"You get to know this world you live in -- it may be a terrible world, but it's the world you know, " he said.

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With the news that Facebook launched a feature enabling voice messages through its Messenger app, we may not be far from a world where you can talk to almost anyone, anywhere, without dialing a phone number.

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The problem: If you test a drug on a large enough number of patients under ideal conditions, you can demonstrate a small statistical improvement that may be meaningless in the real world.

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And that may be a good thing: you do not want an American foreign policy that sets the world on fire.

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You may want to consider moving to Finland -- the best place in the world to be a mother, according to Save the Children's 14th Mothers' Index.

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Admittedly, if you yourself aren't a flight sim junkie this may not be the most attractive controller in the world, but there's something to be said about a company spending three years studying, crafting, and refining a controller to make it virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.

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