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What do you see human society accomplishing in the next 20 years? What are you most excited for?

Eh, southwest is probably a bad example. They're a P2P airline, and I think upwards of 80% of their traffic is local to local, they could give less of a fuck to transfer passengers.

It's more airlines like United that use a hub and spoke model that hidden city ticketing saves money. Essentially there's two sides of this model that makes the prices what they are. The first is Hub and Spoke legacy carriers will take a hit to their profits in the feeder portion of the route in order to shuffle you onto a high yield route, usually for them international flights and hub to hub traffic. So they price their feeder routes, in this case Nashville to Denver almost next to nothing to get you onto the Denver to San Francisco flight. Usually, the Denver to San Francisco flight will use a bigger plane, and filling up this bigger plane will lower their per seat cost, and also allow them to charge significantly more for direct hub to hub traffic since there is now less pressure to fill up the plane, yielding higher profits for the airline. So the SF - Nashville ticket will now be cheaper than the SF - Denver ticket, because the SF - Denver people are essentially subsidizing a portion of your cost. Savings also come in the way of less equipment & maintenance needed. Southwest owns a fleet of almost 700 Boeing 737s flying high frequency point to point, while United uses around 300 domestic narrowbody aircraft to get essentially the same job done. Consolidation is key.

The Chinese Ministry for State Security is the equivalent of the CIA and FBI all rolled into one.

I agree with your first and second point. But for iii, you need to reread his statement. He said that cloud storage is getting cheaper fast, not getting cheaper and faster. He never said anything about cloud storage being faster than SD cards.

What do you think Reddit did wrong, if anything, and do you think reddit is on a decline due to recent events?