If you run a queuing system at 95% of max capacity, small variances in load can lead to wildly different queuing times. Unless you have a lot of slack in the system you end up randomly getting stuck … (View Post)

Brookes is very good indeed for some subjects. Not qualified to opine on architecture, but since Oxford University doesn’t do architecture I guess the Brookes dept gets to call themselves whatever th… (View Post)

Not all PR systems entrench party control over MPs. The problem is that the party power structures have a huge vested interest in making sure that any variant of PR we do get does entrench party inte… (View Post)

Cambridge inter collegiate rivalry is the best rivalry. Could the stakes possibly be lower? (View Post)

Agreed, but the Tories should probably have thought of that before sticking two fingers up to the voting public. (Obviously some counting of chickens before they hatch is going on here.) (View Post)