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Wow. The market really does solve for every possible niche.

Minor49er 5y ago
Their mention of air travel also makes me think of how the government brought in TSA checkpoints, but a company called Clear allows people to mostly bypass it for a fee. It would be nice if we didn't have these restrictions plus people finding ways to profit off of getting around them. Just get rid of both.
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  Clear doesn't get you past the checkpoints, it just gets you to the front of the line. Gross on a "class warfare" level, but you go through the same security everyone else does. Now, TSA PreCheck allows you to bypass some of the stuff, like shoe removal and taking laptops out of your bag, but it's coupled with a background check.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > the government brought in TSA checkpoints, The government brought in the TSA to take over checkpoints and relieve the air transport industry for liability for failures of and abuses at the checkpoints as part of the post-9/11 air transport industry bailout; the checkpoints had existed for a long time.
  - rhino369 5y ago
    Yep, pre-911 you still had to go through a metal detector and get your stuff x-rayed. Taking off your shoes and no fluids are the only new restrictions really.
    - chrsig 5y ago
      don't forget a high likelyhood of being irradiated
      - TameAntelope 5y ago
        You get more radiation in the plane than from TSA.
      - dragonwriter 5y ago
        Not that I like the millimeter wave scanners, but like the metal detectors I think they use low-energy non-ionizing radiation, so its not really a change in the kind or significance of radiation exposure.
        nradov 5y ago
        Conventional metal detectors use electromagnets and don't emit any ionizing radiation. Backscatter scanners used in airport security screening do emit ionizing radiation but a very small amount. https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiation-and-airport-security-scanning https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiation-and-airport-security-s...
    - panzagl 5y ago
      The TSA was a huge improvement over the understaffed and indifferent private contractors that used to run airport checkpoints when it first started. Things didn't get bad again until the shoe bomber.

Their mention of air travel also makes me think of how the government brought in TSA checkpoints, but a company called Clear allows people to mostly bypass it for a fee. It would be nice if we didn't have these restrictions plus people finding ways to profit off of getting around them. Just get rid of both.

ceejayoz 5y ago
Clear doesn't get you past the checkpoints, it just gets you to the front of the line. Gross on a "class warfare" level, but you go through the same security everyone else does. Now, TSA PreCheck allows you to bypass some of the stuff, like shoe removal and taking laptops out of your bag, but it's coupled with a background check.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> the government brought in TSA checkpoints, The government brought in the TSA to take over checkpoints and relieve the air transport industry for liability for failures of and abuses at the checkpoints as part of the post-9/11 air transport industry bailout; the checkpoints had existed for a long time.
- rhino369 5y ago
  Yep, pre-911 you still had to go through a metal detector and get your stuff x-rayed. Taking off your shoes and no fluids are the only new restrictions really.
  - chrsig 5y ago
    don't forget a high likelyhood of being irradiated
    - TameAntelope 5y ago
      You get more radiation in the plane than from TSA.
    - dragonwriter 5y ago
      Not that I like the millimeter wave scanners, but like the metal detectors I think they use low-energy non-ionizing radiation, so its not really a change in the kind or significance of radiation exposure.
      - nradov 5y ago
        Conventional metal detectors use electromagnets and don't emit any ionizing radiation. Backscatter scanners used in airport security screening do emit ionizing radiation but a very small amount. https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiation-and-airport-security-scanning https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiation-and-airport-security-s...
  - panzagl 5y ago
    The TSA was a huge improvement over the understaffed and indifferent private contractors that used to run airport checkpoints when it first started. Things didn't get bad again until the shoe bomber.