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frogpelt
13y ago
You seem to be disturbed about this. Have you had close friends suffer this fate? If not, you should cool your jets. Because this product aims to: 1. Make it less likely for people get annoyed at their smoke alarm and turn it off 2. A
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frogpelt
13y ago
The point I inferred was that some people want the gold iPhone simply because they like the way it looks and not because they want to signal the world that they own the latest iPhone.
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13y ago
Flipside: Not charging for the app allows the user to try the app without buying it. If the content is worth paying for the user can choose how much to "invest" in it even though, generally, the in-app purchase model is going to
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13y ago
10 cents?
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frogpelt
13y ago
It's time for free-range, coffee-eating kopi luwak farms!
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13y ago
And not to reciprocate, but free markets are much more likely to be transparent than any other. When a free market realizes consumers demand transparency, transparency becomes an option in the market. Not the only option, but one of the man
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frogpelt
13y ago
The girl doesn't exist! Edit: The girl is Lennay Kekua!
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frogpelt
13y ago
@ozh: thin gradient, or bevel, or shadow The terms are definitely not interchangeable.
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frogpelt
13y ago
This probably more of a reflection on the person/people at the top. Apple did everything one way: Steve Jobs' way. Since his departure, I have seen less unified focus from Apple. Google's MO almost from the beginning has bee
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13y ago
It would probably help to live there and do the job of an investigator. I would imagine (since I don't live there or do the job) that they learn to see vey few people in certain neighborhoods as truly innocent. If you feel that all of
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13y ago
If there was not hatred (not gonna happen, by the way), would segregation still be a bad thing? Is there something inherently WRONG with people gravitating toward and feeling most comfortable around people who look like themselves?
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13y ago
A. Why does Matt Damon think we care what he thinks? OR B. Why do we care what Matt Damon thinks?
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frogpelt
13y ago
MSRP*1 as low as $19,185 Price after federal tax credit. Net price shown includes the full $7,500 tax credit*1. $26,685 MSRP* †,† without federal tax savings ranging from $0 up to $7,500. So, I can buy a Spark for o
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13y ago
I would argue that remembering and entering a coupon is just as hard as remembering and entering a sub-directory name in a URL. In fact, finding the coupon code box can sometimes be a pain. It's not always on the first page in the orde
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13y ago
You should read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Debt-Free-Outstanding-Education-Schola...
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frogpelt
13y ago
And those are big goals. But creating a method for getting from one side of the country to the other in less than an hour (or even twice that long) is probably more ambitious.
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frogpelt
13y ago
Why do people not understand that many people are poor not because they were born into something less than a utopia but because they are lazy or happy that way or they make bad decisions or are just plain ignorant? Have you once stopped to
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13y ago
From the article you linked: "Cooper says one mentor was Barry Washington, who is named in a class-action lawsuit that’s been filed against the city of Tenaha, Texas."
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13y ago
At the bottom: Lessons Learned - New buildings are a distraction. - You should avoid them at all costs - Building upgrades can destroy a culture He seems to be totally against new buildings.
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frogpelt
13y ago
Let's make Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec the 7/8/9/10th months again. Jan and Feb can be 11 and 12. Make March the 1st month. I would rather start every new year near spring time anyway.
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13y ago
If you fill in valid data for everything on the front, a "flip the card" button appears.
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13y ago
The fact that it's pronounced KEEN-wah makes it even more obscure when you see it written. Of course, the FBI/Police/JTTF/KGB don't have that excuse.
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13y ago
Wow. Does journalistic integrity also extend to pictures? The picture has NOTHING to do with the story.
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frogpelt
13y ago
Do you have recent examples of this that don't involve exploitation of children?
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13y ago
It sounds like profit sharing may also be a solution to the inequity of wages between the back-of-the-house and the servers. It seems to me that if everyone in the restaurant (or perhaps just those in the kitchen) made a percentage of the p
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13y ago
The chapter about Times New Roman is written in Times New Roman. That's neat.
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13y ago
Not a great analogy. What the Obama administration has done with this is more akin to creating an API for future leaders to exploit the people without recourse.
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frogpelt
13y ago
Actually he thought the opposite, that said user was switching to Yahoo! because they banned remote-working on the basis that said user does not approve of remote-working. But it is confusing.
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13y ago
Not really. Apple was going in the other direction with music. They would make a list of demands to each music publisher like requiring them to offer music on a per-track basis with $0.99 being the standard price. The music publishers w
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13y ago
Re: the Edit: It's nothing more than simple supply and demand at work. Real estate suffers from being one of those markets where its very hard to create more of it (you can build taller buildings or build new cities, that's about
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