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Build it and they'll come? At least one end has to be somewhere people want to be, right? A line from London into the countryside makes sense. You can live in the countryside and work in London. A line from nowhere to nowhere is a chicken/egg problem. Now if one end is an Airport and another is a new community who will have jobs at the airport, that might work.

Yeah, you can pick a year of your choice, and find a story like this.

Yeah, if PG takes me out for a steak, I will believe it :-). An email that cost $0.000001 on SES, nah!

That means nothing though. If you (N=1) apply to Google and get rejected but take a Facebook job, it doesn't mean people shouldn't apply to Google.

Gitlab?

I think so - I started doing a binary search >50000 -> <75000 -> <65000 -> <55000 -> <52500 then wondered if it was 50000, so guessed that. It said I was right, well done, the answer is indeed 02563!

Do you take the money, or do your users split it between their friends and you take a cut?

The take the money one has been done (Beeminder, and others probably), but sure different flavours are welcome.

The split with friends I haven't seen. That would be pretty cool, especially if you can do it without needing to pay banks a txn fee, or perhaps a tiny one (maybe you take a 5% of profits fee from participents, or similar). Crypto is the other option (!).

The split with friends is great becuase

* People less likely to lie to friends than a SaaS. Which is good for both parties.

* Social motivation and financial motivation.

* If you lose it's like losing a game of poker with mates, not a big deal (as long as you kept the stakes reasonable).

Spill the beans. That statement by itself sounds like the byline of a 5G/flat earth crank.

Except chronic fatigue / long covid could affect IQ as tested. It might be that you have the CPU but the power supply isn't up to voltage, so to speak, so the CPU has to run slow.

I guess it's kinda funny