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by corin_ 10y ago
By the nature of what it is, the point of their DRM is to stop multiple people playing from one license. Sure, your example is much more friendly than, say, uploading to a torrent site, but you're still trying to get around the license
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by corin_ 10y ago
I never said the apple slices were fresh. Of course they're not, they come pre-packaged, who would think they were fresh? That doesn't change the fact that they are slices of apple, and that they're not fried or baked. I&#x27
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by corin_ 10y ago
Given you basically said "what could be worse than a cheeseburger, apple and chocolate milk?" here's an easier answer - swap the cheeseburger for a double cheeseburger. There's a nice simple example of "could be wor
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by corin_ 10y ago
Most people would consider their possibly/definitely having HIV to be a more personal piece of information than their email address. If I'd been affected by this Let's Encrypt email thing I frankly wouldn't care, other t
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by corin_ 10y ago
'The media company [...] had assets of $50 to $100 million and liabilities of $100 million to $500 million, filings showed.' http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/10/gawker-media-files-for-ch-11-...
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by corin_ 10y ago
There's many areas to be concerned about regarding privacy in the 21st century, but not this. > show us just how public information is Information we choose to broadcast to the world on a platform designed for broadcasting to the
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by corin_ 10y ago
Sure, but anecdotalmoly I'd guess 95% of my false positives are caused by my being cautious early, not by recharging without hitting 80%
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by corin_ 10y ago
I honestly can't believe how much I've written in this comment about such an insignificant annoyance from a few years. Consider it self-therapy that I accidentally left on HN. I previously had a phone on Vodafone in the UK, and in
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by corin_ 10y ago
Record two minutes of ringing, so that depending on the type you record and the phone of the caller they either think it's ringing normally or two minutes, or think it changed to a different sort of ringing and assume it's some we
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by corin_ 10y ago
I can't think of any time I've thought of or heard someone speaking of South Africa as a western country. Influenced by the West, sure.
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by corin_ 10y ago
I really don't follow your logic, if you hardly ever use more than the first 20% of the battery, why do you need to leave three times that amount as your safety cushion by turning off when you get down to 60%? I don't drive, but d
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by corin_ 10y ago
It rather depends on why they are hogging the battery. Example #1, since it's an "app" you can't remove but that many (I'd guess not far away from most?) people use, is Mail. I wish my email servers would send push
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by corin_ 10y ago
Easy enough to turn it off if you need to before getting back to 80%, though in my experience that scenario rarely comes up. (I do, on the other hand, often find myself turning it on before my battery is low enough to automatically sugges
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by corin_ 10y ago
Japan is also frequently considered not to be part of "the West", I don't what proportion of people think which way though. I'd never consider them included, and in discussing either marketing or sales in business I&#x27
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by corin_ 10y ago
Firstly a pedantic point, he played 7 letters not 8, but his 7 made an 8 letter word. I don't play scrabble more than once or twice a year and am not great even by playing-it-with-family standards. But the concept that not using all 7
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by corin_ 10y ago
Wikipedia's "Cultural Definition": "From a cultural and sociological approach the Western world is defined as including all cultures that are directly derived from and influenced by European cultures, i.e. Europe (at le
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by corin_ 10y ago
Sorry I don't quite understand what you mean? With any advertising, the goal is for the advert to be shown to people who might be interested in it. If I hate sports and you show me an advert for football tickets, you've just waste
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by corin_ 10y ago
It could well be idea of the century if you mean the idea I've heard suggested the most often in "how should Twitter monetise" conversations this century ;)
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by corin_ 10y ago
I don't mind ads (I work in marketing!), but I can't stand Twitter's ads. Biggest issue is that they seem terrible at targetting. They're a social network, they should have good enough data to show me adverts that might
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by corin_ 10y ago
Hey, So, firstly, I'm not qualified in science, medicine or research, and as such I'm completely open to being wrong in anything I said/will say. (But I have been following this area, and these specific researchers, with grea
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by corin_ 10y ago
I think the reason for this is as simple as when you see someone with pen and paper you don't have to wonder if they are actually browsing social media, talking on IM or doing anything else more interesting. I pick between laptop and n
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by corin_ 10y ago
I'd suggest that a more accurate line would be "our culture dictates that if it's a man's problem, it gets fixed, if it's a woman's problem then nothing gets fixed unless enough noise is made about it, which le
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by corin_ 10y ago
> The average corporate lifespan in the US is 27 years. I wonder what the average lifespan is for companies that are already more than X years old, where X could be 1, 2, 5... I'm thinking as a comparison to how the biggest increa
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by corin_ 10y ago
Could they trademark (it wouldn't be copyright) a term that they themselves copied from a work of fiction they don't own the copyright to, given that the context (i.e. what it does) isn't different to that in the work of fict
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by corin_ 10y ago
It's hard to imagine that it will work smoothly enough to be useful, at least right away, and more of an interesting gimmicky gadget. I'm looking forward to trying it regardless, assuming they succeed in releasing it (due Septembe
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by corin_ 10y ago
Nobody is "pretending that it was done right" with regards to placebos etc. The researchers are very clear that they think this is a small and imperfect study that will hopefully pave the way for further research in the area.
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by corin_ 10y ago
Firstly, while this is nothing like proper clinical trials, there are plenty of people who have anecdotes about psychedelics helping their depression before the idea of studying this was a thing. Secondly, if a placebo has a really high rat
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by corin_ 10y ago
> I do think sexuality is at least somewhat malleable. I could never see myself becoming homosexual, but I can easily see how I could have been or could in the future become bisexual. I would be adding a new sexuality on top of my old on
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by corin_ 10y ago
The person you are replying to wasn't saying that paedophiles who look at child porn aren't doing anything wrong. If he was, your rhino analogy would be a good one, and is the reason nearly everyone agrees that child porn should b
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by corin_ 10y ago
He's not saying they don't, just that now there will be more characters remaining for extra hashtags that would previously have been used up by the image/links.

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