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theboos··on Log2 ( (distance to moon) / (thickness of paper) )
... requiring about 4 trillion sheets:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+to+moon%2Fthic...

... or 2.586 trillion square feet of paper:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+to+moon%2Fthic...

... with a minimum price of $16 billion dollars, not including shipping and handling into space: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+dollars+per+ream+*+1+..., http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/382045718/bulk_paper.html

theboos··on My Weekend Project: Moral Support - Your Own Personal Help Hotline
It's telling me something.
theboos··on [dead]
Needless to say, I lost. But is this really even HN-worthy?
theboos··on Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
"And it uses dark colors."

Much prefer white on black to vice versa. Great design and very usable!

theboos··on [dead]
Enso has spent the last few months continually claiming to be shipping their products despite a disheartening lack of actual customers claiming to have received their preordered products. Their products are precariously balanced between scam and vaporware status. A quick search for "enso zenpad scam" and "zenpad review" will show what I mean.
theboos··on Ask HN: What to do with this meme?
My results were actually consistent. I pasted in parts of an unfinished novel four paragraphs at a time and I got Dan Brown each time.
theboos··on Tell HN: My 3D terrain in Flash just went online
I really like the control scheme: vertical drag to move, horizontal drag to change view heading. It was a bit confusing for the first few seconds but it feels much more intuitive than Google Earth, for example.
theboos··on Random Numbers
Avast Personal also detects a bunch of javascript trojans.
theboos··on MIT Free Courses
I really enjoyed the EECS courses available there.
theboos··on Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor
Good idea! The preview pane only worked the second time I compiled though. Exporting to pdf gave me a broken link however.
theboos··on [dead]
broken link?
theboos··on Ask HN: Review my idea (CCDB)
Wow. I didn't see that. That is almost exactly what I want. It doesn't seem to do computer components specifically but it could definitely be adapted into one or have the capability added later.
theboos··on Ask HN: Review my idea (CCDB)
As a hobby and a valuable tool for my "business" of custom builds. A Newegg partnership/acquisition/sponsorship would be nice though.