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hipmunk.com is the best out there. It shows whether a flight has wifi or not, it has a price graph for flexible flights, and their interface is just the best I've found.

Happens to be the way to deal with procrastination and analysis paralysis as well. It's easier to just do something and then course correct, than to try to calculate the best possi…

Neither is the US population. Let's compare apples to apples for a minute. WA + OR ~= Sweden: WA+OR population: 10.6 m, size: 170,000 sq mi Sweden population: 9.5 m, size: 173,860 …

Oh yes, I've come to understand that these things are very valuable to her, but it's difficult for me to imagine. She's very cheap, unless it's something she cares very much about.…

I have never even given flatware or towels any thought. They both have minimal impact on my life and thus don't need optimization. My laptop has a great impact on my life, so I thi…

The population density of Sweden is lower than the US and it has excellent roads.

Even though a bug is not entirely unlikely, a bug which actively favors one candidate over the other is very unlikely.

For a few years? Hardly. Actually living in another country is extremely different from traveling for a few months. You don't know much about a country until you live your everyday…

> the past few years have led to massive increases in the size of the government Except, of course, that's a big lie. The "public Sector Has Lost Over 550,000 Jobs Since Mid-2009".…

Funny, in the rest of the world, this would be normal -> parties get funding from the government, no funding from private entities allowed.

Yes, but they're acting as if this is a permanent disadvantage of this device. And again, I think it's a bit harsh to judge before it's even been released. If there were like 10 ap…

What is this doing here?

Tell me why we shouldn't demand devices that we can change, do whatever we please with? Why shouldn't we demand that computing devices has an override, or some way of running whate…

I'd say for a number of reasons they're different. Plumbing, while probably useful at some point in your life, is just one activity. Programming is NOT just one thing. It's closer …

I think the Monty Hall Problem is also extremely misleading in its formulation. Take Wikipedia's formulation for example: Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice…

My guess is that they use a probabilistic model that, for every tap, incorporates the probability distributions P('a'| X), ..., P('z' | X), X=(x,y) probably a normal distribution. …

Why is it "simply impossible" to provide healthcare for all? I can name many counter examples of countries that can and do. Have you made the calculation based on finite resources …

Or many people would just go "meh, guess I'll use something else then". Facebook is just not that big of a deal to most people, it's pretty easy to provide a similar service. Faceb…

I'm almost as scared about privacy breaches in the private sector. I read a while back about Target sending out ads for pregnancy related products to a teenage girl. Their data cru…