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by corin_ 12y ago
Ditto - he's the reason I keep showdead on.
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by corin_ 12y ago
I think probably closer to $10m, but... yeah. A lot.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Actually I just ended the last word with an asterisk (as in to imply I was correcting my parent comment), completely forgot about its use for formatting. Have edited it out now.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Worth noting that powder cocaine used recreationally is usually (or always? not sure) Cocaine Hydrochloride too (though cut with non-cocaine as well, of course)
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by corin_ 12y ago
Looking up a head count number followed by multiplication
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by corin_ 12y ago
Certainly sounds condescending, but there's is a valid point if they worded it better - the CEOs may not know better but they think they do, in that they're the exception to the rule of "if you can both afford and understan
727.
by corin_ 12y ago
I on the other hand would love that. I can't see it working for my job, but from a personal time point of view I'd love it. Everyone's difference.
728.
by corin_ 12y ago
The President is "of the United States" not "of the US Government", it doesn't mean everyone in the country reports to him - I think you might be over-thinking the terminology a little bit.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Worth noting that HN does already have that functionality on a domain-by-domain basis. Not sure which domains exactly, but in 30 seconds found examples for blogspot.com, pinboard.in and github.io (example links below) https://
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by corin_ 12y ago
I hope you're being tongue in cheek, because if not you've missed the point that while you think that, business people will think exactly the same about you from the other side.
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by corin_ 12y ago
The second paragraph of the BBC piece does say "The gang is accused of invading, logging and burning large areas of public land and selling these illegally for farming and grazing" , and doesn't suggest which parts of that c
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by corin_ 12y ago
According to a CNN piece from two years ago [1] Tokelau gets 1/6th of its economy from .tk domains, but it's GDP is only $1.2m. Compare that to Tuvalu, which according to this NYTimes piece first negotiated a deal worth $50m over
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by corin_ 12y ago
He did go a little away from the topic, but you did (roughly) say that, even if it wasn't the crux of your point. > " Every company is, to some extent, an underdog against governments." Why would "Gilded Age robber
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by corin_ 12y ago
Because it's a made-up number. > "We don't disclose exactly what we pay for transit, but I can give you a relative sense of regional differences." They are literally pulling 10 out of the air and saying "IF it
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by corin_ 12y ago
It's fine to be that stubborn if you can win. But against the world of business that needs analytics... I suspect their business model trumps your technology for now.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Not massively useful, but interested me enough to look it up: $6.3B is more than the market cap of 40 companies in the FTSE 100
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by corin_ 12y ago
Really the big difference is that with the government their motivation will always (in theory, of course) be finding the best cure, whereas for businesses it could go either way. Sure, Bayer might have a great opportunity to undercut the ma
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by corin_ 12y ago
In the UK we have (only a recent thing, so afaik it's not massively common yet) "average speed" cameras - they take a photo of you at two points along a road, and calculate your average speed by how long it took you to get fr
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by corin_ 12y ago
Surely it's already art imitating life, just because they've then looked backwards and shown the life example that's similar to the art it doesn't make it life imitating art?
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm sorry to hear that, but it's not really relevant - we don't just ignore all emotions because somewhere someone is worse/better off.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Generally speaking, no. The cookie pools of users to retarget will be stored not by the merchant but a third party (either the company serving the ads, or a middle man). When a user gets tagged they'll stay in the pool of people to re-
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by corin_ 12y ago
It's a game of averages - what you're doing is watching a blackjack game and saying "why on earth didn't you double down on that 18, the next card was a 3!" Sure there's a lot of errors in advert targeting, but
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by corin_ 12y ago
Secure technology doesn't prevent governments from getting the "platforms" to co-operate with them, as we saw with PRISM. I could be wrong, but surely it seems far more likely that they are providing GCHQ with the data rather
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by corin_ 12y ago
Completely back this up - they also run frequently enough that a lot of the time you don't need to worry about their timetables (at peak time between both services - which are nearly identical - there are 8 or more scheduled every hour
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by corin_ 12y ago
Not really - neither that page nor its referenced sources talk to the point of how they shared it with other companies, just states that it happened.
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm not a fan of Apple, but down-voted you for the fact that your comment isn't relevant in the chain. Yes, Apple's use of patents sucks and I too hate that, but it's not a contradictory point to the opinion that they &q
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by corin_ 12y ago
Off-topic, but... > as if there were such a thing as British Summer Have you not looked outside lately? We're having it right now!
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If the Las Vegas Killers Were Muslims We'd Call Them Terrorists(theatlantic.com)
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by corin_ 12y ago
My point is that culturally they can be considered cars, if they look like cars and function like cars. I'd argue that they are cars, even if they get taxed differently than most cars.
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by corin_ 12y ago
There may be legal differences between types of car, but I don't see why three wheels should make it "not even a car". For example in the UK we had a mass-market three wheeler called the Reliant Robin, which was culturally co

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