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Andrew Richards
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Trump stole funds from DHS in 2019 during hurricane season. He also provided 99% less than the funding requested by NC during hurricane Matthew-6.1m of 929m requested. I hope we see more reporting like this but these should be crimes not just bad decisions.

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In light of the cases which the UK has lost before the European Court of Human Rights, it's false for Johnson to claim that the ECHR rights existed anyway. See Prof Conor Gearty's demolition of these sorts of myths ukconstitutionallaw.org/2014/11/13/c...

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No worse than English My partner (significant other) My partner (business associate)

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For 3 items I just made the spacing between the numbers the same, but reversed. There's much more freedom for getting same variance for 4 or more items. But ironically, harder to produce examples.

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Yes. For instance, A = {0.2, 0.3, 0.5} and B = {0.1666.., 0.3666.., 0.4666..} have the same variance.

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I don't like the tone of the article, either. But he's not supposed to be an expert on the technological aspects. And his view will necessarily be formed by those he trusts. I don't think he's making decisions against the advice he's receiving.

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It depends who he listens to and trusts. This is from the CEO of the new Energy System Operator NESO on Monday, who must be influential in telling Starmer and Miliband what's realistic.

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🔥🔥🔥 "If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, they could ask for an introduction from Lord Frost - whose spouse Harriet Matthews has been the lead official negotiator for the foreign office on the Chagos treaty with Mauritius." 😱😱😱 ~AA

Post from Robert Pestor: There seems to be significant faux outrage from Tory leadership candidates Cleverly and Tugendhat about the Starmer government’s transfer of the Chagos islands to Mauritius. Official sources tell me the transfer would have happened in materially the same way at roughly the same time if Sunak had somehow won the election. The transfer was being negotiated on the recent Tory government’s watch - including by Cleverly as foreign sec and then by Cameron - and the deadline was in effect set by Washington. I am told that Pres Biden wanted the deal done before the 5 November election. Biden wanted certainty about the future of the US military base on the Chagossian island of Diego Garcia, just in case Donald Trump were to win the election. For confirmation that the deal was clinched on a timetable and in a style to suit the US administration, see Biden’s statement that “it is a clear demonstration that through diplomacy and partnership, countries can overcome longstan
Post by Robert Peston cot'd: "Biden pointed out that the agreement between the UK and Mauritius meant the US had secured “the effective operation of the joint [military] facility on Diego Garcia into the next century.” It is therefore curious Tugendhat should describe  the transfer as “leaving our allies” exposed when the UK’s most important ally, America, has welcomed it. And Cleverly’s denigration of Starmer as “weak, weak, weak” for formalising it seems eccentric when the negotiations with Mauritius were in full swing when he was in the cabinet. As for Liz Truss’s assertion that Boris Johnson is to blame, I am told that Johnson was the last PM to wholly oppose giving up sovereignty over Chagos, and that the talks did not start properly till she was PM. If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, possibly they could ask for an introduction from the former minister Lord Frost - because his spouse Harriet Matthews was the lead official negotiator on this."
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Andrew Richards
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Energy, mathematics, forecasting, analysis. Generally curious.
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