I mean, there's a guy on earth who has exactly my name, and he looks exactly like me. What are the odds???

If you want measure success rate based on clicks, you have to make a standarized test where 1) you make sure that the questions are not answered in the preview text already. Examples include unit conversion, weather report, money conversion, etc (e.g. 100 USD in EUR). 2) more importantly, the questions AND the people doing the search are the same, or at least very similar, for both engines. The reason why this is important is that if you put some stupid idiot to do a search, it is possible that after searching for "candy" and getting a result like "free chandy! click here! not a scam!" he would click (of course it is also posible that, that the search terms he enters is not too smart, thus not leading to a good result).

The Paris-Rio de Janeiro flight from Air France, when done by an Airbus A330, goes most of the time at 41K feet. I know this because I was surprised when I saw this and I thought it to be outside the operational range of the plane. It turns out 41K is precisely the ceiling service of that plane. I've also seen repeatedly altitudes of 39K ft (for example in flights from europe to south asia). BTW, near the equator, the altitude at which a plane can operate is much higher than near the poles, and it is also necessary to fly higher because of the equatorial storms.

Really, I don't understand your logic. Why will I never be happy? Just because I do something I don't love? You think the waste collector loves his work? Does it mean he will never be happy? There's more to life than what you do for a living, whether it's art or garbage collection. Some people do stuff with ulterior motives, not just in pursuit of happiness. Take a politician; you may hate the job but you want to fight for your ideals. Even the artist, maybe he wants to convey a message; maybe doing art is therapeutic for him; or maybe he's in it for the money. "Art gives me money. Money makes me happy. Ergo art makes me happy." What's wrong with that? You don't have to love art to follow that reasoning. Some people are really good at stuff they don't *love*.

You should be modded "pretentious" instead of "insightful". Since when that's the purpose of being an artist? According to whom? I thought you didn't need a purpose for being an artist. And most certainly you don't need to love reating art to be an artist.

It's more complicated than that? Anonimous expression being forbidden in the constitution (wihtout exceptions) is terrible. I don't see how it could be "more complicated than that". Even if this fact is not enforced (i.e. you're not going to be prosecuted for posting anonymously) it always leaves the doors open for *someone* to be prosecuted for your words. In fact this is the very purpose of the law. I find this sinister, and it makes me want to leave this country (I am in Brazil, too).

$800 is barely a little

for losing the Chicago 2016 olympics?

Nuke them!