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by pmyteh 4y ago
VLSI Technology. As I understand it, Acorn provided the existing ARM2 chip and its design team, VLSI Technology provided design and fabrication expertise, and Apple provided capital (and the potential for the use of the design beyond Acorn)
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Seems basically fine in Liverpool. I've not used them, but they don't seem to block pavements and I've only ever seen a few driven by loons. Certainly never felt at risk as a pedestrian or cyclist by one. Their popularity has
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by pmyteh 4y ago
...and even then they built it mostly inside the mountain , next to an old slate quarry. Which is going to help national park acceptability but not the unit cost of construction I suspect.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Other possible choices are 1708 (last example of the monarch refusing royal consent to an act of parliament, Queen Anne on the Scottish Militia Bill), or 1834 (last example of the monarch dismissing their government, William IV sacking the
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The experience of doing a postgraduate degree is so far away from the experience of studying at Oxford as an undergraduate that they may as well be different universities. Different demographic makeup (much fewer private school kids, much m
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by pmyteh 4y ago
My intuition is 'yes, of course, but you don't get the opt-outs back'. So no budget rebate, Euro participation etc. Which would be a tougher sell in Britain than otherwise. I expect customs union re-entry in due course follow
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Plugs are fused because the current capacity of the in-wall wiring (and the breakers that protect it) is much higher than the safe current capacity of a single appliance's power lead. The circuits are often 32A and most appliances are
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by pmyteh 4y ago
He's not obliged to do anything. He got good PR from the initial commitment, and is now getting bad PR resiling from it. Which seems entirely straightforward.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The sample size is, honestly, mostly irrelevant for these 'headline' type analyses. A good sample of a few hundred will get you a strong estimate, while a biased sample of a few million will get you a bad one. The classic illustra
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy gives a characteristically good (and easy to follow) overview: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Well, the train didn't have the (notional) token, so the signal was correctly at danger. Which is the 1800s solution to the problem (absolute block signaling). And in the 19th century it was also difficult to reach train drivers who
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by pmyteh 4y ago
There's no fare set for that pair of stations specifically[0], so no way of buying a ticket. You could get one to Stockport and another from Stockport to Manchester, but that's obviously not quite the 'any station to any othe
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The StrongARM was a DEC-designed offshoot of ARM which (amongst other things) traded off some of the low power consumption of ARM for greater performance. The last-generation Acorn computer (the RiscPC) had swappable processor cards and Aco
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It's acting in good faith insofar as it does care about establishing transparent markets (and also protecting citizen privacy). It's fortunate (at least for itself) that these ambitions are entirely consistent with political exp
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Yeah, the same in the UK (though I'd quibble about 'outcompete', and 'stronger than' is quite contingent in both countries in my view). Our public transport system still works way better than in the US. And I say
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by pmyteh 4y ago
More militant than Germany, way less militant than France. "Europe" isn't close to a monoculture for trades unions. Even the UK does public transport better than the US, and our union/management relations are very simi
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Kinda. Bits of it are still in force[0], despite us not having a definitive text, but much of it was written to deal with contemporary political problems and was repudiated fairly quickly. It's more important as the start of a (semi-my
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by pmyteh 4y ago
There is non-advertising-supported television and (especially) radio. The BBC and other public broadcasters fund themselves with tax or licence fee income. And when you have small children, avoiding the incessant advertising for toys by put
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by pmyteh 4y ago
FPTP in non-US contexts very regularly has >2 candidates, despite the risk of a spoiler. England has a 2.5 party system where the Lib Dems compete in every seat and win some. Scotland and Wales have nationalist parties in addition to thi
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by pmyteh 4y ago
FPTP has more failures than IRV in general, they're just less visible because you don't have the ranking data to work out the hypotheticals. That may be good for FPTP's popularity, but doesn't make it a decent voting s
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The suggestion was that they weren't likely to be Republicans, given that they've chosen a D over two different Rs, and presumptively wouldn't be voting in a Republican primary. I agree than with (semi-)open primaries that&#x
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Having a low sprung weight is important for pantographs, and getting the 25kV off a rotating contactor would introduce another unhelpful electrical interface I suspect. If you want to know far more than you did before about overhead line
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The winner here isn't the Condorcet winner, true. But in an FPTP election it seems likely the same result would occur so it's at least not worse than the 'default' US system in this case. (Palin beats Begich in a one-win
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The East Coast Main Line is prone to dewirement (where the pantograph comes off the catenary and normally gets tangled and brings down the wire) at an unusually high rate. The folk wisdom is that the use of wired headspans instead of rigid
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The courts' jurisdiction for deciding what is in the 'best interest of the patient' extends only to people not competent to make their own decisions. It's a substitute for imposing the judgement of treating doctors or fa
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by pmyteh 4y ago
They're doing that more here (putting neutral sections with reduced clearance under bridges) but it doesn't save everything. A major disadvantage of being early to the railway game is that we have amongst the most restrictive stru
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by pmyteh 4y ago
This. The capital costs are huge, such that it only makes marginal sense on a financial basis alone. You get further factoring in service improvements (lighter trains without diesel engines -> faster acceleration -> shorter journey ti
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by pmyteh 4y ago
The model is that of Ireland or Israel: the President's actual powers are similar to those of the King - a handful of 'reserve powers' for use in corner cases. Rather than Charles having to make the call, a ceremonial preside
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Looking at the photos, at least one of them crushed a pickup truck coming down in a parking lot. It'd certainly be a bad day for a bystander if they couldn't get out of the way. But, as you say, an uncontrolled landing is no bette
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by pmyteh 4y ago
They are separate, but the different countries have agreed to keep them coordinated. You're right that there was a conversation about the change to absolute primogeniture, with the different realms having to agree to pass the necessary

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