pmyteh

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811.
by pmyteh 10y ago
I spent several months at home with my <1 yr old son. I found it very hard indeed; much harder than either coding or academic research. His needs were difficult to predict, 'success' was undefined, constant watchfulness was hug
812.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Duverger's Law describes tendencies, not inevitabilities. Canada has FPTP and several parties in Parliament. UK the same. A regional split in the party system, or a conservative insurgency against the Republicans in Alabama, or a liber
813.
by pmyteh 10y ago
They'd offer him immunity on the "different crime", then he'd have no defence.
814.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Civil contempt is coercive, not punitive. In theory, he gets released when it's clear that he won't decrypt the drive even if indefinitely incarcerated. So in principle, in the event you describe, we let him out. Of course, knowin
815.
by pmyteh 10y ago
It used to be the Empire's paper of record, and one of the most prestigious in the world (if fairly stuffy, conservative and Conservative). Now, sadly, it's a shadow of its former self. The Murdoch years have seen its journalism,
816.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Oxford University (and, I think, Cambridge, but not the rest of the UK) really do have the senior faculty holding the formal power. There was a debate in Congregation (the University's 'parliament') last year on the question
817.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Yeah; on privatisation they were transferred the airframes as a 'fully depreciated asset'. I'm full of admiration for Concorde as a technical achievement, but it's certainly easier to make a profit if you don't have
818.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Not a plausible alternate reality. The UK had draconian detention regulations in WWII (Defence Regulation 18B allowed the detention of citizens without habeas corpus) but even we were weren't daft enough to use it on the entire German-
819.
by pmyteh 10y ago
People (re-)coming in with green cards, or the Iranian PhD student mentioned in TFA are hardly without knowledge of who they are. They've been vetted by the INS and already live in the country . Even for those strongly against Muslims
820.
by pmyteh 10y ago
In the UK you're entitled to early release on licence at the half-way point in a sentence, assuming good behaviour. So he should serve only 5.5 years in any case.
821.
by pmyteh 10y ago
For the polls to be cooked you would need the active participation of literally hundreds of different polling companies, coupled with none of the employees of those pollsters deciding to reveal the vast left-wing conspiracy. I don't th
822.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Careful - both measures that you mention have baked-in assumptions. Inflation measures are based on a 'standard' basket of goods and services which needs to be chosen, and unemployment measures are dependent on definition: are all
823.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Your ability to handle the consequences of either making bad choices or being unlucky is dependent in large measure on factors like financial resilience (can you afford to take a risky project without running the chance of being homeless?)
824.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Nobody's made micropayments work (yet?). For serious, sustainable and open [edit: and not ad-supported: some are trying to get that to work sustainably for serious news], there are two models out there: The first is traditional public
825.
by pmyteh 10y ago
There are a few subscription-based news models which run like this. Mediapart in France is one of the most prominent: hard news values, subscription-only, online. I work at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, which is doing a
826.
by pmyteh 10y ago
According to the text of Article 50, a withdrawing state remains bound by the Treaties (and thus by EU law) until either (1) an exit agreement is made and enters into force; or (2) two years pass after Article 50 is invoked. So the UK can&#
827.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Yes; derivative Mark 3A/B loco hauled stock was later also built for the West Coast Main Line (plus a bunch of sleepers). I don't know whether the crash standards for 125mph running were higher at the time. The Mark 3s are general
828.
by pmyteh 10y ago
They're quite a bit older than this, assuming you're thinking of the British examples. The last Mark 3 coach was made in 1988, and the Mark 4s have sliding plug power doors. It was still an odd design decision, though. There had b
829.
by pmyteh 10y ago
This. These trains were originally not fitted with central locking, and being able to (accidentally?) open the door at 125mph is obviously unsafe. There have been a few converted to more conventional power doors, but the original design is
830.
by pmyteh 10y ago
This is standard (or at least very common) on public buses in the UK. I don't know how much it makes the job pleasant, but it can't hurt.
831.
by pmyteh 10y ago
There are some glorious counterexamples, though: the Sir John Soane museum in London is both magnificent and magnificently weird...
832.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Yes. England and Wales have for a while had the Criminal Cases Review Commission. If they see a case that suggests a miscarriage of justice, even after twenty years or the exhaustion of appeals, they can send the case back to the Court of A
833.
by pmyteh 10y ago
You absolutely can publish stuff which is known to be false in the Daily Mail, which is one reason it's a tendentious rag. I don't know enough about the NYP's attitudes to known falsehoods to know if that's true for them
834.
by pmyteh 10y ago
OK, that's our point of departure. If the Post gets two officials telling them something then they're going to print that as 'officials say ...'. I agree that this often leads to bad journalism, but not that it's di
835.
by pmyteh 10y ago
The Suffragettes did this in the UK to either force their release/transfer to 'political' first-class prison status or martyrdom. The government passed the so-called 'cat and mouse act' with temporary release follow
836.
by pmyteh 10y ago
I'm not defending the story at all. It ran on the word of two insiders, one of them anonymous. It turned out to be wrong. No shock there. And news production is in no way associated with exceptional care - and never has been. It's
837.
by pmyteh 10y ago
I'm also a research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, and I read (bits of) the US papers most days; I'm not just randomly speculating. There are lots of things wrong with the
838.
by pmyteh 10y ago
Obviously false. There is an explosion of fact checkers and still plenty of investigative journalism teams. If you mean 'not every story is fully fact-checked and the product of investigative journalism', then sure. But then, they
839.
by pmyteh 10y ago
I think you underestimate the importance of culture in organisations, and particularly the fierce independence maintained by the 'news' side of the major American press from the 'money' side. They care a lot about edit
840.
by pmyteh 10y ago
The writer is a prominent (free-market) conservative. As a liberal, I much prefer that we live in a world where my political opponents are also trying to make the world a better place rather than being mustache-twirling Hollywood villains.

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