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His second "proof" of uncountability is very poorly explained. Strictly speaking it is false, since all his reasoning applies equally to the rationals. What he shows is that a coun…

You license your contributions under an open licence. You don't give up your copyright. There would be no other sensible way to operate a collaborative encyclopedia without a licen…

I'm not a law lecturer. I spend most of my time wrangling contracts and advising about data law. But I did a stint of part-time work teaching a masters in law. My experience then (…

I was looking at the slide show, see for example: https://equal-earth.com/images/home/Slide_Show2-6.jpg It is the most obvious place to look (being on the front page of the website…

On the detailed map showing Taiwan etc, the text on my image is clearly "Amani". I think that's true on the "big map" also.

Is it popular though? When I studied Geography at school, we had a standard school atlas that was used by a huge number of schools throughout the country and across several generat…

The name of the island I live on (Amami) is misspelled. That does not give me a great deal of confidence about the rest of the map.

When I was learning BSL (British Sign Language), I wanted to be able to note down words I had learned, or the ability to look them up. It was part of how I studied. At the time, al…

To chime in on how English law approaches this (and perhaps amplify some of the good points already made): the common law position is that any restraint of trade is contrary to pub…

I strongly recommend Dixon's The Rise and Fall of Languages ( https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Dixon/dp/0521626544 ) for a slightly contrary view. His experience with Australia sugges…

It has (lots of) non-standard models. Or, to put it another way, there are statements that can neither be proved or disproved. This extends to any theory containing "enough" arithm…

The fact that Peano Arithmetic isn't categorical, and that if you want to nail it down you need either bigger theories (within which you can of course nail down a single model) or …

I missed saying that in England (1) civil juries are essentially hen's teeth nowadays and (2) you don't tend to cross-over. Either you are in court most of the time, or advising on…

One big difference in England (I'm an English barrister, so that's my jurisdiction) is that most short civil proceedings end up being effectively closed to the public, or at least …

When I used to appear in court a lot, I ran into plenty of intelligent people who managed to mess up badly because they didn't follow simple, clearly advertised, rules. So even tho…

Working out whether a lawyer is good, and more specifically good for what you want, is difficult even for another lawyer. People often ask me for recommendations of a lawyer outsid…

As a commercial lawyer, I often have to exchange drafts with another lawyer somewhere else. Almost everyone will accept Word, far fewer are happy with a Google doc. Obviously I can…

The best approach is that you do it like my grandma. She taught me to make pastry. You put the right amount of flour etc in the bowl and then make it. She taught me this when I was…

Indeed. Worse, the ounce, as a unit of mass, has two different meanings in English law, one of which is so obscure and differs so very little from the internationally agreed quanti…

Older British cookbooks - some of which were passed down to me in the family - also use cups. Sometimes volume measurements are easier and cups are fairly handy. Quite a lot of sta…

It's when we met. I was doing my PhD at the time. At the computer lab we had tea breaks when people in different research groups would meet and chat. He was a very interesting pers…