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by corin_ 11y ago
I'm not sure that's strictly true. I've not yet heard of another species as good as us at making, for example, cars, or computers.
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by corin_ 11y ago
Only a guess but I'd place money on "because that's the best way they can think of to increase advert impressions". I've known publishers do that for this reason, at least. Depressingly.
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by corin_ 11y ago
I think that line was written for dramatic purposes to indicate that he didn't know how long it would take for the Nazis to show up so he had to be as quick as possible. It doesn't necessarily imply that it didn't take him ho
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by corin_ 11y ago
I haven't seen The Big Lebowski so you could well be right, but are you possibly thinking of Ocean's XX (can't remember which number) instead?
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by corin_ 11y ago
You're right that generally "Asian" would be used more for countries like India/Pakistan than China/Japan/etc. but, at least in the south of England, there's no dearth. Oriental restaurants and takeaways t
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by corin_ 11y ago
Used to gamble a lot: casino at least once a week, online for sports betting (mostly UK football, horse racing, sometimes US baseball, and occasionally other sports like tennis), and sometimes online live dealer casino (you see video of a d
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'Our purity is above 99%' the Chinese labs churning out legal highs for the west(theguardian.com)
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by corin_ 11y ago
That was my point. They said, one of these days he actually will quit for good, but I hope not soon.
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by corin_ 11y ago
Relevant quote from the article about a game 5 months ago: > In the semifinal, O’Sullivan found himself 4–1 down and on the brink of losing to Stuart Bingham, the ninth-ranked player in the world. “That was a match where I just thought,
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by corin_ 12y ago
Those statements are not contradictory. Each question goes to only one god, each god may receive more than one question, or none.
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by corin_ 12y ago
FYI you've replied to the wrong comment (presume aimed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9400544 )
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by corin_ 12y ago
Your single point of data (anecdote) isn't really any more useful than his. I know at least one very old person who has smoked all their life, for example.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Or indeed other causes which could create an accidental correlation. The more you eat the fatter you're likely to be, the fatter you are the harder exercise is, the less of it you're likely to do. The more you smoke, the more out
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm probably not an average person (nor am I American), but my TV "average" is higher than actual pure TV watching. For example I could spend 8 hours with a friend, drinking some wine, chatting, with the TV on - paying attent
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by corin_ 12y ago
63 comments and nobody else is shocked yet at "Airlines should be able to automatically fire divorce, custody, or child support lawsuit defendants"? (edit: sorry, one other person did mention it already) Setting aside how shit a s
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by corin_ 12y ago
I only have an anecdote, but I had a day to kill in LA a few years back, and really fancied going to a pistol range (never tried - only used a shotgun here in the UK) - Googling and phoning all the ranges I could find within the LA area I c
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by corin_ 12y ago
There's no way of telling though. Maybe a terrorist attack would have happened a week earlier if the terrorist didn't know they couldn't get past the locked door, so they didn't try it.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Milton Keynes in the UK http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes
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by corin_ 12y ago
You can get lightboxes to have at your desk to help counter this - my mother has one and finds it helpful, though I haven't used them myself.
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by corin_ 12y ago
There actually already is a rule on this, the pitcher has to release the ball within 12 seconds of receiving the ball, as long as the batter is ready to receive the pitch. It's just never enforced. But there has been a lot of talk abou
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by corin_ 12y ago
Schools do have that policy, but in my years in school and indeed adult life since then I've never been aware of knowing anyone with a peanut allergy (anecdote not data etc.)
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by corin_ 12y ago
Oauth logins possible didn't think of that, not direct messages though as isn't following anyone. After 7+ years I strongly suspect it isn't used for logins either, but could be wrong.
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by corin_ 12y ago
It seems a bit random whether they do it... I'd quite like to get my first name (@corin) which has one tweet, posted in July 2007, and no activity at all since. I appreciate their policy of not allowing you to request they kill a dorma
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by corin_ 12y ago
Dear OP, your second user account (an_tye_h3ro) is getting auto-killed, which you won't notice while logged in, so only people with showdead enabled can see comments from that account. I've sent an email to HN about it but they&#x
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by corin_ 12y ago
Sorry but that's ridiculous. Yes, on a philosophical level you can say that, but the word "nature" is defined as excluding anything human-related. > "The phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants
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by corin_ 12y ago
Well that's sorted then, dubcanada must indeed see Twilio ads all the time! One billboard doesn't disprove a claim that a company doesn't do much advertising, especially if it's just a personal anecdote about how many
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by corin_ 12y ago
> You must live in an alternate universe > as recently as 3 years ago Maybe he lives in a universe called the present rather than the past? And even if you had a point, there's no need to be rude about it.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Thanks - though that still doesn't offer any details on why they believe there is a biological cause, not just a social cause. > Adolescents are increasingly using stimulants to compensate for sleep loss, and caffeinated and/o
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'd hope that AAP would have this right, but since they don't cite any studies - my instinct would be to assume that teenagers don't have a specific problem getting to sleep earlier other than social/cultural. It's
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by corin_ 12y ago
If there's ever a time it's OK to judge someone's parenting techniques, it's when they write an article like this - that's practically asking to be commented on. And while you're right that it doesn't give

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