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From Minnesota. I get the same.

The right-wing states want higher crime?

I agree the title is misleading. I sleep 6-7 hours most nights, but I never go 2 weeks straight on that because I inevitably end up "catching up" at some point.

Highways are only useful because there are so many of them that connect just about every community in the contiguous US - what economists call a "network effect". Therefore adding …

If you found this article interesting, then check out Thinking Fast & Slow by Danial Kahneman.

IMHO Apple's user interfaces have been getting less intuitive and more buggy with every release. I actually had to use Google to figure out how to disable shuffle on my iPhone. Ano…

I've got a co-worker who's quite impressed with Firebase. https://www.firebase.com/ Also, I saw a really cool presentation on the Azure platform. It supports push notifications, an…

Here's the original article from Bloomberg Business that this article ripped off: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/business-s...

That's not what the chart in the article shows

StubHub could easily look at the historic pricing data and the normal cancellation rates for tickets. If the cancellation rate is normally low, except for instances where the ticke…

I've never used StubHub. When you buy tickets, does a seller profile appear next to the listing, as in Amazon? If so, a cheap move by this seller should at least put a bad mark on …

They could, but to business like StubHub each seller is probably more precious than each buyer. I'm not saying it's fair, but it's a lot easier for them to find new buyers than sel…

Based on the customer service emails it looks like StubHub knew full well what was going on and aided the seller in pulling out of the agreement.

I used a weird trick to pay off my mortgage

That's the greatest cat video I've seen so far