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I agree with you on the decade of mismanagement and five hundred fires, but Labour (and the Lib Dems) supported this bill when it was being voted on.
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Apologies if what I said came across as an opinion. That was a statement of fact. HN is an internet forum, which is a form of social media.
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The point being made here is that while the university claims they don't factor in the applicant's ability to pay the fees, they also conveniently ask for information which helps them infer your social status, making their claim s
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
I remember reading a slightly different version of this. That the extra-curricular part of the application was originally designed to reduce the number of successful Jewish applicants. Jews were historically excluded from many sports, clubs
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
Hacker News is social media too.
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
Seeing a lot of "I'm an AI skeptic and <insert praise for new Google product>" highly upvoted in this thread.
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
I was speaking purely of the 92 hereditary peers.
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
Republics, like Venice and San Marino (oldest Republic still in existence), endured for a millennia. I'll accept they don't have a good track record for defending themselves from hereditary monarchies. e.g. Nizny Novgorod to Musco
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
The aptitude for having one of your daughters be the King's mistress may not be of particular value as a legislator.
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To me (a non-American), that actually makes a kind of sense. Have people in the federal Congress whose job is to speak for their respective state governments. Instead of duplicating the House of Representatives with different electoral boun
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
Technically they are mostly affiliated with one or other political party. It's even a convention for the internal elections that select which peers sit in the Lords, to only have candidates from the same party as the one being replaced
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
It was apparently written by Irish musician Shaun O'Nolan and popularised by another Irish musician Mick Moloney. I don't see a source for the year and location of it's authoring. Maybe you could provide one? And audiences in
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
Though I recognise the similarity, a Irish song about a relative who emigrated to America in the 19th century, fought in the Civil War, becomes a politician and advocates for Irish Independence isn't really on the same scale as what th
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by rgblambda 1y ago
You asked for opinions and you got opinions. I can't disprove your claims about who you've met and what language they were speaking. I can only say it's at odds with my experience. >By your definition of native speakers ev
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by rgblambda 1y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/learning/history/state... This will answer all your queries. >Suggesting there's a unified view from "the protestant community' is disingenuous. I'
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by rgblambda 1y ago
My point regarding the "official" language is that it bears little resemblance to the dialect that largely died out in the 20th century. i.e. it's a fabrication. Contrast that with the differing dialects of Irish where the gr
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by rgblambda 1y ago
>Does modern English read like historical English? If you can read and understand text from the 18th century, then yes. We're not talking about Middle English or Old English. >but the fact that there are "native speakers&quo
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by rgblambda 1y ago
I imagine, post-Trump, it will take possibly a decade for a cohesive conservative party in the U.S. to re-establish itself.
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Part of the issue some people take with Ulster-Scots is that the current official 21st century literature doesn't read anything like the historic literature, which English speakers can easily read and understand. It's often made u
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Anglo-Saxons not Dutch. But the short answer is yes. The word Welsh is derived from the Old English word for foreigner. Latin would have been spoken in towns and cities but as Roman rule collapsed it was replaced by Brittonic (ancestor of
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by rgblambda 1y ago
Shin Bet (Israeli internal security service) have an Arab desk that covers the West Bank & Gaza.
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I'm sure OP has never once made a mistake due to a lack of situational awareness. Everyone knows there's a little situational awareness gauge on your watch that beeps if it drops below 40%. That's how you know it's compr
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In the factory floor I previously worked in, you needed to cross the forklift's domain to go to the bathroom and break room. This involved using exits also used by the forklift. You needed to hear it coming. Even setting aside the fork
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by rgblambda 1y ago
From my limited experience working in a factory environment, listening to music can be a real workplace safety issue if it reduces your ability to hear forklifts or coworkers shouting warnings.
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by rgblambda 1y ago
Add Google Podcasts to the list. I switched to AntennaPod. Youtube Music has too noisy an interface.
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Didn't the last coal power plant in the UK close last year?
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Apologies, I thought you were referring to the Taliban.I've had previous conversations with people who had that misunderstanding. Bin Laden claimed that neither he nor his specific group of Arab foreign fighters (which became the genes
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Often I hear "I wouldn't take a higher paying job. It's not worth the stress". But I find the opposite to be true. The better paid the job, the less that's expected of you.
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The Taliban had very little overlap in membership with the Mujahedeen. They were their successors in the sense that they overthrew them. The Mujahedeen did not morph into or rebrand as the Taliban. In fact they became the Northern Alliance,
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by rgblambda 1y ago
Agree with the second point, but the first point would have an unintended consequence of discouraging people from seeking mental health treatment for fear of losing their guns, thereby exacerbating the problem.

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