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by corin_ 12y ago
There's an argument to be made that, given the cost of medallions, men like this are essentially enabling people who couldn't otherwise afford to be taxi drivers to do that job.
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by corin_ 12y ago
No - well, not in the way your parent meant. It's abuse if you're using the fact that it's a monopoly to benefit your other areas. It's not abuse if one division of a company makes enough profit to subsidize other areas,
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by corin_ 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8630418 (Submitted 15 hours earlier)
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by corin_ 12y ago
There may be a big overlap, but "tech-savvy" and "think all information should be free" are not synonymous. Personally I'm against submitting paywall links to HN because it makes it harder for everyone to read, but
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by corin_ 12y ago
I think his point is: who released it to the public?
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by corin_ 12y ago
Heh, watched that when looking for the scene I pasted, as I couldn't remember which of those "what's the point of this science" episodes was the one with the quote I wanted - what an amazing show. Need to rewatch again s
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by corin_ 12y ago
Reminds me of a great conversation in The West Wing (one of the best written shows ever made, in my opinion). A senator (ENLOW) has put an anonymous hold on building a supercollider, the white house deputy communications director (SAM) want
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by corin_ 12y ago
One small thought on the penultimate para: > The companies that have had the biggest impact and created the most value have had excellent board members (and executives). I don’t believe this is a coincidence. It can of course go both
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by corin_ 12y ago
I haven't followed (and probably don't know nearly enough anyway) details of e10s, but their claim is contrary to your view: > Performance would improve because the browser UI would not be affected by poor performance of conte
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by corin_ 12y ago
> any long-term security measure requiring secrecy is bound to fail and/or be ineffective Well especially when the secrets are revealed to anyone stood on the street looking / taking photos...
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by corin_ 12y ago
The impression I've always had was that money laundering, as long as they dont mind losing a big chuck of their cash by doing it, is pretty easy - and therefore if they saw the value in getting it into a legal banking system (to lobby
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by corin_ 12y ago
I suspect if it was legal, a lot of people would move towards tobacco-substitutes to mix in their joint rather than actual tobacco. Amsterdam coffeeshops already sell pre-rolleds with "mix" in them (since smoking tobacco is illega
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by corin_ 12y ago
If they were it would almost certainly be through a front in such a way that it wasn't publicly known about unless/until a scandal broke stopping that particular incident. As to whether that's likely to be happening... I&#x27
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by corin_ 12y ago
You're not really disagreeing, except on terminology. You're defining "specialist skills" as "narrowing down your work away from (do everything that allows me to live on my own)", whereas your parent meant &quo
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by corin_ 12y ago
I don't have a car but I haven't existed long before cars. Home Depot may have existed without using software, but a company created more recently than unix wasn't around "long before software"
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by corin_ 12y ago
Purely for the sake of pedantry, Home Depot is actually under 40 years old, so it didn't even exist before software, yet alone after.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Not just if they cross the median, the median might cross them - for example what if the only people to come back to donate a second time were above the median in their first donation, then even if they all donated the same amount the secon
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by corin_ 12y ago
Relevant doesn't necessarily mean requires actions. I average around 100-150 relevant work emails on a typical day (can also be 20), and plenty of them are ones that I only need to glance at for 5 seconds - some that I don't even
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by corin_ 12y ago
And to me I thought "point of sale" rather than "piece of shit", lots of options!
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by corin_ 12y ago
How is that ironic? He even acknowledges himself that he learned this way from moving to Google, and acknowledges that they are the exception not the rule: > "I remember years ago, when I joined Google, I looked at the personal tec
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by corin_ 12y ago
Definitely both types of "too stupid/lazy" exist, but your single data point doesn't say anything to whether you're the 1 in 100 or the 99.
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by corin_ 12y ago
From reading reviews of the BB Passport it sounds like new Blackberries are too - just be sure to avoid the middle ground, the last few years they haven't been good at all.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Could just be the same logic that gets used in any job search quite often of "they're overqualified for this role and so will quickly get bored and move on [and I don't have anything more suited to them]", which wouldn&#
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm no expert, but I imagine the most cost effective way to do this would be to have wifi along the lines rather than on the trains themselves - even if I'm wrong about that, installing wifi onto a train isn't something that
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by corin_ 12y ago
When creating trains for a service that is growing in usage on a consistent basis you can either future proof it (i.e. make it bigger/better than it needs to be right now so that it can survive X years of growth) or you can not future
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by corin_ 12y ago
HN locks the visible count at -4 even if the real count goes below that. Now that comment scores are private (i.e. you can only see scores for your own comments) I'm not sure why they wouldn't change that feature though.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Another user already replied to your parent so I won't repeat the argument but just a note: I downvoted him and I'm English, not everyone (or even most) in the EU think like you, and it's misleading to imply to Americans&#x2F
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by corin_ 12y ago
Dogs are both cuter and easier for us English to relate to than Africans.
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by corin_ 12y ago
All of your examples could include "too much social interaction" as their primary cause, but seem unlikely to, to me. Just because a suicide isn't caused by lack of social interaction, doesn't mean it automatically was
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by corin_ 12y ago
It happens - most recent time I witnessed it was at a company's party in August. Only in the VIP area.. from where I took a few cigars then left to the non-VIP area. It's legal where this party was (Germany), though that's no

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