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by corin_ 12y ago
I was born in 1990 - I spent my childhood in libraries for fiction, and I guess occasionally for extremely basic "research" for school projects, but at an age when "research" was enough to look up a book on the topic I n
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by corin_ 12y ago
I was channel surfing on TV yesterday and flicked onto one of the Harry Potter films, to hear Hermione saying she researched something in the library and couldn't find a single reference - my immediate thought before moving on a channe
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by corin_ 12y ago
Sometimes I feel like half of my HN comments are about this guy, but Aaron Sorkin (writer/creator of A Few Good Men, The West Wing, The Social Network, and recently The Newsroom) wrote this line in a not-very-successful TV show 15 year
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by corin_ 12y ago
To me it makes sense but doesn't parse nicely at all (also British here) - i.e. doesn't confuse me, but I absolutely would re-write it if I was the editor.
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by corin_ 12y ago
A correlation would certainly help back up their suggestion (but not prove), but lack of one wouldn't necessarily mean they were wrong as it would be impossible to control against other possible factors.
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by corin_ 12y ago
So is your (and others) assumption that Mayer was literally making a decision based on no logic at all? The reason I made my point was that judging someone based on not having a degree can be considered foolish, judging someone on not havin
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by corin_ 12y ago
Normally they do, but the fact that Mayer cared about her qualifications surely means it was about more than just the famous face. Generally speaking disqualifying someone for not having a degree is (in my opinion, and many others but ple
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by corin_ 12y ago
It's her doing some of the job. Maybe it's big enough that if the rest of her time was spent sleeping it would still be worth hiring her. Maybe she'd be amazing at the rest of the job, regardless of qualifications. But if y
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm not arguing that she could (or couldn't), just that whether she could do the job was more than just "she's famous". Personally I fall in the camp of people who will judge on experience more than degrees, clearly
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Presumably they wanted her to actually do the job, not just be the face of the job, so her skills beyond "being famous" would of course matter, like hiring anybody else. Of course that doesn't mean I agree with assuming tha
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by corin_ 12y ago
To add to this point: nobody can read all the long-form journalism out there. I love long pieces, read at least a couple each day, but I spent 20 seconds reading the intro to this piece and decided it wasn't worth my time. That's
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by corin_ 12y ago
Not cheaper or more relaxed! Between my hotel and Porte de Versailles (the convention center) was literally one straight road, with a one-way system. Was 15-20 minutes to walk it (Google Maps says 18min), under 5 minutes to drive in one dir
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but from a consumer point of view UberX feels like a limo service (in Paris, London..) In London for example, if you didn't know anything about the company, you wouldn't know the
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In Paris (I think, again anecdotal and I only used UberPop on my most recent trip to Paris) UberX are "citizen drivers", but meeting semi-professional standards in both their service and their vehicle. UperPop, at least feels to t
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London and Tokyo are both also not 24/7 (although London announced a couple of months ago that some central lines would move to 24/7 in the next few years I think).
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In my (only a few days) experience with UberPop in Paris... it was horrible. I've used Uber (various service types) in a few cities, and most of all use them regularly in London. I think I'm close to adding them to my list of comp
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by corin_ 12y ago
Just got linked to this, feel it's probably already been on HN and I missed it last week but couldn't find any submissions so posting in case it hasn't been.
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IBM show POC of social login attack [video](youtube.com)
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That's almost deserving of its own post, nicely done.
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I actually thought they were great - I mean, I wouldn't trust their product, but all I've experienced multiple times there were people who whisper the name of the drug they're selling in your ear while walking past you in the
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Coke often gets cut with other much cheaper drugs that will simulate some effects of cocaine (such as numbing) so that users are less likely to realise how cut their drug is. (All coke will be cut at least somewhat, but if you're buyin
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I've no idea. I suspect that yes, since it's photographic evidence of what is a crime (possession), whereas if you just tweeted "I'm high as hell right now" that wouldn't be proof of a crime. But I also suspect
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Ah, the doses makes sense - I was figuring even if you couldn't tell the difference with a little taste or a tiny sniff, you wouldn't go line for line without realising it wasn't coke... but if one coke-sized line of heroin i
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I think Portugal's policy is great, but it's worth noting that they don't quite treat you just "like a sick person" - there are mandated treatments/etc. that they can (and will) force on drug users, rather th
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The UK isn't (obviously) as free with drug laws as Amsterdam, but here it's illegal to possess but not to use - aka if you walk into a police station smelling of weed and high as a kite on coke they can't arrest (or caution o
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by corin_ 12y ago
> France has a 70% tax on the super rich Things like that are about political values and being far more left-leaning than America on average, not about punishing people. I'd personally benefit from having your point of view on tax
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Why is it the government's job to tell companies what minimum wage they must pay, or what advertising is too misleading to be allowed? Because the goal of the government is to improve things for people. Feel free to argue that governme
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In the situation that exists, the drivers need him to provide that service. Of course I think the system is absolutely fucked up, but that doesn't mean that he isn't providing a useful service to his drivers currently.
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This isn't an area I've ever looked into, so you could well be right that the negatives outweigh the benefits. My gut instinct is to disagree with you, i.e. you'd have to show me the evidence to change my mind (don't get
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I'm fully on Google's side in this news story, but the fact that no-one forces you to use them... that's irrelevant to monopoly or anti-competitive laws (both of which are good things to exist, even if they can lead to shitty

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