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by corin_ 12y ago
In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange merged into Everything Everywere (now just 'EE') 4 years ago. I can't give an objective statistical answer (or even a first hand subjective answer, as I haven't been a customer of theirs -
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by corin_ 12y ago
Is there such a thing as a non-"artificial" minimum wage increase?
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by corin_ 12y ago
Simply because there are far more people who are likely to forget the rules of science and think "wow, 174 years, it keeps going forever!" than people who think "wow, 174 years, must be magic"
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by corin_ 12y ago
It's possible you're thinking of a previous event I've forgotten, but presuming you're referring to South Africa four years ago, France actually lost 2 and drew 1 - sorry for pedantry :)
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by corin_ 12y ago
I downvoted you not for the opinion (which I do happen to disagree with) but because you're making the mistake of taking your own anecdote and assuming it implies everyone is like you. Among me and my friends, nobody likes rap music, i
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by corin_ 12y ago
The thing is that this report is that it is being discussed, that doesn't mean it will complete, and if it doesn't then this would lower Variety's "accuracy" %, even if they were entirely accurate about the discussi
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by corin_ 12y ago
Asking yourself that question allows you to decide whether the current quality is "<subjective scale from awful to amazing>, but it doesn't help compare now vs. previous though, there are far too many cognitive biases to obj
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by corin_ 12y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to make a blind test of comment quality by year, like a hot or not of comments... Other than setting it up, my questions would be a.) How to filter out comments that give away when they were posted ("wow,
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by corin_ 12y ago
To be honest, who cares. Even if your motivation was karma, if it's a good post we can upvote, if not we won't. Until prizes start getting awarded for karma I'd hope most people don't care about other users getting karma
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by corin_ 12y ago
My gut feeling is that I agree with you that quality of stories has gone back up but that comments have been getting worse continually with no bucking of the trend. Of course that might just be viewing history with rose-tinted glasses, and
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by corin_ 12y ago
Where's the line between "the media" and "people personally involved"? For example, if a 14 year old comes up to me on the street and commits a crime (e.g. he mugs me) and I know his name, would I not be allowed to
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by corin_ 12y ago
I wouldn't call Halo 'huge', and it's extremely US-based, CoD on the other hand is doing pretty well (in terms of esports) outside America as well.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Ignore my numbers, my point was just that without knowing total amount spent on salaries, total net profit, and the tax rates on both, there's no way to state which is going to provide more taxes, and that therefore there's no poi
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by corin_ 12y ago
I'm not one of the downvoters in this instance, but actually I disagree with you. It's not mentioned in HN's FAQ or Guidelines that downvotes are for that purpose, and in fact there's an old comment from pg stating the e
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by corin_ 12y ago
Presumably a chunk of that 80% gets written off by the drivers in expenses, so not all of it will be taxable. Whether it's 10% or 90% that's nontaxable I've no idea.
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by corin_ 12y ago
Citation needed for sure, but being a big % of expenses doesn't mean anything either way - salaries could be 100% of your expenses, and tax rates could be 90%, but if the company has revenue of 100x and expenditure of 10x then 90% of t
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by corin_ 12y ago
There are ways to hold a protest/demonstration/march legally [1], though I've no idea a.) whether what they plan would fit what's allowed on that front b.) whether they have informed police etc. Could well be they'r
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by corin_ 12y ago
> Besides the ridiculous attempt to conflate Uber with evil bankers, it seems strange to suggest "most" of the profit will never be taxed in UK. Aren't all the UK drivers paying taxes? They would, yes - but when any big
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by corin_ 12y ago
If that law is correct then it seems they have a perfectly valid complaint, using an app on your phone instead of a dedicated device is just circumventing the spirit of the law. Whether the law should still exist, and whether this method of
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by corin_ 12y ago
Why did you convert from time to frames to frames to time when you could just have kept it in time? Also, your maths is off: 77,000 videos * 10 seconds = 770,000 seconds 770,000 seconds / 60 / 60 = 213.89 hours
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by corin_ 13y ago
Even if the fact that the earth has survived until now proved it will keep surviving forever (I'm still alive and kicking but I don't think that means I'll live forever), looking at history shows plenty of species going extin
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by corin_ 13y ago
I wrote this comment right after seeing his then got dragged into a meeting before clicking to send it, so will paste it here now... (in response to his reply to you) To be fair, his comment was useful (informs that it's already been d
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by corin_ 13y ago
While you're right that I didn't mention them, and indeed isn't why I'd want to go if I could do it easily, it is the case that there can be "bragging rights" on both sides, just that one is bragging about the
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by corin_ 13y ago
Sorry, I thought you were writing in the context of the great-grandfather comment which was just about Europe vs. USA, my bad
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by corin_ 13y ago
Entirely depends on which country within Europe, France for example has employment laws which are incredibly favorable to employees rather than employers.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Everyone has different preferences. Personally I have no interest in climbing up Everest, but if I could, reasonably cheaply, get there with absolutely no effort for a not-huge price (say $3k for a helicopter to the top and I could get out
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by corin_ 13y ago
That's my experience when people are speaking English, whether first language or not, in other languages I have no idea.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Scientifically alcohol is a drug, culturally it isn't called that. Even go somewhere where people don't drink and they wouldn't use the term "drugs" as an umbrella to include alcohol. > "Of course a local l
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by corin_ 13y ago
Seems really odd using "Never Settle" given how much AMD has been pushing that slogan for their GPUs.
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by corin_ 13y ago
It may be that it's different in the UK (where I am), apart from anything weed generally travels much shorter distances here. I heard from friends in one region here that after the police busted a local farm with a few million £ of wee

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