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Norwegian Air does not serve free food on transcontinental flights. Fine by me, I'm comfortable surviving 12 hours without eating hot food, in fact I do it almost every day.

"Probability of death conditional on an accident" sounds like a statistic designed to fool people who really just care about the probability of death, preying on a cognitive error.…

These issues can be addressed, but in any case they don't seem related to restrictions that limit construction to a certain number of stories.

We know how to safe six-story buildings in SF are a solved prblem, and developers have no problem following building codes when zoning allows them to build 6 stories.

Cities are expensive for a reason - they are not just a Veblen good like a Mercedes AMG, mainly valuable due to scarcity. Cities are more like doctors - they are extremely useful, …

How on earth did a leak of DNC emails, but no corresponding RNC leak, help people figure out the lesser of two evils or provide a level playing field? Seems obvious that leaks assi…

I doubt an amendment to the Constitution will be happening any time soon, but in any case there would be no need for one here.

Please show me the math on how you are going to give everyone a pension greater than the GDP per capita by changing tax law.

These pensions are higher than the GDP per capita. If everyone got pensions that big, where would the money come from?

So the examples are an ancient empire which is now in poverty, and two states with great port cities?

Great opportunity to sell and lock in your gains with some index funds.

Can a Tesla reliably detect a body lying in the road? I think they would be very reluctant to avoid a highly survivable accident where the Tesla is not at fault, in favor of accele…

In my experience almost all candidates applying recently with an MS in CS have been H1B visa seekers. Presumably, many of them obtained the MS specifically because it increases the…

>Yes, but it still doesn't affect the (rational) landowner's decision. Imagine an improvement that can net the owner $Y a year in profit. A rational owner should always make that i…

This the type of thing Google expends a lot of effort measuring. You can bet they know how much growth will be harmed per ad per hour and are tuning that parameter.

According to the evidence, yes, consumers will be willing to pay more: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/ww... Uber has been profitable in the US before, th…

The original statement "They vast majority of poor in SF grew up there or in nearby areas, they didn't migrate there like the economic elite have." is simply not supported by this …

The number of people in the area is greater than the number of homes. No amount of income redistribution can possibly fix this. If you rent a room for a homeless person, you are ju…

I don't see any data about where people are from in that link. Just where they lived most recently. A good way to become homeless is to move into an unstable housing situation in a…

Perhaps they didn't like the results then they just took the average, and spent some effort turning the formula and parameters to get their favored ordering.

Can the AMA prevent hospitals from creating residencies with their own funds? I'm ignorant about this, but at first blush it seems like doctors must be a top expense and most compa…

Utilization has no lasting effect on your credit score - if you have 100% utilization one month and pay it off next month, your credit score will be the same as if your utilization…

The rule sounds absurd on its own, but makes perfect sense when you read the example.