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by corin_ 11y ago
Here's one example I remember, though only $100 offered per app: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-d...
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by corin_ 11y ago
I haven't read the one that came out this year, but in previous novels I always got a sense that a lot of the writing did speak to his actual opinions, and felt like I could tell alot about him just from his fiction - but always also w
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by corin_ 11y ago
He seems like an incredibly fascinating and flawed man, and I love reading his novels (not to say that I agree with the views in them..), but I've never been quite sure where the real Houellebecq starts and the fictional persona begins
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by corin_ 11y ago
That would make sense, thanks (your reasoning, not Carson's reasoning.)
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by corin_ 11y ago
It could be a coincidence, but I wonder if this piece (published 3 days ago) was inpsired by this 6-day old Reddit thread: "ELI5: Why don't we already know everything that's inside the pyramids?" https://www.r
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by corin_ 11y ago
Worth noting that it turned out to be a non-story afterall, no armed car heading towards Paris.
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by corin_ 11y ago
French press has been (understandably I guess) ahead of international press on most of this stuff. Personally I'm following http://www.metronews.fr/ http://www.lemonde.fr/ and http://www.lep
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by corin_ 11y ago
I can't find good sources in French press (though my French isn't great), but it was reported by local TV news last night, and for example some English press still has it like this Telegraph blog [1] which says "Authorities
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by corin_ 11y ago
That's by design not mistake. Within the Schengen Area borders are pretty much left open. Even flying you might be asked for ID by the airline but won't be by border control. If you drive from France to, say, Belgium, you'll
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by corin_ 11y ago
The curfew was put into place last night, the first time it has happened since 1944 apparently, but it was lifted again by this morning. It's still recommended to not go outside unless you have to, but not forbidden. (Very recently a c
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by corin_ 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. You wrote the comment I wanted to write but hadn't got round to starting on. The only thing I'd add is that whether in traditional or digital, an awful lot of guesswork is needed to even know how well som
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by corin_ 11y ago
Have you read the article? The entire piece builds to the conclusion that what you say is wrong - or at least, not as right as many people have thought in the past decade. I don't entirely agree with it all.. but if you want to disagre
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by corin_ 11y ago
Amdahl sales people telling customers "this mug will get you a $1m discount if you ask for it" is not the same as IBM instructing sales people to discount $1m if they see the mug. Obviously, knowing that your client is considering
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by corin_ 11y ago
They care while you are a citizen, but you can renounce your US citizenship and they won't kill you for it. I don't think how the US treats citizens living abroad is great, but it's not like you can't get away from it if
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by corin_ 11y ago
Could be that you've never smoked enough to get there, could be you're just lucky. Certainly it's a lot harder to feel shit after smoking than drinking.
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by corin_ 11y ago
> it's impossible to (..) feel sick on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_%28drugs%29 How much it too much would depend on your body and tolerance, but I've seen plenty of people feel sick from smok
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by corin_ 11y ago
Completely agree about the not selling. Not so sure that Google would get zero benefit, though. Firstly, Valve is extremely profitable, crazily so, and seems (imo) unlikely to stop being so profitable, so short of a crazily high PE ratio
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by corin_ 11y ago
Certainly there wouldn't be a 100% match between "would be worth advertising to" and "would pay to remove adverts", but the problem is nobody (afaik) has any data on to what extent it might correlate, and so are sca
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by corin_ 11y ago
They would have to pay more for Valve than any other company they've ever acquired with the exception of Motorola, I think. And I'm still not even sure Valve would say yes, even to a $10b offer (I'd hazard a guess at a fair o
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by corin_ 11y ago
One of the biggest perceived problems with this business model is that the sort of person who would be willing to pay to remove adverts is the sort of person advertisers most want to reach, since the people who won't pay for a better e
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by corin_ 11y ago
There's a middle ground between living in the same house (your houseshares) and living 30+ minutes away from friends. As your parent described it "like in Friends". Obviously comes with it's own downsides - it's not
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by corin_ 11y ago
A comment on that page: Publishers cannot blame advertisers 100% for this situation. As an advertiser, I tried several times to offer, less intrusive ads in exchange for lower CPM. Publishers never, not even once, would be willing to reduc
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by corin_ 11y ago
I actually quite like adverts in the underground... in London I always look at the posters when on an escalator to see if any shows (musicals/plays) look interesting, and I still enjoy looking at adverts on the Paris metro now I live h
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by corin_ 11y ago
Plenty of us still have that view as adults, actually.
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by corin_ 11y ago
How do work inspectors do it? If they ask people and get told how many hours are worked it could work, but it's not like they could count hours.. (I moved to work in Paris this year, so am rather interested... though I believe my &#x27
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by corin_ 11y ago
You beat me to it, I just paused reading to come moan about that before continuing. But not only that, having read a lot about benzos and have previously been prescribed a few different ones for insomnia, their effects are to quote Wikipedi
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by corin_ 11y ago
I'd recommend Ardbeg. I also love Talisker, from the Isle of Skye, which can be a bit sweeter but still quite smokey.
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by corin_ 11y ago
Well you could always just make a new submission linking to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512999 and see if it got upvoted enough - but maybe would be better if the new submission could incorporate the previous com
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by corin_ 11y ago
Mental illness isn't always that simple, though. I don't know much about schizophrenia but I know at least some mental issues won't always respond the same way to medication in different people - sometimes different medicines
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by corin_ 11y ago
To add to your answer: mental illness isn't all or nothing, it's not either you're a normal person with free will vs. you're crazy and everything you say is crazy. People with depression, bipolar, many other mental illne

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