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by corin_ 12y ago
His point (I assume) isn't that these things aren't or shouldn't be illegal while driving, it's that you can make it illegal to drive under the influence without banning being under the influence.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Their claim is that you will share the helicopter rides, however in bad weather you will get a private car without needing to share. Because cars are cheap enough that they can afford to do that (compared to helicopters).
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by corin_ 12y ago
If I'm reading you correctly: it gives the advantage that you can buy or sell bitcoins... which if you're someone wanting to do that is a significant advantage over exchanges that don't.
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'll try it out (installing app on phone now), but can't see it coming close to replacing either Skype or WhatsApp. Skype because in many of my circles is the de facto for business communication, WhatsApp because it's so simp
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm on WP8 which I imagine you probably aren't, so this may not be useful to you, but in case it's relevant across platforms, or in case there are any WP8 readers: a.) I updated when I saw this HN submission, a 17mb update, t
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by corin_ 12y ago
I don't know anyone who uses them - or at least, nobody has ever suggested I use them. And I haven't been interested enough to try myself to consider converting other users. I've got enough communication routes already withou
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by corin_ 12y ago
You're right it does feel like a hack, but one that works fine for me at least. I guess my comments were those of a user thinking about how it works for me, not a technical critique at all.
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by corin_ 12y ago
A lot of negativity, but despite its limitations I already love it. (OK love's too much, but it's a big improvement for me at least.) I don't use whatsapp with a huge number of people, but some of them I talk to daily on it.
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by corin_ 12y ago
It's inaccurate, but personally I find the idea of successfully impersonating a service such that users think they are talking to the legitimate service is a much scarier thing to happen than for a service to get hacked, which can be a
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by corin_ 12y ago
My argument isn't that the law is good/bad (I don't know much about it, other than what was in this Ars article), just that I think they wanted the law to make it easier to catch criminals in general and it just so happened t
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm against the war of drugs, but not sure it's to blame here. A law criminalizing the use of illegally-gained funds is a useful law for them in general, and it happened that their big focus at the time was the war on drugs so tha
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by corin_ 12y ago
Not only am I not a lawyer, I also don't know/remember many of the details of this case. And I said likely, not definitely, guilty in my opinion. Regarding mens rea, I imagine it's tougher to argue that you thought you were l
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by corin_ 12y ago
When will the US DoJ hire a decent PR firm? Again and again during these three years they've made cock-ups that push people (like myself) towards supporting Dotcom even if we don't particularly like the guy, and even if we think f
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by corin_ 12y ago
Without being an expert in the field, and to simplify it both in terms of the nature of the issue I'm talking about and in terms of suggesting there is a single reason for your question: if women don't get the same opportunities a
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by corin_ 12y ago
Thanks, as far as I'm aware I don't have epilepsy but my brain definitely has some other odd wiring.. Will look into epilepsy more anyway :)
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by corin_ 12y ago
If you read it from another source and remember anything else about deja vu, don't suppose you recall anything about this: I don't think I've experienced a pure deja vu since I was a child (so 10-15 years), but since then I d
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by corin_ 12y ago
Well the definition of a crime is whatever the law states, so yes it does fit, the same as not paying required income tax does. You're welcome to argue it shouldn't be - either that license fees shouldn't be charged at all, o
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by corin_ 12y ago
So even if you don't plug in, say you're on a train or in a park, you can't legally watch live TV without a license for your home? I remember 15 years ago people (not many admittedly) having battery-powered handheld TVs - if
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by corin_ 12y ago
Also not a lawyer, but I believe similar to other criminal cases, the investigator, then the prosecutor, then the judge and/or jury would need to make subjective judgement calls to decide whether or not to move ahead with prosecution,
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by corin_ 12y ago
Fair point, but I'd suggest if you dislike the system it would be better to change how downvoted comments are formatted rather than prevent downvoting. The minimum karma requirement already slightly limits downvoting, perhaps it should
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by corin_ 12y ago
I can't down vote this particular comment of yours as it is a reply to me, but wouldn't if I could. But I've no problem if others wish to. Or if they want to up vote you, also fine by me. Other than caring about other users&#
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by corin_ 12y ago
Good point - and I think while you're right in saying "but you shouldn't" there are exceptions. I've done this a couple of times, only if two users made the exact same point, one a while before another. Maybe you&#x
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm a Brit brought up with football (soccer) my #1 sport, a few others I like, and games like baseball as "those stupid American" sports, I became a huge baseball fan about 5 years ago (after going to a Dodgers game). The big
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by corin_ 12y ago
That part of the analogy was just part of the "everyone knows what would happen so why do it" rather than a direct equivalent. I presume. Terrible analogy either way.
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by corin_ 12y ago
If users should be trusted to push comments up, then why not down also? A down vote doesn't have to mean "this comment should not be on HN", it can be "I disagree with this comment" or "I think this comment s
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by corin_ 12y ago
Not directly related to Charlie Hebdo, but related to the Guardian and their "offending" people - they've always been at the top of the list in the UK for being willing to use swear words rather than filtering them out, consi
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by corin_ 12y ago
If those sites hijacking your code aren't actually linking to you, then the visits that show as referred by them are presumably visits staying on those spam sites. In which case by filtering out those visits, you'll also filter ou
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by corin_ 12y ago
> we found WMDs after the attack The text you quote confirms chemical weapons but not weapons on mass destruction
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by corin_ 12y ago
Pretty much agree - I never agreed with everything Assange was doing, but I at least thought he was doing it for the right reasons and respected him for that, but as time goes on he just seems more deluded and often self-interested. I suppo
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by corin_ 12y ago
That' s not comparable at all. 55% of answers were correct, not 50% of the possible material in the library was relevant.

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