nsnick

You hit the nail on the head. Self checkouts are terrible because they treat every customer as a potential thief.

How is the Washington Post not included with Prime yet?

W did just that when he nominated Harriet Miers.

"jibe well"

There is even a word for it "slotting fees"

It is not good for consumers. You buy from a particular seller because you know based on reviews that their item is not counterfeit and then amazon sends you the item from someone else and it is.

The title is clickbait.

The most common of transportation in the US also kills people when it is driven into a crowd.

What you are describing is a Ponzi Scheme

The idea of using ski lifts in cities has been around for a while. https://www.wired.com/2012/11/austin-gondola/

I think you need to read your quote again. A productive approach would focus on currency manipulation instead of protectionism.

The US doesn't have nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula. George H W Bush removed them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/10/19/u...

That's not how underground nuclear testing works. The bombs are not developed or stored inside the mountain where they test. There would have been no one inside the mountain during the test. The mountain collapsed during the test. Kim probably thinks that his bombs are powerful enough and reliable enough for him to have a strong negotiating position.

The National Debt: Why Fret Over Something That Doesn't Exist?

https://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/10/25/2016/national...

The argument against this is that greening will stop at some point while temperature rise is exponential and greening is already in the models.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/21...

Cyclists aim their lights up so that cars can see them. The lights on a bicycle exist more so the cyclist can be seen than for the cyclist to see.

Nearby residents are already compensated. When you build a high density apartment, the value of land near it goes up.

I think this is inevitable. Private schools will absolutely use genetic information for admission if they can. You can outlaw it in state schools, but if the private schools do it, it won't matter what the state system does. You can outlaw the use of genetic information in hiring, but then all you have to do is list your primary school on your resume.

I don't think you understand what a fiduciary responsibility is.

This is a classic example of the cobra effect where Geek Squad employees are incentivized to plant child pornography on customers computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

I am pretty sure they are alienating a lot of their customers by having their employees snoop on their customers' computers. The argument you are making is "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" which is ridiculous.

It is completely different because the Geek Squad employee has a fiduciary responsibility to the customer who left their computer for repair.

The reasoning for that is kinda thin. "I am pretty sure that practical flying cars will need to be largely self driving while flying, so they sort of fit the category." Essentially, because self driving technology is a necessary precondition for flying cars, flying cars are at least as difficult as self driving vehicles. There really isn't any argument for why flying cars aren't much more difficult than self driving vehicles.

Airline tickets are nontransferable. You can't buy bulk tickets, and you can't resell them.

They are using the Starbucks method and playing the long game. Move into an area, lower prices till the incumbents go out of business then raise prices.

The mistake you are making is that you are only looking at the harm that monopolies do to their competitors. You should also look at the harm that monopolies do to consumers. If you are a monopoly you can effectively set the price of whatever you are selling. Just operating is using your monopoly.

Britain was hardly a super power in 1982. It took every refueling plane Britain had to send one bomber to the Falklands. Refueling planes had to fuel refueling planes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck

At some point you have to stand up to despots in the name of human rights.

South Africans remember the British concentration camps.

The SR-71 leaked fuel before takeoff because it needed separation distance between parts to allow for expansion. It had nothing to do with the difficulty machining titanium.

From your source: "Fuselage panels were manufactured to fit only loosely on the ground. Proper alignment was achieved as the airframe heated up and expanded several inches.[30] Because of this, and the lack of a fuel-sealing system that could handle the airframe's expansion at extreme temperatures, the aircraft leaked JP-7 fuel on the ground prior to takeoff."