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by snrplfth 10y ago
And because foreign airlines are generally prohibited from providing domestic service inside the US, which is the substantial majority of the overall market.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
It depends on what standards they're using. However, drinks and water fountains are frequently available once you've gone through security anyways.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
>"huge mess of transporting, storing, unpacking, preparing and disposing of food in all sorts of random ways at various times throughout the flight by the hundreds of hungry sleep deprived passengers." That's generally han
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by snrplfth 10y ago
What does that even mean?
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by snrplfth 10y ago
So 60% of economists disagree, and only 2% agree, with a proposal that would eliminate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid etc, and this is somehow them "going after" these programs? What are you talking about? They are very broad
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Well, they have that, as "food stamps". But of course it gets arbitraged often by people buying storable commodity goods (like soda or detergent) with it, and selling those things at a discount.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Yep, terrible title. "People disagree with implementing an idea in this specific way? They must not like the idea at all, in any circumstance!" Of course, the only way you could finance a $13 000 UBI is by getting rid of all tho
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by snrplfth 10y ago
How tall, though? I'm taller than 95% of the US population, have flown quite a bit, and have never had a problem. They can't build all the seats in the plane for people in the 98th percentile and up. (Or rather, they can build som
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Yes, it's great if you can manage it. But helium is so pleasingly inert and cold, I can see why it's not always the choice.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Then buy a drink and pack your own food. In any case, it's hardly the airlines' fault that liquids can't come through security. I just do not see what is so bad about unbundling food from ticket price.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Don't know why you're gettimg downvoted for this. "Having to pay what I deem a high price for a good and/or service I deem insufficient? Help help, I'm being oppressed!"
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by snrplfth 10y ago
So instead of bundling into your ticket price the cost of food you may not want or like, they allow people who bring their own to save money, and only charge those who consume that particular good. Apparently this is "extortion",
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Yes, but hardly anybody understands price discrimination. Generally, people think that by requiring services and their prices to be bundled, their overall price will be lower. Which is not true of course.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The Carbon-Overwrapped Pressure Vessels are quite different from the large-scale carbon fiber tanks they're building now. The new large tanks are designed to be able to contain large quantities of propellant at moderate pressures, poss
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by snrplfth 10y ago
You can use oxygen gas for pressurization of oxygen tanks, but it introduces a new set of problems, since you've got to get a stable pressure of oxygen gas inside a container with a huge volume of sub-cooled liquid oxygen, and you ha
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by snrplfth 10y ago
That's what I meant. It was rated for a certain load, but there was a faulty strut in the batch, and it failed well under that rated load.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The insurer took the loss on the satellite, SpaceX took the loss on the vehicle/launch contract, and the pad equipment.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The previous loss was, as far as they can tell, related to a strut that broke under strain and released an otherwise-fine COPV into the oxygen tank. As far as they can tell it didn't have anything to do with aggressive design, just a p
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Not just price, but density is the reason. The next noble gas up is neon, which is quite scarce and more expensive than helium, and denser anyways. After that it's argon, which is cheap and plentiful, but about ten times denser, so it&
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The problem is that accurately reproducing this failure case is very difficult. You need to replicate the thermal properties of the loading process and the tanks, at the same speed with the same amounts of propellant and helium, effectively
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by snrplfth 10y ago
It's not liquid helium, it's gaseous helium, which is why it is at such high pressures. It's primarily used as a pressurant for the liquid oxygen and rocket fuel (RP-1) tanks. Since liquid oxygen and RP-1 are being sucked out
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by snrplfth 10y ago
I guess so. But they're not even actually that good at being dictators. Even a solely power-maximizing autocrat should realize what does and does not work economically. It's like Venezuela - their incompetence means that their inf
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by snrplfth 10y ago
...but if the government owns all 'capital goods', then you can't use markets to allocate those capital goods between different owners.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But not even that well by global standards of autocrats! I mean, that small group could be like the wealthy, globe-trotting Communist Party of China apparatchiks, or the gilded, pampered princes of the Middle East. But instead they get to
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by snrplfth 10y ago
No, you said that "political strife has been the root cause of famine for over a thousand years." Which is not true - in a low-productivity, pre-industrial economy, inherently near the subsistence baseline, food shortfalls (and co
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by snrplfth 10y ago
...what? No, what I'm saying is, if you're trying to figure out "how well we're doing" at solving some particular problem, then you have to look at proportions. Any group of humans will suffer various things, the po
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by snrplfth 10y ago
"Millions of Americans are currently hungry; we can report that they are moving at speed towards nearby fridges."
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But that's a smaller proportion of people than ever before. So not only are we capable of supporting more people total, but a far smaller percentage of those are hungry.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Right, but that's not due to what the chain wanted to do, but due to liability. Allow people to waive liability claims for past-due food, and this problem mostly goes away. I remember working in a produce warehouse, and due to some cle
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by snrplfth 10y ago
"Let's do what North Korea does, that seems to be working out really well," said nobody.

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