Darwin awards (criminal division)
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in economics of media and culture Tags: Darwin awards, Russian
Leg it….
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in economics, economics of media and culture Tags: Darwin awards
Thomas Fairclough: Article 50 and the Royal Prerogative
15 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
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Introduction
This piece seeks to address only one question: does Parliament or the Government have the power to decide to withdraw from the European Union in accordance with Article 50 TEU and through the notifying of the European Council of such a decision trigger the two year time limited formal withdrawal negotiations? Nick Barber, Tom Hickman, and Jeff King have argued valiantly that it will be Parliament who has to “pull the Article 50 trigger”. This piece will analyse their arguments and suggest that, contrary to their conclusions, it is the Government, under the Royal Prerogative, that has legal authority to start the Article 50 process.
The Article 50 Process
This piece assumes that it will be Article 50 that is used to begin the exiting process (as argued for here). It will also assume that the exiting process will begin; whilst there have been some suggestions that the…
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German, French, British, and US real housing prices, March 1975 to March 2016
15 Jul 2016 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, politics - USA, urban economics Tags: British economy, France, Germany, housing affordability
Still have not seen a decent explanation for why German housing prices seem to fall for decades on the trot.
web scraping aircraft crashes
15 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
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the goal:
I want to visualize every plane crash, ever
the data:
The best data I could find was at https://aviation-safety.net/
The data is not in a very consumable structure; it is posted as static html tables throughout the website. I will need to iterate through every unique aircraft accident on the website, extract all data, and put it into a structure that will help me visualize the data. This is a perfect job for Python!
the code:
an aside about the code
The function uses two parameters yearStart and yearEnd. It then iterates through the difference of the years and extracts the html from the webpage of the current iteration. It iterates again through the html and pulls out all links that have the word “/database”. and constructs a list called content of all webpages that have data. The code runs the main loop through…
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I don’t know what Pokémon Go is nor ever heard of it before this week; no plans to change
15 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
How religious are so-called “Islamic terrorists”?
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in defence economics, economics, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics Tags: economics of oppositional identities, war against terror
Why nations fail?
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in constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice
$14,000 per MWh – the price South Australia Pays for Renewables Madness
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Who 2nd preferences @PaulineHansonOz?
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in politics - Australia Tags: Australian politics, left-wing popularism, right-wing popularism
Hanson draws support from across the spectrum and always has. She is not an extreme right-winger who only extreme right wing is vote for. Countering her repeal start with recognising whom she appeals to? On election night, the Liberal party commentator on the TV panel said that about 58% of One Nation preferences go to the Liberals.
Source: Antony Green’s Election Blog: Pauline Hanson and preferences.
The O-Ring theory of development
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in applied price theory, development economics, economics
Why the UK is in the EU – Europass – Yes Minister
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in economics, television Tags: Yes Minister
Labour Leadership 1: The Immorality of Corbynism
15 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
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By Rob Francis
This is a cross post from the author’s Medium blog, reproduced with kind permission.
In May 1987, eight members of the Provisional IRA launched an attack on the police station in Loughgall, County Armagh. Three men drove a digger through the perimeter fence with a Semtex bomb in the bucket, while the rest arrived in a van and opened fire. However, the British Army had received a tip-off about the plans, and ambushed the IRA unit, killing all eight men.
In London, a short while later, Jeremy Corbyn joined others in a minute’s silence for those killed whilst trying to murder police officers. He explained that he was “happy to commemorate all those who died fighting for an independent Ireland”.
The next couple of months will see a Labour leadership election which will test Jeremy Corbyn’s support in the party. My expectation is that he will…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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