pulplobster

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by pulplobster 14y ago
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.
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 possible path before even starting out.
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 sq mi Now, I think that's a pretty fair comparison. The road
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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. When she's researching those things she's a huge optimizer,
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 think it's reasonable to spend time researching what you need a
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by pulplobster 14y ago
The population density of Sweden is lower than the US and it has excellent roads.
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by pulplobster 14y ago
Even though a bug is not entirely unlikely, a bug which actively favors one candidate over the other is very unlikely.
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 life there, shop at the grocery stores, participate in cult
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by pulplobster 14y ago
> 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".
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by pulplobster 14y ago
Funny, in the rest of the world, this would be normal -> parties get funding from the government, no funding from private entities allowed.
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 apps I'd be worried, but there are around 5000 apps already, a
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by pulplobster 14y ago
What is this doing here?
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 whatever software the owner wants it to? What would happen to App
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 to woodshop (which I hope is still in schools...). Another d
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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. Then assuming they have data on how likely a specific word i
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 in the world and the size of the world population that it's
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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. Facebook knows this and wouldn't take a chance alienating the who
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by pulplobster 14y ago
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 crunching algorithms had picked up on the fact that she was pre