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by pmyteh 3y ago
The court found they were "workers" rather than employees. It's a sort of half-way status in English employment law for people who are neither employees nor self-employed. It provides some, but not all, of the rights of emplo
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by pmyteh 3y ago
No. The standard bonfire topper is Guy Fawkes or nothing. There are a handful of places that go for the pope (Lewes perhaps?) but anti-Catholicism is much weaker than it used to be in England.
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by pmyteh 3y ago
Yup. The process is a bit different now, and under the purview of the "Big 8 Management Board", but new groups are still possible. Last one was comp.infosystems.gemini in October '21[0] [0]: https://www.big-8.org&#
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by pmyteh 3y ago
There's a multinational seafarers' union called Nautilus International, so it's certainly possible. I don't know if in practice it's three national unions in a tight federation, though. A lot of labour law is nation
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We have both kinds, for different occasions and audiences. Many pubs have no music, or quiet background, and are decent places for conversation. Most bars have pretty loud music as part of the atmosphere. There's a relatively fuzzy lin
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Academic pay is vastly higher in comparable US institutions, and it's fairly easy to get a work visa as an academic. The brain drain is probably weaker than you would expect because so few of us went into academia for the money, but I
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Intriguingly, "fed" is British youth slang for the police despite Britain not being a federal state and there being very few national police. A US cultural import, presumably.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
One of the journals in my field is going through this at the moment. They were set up with an initial grant to cover editorial and typesetting, which is about to run out. Their two suggestions for carrying on are either to charge a couple o
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by pmyteh 4y ago
There was a law passed (Digital Economy Act 2017, pt.3[0]) but it's basically been shelved anyway as impractical. In the UK many laws don't take effect immediately, but only on 'commencement' (normally by government orde
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by pmyteh 4y ago
There is a certain amount of agency in UK parliamentary selections, but the leaderships of both major parties have (for a good while) been keen to limit that. I'm not saying that it's futile -- you'll certainly get a choice o
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by pmyteh 4y ago
I interned briefly for an MP when I was a student. She got Sunday morning off, and spent the rest of the week in Parliament, in committee, in meetings, on the train (reading papers), in the constituency office, or attending political events
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by pmyteh 4y ago
In the UK you can normally submit without your supervisor's approval if you insist (and have survived the programme long enough to actually have a thesis written). The actual viva will most likely be one internal academic (not your s
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by pmyteh 4y ago
In the UK gas central heating and hot water is extremely common but I've never heard of anyone using a gas dryer. Looking them up, it seems that they were always niche and are now off the market entirely. We were all-in on gas (partly
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It's true of association football (soccer) as well, and that's much less cartel-ised. The players have successfully extracted such a high proportion of the surplus that the returns for the club owners as a group are negative.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
There's not necessarily a lot they can easily do, there. Once a route is a RoW the farmer can't close or divert it without the consent of the council. If you've got a RoW crossing one of your fields diagonally then you'r
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Book piracy is as old as copyright. There were presses putting out editions unauthorised by the Stationers' Company when they held a legal monopoly in England, and the US was a famous hotbed of book piracy throughout the 19th Century.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
A proper club, who will give you training and supervision and carefully guide your initiation. In Britain there are a number of good university clubs (I learned with ULSA at Leeds) as well as established local clubs like RRCPC, Northern Pen
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It depends on what you mean by 'cave'. The classic process of cave formation happens in limestone, in 'karst' areas. These aren't evenly distributed, and some countries have tons of them and others not. But there ar
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There are advantages in things like braking consistency that will let you pack more trains per hour down a tunnel with automated systems. London's underground rail network increasingly has this kind of automation, where the driver pres
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Trains are a completely different beast: they can't stop in line-of-sight so the complexities are mostly in engineering a safe (and failsafe) path for the train, rather than the driver watching for obstacles. There are self-driving sys
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by pmyteh 4y ago
I think it's best to see Twitter as a network of networks. Some of those networks have moved (or at least lost enough members to Mastodon/Tumblr/wherever that the network effects are no longer strong for Twitter). Others no
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The usual scenario is that a bunch of students decide that they want to be principled and/or edgy and invite someone unpopular and/or unpleasant to speak. The SU says 'no, we don't let our space be used for meetings with
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by pmyteh 4y ago
You don't give up any rights. Your company (which is a creature of statute) gets whatever rights the law gives it. Which given its privileged position (perpetual succession, limited liability etc.) are inevitably going to be differ
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It didn't happen here, either in my view. Yes, Griffin got rinsed - but the reason his vote collapsed was not that a small number of people watching Question Time suddenly realised that he wasn't any good. Rather, the rise of UKIP
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Most British universities don't map cleanly onto these categories. In theory most of them (including Oxford and Cambridge) are independent educational charities. But endowments are (by US standards) small, and they're so dependent
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The only plausible problem was a Spanish veto, to avoid encouraging secession by the Basque country and Catalonia. If done with the consent of the Rest of the UK, though, I don't think that would have eventuated.
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I think that the case made was arguable, but this was always the likely outcome (assuming that the Supreme Court accepted the case in the first place, which they did). It's extremely clear that the Scottish Parliament can't legisl
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Yes - the traditional liberties of the City are long-standing and fought for. I'm not sure that being mentioned by name in Magna Carta was reason enough to leave it unreformed. The Cinque Ports have been reduced to essentially ceremoni
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It's not particularly independent, but it is the last of the unreformed medieval municipal corporations. In earlier times every borough/city corporation was chartered ad hoc and often had completely undemocratic rules for member
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I was Six Sigma trained in a former job. It's a lot of statistical process control, defect reduction, and process redesign. You could certainly use it to create a dystopia for your workforce, but it's not in any way intrinsic to

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