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by pmyteh 4y ago
One of the interesting quirks of losing the empire is that there are a lot of precedents for 'Westminster model' countries becoming republics. The straightforward way is to give the reserve powers of the monarch to a mostly-ceremo
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It's the property of the Crown, which is legally a corporation sole with the monarch as the sole 'member' of the corporation. It means, for example, that Charles gets Buckingham Palace and the crown jewels automatically by op
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Yes; the Olympus engines used were derivatives of an existing military turbojet and had reheat from the beginning. It was used for takeoff and then to get through the high-drag transonic regime as quickly as possible to minimise fuel use. O
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Conferencing is an important part of academic life because it: 1) Provides a chance to get expert feedback on work-in-progress manuscripts and; 2) Provides the only chance many of us get for in-person interaction with colleagues working o
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Then ' https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=<doi> ', where <doi> is URL escaped? It seems to me that Crossref can give you the DOI, and once you've got that then getting to article text is pretty tr
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Once you have a DOI (from crossref or otherwise) you can get a legal download link simply by putting ' https://doi.org/ ' in front of it (though it will often go to a summary/login page rather than the PDF) and
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It's quite a difficult problem to solve, really. The easy answer is for the existing PM to continue until the next election (which is the US model) but if they've lost the support of Parliament (which Johnson basically had) then t
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by pmyteh 4y ago
If it's actually gross negligence then it's not just potentially career ending in England and Wales, it's potentially imprisonable (manslaughter by gross negligence, max penalty life imprisonment). You're also entirely
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Because it's something of (potentially great) value to the employer, which can be traded for something of value to the employees. If the contract is time-limited, then you retain the leverage at the time of negotiating the next contrac
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by pmyteh 4y ago
There's currently no/low water pressure, so supply of even non-drinkable water is difficult.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Yes - and voting procedures are a great example. You do not want to be arguing about who is entitled to vote, or the process to be followed, when a highly controversial question is before the group. That guarantees a meta-fight about the
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by pmyteh 4y ago
"Warehouse does not permit usage of storage space for rotten seafood or any kind of living quarters"
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FWIW businesses are not required to accept cash. 'Legal tender' status only matters for paying off a debt; if the company doesn't extend credit to you then it's free to accept whatever payment methods it wishes.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
That's not making the claim that the line of questioning is itself violence. It's making the claim that a consequence of the line of questioning is going to be violence against trans people (in an unspecified time and place). I
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Yeah. I've been towing my children to school in a trailer behind my (non-electric) bike. Not particularly difficult, given the route is mostly flat, though I'm grateful it's only a mile and a half each way (I'm old and u
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by pmyteh 4y ago
This isn't particularly unusual. I live in a house (with a garden) in Liverpool and don't have a car. I cycle the 2.5 miles to work, and there are frequent buses and trains to move around more broadly. There are certainly times it
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Yeah. This is part of the issue that legislative codification is supposed to deal with. A new law is often making a diff to the old one, and you can either keep a pile of diffs in hand and work out what the current state is in your head, or
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by pmyteh 4y ago
In theory Parliament controls everything, but in practice the executive controls everything (because they control Parliament). The separation of powers that does exist is largely because of 'leakage' in Ministers' control of
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Stone is now a 'folk' measure. People still think in them and use them, but all 'official' uses (health records, for example) are kilograms. There are still a handful of official uses of imperial. Miles for driving, as y
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Long before Blair, even. Lloyd George had a semi-official price list for honours, and I'm sure he was not the first. The current price is supposed to be £3m to the Conservative party.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Not sure that's true. I was born and brought up in York, which is heavy on tourism (important from Roman Britain to the late mediaeval, with buildings and archaeology to match). But it's also an ordinary, livable, small city. It&#
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by pmyteh 4y ago
> He starts talking at the ~6 minute mark and explains why renewables will never see more than 10-20% market penetration. ...and yet market penetration of wind and solar in the UK was 26.4% in July[0] and still climbing as we build more
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Comments are a liability for most news organisations: they're generally low quality and give visibility more to those who care a great deal than those with something interesting to say. This goes double for the UK, where we have stri
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You can, but it's not always a good idea. The 'caution' here (our equivalent to the US's Miranda warning) is "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention in questioning some
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If the police invite you for a voluntary interview then you're absolutely free to refuse. The police also have wide discretionary powers to arrest without warrant. One of those grounds is to allow "prompt and effective" inv
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One of the British '100% renewable' companies used to buy renewable power and then destroy their surplus resellable renewable obligation certificates instead of selling them (each supplier was obliged to hold certificates coveri
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by pmyteh 4y ago
This is one of the roles of big archival libraries such as the British Library and the Library of Congress. Some university libraries (the Bodleian at Oxford, for example) also have vast holdings in climate-conditioned warehouses for retrie
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by pmyteh 4y ago
I don't read the launch editorial as 'both sides are bad', but as a challenge to what they perceive as a sloppy and pervasive left-wing 'default' opinion. The 'new orthodoxy' language is straight out of t
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That's part of the skill of a good interviewer: making sure that the audience can follow along, understanding what's actually being said. The interviewer here is obviously an audio enthusiast/record shop owner rather than a j
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Most electric trains only have a small service-and-emergency battery and don't have significant energy storage. For AC electric locomotives it's now standard to return electricity to the grid when using regenerative braking; that&

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