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by corin_ 13y ago
3/5 of vacation time - yes, why not? That's standard for part-time people here in the UK. We obviously don't have the same healthcare situation as you, but surely it's just part of the negotiation? If 5 days a week is wo
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by corin_ 13y ago
Presumably people reading it would be split into two groups, those who understood it as the long version (and therefore already know the argument) and those who don't realise what it's a TLDR for. So either way it's still not
813.
by corin_ 13y ago
For the record, I downvoted it because I don't think that sort of sarcastic comment (posted on its own, adding nothing useful to the conversation) doesn't belong on HN, not because I missed the sarcasm.
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by corin_ 13y ago
There's lots of ways they could be caught that don't lead to the conclusion that Tor is useless - maybe they used it poorly (JavaScript enabled being the biggest issue I've heard of, but I'm sure there's other &quot
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by corin_ 13y ago
According to this press release, the site admin in this case was arrested back in June and has been in custody ever since, so maybe that's just how long it takes to tie up all the strings on this sort of thing?
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by corin_ 13y ago
To be fair, I had a similar reaction (still went ahead and subscribed, though) - I first had the impression I was signing up to receive information specifically related to this one product, and now don't know if that's the case or
817.
by corin_ 13y ago
I don't work in sales, but in marketing - probably 70% of my work calls would be to colleagues/clients, the rest to external people (e.g. Companies we spend marketing $ with). For example, off the top of my head I have 8 hours of
818.
by corin_ 13y ago
I don't know or respect Sam (well, don't respect him more or less than anyone else reading about him), but 'success' depends on many things, it's possible for idiots to find it and for geniuses to miss it, whether b
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by corin_ 13y ago
I'm exactly the same, but don't particularly like it... I do pay lots of attention to who's gay, from celebrities to people I come across personally, and the logical side of my brain tells me it's irrelevant, while the e
820.
by corin_ 13y ago
Not really of any importance to the article, but: > It’s not crazy for Sam Altman’s phone bill to rack up 6,000 talking minutes in a month. He talks a lot, to a lot of people. Maybe 6000 is above average, but is it even close to '
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by corin_ 13y ago
I do agree that there's a technical level needed for pirating content, but its not a high level, I know people who can barely send emails but have learned to torrent TV shows. Personally, I wasn't talking about thinks like command
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by corin_ 13y ago
That's not the right argument to make in favour of him becoming rich - unless you think all chefs deserve a $20m payout? The argument is that he took a risk (presumably accepting a below market rate salary) and worked hard in the hope
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by corin_ 13y ago
> Mark Mulligan, an analyst and co-founder of Midia Consulting, said this should give content creators great cause of concern. > "The next stage of piracy, and one rights holders need to be really worried about, is when the pi
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by corin_ 13y ago
Here's the introductory post: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/ You can read more about Nate Silver at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver
825.
by corin_ 13y ago
It only gives credibility to the claim that the wife had been into the office, nothing more than that.
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by corin_ 13y ago
There's great Mexican food available in London too, maybe not quite like SoCal but still good
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by corin_ 13y ago
There is at least a theoretical logic to banning words like this: if being called bossy is causing girls to lose leadership skills then maybe stopping this artificially (even if people still think it without saying it) could lead to less gi
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by corin_ 13y ago
Since the article mentions the BAFTA Games Awards a few times: Papers, Please didn't win best game, which was to be expected (though his former employer's The Last Of Us did win that and 4 other awards), however it did win for b
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by corin_ 13y ago
It's even worse on BlackBerry - I don't have personal benchmark numbers (I use my phone a lot anyway, so it usually is pretty dead by the end of a day), but if I have Skype running my battery drops to literally a few hours. I&#x
830.
by corin_ 13y ago
It was mentioned, just the opposite of your assumption. "By the time most meat reaches our table, it contains little or no antibiotics. So we receive our greatest exposure in the pills we take, rather than the food we eat."
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by corin_ 13y ago
> It's very hard and expensive to transmit signal on a single frequency. And very easy to pollute everything. FM transmitters for MP3 players are cheap and work well (within a very short range, but that's their use-case), see
832.
by corin_ 13y ago
Certainly those sorts of goals shouldn't be how engineers are judged (or worry that they'll be judged), and they should have their own KPIs. However, it's very beneficial for them to be included in the overall goals, as it ca
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by corin_ 13y ago
Most of the times I need it I have maybe 10 minutes before my train leaves London, it's evening or late at night, so my options are to find the change or hold it until a train comes (and hope that it actually has toilets on... which no
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by corin_ 13y ago
To an extent I agree with you, in terms of the cause (I often compare paedophilia to being gay, or indeed to being straight - I'm gay and I'm fine with that comparison), and also in that we need much better treatment for it, not
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by corin_ 13y ago
Yeah, this drives me crazy. At King's Cross in London (which I'm at at least once a week) it's 30p - if I have cash it's most likely notes not change, so even though they have machines to give change I don't really
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by corin_ 13y ago
I could be wrong, but I think there's far less of a market for producing photos of brutal violence than there is for producing photos of illegal pornography - the law is really about trying to kill the market, rather than it actually m
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by corin_ 13y ago
Https doesn't encrypt the URL you are reading, which kind of gives away what content you're reading when it comes to wikipedia.
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by corin_ 13y ago
To be even more pedantic, surely their targets would consider the mean not the median, so it wouldn't necessarily have to be over the target half the time for that target to still be the average.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Where does it have that meaning? I've never heard it used that way (UK, but not heard it from other countries either). The meaning it has to me is the same one Google gives as its definition: spritz verb gerund or present parti
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by corin_ 13y ago
I'd say that in both cases it can go both ways, as sometimes your goal could be to get something specific from it rather than to enjoy the activity.

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