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by swamp40 13y ago
Thank you Grace. As long as I have your ear, I would also like to recommend better integration into Facebook. These touching stories are perfectly poised to go viral, and Facebook is the perfect place to make that happen. You just need to t
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by swamp40 13y ago
I got rid of the 'via' just using a free Gmail account. (Google Apps used to have a nice wizard that walked you thru it, but they have recently stopped giving away Apps for free.) My website was registered thru Godaddy for $3.17 (
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by swamp40 13y ago
I dunno, maybe I just expect too much? I suppose when you're at the top, it is just down in all directions from there. He is writing another book - The Bomb Boys. And his daily output of articles, etc. is impressive (even if ther
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by swamp40 13y ago
When you do get a chance to work on the API, I have an idea to tie donations to wristband activity monitors - so a sponsor such as a parent, etc. could donate into a holding fund, and then the fund gets released to your patients a bit at a
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by swamp40 13y ago
Analog, 1966 - Well, I guess he didn't get the idea from me , then. Melancholy synopsis from Wiki: While on vacation, they visit a slow glass merchant and notice the man's wife and child through the window, playing inside th
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by swamp40 13y ago
Another great quote from the book: The same technology that simplifies life by providing more functions in each device also complicates life by making the device harder to learn, harder to use. This is the paradox of technology. The parad
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by swamp40 13y ago
They sent an image thru the crystal. Three stripes. When they made the crystal transparent again, the same image came out.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I have a dream of a mirror that reflects the light of yesteryears. You would look into it and see the reflections of the people and scene from the exact place and time as you were now - but 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago. It would be a type of c
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by swamp40 13y ago
I've been a huge fan of Michael Yon's for years. I still read his posts every day, even though he's been pissing his life away in Thailand the last few years. His posts and pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan were so poignan
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by swamp40 13y ago
I've always wondered why Google, seeing the problem of manufacturers diluting the "pure" Android experience and turning it into 50 shades of grey, doesn't clamp down on the terms of usage and force the phone mfgs to prov
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by swamp40 13y ago
I did not know cold barbecue coals could still emit carbon monoxide. I guess the outer shells must have been cooled but left a burning nugget in the center.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I have to agree with lots of others here. Reduced costs of parts and sub-assemblies combined with an abundance of open-sourced knowledge have provided the tipping point to the recent explosion in 3D printing. Patent worries only stifle inno
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Honda builds a 130 mph lawn mower(foxnews.com)
23 points by swamp40 13y ago|11 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
That's what my desktop looks like. I use it to store any file that I save because it's the first spot that pops up (and the easiest one to find no matter where you are) in Windows Explorer or when you right click and say "sav
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by swamp40 13y ago
Warren Buffett says stock prices are like a crazy guy knocking on your door everyday and throwing out a random number which "supposedly" represents your stock's price for the day. That's how much stock prices represent
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by swamp40 13y ago
Is it true that the latest scientific consensus about cancer is that it is the result of random genetic mutations? Yet there are only about 200 well defined types of cancer that just appear over and over again, millions of times per year? A
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by swamp40 13y ago
You mean the current scientific consensus doesn't believe that is correct any longer. Scientific consensus believed bleeding patients was a proper treatment for two thousand years. Things change. From a common sense point-of-view it st
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Can Quantum Mechanics Produce a Universe from Nothing?(apologeticspress.org)
1 points by swamp40 13y ago|1 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
No user's manual or documentation. Hmm - sounds familiar. Like God and real life?
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by swamp40 13y ago
I've never seen a Hacker News thread get so off track...
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by swamp40 13y ago
Good stuff. It's going to take a lot of outrage to get them to give up tools like that. Those are money makers.
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by swamp40 13y ago
You wrap the rope around another tree/pulley to change direction, then stand off to the side. But yes - taking down trees is dangerous, no matter how you do it.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Drudge headline just linked to a similar article: http://news.yahoo.com/driving-somewhere-theres-govt-record-1... It says the police cars can tag the location of 7K plates during a normal shift without burdening the officer
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by swamp40 13y ago
> Google's scheme allows them to harvest the passwords to a vast number of wireless networks. I wasn't too worried until I read this from you.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Talk about cultural differences. From your link: > China in 2004 clamped down on clinical trials and has the most strict regulations on it now. > They executed some doctors who did not follow the rules. > Now doctors are very
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by swamp40 13y ago
There is a huge amount of room for improvement in the Kinect hand gesturing experience. I was so disappointed when my 5 year old couldn't control the Kinect games. The "touchy" hand gestures just aren't friendly for y
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by swamp40 13y ago
It's slightly ironic that these $100-$199 devices are compared using a $30 pedometer as the gold standard.
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Comparing Wearables: Fitbit Flex vs. Jawbone Up and More(allthingsd.com)
1 points by swamp40 13y ago|1 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
I predict this will be found to be the result of a malfunctioning cheap knockoff USB Power Adapter. Proper safety design is difficult and costly. Apple's USB Power Adapter seems simple and boring, but inside it is actually amazingly
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Apple investigating iPhone 5 user death by electrocution.(foxnews.com)
1 points by swamp40 13y ago|1 comments

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