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by froo 14y ago
I showed my girlfriend this app. Her first words were "That is dangerous. How much do I just want to post pictures of dicks for everyone with that app" While not my first thought (I had baby photos etc come up in my mind), to be fair, if th
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by froo 14y ago
> Wouldn't it make more sense for Google to first shut down FeedBurner and then Google Reader? Not particularly. As it stands now, FeedBurner feels more like a utility whereas Reader is a service.
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by froo 14y ago
It's not a blanket ban on gun possession though, it was purely a semi-automatic/automatic buyback. Lower capacity guns are still freely available.
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by froo 14y ago
1) Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard initiated our gun buyback scheme in 1996 and since then, our firearm related suicide rate has fallen 74% and we have not had a single gun massacre since (we had 13 in the preceding 18 years be
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by froo 14y ago
Not necessarily, if you look at it from the perspective of a meat's internal temperatures.
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by froo 14y ago
Fries shouldn't be a difficult problem to solve. Donut Machines have been doing something similar for a long time (production line deep frying) and I imagine that Fries wouldn't be very similar if you wanted a consistent output.
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by froo 14y ago
I'm not entirely sure they could. They probably felt that simple cooking of pre-prepared ingredients and then assembly wasn't an interesting problem to solve, especially since staff can also handle the other requirements of food prep (keepi
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by froo 14y ago
As an Australian, I thought I should point out that despite the Straw Man argument above, this is actually what happened in our country. Our death rate due to firearms has reduced by half since our automatic/semi automatic buyback program i
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by froo 14y ago
I imagine people travelling light would fine these to be quite useful.
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by froo 14y ago
Have you seen the popSLATE ? http://www.popslate.com/
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by froo 14y ago
Well, lets look at it another way then. Why are people trying to restrict people's right to carry arms. As US citizens, it's their constitutional right to bear arms? Why doesn't everyone have access to a small nuclear arsenal? Why aren't al
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by froo 14y ago
Guerilla Marketing possibility by hijacking other people's ads?
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by froo 14y ago
I'm curious what happens with the people that are in limbo - that is still in their 30 day trial period and are unable to downgrade to a free version because of that.
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by froo 14y ago
I recently got an iPhone 5 (been using the 4 for about 2 years now) and it came up with the big list the first time I held the home button to use it, so that functionality is not hidden.
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by froo 14y ago
> Can someone comment on whether or not he is actually breaking any laws? Especially when simply recording on public streets? IANAL but the main difference between surveillance video and his supposed demonstration here is that he is p
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by froo 14y ago
I'd love to see something along the lines of Intel's Wireless Resonant Energy Link[1] used in conjunction with EV's so that the idea of "plugging them in" can be all but eliminated. If you didn't even have to plug it in, just drive it to wo
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by froo 14y ago
This. I've been using HN for years now (significant portions of that time as purely stalking) and I check it rarely, but I'm very interested in these startups as I've had nothing but praise for the ones who's products I do use. It would be
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by froo 14y ago
Extradition when there are no charges is unusual. Unusual yes, but not unheard of. As a personal anecdote, there is a close friend of my family who has been facing extradition to another country merely for questioning over something that
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by froo 14y ago
I'm a vertical man myself. I turn the corn on its side so the cylindrical part is going up/down and bite downwards. I do it so that the kernels come off cleanly and don't get stuck in your teeth (very similar to cutting them off). I wonder
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by froo 14y ago
When you consider that estimated North American internet usage makes up less than 20% of total internet usage[1], I don't think PayPal has anything to worry about for a long time. They are the almost defacto standard for personal payments o
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by froo 14y ago
Where can you find bookmarking with archiving for free? (don't say archive.org) I personally use evernote. Works well enough
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by froo 14y ago
I guess one could say that since iOS is based off OSX that that is indeed true.
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by froo 15y ago
Yeah, I've had this more or less happen to me. A telemarketer from the bank I used to be with called me on the day of my brother's funeral to try and sell me life insurance. Terribly bad timing as at the time I was waiting for the car to pi
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by froo 15y ago
This isn't a new argument. It's one we've been having in Australia (and presumably the rest of the world) for years now. These distribution issues become even worse for us as there are time where content isn't even available when you want t
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by froo 15y ago
This is something I'd been thinking about awhile ago (it's buried somewhere in my comments.) Show production isn't necessarily out of the scope of whats possible as I've posted about the disconnect between cost of entertainment in the past
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by froo 15y ago
http://twitter.com/search?q=siri or for something more visual http://trendistic.indextank.com/siri People are talking more about Siri since the release date (on average) and for more dramatic effect, look at the results over a 30 day ti
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by froo 15y ago
> But that will be bad for customers. You don't see the other manufacturers keeping the same phone for 2 years. Similarly, you don't see other manufacturers producing phones that they intend to still thoroughly support in a couple years
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by froo 15y ago
I actually don't mind the (I assume) 2 year cycle they've got going now, with a new phone 1 year with a follow up "S" model the next. That way, when people are on their 2 year contract cycles, you either sit on the "new shiny" or the "advan
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by froo 15y ago
>> person do you know which would wear the same clothes every day?? Paul Barnett, who was a lead video game designer for Warhammer Online. He wore the same clothes everyday for convenience (going out and purchasing a set of shirts/j
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by froo 15y ago
I'm thinking Apple may start bringing out their own TV's/Loungeroom hubs. They're known for their high quality displays and they already have a lot of the other technology that would be coupled with it - FaceTime, Siri, iCloud/iTunes, App s

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