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would you settle for a real doll rental service?
Ugh, who'd want to be #2?
It's different from being #2 with a real girl how?
Viscerally I agree with you, but I can't rationally understand why.
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#72A proper webbased project management tool.
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#73A fuel efficient car / minivan with room for a family of 6 to take a road trip. There are no hybrid minivans :(
The current hybrid technology produces the most fuel-efficiency gains in stop and start driving. In other words, it works much better for taxi fleets than for family road trips.
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#74A service that matches you up with intellectual AND decent looking folks.
Actually I would settle for a site that matches you up with intellectual folks...
HN suffices to provide online conversation with intellectual folks, but I suppose that you and the person to whom you replied have a more specific meaning of "match up" in mind. The difficulty of face-meeting people for intellectual conversation is indeed what keeps a lot of online discussion groups going.
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#75A pan-European plan for the iPhone so that I could actually use the phone while travelling.
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#76Bachelor Chow (See: Futurama). It doesn't have to be particularly tasty, but a simple meal that has 1/3 of your daily nutrition (with 1/3 RDA of all your vitamins and minerals) would be great. Preferably without ridiculous quantities of preservatives and artificial flavours.
I would love to just drink my meals and be full.
Do you have a blender?
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#77A dead simple, cheap 8.5x11 e-ink device with no wifi or touchscreen or anything like that. Just the ability to page through my already owned pdfs. Some of them are scanned images, not text so no text conversion. Even if the only way to get the docs on it was via some kind of virtual printer driver I'd be happy. I'd basically like a way to read stuff on e-ink as if it had been printed.
Seconded. Just today I looked at ebook reader devices again because I really want one - but the prices are ridiculous.
$359 for a kindle? Come on, that buys me about 35 physical books - close to 2 years of reading material. Give me the kindle and 20 books included, then we might be talking.
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#79Something that allows me to search across all my old browser history (Content of the pages not the titles). So I can find all those blog posts and articles I forgot to bookmark for later reading at the time. (I guess I could start using stumbleupon or something but I want to be able to search in those pages as well.)
Opera has that. Once you have visited a page, you can use the address bar to search through the cache. It will not only search titles but also the content of the pages
Oh cool thanks for the heads up, I just installed 9.6 and it's right there in the "What's new in 9.6" copy.
"Quick Find
Have you ever forgotten the page where you found that great article or that perfect gift? When using Opera, the browser remembers not only the titles and addresses, but also the actual content of the Web pages you visit."
No need to pay for it either!
Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?
#80A fuel efficient car / minivan with room for a family of 6 to take a road trip. There are no hybrid minivans :(
The current hybrid technology produces the most fuel-efficiency gains in stop and start driving. In other words, it works much better for taxi fleets than for family road trips.
Well, most of our driving is stop and go, in-town driving. However, it doesn't make much sense to buy a family car if it doesn't work for road trips as well. Especially since it is cost prohibitive to fly for a family of 6 when we can drive for 8-12 hours for a fraction of the cost.