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by skohan 5y ago
When you buy the non-refundable tickets, you agree to a contract in which they have unilateral rights to refusal . There is no obligation that every contract should enure equally to both parties :-)
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by skohan 5y ago
Most airlines offer refundable tickets which cost more. If you opt for a lower priced ticket without the option to change or refund, that’s the trade off you’re making
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by skohan 5y ago
Yeah I am not sure these tests are good for anything these days except for personal responsibility.
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by skohan 5y ago
Are you sure there are at-home antigen tests which are universally accepted for international travel? I have been on a number of international flights during this period, and having read the entry requirements for a few different countries
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by skohan 5y ago
Isn't that generally the case? I have never seen a situation where the airline cancelled a flight and didn't have to refund the passengers or offer another flight. Maybe a secondary/discount travel agency would make it hard
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by skohan 5y ago
I agree that PCR testing requirements complicate things. I actually think COVID rules in general regarding flights are problematic - it adds a lot of uncertainty to the process of traveling. If we want to have a testing requirement, I beli
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by skohan 5y ago
> Are airlines even a big source of co2 emission when you compare it with other source I am not an expert but I found this article: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector According to this it looks like passenger
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by skohan 5y ago
Slots for the next month? People book flights months in advance.
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by skohan 5y ago
I had to have a PCR test document to enter the US, but the vaccine was enough to return to the EU.
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by skohan 5y ago
Well no, typically you would be put on a later flight or an alternate route. Maybe we should be willing to accept a non-zero chance that our plans will be disrupted by several hours to avoid burning massive amounts of extra carbon.
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by skohan 5y ago
Are PCR tests free in the US? I found tons of paid testing services when looking, they just didn't have capacity.
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by skohan 5y ago
That might be the case for any of these individual flights. My intent was to refute the other commenter's general point that it's a nice thing for airlines to run empty flights for the convenience of the passenger.
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by skohan 5y ago
I would think that in a city like New York with multiple large international airports, there would be plenty of people willing to pay to get the PCR tests they need to get on an international flight on time. There must be thousands of pe
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by skohan 5y ago
Are there at-home PCR tests which are valid for international travel?
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by skohan 5y ago
The reason you would regulate something like this is because airport capacity is a huge bottleneck for air travel where demand always outstrips supply, and every flight which doesn't run creates a massive opportunity cost for a flight
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by skohan 5y ago
Flights are an incredibly CO2 intensive activity. It's nice that it's convenient to you and the other seven people, but are the tradeoffs really worth it?
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by skohan 5y ago
Are you talking about PCR tests, or antigen tests? All I can tell you is that this week, my Aunt and I were both flying out of EWR. She needed a PCR test for the flight which was supposed to be Tuesday, and she started looking on Friday, b
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by skohan 5y ago
It's a bit of a hard problem isn't it? Flights and airport capacity have to be planned very far in advance and there are a limited number of slots - if you have airlines taking capacity and not using it, there's a huge oppor
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by skohan 5y ago
Whereas in the US necessary flights have been cancelled left and right. I had to take a series of flights in the past two weeks, and it was an absolute mess. By the third trip, I honestly had no expectation that my flight would take off o
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by skohan 5y ago
I believe you are missing the point
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by skohan 5y ago
That's true but it's adjacent to my argument. Would you argue that growth stocks offer some utility or intrinsic value which is substantially greater than that of cryptocurrency? It seems to me both asset classes are largely bas
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by skohan 5y ago
I think crypto "investing" might be here to stay, for quite a while at least. Not that I think it should: it's a non-productive asset valued almost totally based on the greater fool theory, and there seem to be very credible
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by skohan 5y ago
It might be worth noting that the wild volatility of cryptocurrencies hurts all of these use-cases.
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by skohan 5y ago
It's a good start but you still need a mechanism for preventing negative externalities between utopias.
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by skohan 5y ago
There's a tool for every job, but for most of my use-cases, I'd rather have a webserver which is just a webserver, and get my front-end elsewhere. But I'm sure there are places where Rails is a great fit in the right hands
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by skohan 5y ago
I mean if hyperloop can exist, I wouldn't rule it out completely. One path I could imagine: a city like Phoenix parners with autonomous vehicle manufacturers to create a bubble where self driving cars can exist. It goes really well, o
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by skohan 5y ago
By contrast, Node was a breath of fresh air for me. With Rails, you had to start with this already complex system and bend it to do what you want. With a greenfield node server, it only does what you tell it to and nothing more. No surpr
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by skohan 5y ago
Couldn't you imagine a world where infrastructure is adapted for safe self-driving? For instance, what if you had roads (think highways) where self-driving was mandatory? By applying certain constraints, you might be able to create s
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by skohan 5y ago
So it seems like the tech giants may be in a race towards creating the "metaverse", or "metaverses". As a kid this would have been an incredibly exciting idea, but instead this kind of news creates a weird feeling in th
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by skohan 5y ago
Next let’s do ADT’s

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