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by corin_ 9y ago
a) The investors may have been given a different answer as to how much Reddit cares about making money, even in the short term (I don't mean that they were mislead, but that it would be bad PR to tell the Reddit community the opposite)
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by corin_ 9y ago
Thanks for the correction / additional info. :)
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by corin_ 9y ago
It was recently that Theresa May talked about removing human rights to fight terrorism (I can't remember after which attack it was, but one of the ones in the past few months) - but her bad track record goes back further than that. Eve
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by corin_ 9y ago
That's true, but whether banning cars or making it less attractive to cars (e.g. with London's congestion charge), the point is that places already have people working on road planning/etc., it can be done with humans making
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by corin_ 9y ago
And I never lived in North America - acetaminophen is used in 6 countries, the international name otherwise is paracetamol. Tylenol is a brand name in 14 countries worldwide. (Numbers from Wikipedia.)
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by corin_ 9y ago
Wording things differently very often has significant legal impact, depending on the situation and context. I have no legal training, but regularly review lengthy legal contracts and discuss them with lawyers, and tiny changes in wording ca
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by corin_ 9y ago
I assume his point is that several people (judging on your comments being downvoted) think you are just bashing surface with no good reason. First you respond saying that the problem with the Surface is it's not touch-friendly, then wh
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by corin_ 9y ago
It does depend on the audience, and really isn't unique to white golf-playing males. I've seen plenty of that sort of client management in a few types of work, ranging from suits and golf to hoodies and pubs, black tie events to n
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by corin_ 10y ago
Although the article doesn't give a specific date, it seems this incident actually happened first, but is only now making it to press. > He had to fly to Hawaii last week
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by corin_ 10y ago
America isn't the only country where slavery existed, and both slavery and animal welfare can be tackled in a region without having to change the entire world at the exact same moment. If enough people in, for example, the US felt as s
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by corin_ 10y ago
Maybe your company also wanted their staff to be happy, like you did - is it only stupid for them to do it, but not you?
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by corin_ 10y ago
All of my anecdotes on the matter are EU (possibly all BE/FR, not sure) vs UK, so it's possible UK and US pasteurised milk tastes different (I've had many lattes in America but can't remember ever drinking straight milk
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by corin_ 10y ago
I was replying to somebody who was talking about the situation in the UK, and the knowledge I have of milkmen is from the UK - I didn't mean to imply it was necessarily unique to us.
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by corin_ 10y ago
I'm not sure, I always assumed UHT was a bit cheaper but never paid attention (or if I ever did look at the difference I've forgotten). I just had a quick look at a UK supermarket's online site and both seemed similarly price
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by corin_ 10y ago
Milk actually has a few places in UK's cultural history, one bit of which is very relevant to the inconvenience of buying milk regularly. Traditionally, "milk floats" (a vehicle) would be driven by "milkmen", doing
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by corin_ 10y ago
There's a very noticeable difference in taste between pasteurised and UHT milk, and anecdotally, based on discussing with multiple friends over the years, people who are used to pasteurised think UHT tastes worse, people who are used t
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by corin_ 10y ago
Yep, CTR is clicks divided by impressions. Although thinking back I believe they were site skins with billboards, not just banners. Even still, for that ad format on that site I would have expected 1-2%. (And yeah, skins do tend to get more
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by corin_ 10y ago
Sorry for the slow reply. I'm not familiar with currently available frameworks/etc. so I can't speak to that side. The point I intended to make is that, in my experience, there aren't site owners going "I wish I cou
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by corin_ 10y ago
It's better than nothing, but it certainly isn't better than rough. Setting aside what's "average" - are you controlling for the type of advert (both what it's advertising and its format), the type of audience,
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by corin_ 10y ago
CTR doesn't differentiate between accidental clicks and clicks from people who appreciated the advert. Sure, you could give it a gut judgement based on industry standard CTRs / personal experience, but it would be very rough. To a
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by corin_ 10y ago
Agreed that it was probably accidental rather than sexist, but from someone in that position it was extremely poor judgement to use those words.
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by corin_ 10y ago
I'm completely against banning encryption, and also against the argument I'm about to use, but the devil's advocate to your comment is to claim that if the only people using encryption are the "bad guys", detecting
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by corin_ 10y ago
Because that's a business problem, the technical side of it was solved a long time ago.
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by corin_ 10y ago
He's choosing to retire, so why not live beyond "getting by" if he can afford it and is happy to live where he can afford it?
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by corin_ 10y ago
Police buildings (stations, offices, etc.) where they work every day would probably be more useful than a bank.
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by corin_ 10y ago
Not a dupe of the specific link, just the story: 110 comments @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775624
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by corin_ 10y ago
The way it's generally considered to be: they are actually funded directly by a license fee which British people are legally required to pay if they watch any live TV (including live online streams such as iPlayer, but not including no
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by corin_ 10y ago
If you lose $1 shipping per order but make $2 profit on the items per order then each order is worth $1 profit. Now double the order quantities, and you say "great, double the profit" not "oh no, double the shipping costs&quo
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by corin_ 10y ago
She was saying that the alternative UIs aren't popular, and my point is that their low market share is down not only to the UIs themselves but also because of the software they are compatible with.
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by corin_ 10y ago
Maybe I'm misreading your comment but I think you're implying that people who care (like gamers) are less likely to be using Windows 10, but it's the opposite - 50% is far higher than the total market share Windows 10 has. If

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