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by pmyteh 4y ago
That can be made somewhat more secure by unscrewing them and inserting an appropriate epoxy before putting the screws back. Not as good as a proper fixing, but far better than losing bikes to everyone with a spanner.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Yes, they pursued migration because they considered it to be economically beneficial. But their electoral coalition also included groups which disliked it - retirees in particular, and some parts of the older white working class vote too as
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Voting Tory is a minority position however you count it: no government has had even 50% of the votes cast (let alone the votes of those eligible to vote) for decades. Brexit meets the first 'majority' criterion, but not the second
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Won some, lost some. The 60s counterculture birthed the New Left, but the economic aspects of that (and its political power as a movement) were thoroughly crushed by the 70s/80s turn towards economic liberalism (Thatcher/Reagan in
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It's not just safety concerns in general (though it could be in DC): the other problem is that road damage is approximately proportional to the fourth power of axle weight. So doubling the weight of a car causes 16 times the road wear.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
UK universities also have 'external examiners', who are academics from the same subject area in other universities. They're tasked with providing moderation feedback to try to keep standards for each (taught) degree classific
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Often the first implementation is almost an MVP (we have no data on this, let's get some!) and once it's in place it has some inertia. Think of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Nobody would construct a price-weighted index today:
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Yeah, the UK had a bank run (Northern Rock) during the financial crisis in 2007. Once confidence was lost, some of the run was people with more money than our insurance limit in there, the rest ordinary small depositors who didn't feel
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by pmyteh 4y ago
I used to be a bridge tournament director, and have spent a bunch of time working out interesting ways of cheating (which is quite easy, given that very little information needs to be passed for a good player to have a massive advantage).
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Ah, yes - Rubber is quite a different game. It's possible to play duplicate with only four players these days by using Bridge Base Online: they have a database of old competitions, their deals and scores, so you can play against a virt
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Poe's Law, sadly. I've seen people sincerely argue exactly that case :-/
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by pmyteh 4y ago
There are quite a lot of kinds of case that don't fall neatly into one or the other. Another one (at least in England and Wales) is contempt of court hearings arising from civil proceedings. Judges have powers against, for example, lit
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It's common in admiralty law everywhere. If you have a ship that hasn't paid its docking fees, what can you do? The owner is an ocean away and won't come to court even if you find a way to inform them. If you let the ship sai
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by pmyteh 4y ago
That's complicated: * Buses (outside London): yes. Private and (mostly) deregulated. * Buses (inside London): kinda. Private, but heavily regulated (fares, routes, everything) * Trains (outside London): both. The infrastructure is no
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It's not the legal responsibility of the investors, because society has given them limited liability. It may or may not be their moral responsibility, depending on what they knew, encouraged, or whatever. And the usual payoff for m
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by pmyteh 4y ago
I don't read parent's comment as advocating the creation of a stablecoin pegged to XDR, but rather repurposing the principle of targeting (flexibly) a basket of underlying reserve assets as a unit of account in cryptoland.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
It's interesting, because this exact transition (bike+motor assist -> motorbike) has been seen before. In Britain we had the category of 'moped', complete with vestigial pedals, before they were subsumed into the small mot
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by pmyteh 4y ago
If you live in a country with an unstable currency but without strong capital controls, the upside can be had by holding dollars . And that comes without the risk that your known-to-be-a-bit-dodgy nearly-dollar collapses.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
> The habit of name-dropping logically fallacies and thinking it is some kind of slam dunk is so cliche that it needs it's own name. It's sometimes called the 'fallacy fallacy': the assertion that because the argument
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by pmyteh 4y ago
Potter Stewart leaked large amounts of inside knowledge to Bob Woodward for the book 'The Brethren' (which is excellent BTW) though it didn't come out until his death. Abe Fortas eventually resigned under a cloud of partisans
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by pmyteh 4y ago
There are diseconomies of scale too. My experience is mostly of UK higher education, but my feeling is that most universities are a bit too large for their governing structures, and are poorly run as a result.
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by pmyteh 4y ago
England and Wales deals with the footnote issue by sometimes allowing for a 'Protective Costs Order' if the issues raised are of general public importance, resolving them is in the public interest, and the applicant (normally for
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by pmyteh 5y ago
England mostly doesn't (though there's some local variation). Most secondary (11-16/18) schools are 'comprehensive', covering the full range of abilities. It is standard to set pupils by ability in most subjects, bu
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by pmyteh 5y ago
It's totally a NATO proxy war. We're doing everything we can short of sending in our own troops with the intent of defending Ukraine and weakening Russia. It's also totally a Russian war of aggression. The two are not in any
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by pmyteh 5y ago
"Non-Western migrants" are net contributors to the state budget essentially everywhere. They're disproportionately young and employed. In any case, 'non-productive' people like retirees still need income. They could
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by pmyteh 5y ago
Eisenhower's point was also about arms races. If Ukraine and Russia had spent less on defence over the last five years, both would be better off and there still wouldn't be an occupation. As it was, his administration still spen
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by pmyteh 5y ago
The 'English revolution' is complicated. The military one (the English Civil War) was largely undone by the restoration of Charles II. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 (which replaced one monarch with another, less absolutist one)
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by pmyteh 5y ago
It's not at all trivial, and there's a surprising amount of academic research on whether it's even possible. Take the most extreme case: a bunch of new accounts with long-numbered names posting identical political messages. I
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by pmyteh 5y ago
You might be able to do better than £19.10 each way, depending on what time you're travelling. An unlimited all-day travelcard from Ebbsfleet to London[0], including tube/bus/train in zones 1-6 is only £24.40 off-peak (no arr
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by pmyteh 5y ago
My part of Twitter is treating it as a metaphor for academic life...

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