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by corin_ 13y ago
Outside of America there are far more sports that don't try to even the playing field artificially. Motor racing (I don't know much about non-F1 racing anyway) is pretty much the limit in the UK, team games generally work on the f
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by corin_ 13y ago
If you (and the rest of the world) have a policy of spanking your spouse unless they do X, and then you find out that they faked X, then sure spank away. There's a difference between taking away a reward which wasn't deserved an
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by corin_ 13y ago
Sorry, I wasn't commenting on the age of London, just the method of defining any country/city as old compared to a decades-old country.
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by corin_ 13y ago
That's a little like looking at a baby who was born a year ago and calling it old because of another that was born earlier today.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Hah, I copied rather than calculated :( Point still stands that it's easy to see roughly what it is.
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by corin_ 13y ago
I read that differently to you - the words "a quarter of $105" instantly tells me $25.20 because it's such an easy calculation, whereas telling me an extra stat like what that is per day is something I hadn't already wor
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by corin_ 13y ago
Could any sentence combine old-school and new-school geekiness quite so well? I love it.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Stalin and Hitler didn't upset the status quo?
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by corin_ 13y ago
I'd also be pretty upset if the person I was dating told me I had to spend 9-5 with them 5 days a week.. there's quite a few differences, actually.
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by corin_ 13y ago
In case the author is reading this thread - might be worth adding a couple more reward tiers, for example an equivalent of the "major sponsor" on an individual level, maybe $30-60 to be named somewhere as a supporter. $15-$200 see
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by corin_ 13y ago
Sure, but in such cases that will generally come down to employer vs. government regarding taxes etc. (and sometimes about employee rights too), it won't lead to a contractor working the hours/tasks they want to do because then th
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by corin_ 13y ago
Fairly irrelevant if the company says "do the hours and tasks we want you to do or you get none at all".
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by corin_ 13y ago
...as was clear to anyone with any vague understanding of the definitions for deflation and inflation.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Yeah. Ridiculous story.
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by corin_ 13y ago
It's not uncommon in this sort of situation for them all to get upvoted. Firstly, different people will upvote different ones, so if there's a popular story then a large number of upvoters split by 3 is still a decent number on ea
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by corin_ 13y ago
The issue isn't the plug you put in, it's the wiring in the phone - which is fairly hard to make yourself.
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by corin_ 13y ago
But that's my point - if you don't trust the people putting software into your phone, why would you trust the same people with what hardware they put in?
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by corin_ 13y ago
The opposite argument to saying he did the moral thing is to say he did the immoral thing, not to say "serves him right for upsetting the people paying his salary"
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by corin_ 13y ago
In the hypothetical in which the phone has been created to act as a bug, surely it would be easy to detect the security plug and disable the microphone for normal uses while leaving it enabled for hidden use. The security plug is only secur
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by corin_ 13y ago
If you don't trust the manufacturer who put the code into your handset, how can you trust that the security plug will always work (other than checking the internal wiring yourself)?
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by corin_ 13y ago
I've no idea what source of R&D Twitter does, but you can't necessarily judge them based on what they blog about or release papers on, plenty could be going on behind closed doors.
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by corin_ 13y ago
Is the LD50 relevant in food except for stuff that is actually likely to kill people? The dangers aren't that anybody is going to have so much salt (or msg) in their body that it kills them like that.
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by corin_ 13y ago
I'm not sure this is the site for you if you use "nerds" as an insult.
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by corin_ 13y ago
I've never used any psychedelic, legal or not - a quick Google makes mescaline via cactus sound fairly complicated..
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by corin_ 13y ago
I've never used SR (or similar site), but there's plenty of drugs which I couldn't get locally if I wanted them - I'm sure they are sold near me, but I wouldn't know how to find them. Heroin, LSD... etc. Hitting up
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by corin_ 13y ago
IANAL, but my understanding of entrapment is that law enforcement has to persuade you to break a law that you wouldn't otherwise have broken - for example if you walk up to a cop and say "sell me some weed" that isn't en
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by corin_ 13y ago
Sellers don't reveal their personal details to the site - maybe having a honeypot site would make it easier to track them down, but it wouldn't be simple.
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by corin_ 13y ago
They have ratings systems on there to help this - obviously it doesn't mean it's not possible to get stuff that isn't want you think it is, but it's not too much better or worse than trusting a local dealer on the street
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by corin_ 13y ago
Are you saying heroin specifically because you do buy it but not from websites, or because some drugs you'd trust to a website (regardless of whether you personally buy them or not) but heroin not, or were you just naming a random drug
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by corin_ 13y ago
> The Q10 phone that's suppose to replace Bold, they took away the trackpad and the traditional BB buttons. WTF? I've been a Blackberry lover for years, and completely agree that the Storm was hideous (haven't tried the

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