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by corin_ 13y ago
In the UK (at least in my anecdotal experience, I know people in London, Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire) it seems there's hardly any money to be made in selling weed any more. I'm sure further up the chain there is, but at actual
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by corin_ 13y ago
It doesn't even imply that liquor is a drug specifically, as opposed to containing a drug. And in the context it's perfectly acceptable to use "drugs" to refer to illegal recreational drugs.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Off-topic: apologies, clumsy fingers on my phone gave you a down-vote.
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by corin_ 13y ago
The definition improves if you add "and is created for that purpose", though maybe still not without holes. As an example of your kids' mess, check out Tracey Emin's 'My Bed' [1], it's basically just a mes
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by corin_ 13y ago
That's not the case, because the main BBC websites (e.g. bbc.co.uk) serve the same content to UK and non-UK visitors, with adverts showing to the latter, so they could easily do that on this site too.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Personally I found it interesting and thought-provoking, which is what I want from HN content. If I'd read the article outside HN it probably wouldn't have occurred to me to submit it here, but I'm happy that somebody did. ed
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by corin_ 13y ago
As long as it's not a device with a non-removable battery (such as iPhone), I'd be fine with that. If I could recharge my blackberry in 30 seconds I'd have no problem buying a new battery every 6 months.
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by corin_ 13y ago
I don't follow F1, but surely with anything that's going to give a team a big competitive advantage, a.) there always has to be a line between "haven't used" and "have now used" and b.) to delay other team
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by corin_ 13y ago
In my experience it's actually rarely used negatively (ymmv of course) - I only really hear it when the context is "these people (the boffins) do something about which I don't understand", so it's almost self-deprec
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by corin_ 13y ago
To be fair to him, a thread all about which team is dominating F1 is the kind of place on HN that I would expect to see races discussed. Not sure that shouldve taken you by surprise! Anyway, sounds like the race was good enough for you to
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by corin_ 13y ago
The shoe incident really confused me... maybe because I skim-read, but will read again when I'm off this flight and on a bigger screen than my blackberry. I understand that memory of things will practically dead might be possible, and
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by corin_ 13y ago
It seems to be that way in much of the world - I don't have much knowledge on the topic outside of the UK, but a month or so ago when I was waiting for the new Blackberry OS update to roll out, I had to wait over a month for my network
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by corin_ 13y ago
As I said, you may disagree with the claim. I wasn't even personally supporting the claim in that comment, merely pointing out that it's possible for a.) the claim to be true and b.) Eich is intelligent - they aren't mutually
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by corin_ 13y ago
He still said "most" within the sub-group of reasonably intelligent people, not "all". You may disagree with that claim, but one person not fitting into "most" means nothing.
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by corin_ 13y ago
(I'm not one of the people who has downvoted you.) My personal feeling - speaking as a gay man and therefore somewhat personally linked, but also as somebody who has not once suffered bullying or mistreatment because of it - is that th
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by corin_ 13y ago
Without commenting specifically on the accuracy or lack thereof of Asian stereotypes (my assumption is that they're massively exaggerated, as a side note), the fact that you don't fit them doesn't really mean anything. It&#x2
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by corin_ 13y ago
Total attendance is a poor metric for judging popularity between such different sports, such as MLB (162 games a season for each team) and NFL (16? 18?). But equally average attendance doesn't work for the same reason.
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by corin_ 13y ago
I think it's the fact that you know the price floor is pre-meditated. When you negotiate with someone you feel like you are both compromising, whereas in this case you know they've already decided what their fair price is, and are
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by corin_ 13y ago
I also rarely get on a bus, but I've never come across ones where the driver didn't touch coins in either Oxfordshire or Cambridgeshire (does make it sound like a posh area thing, but both have shitty areas that buses operate in t
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by corin_ 13y ago
This paper is about figuring it out from the contents of the tweets, not looking at geotags and guessing which ones are "home".
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by corin_ 13y ago
While the title might just an alarmist privacy story, the article actually isn't written about that, and it's suggested examples of why this research may be of interest are for marketers and journalists, not anything privacy relat
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by corin_ 13y ago
Are counterfeit pound coins actually an issue? The only real security measure they're known for is patterns / text around the rim which dates back to the days when the metal was valuable enough for people to cut slivers off to mel
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by corin_ 13y ago
Why would a comment being approved by a community member be different to a comment submitted by a community member?
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by corin_ 13y ago
There already is downvoting, it just isn't enabled until you hit a certain karma (I think 500, could be completely wrong as it's late and I'm tired)
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by corin_ 13y ago
Love the idea, think and hope it will improve comments greatly - a few questions: Will you be able to tell whether a comment you posted has been endorsed enough to become visible (or even how many endorsements)? Would it be a good idea (and
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by corin_ 13y ago
No it's the exact opposite, both teams have to approve, not one or the other. Read the article rather than assuming you know what the headline means.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Sorry but I completely disagree, by not criticising Google for doing something they do themselves they are literally not being hypocritical, by definition. You can still criticise them for the situation, just not with that word. You can sti
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by corin_ 13y ago
The rest of the world tweeting about it doesn't mean that much to Turkish people as they won't be seeing the trend lists, and their government doesn't seem to care that the rest of the world is paying attention.
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They become more hypocritical for not criticising about something they do themselves?
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by corin_ 13y ago
I have no experience with Microsoft, but my experiences with equivalent legal departments in other big tech. companies matches his view - they play it safe to the point of being insanely anal about it. These guys aren't there to make s

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