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I think a variation of your idea is a winner. The top of the delivery truck can have lots of instrumentation to determine whether the final approach is safe, and help guide the lan…

The practical answer is probably to blend the technologies. In an urban environment, the bikes do the last mile. Very small drop off points with tiny specialized helipads would acc…

Keep in the larger context in mind: Your former employer (and anyone else you have done significant business with) can always find some flimsy basis for a lawsuit that will cost yo…

I have had this happen a couple time. I got a call one Saturday morning asking about 3 recent charges, including a Men's Warehouse in Waikiki. My response: "You are calling me at m…

Exactly. When you pre-authorize money to be removed from your account, the bank will happily believe every future charge from that party. From their point of view, your emptied ban…

I am ideologically opposed to ever letting money leaving my bank account, except under my close supervision with direct instructions on time and amount and to whom. That means nobo…

That sounds exactly like the kind of wishful thinking the OP is railing against. For "retail" folk who are having trouble navigating through regular life without getting screwed by…

I would argue that fear of failure is taught. Small children are relentless and courageous and highly tolerant of discomfort -- falling down 20 times does not intimidate them when …

The founders were pushed out because the VCs perceived the founders were not running the company all that well. The VCs may have been wrong in that assessment, but the VC controlle…

Exactly. The preferred stock is paid for with real money. The common shares I bought as an employee was at single digit pennies a share. While I am not exactly happy how I got wipe…

Yup. Our choices have consequences, and he put a lot of effort into making the world a crappier place so he could have a bit more stuff, most of which he probably did not actually …

It is true that the cost may well be less than sending a check to some American farmers to ship over rice, because the monies circulate locally. But ultimately that money could hav…

>Compelling someone to lie after the facts have changed seems to me a far murkier legal area (and perhaps easier to fight in court). And IIRC C-level executives are required to cer…

Being deceitful about something that a reasonable person could construe as relevant to the value of the corporation in a public document could be a crime. Stockholders have rights.…

Could the good Doctor Strangelove be wrong?

Not quite so simple. The nuclear industry wanted/needed federal dollars, so not being in the uranium game looked like a bad bet. Once you have all that infrastructure invested in u…

We should keep in mind that the Age Of Exploration, circa Columbus, was considered monumentally successful by their Eurpoean sponsors, but being a explorer was nearly a death sente…

"The range of verbs is further cut down by means of the -ize and de- formations, and the banal statements are given an appearance of profundity by means of the not un- formation." …

Because, while not bosom buddies, the medical professionals and insurance companies are better at working together to influence costs up?

Part of the problem here is a matter of conflating people and government. "Death to America" =/= "Death to Americans" The better translation is "Regime change in America" -- they w…

I agree. The best examples of third parties are the modern British Liberal party, and the insurgent Republican Party of 1860. But we can see that there were/are very strong regiona…

If the case is so clear, then they will be convicted with the full rights as the rest of us, won't they? Once upon a time, I was waiting in the Illinois state supreme court room fo…

Yes and no. The idealized invisible hand is built on the axiom that information flows, and the decision makers have feedback to learn from their own mistakes and the mistakes of ot…

A Wiener might be a person from Wien, Osterreich (which translates to Vienna, Austria in English).

Your points are all good ones. The likely problem is the potential for increased suffering for future generations, not necessarily to the child to be immediately born. There are ge…