and various
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by pmyteh 10y ago
It's very unlikely that anybody would go to prison, even if the charges were proved. What this will do is remove any risk of the tainted elections being voided, resulting in a string of difficult by-elections.
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Much, thanks.
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Polling is hard; there are lots of ways for polls to be inaccurate (see the British Polling Council postmortem of the last general election for the gory details). Those errors don't add up to 20 points. And I say that as a card-carryin
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by pmyteh 10y ago
Almost certainly nothing. NATO has had plenty of dictatorships as members, including Turkey during its various military takeovers.
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The article's quite clear that there's no possibility of the territories being returned (and, indeed, that the lawsuit probably won't even be successful). But this is a political act, not really a legal one, and the aim isn&#
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by pmyteh 10y ago
Yeah, Britain did that. The reprocessing plant has turned into another money pit full of leaking pipes and dubious practices, with a multi-billion pound decommissioning budget. Plus, as you suggest, no-one wants to buy the MOX fuel product
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by pmyteh 10y ago
The German model of trades unionism is built on co-operation between union and management; the history runs deep. One consequence is that workers are screwed over less. Another consequence is that industrial action is rarely necessary.

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