mbcrower

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 a new highway tends to make the other highways and roads it's connected to more useful. Likewise, public transit systems like the NYC subway are useful because there are so many of them.

When the first train is built in a metro area, it's not going to be useful to very many people. As more lines are built, however, that first train line becomes useful to more people because they can transfer to another line, or a bus line. As the third and fourth lines are built, the marginal utility of that each new mile of tracks goes up as the train becomes feasible for more people.

Of course there are examples of both highways and trains that probably shouldn't have been built where they were built (http://streets.mn/2014/07/07/strangulation-on-the-green-line...). My point is that cost comparisons of building a new highway versus building a new train are skewed by the fact that most metro areas have a mature (even crumbling...but that's another point) highway system, but few is the US have a large network of public transit yet, other than buses that are often slow, late and dirty.

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.

Another annoyance with iTunes is that they removed the border. If it's placed over a white background, you can't tell where the iTunes window ends. Minimalism done right can be a beautiful thing. When it's done wrong (it's very difficult to get right), it's a disaster.

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, and even has a multiplatform template generator. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/mobil...

Both platforms feature a database and authentication.

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 ticket price suddenly jumped, then any cancellations in that time frame would likely have a high probability of being fraudulent, especially if the same tickets were later relisted through the same sellers account.

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 the seller's public profile. That could benefit reputable sellers, though. Of course, anyone selling their first tickets on StubHub would be at a disadvantage because they'd have no reputation.

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 sellers.

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