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by jeffool 14y ago
I can easily see "car parks" just like national parks where people can drive in a range of conditions for the fun of it. That said, I can't see a US society where this is "the only option" for many decades.
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by jeffool 14y ago
"You would somehow authenticate yourself and then grab your boxes from your assigned slots." Easy to imagine with a phone, but does HP still support their fingerprint readers? Seems like a gimme. Or maybe just require the card used at purch
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by jeffool 14y ago
While I don't remember how difficult it got, I know I loved Typing of the Dead. Orbs the old "House of the Dead" game, but users a keyboard instead of a light gun! Of course, good luck finding a legit copy...
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by jeffool 14y ago
I was actually thinking deflection. Assuming they're going to bring it near Earth anyway, why not, say, slowly circle the ISS? Sure, it wouldn't do MUCH good... But it's the biggest space squeegee we're going to have access to for the near
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by jeffool 14y ago
"o"s rush your results and destroy them. You must click on them to attack them and defend your results!
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by jeffool 14y ago
Crazy question for hobbyists probably not otherwise suitable for Hacker News: Could a large body like an asteroid be used to clean up space junk? Or would that just be way too risky?
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by jeffool 14y ago
It could, but you also have to consider the cost of getting these materials back to Earth. No article has mentioned the details of that. I don't know if Planetary Resources has disclosed that. And then there's extracting the material. Yes,
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by jeffool 14y ago
FYI, your Google Voice calls are using your minutes and won't continue if you stop your plan. (Unless you're using some kind of work around.) Maybe I misread... Just thought you should know. Good luck with the job hunt! I'm in the exact sam
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by jeffool 14y ago
The concern is that, say, a musician is in the process of making a new song. Google sees this, and releases the song shortly before the artist releases it themselves, and for free! Now what is the artist to do? The likelihood? Small. But if
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by jeffool 14y ago
Because the Support page is outdated? (Maps Labs is now a shortcut on the bottom left of the page.) I just reported the problem via the short survey linked on the page. Let's see how long it takes to fix it...
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by jeffool 14y ago
While I've got absolutely no problem with profanity, and have on the rare occasion been accused of using it a bit much, and probably will never use this... This is a great idea! Bonus points to you!
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by jeffool 14y ago
I hate contextual timestamps. Just give me the data. 2011.04.20.23.16 And cut that down as possible (changeable with a toggle). In conversions, chop off the year and date, save instances where the conversion spans days.
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by jeffool 14y ago
I have an Android phone (Droid X, old I know,) and I love it. But what's odd to me is when hardware companies fork and go without Google, they say "no-but", rather than "yes-and". "Does it have all the stock Android features?" It's often: "
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by jeffool 14y ago
Is it dumb of me to ask "so why isn't NASA working on terraforming bodies yet?" It seems inevitable, and like we may as well start spitballing now. Send a few rooms that attach to the surface and dig in, practice in there remotely.
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by jeffool 14y ago
Interesting, but it's very hard to imagine Apple being MORE open than Microsoft or Sony with their consoles.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'm now curious how many people's last moments will be caught by these devices? How long until police brutality is caught by them? Would they upload instantly like video from my phone to G+? The potential is that of cellphones to an even gr
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by jeffool 15y ago
While neat, imagine the future. It's only a matter of time until people are ripping mocap data, voices, and ultra high res models from media, and creating their own media using the faces, voices, and even movements, of stars... Unless we th
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by jeffool 15y ago
Google Tap actually had me laughing. Especially "Todd Smith"'s wisdom. "You can tap in the morning. You can tap it at night."
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by jeffool 15y ago
How did the Chromebooks do? I don't ask with snark, but with genuine curiosity. I heard lots of people happy they got the free ones... But didn't hear about many people buying them. I actually think they WOULD do better off if they made it
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'm no hacker. I've applied to a few startups in marketing and writing friendly capacities, given my experience in journalism. But I've never attempted a startup, or by extension applying to YC... Even considering the insight gained and the
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by jeffool 15y ago
It's not the NY lottery, but a multistate lottery called "MegaMillions". And people buy tickets for many reasons. Neverminding "being rich seems awesome," I imagine the two chief reasons are: -They can afford to throw away a few bucks every
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by jeffool 15y ago
hah, very true; I may have graduated and still have been programming today.
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by jeffool 15y ago
"I can't trust myself around Kickstarter. Kickstarter, please do quality control for me." Conversely... This is the perfect opportunity for someone to buy IndieKicks.com and start blogging about cool projects that you can help out. Make it
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by jeffool 15y ago
I have to say, if I'd known this years ago when I was in school trying to become a game programmer... Well, I would have gotten more sleep! But yeah, nice stuff sir.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I can't tell you how many times I've been told to "drive to the first window" only to sit there for a couple of minutes before realizing they meant the second window I encounter. It may seem stupid... But better safe than annoyed, I suppose
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'd like to see a home server. A central computer hooked to everything shouldn't be a pipedream. It should be hooked to the media center, handheld devices, thermostat and security. Why shouldn't cable tv go to my computer, which then contro
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'm curious, but it kills the Android Browser on my Droid X. Words appear on the right frame, but before I can see them, or anything, the screen goes black and I'm back at the home page.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I think it was reason #3... .999... = x? That was wrong. When she subtracted .999... from the left, she should have removed "x" from the right, not 1.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'm assuming they're talking both leisure and assigned reading? (I can't imagine schools assigning The Hunger Games, and I don't imagine many students leisurely reading Of Mice and Men.) Maybe the solution is to push to popularize better bo
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by jeffool 15y ago
"I view it like a utility or books" isn't valid justification, it's an horrible misunderstanding that "the Internet" is the name of THIS network. Iran aims to create their own. And surely we'll have others eventually, we just haven't had se

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