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Is SFO-NYC a feasible route for Boom?

This title reminds me of a quote from The Simpsons: "Can God create a rock so heavy that even he cannot lift it?"

Here is what I have done many times when a telemarketer calls I listen to what he wants to sell, the I say: “Yes, I think I’ll be interested in this, can you hold on just a bit?” T…

You have to understand that those were just slogans, with almost no practical equivalent. Corruption was rife, and taxes were almost unheard of. You get a salary (cash) and pay for…

The difference between socialism and communism was all in the "communist" propaganda. All east-european countries were "socialist" with the almost utopian goal of becoming "communi…

Also, ideally, you don't want to add length to width, or Hertz to Becquerel (both have [1/sec] unit). This was my humble attempt to address this with a Scala Units library: https:/…

If the City needs teachers, social workers and others with traditionally lower wages, wouldn't it make sense that their wages would also go up (based on demand) if the rent control…

The same was launched and failed in the same place (Toronto) in the year 2000, with locations at Go and Subway stations. I think Google will want to change the business model radic…

Seriously, a Phd thesis not far from now may have the title: "The limits of AI: how far can we exploit the machines before we are limited by machine rights"

A debugger loses much of its value in a functional language. Debugging Haskell or functional Scala code with a visual debugger is almost counterproductive.

The story is great, but the tile (and supposedly the moral of the story) is wrong. We should not do good deeds for some expected (or hoped-for) compensation or reward - on this wor…

Why don't you bookmark and cache ALL visited pages. And keep caches for, say, 30 days if space is a problem. I'm very likely to want to search/revisit something I visited 2 weeks a…

The easiest way to informally prove that the demonstration is false is to imagine starting with a circle in a triangle instead of a circle in a square. Or with any other weird shap…

This is clearly demoware, good enough to impress the general public. But once you go from "Draw a red circle" to "Draw a red circle overlapped one third with a blue square with whi…

I started with the data from the initial version of the http://www.cofoundergoogledocs.com/ Inital traffic was from HN users, I guess. see my the initial post: http://news.ycombina…

I built startuplinkup.com over a few days as an exercise on Semantic Mediawiki. It became a bit more than just an exercise, but it also became obvious that is not the best model to…

Technically you are right, everything has a price. Except when that price is way too high. So if you think a share is worth between say, $5 and $10, they can either say (nicely) "w…

This is very unlikely to happen because: 1. When a startup sells shares (i.e., you purchase stock) it sells them not only for money, but also for advice and connections. Most of th…