A solution between owning and renting. I don't want to purchase a home because the cost is too high and I have no interest in being "invested" into the real estate market. However, renting has limitations imposed by the owner:
- pet/smoking/# residents preferences
- can't realistically make significant improvements to the property
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#72Really? No world peace? No world hunger (where dwarf wheat has saved literally millions of lives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug )? How about happiness? Comfort? Love?
Abstract concepts like happiness, comfort and love aren't really problems. By creating some sort of device which provides these things you are essentially eliminating their meaning in the process. How could you truly appreciate them if they were simply handed to you?
Everybody wants happiness, comfort and love. We want them so badly that we spend our whole lives trying to acquire and keep them. When you start handing them out, why then do we live?
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#73Get people to stop using IE6 to visit sites, by any means necessary. Bonus points if you can take out IE7 as well.
Don't forget about IE8. That seems to be worse than IE7.
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#74Re: Ask YC/HN: What's a problem you'd like to see someone solve?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
It can be complicated for a non-techie to even set up an apache server on their computer. We'd probably have a couple more good programmers in this world just by breaking down that barrier.
Indeed let me add: One click web development IDE.
You don't think there are enough idiots who shouldn't be programming using php and javascript?
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#76A web based programming IDE.
Seriously? I can't see much of a use beyond collaboration, and even that isn't a really open problem with proper version control.
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#77Moores law applied to Batteries.
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#78A solution between owning and renting. I don't want to purchase a home because the cost is too high and I have no interest in being "invested" into the real estate market. However, renting has limitations imposed by the owner: - pet/smoking/# residents preferences - can't realistically make significant improvements to the property
Are you suggesting that you want to have your cake and eat it too?
Who's going to take the risk for the rewards you want?
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#79Universal language...there's no reason why people speak different languages anymore, they only create barriers now. In our newly technologically connected world, our languages we speak should not be getting in our way anymore...
Eliminating languages would be devastating to culture.
How about a software solution for translation that works perfectly?
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#80I would like to see a digg/reddit/HN site where in order to post, vote, or comment your IQ must be greater than 3 standard deviations from the mean (ie: Mensa).