Right, the original article by Priceonomics was submitted weeks ago. This is a follow up by NPR that included an interview with Priceonomics' Rohin Dhar and some other interviews including the SFPD, etc.
I dont think this article is comparing apples to apples. There are no single family homes to be had in most of manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. I'm living in pacific heights now and also live in lower manhattan. Manhattan is still a bit more expensive IMHO.
I had two friends who regularly hosted on couchsurfing in the early 2000's when it wasn't that popular yet. I thought at that time it was insane for two young girls to host random strangers on their couch. They loved the experience and I guess couchsurfing paved the way for sites like airbnb. Good for them, I hope they do well.
I think a really nice feature would be to let me send some voice feedback to MYSELf instead of to you guys, so I can test it. I wanted to test it but not necessarily send you feedback.
That's an amazing video, really made me want to plan a camping trip. I love the ability to integrate photos and video in my spreadsheet. Will I be able to share a read-only link to a mobile site or is it iOS only for now?
With our current understanding of physics, it doesn't seem possible but the key word is current. Scientists recently measured particles going faster than the speed of light. Granted it was not much faster and is still not verified, but if that's possible, it'd stand to reason that there could be other advancements that could do it. If you asked anyone a hundred years ago if they thought they could have real-time communication with someone half way around they world, they would think you were crazy.
> If you asked anyone a hundred years ago if they thought they could have real-time communication with someone half way around they world, they would think you were crazy.
It's a different situation: before the radio was invented, people had no idea ho to communicate that far, but they no reason to believe it was not possible at all: it was just a matter of technology. Regarding talking in real time to Mars, already a century ago they had good reasons to consider it impossible: the scientific knowledge of the world is (and already was a century ago) incompatible with faster-than-light cause-effect relation.
One thing is not to know how to do something, another is knowing it to be impossible, short of stunning scientific discoveries.
Wasn't this formally disproven, that particles (neutrinos) can go faster than light? A technical issue I think was at play, or some miscalculations that did not take the effects of relativity into account properly.
Indeed, all the experiments located under Gran Sasso are reporting measured speeds compatible with light speed (in the vacuum). Here's the CERN press release:
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/pressreleases/releases2011/pr...
There are also named two possible causes of the original, unexpected result.
I just announced the addition of Roy as a co-founder on the NewsBlur Blog: http://blog.newsblur.com/post/27033939756/introducing-blurbl.... Roy is working on the iOS apps and has been instrumental in shaping NewsBlur's future. He also can put up with me for 14 hours a day, which is no small feat.
I don't agree with the assessment that NYC startups are more "smoke and mirrors". I will concede that there seems to be more of an engineering culture in SV and more of a design culture in NYC but if you look at NYC it's to be expected.
