cmurf

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by cmurf 7d ago
It wouldn’t just monetize the national debt. By inflating away his own debts he might actually become a billionaire.
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by cmurf 7d ago
Conviction. Removal from office. Third time’s the charm? By all means let Senators defend and protect him. Maybe they don't care about their historical reputation
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by cmurf 8d ago
It’s 2% or actual cost for credit cards. Under subparagraph f)A seller or lessor shall not impose a surcharge if a customer elects to pay for goods or services by Check, cash, debit card, processing as a debit payment, or gift card. eCheck
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by cmurf 23d ago
Outlaw rewards credit cards? Or make it compulsory that the true cost of a specific credit card is revealed to the merchant who has the right to absorb or pass on, in a line item, that cost to that specific consumer? If I know I'm payi
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by cmurf 1mo ago
Ok after rereading the preliminary report, ATC gave them a vector north and clearance to a named fix. They were not off course. While on a vector clearance, terrain and obstacle clearance is ATC's responsibility. Once the accident flig
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by cmurf 1mo ago
The accident flight descended into hostile terrain at night and had a CFIT. That has less to do with GPS jamming than it does accepting a visual approach from 14 miles out with an enormous mountain they couldn't see between them and th
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by cmurf 1mo ago
MON adds four new SSVs: VL and VH for VORs; DL and DH for DME. There's range changes in VOR, DME, and VORTAC. See AIM 1-1-8. NAVAID Service Volumes https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_
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by cmurf 1mo ago
Yes, but… They are enhancing the navaids that remain. Greater range, and a documented network of airports serviced by ground based instrument approach procedures. The shrinkage of total number of navaids concerns me from a rural support per
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by cmurf 1mo ago
In general I agree with this. (Without respect to this particular crash.) If GPS signal is sufficiently degraded or lost, TAWS is probably unavailable (highly dependent on what navigation system is on board). TAWS might have saved them. But
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by cmurf 3mo ago
Kernel oomkiller is useless for the desktop. It only cares about kernel survival. There's user space oom options, like oomd, earlyoom ... but I'm not sure any heuristic really knows what user space program to clobber. Resource con
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by cmurf 4mo ago
$800?! I wonder if Gaudi gets a cut!
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by cmurf 4mo ago
I expect pilots called company, and risk assessment made the decision. Pilots can and do make flight safety decisions, but operational control is an airline decision.
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by cmurf 4mo ago
I prefer the term "hugged to death" which I only ever have seen used on HN.
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by cmurf 4mo ago
We need a synthetic or phytoestrogen that provides some (or all) of the benefits of natural estrogen, without at all stimulating Er/Pr receptive cancer.
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by cmurf 4mo ago
Elderly undue influence costs victims billions. I shouldn't have to consider getting a parent an under 18 account to protect them better.
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by cmurf 7mo ago
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. ... And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
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by cmurf 7mo ago
>Why would someone let an elected official enrich themselves and their friends with your money? Why would the legislative branch allow that? Republicans in Congress were elected expressly to allow Trump to do as he wishes. >A populace
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by cmurf 7mo ago
Send a letter requesting a full refund. If they refuse, sue them in small claims court.
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by cmurf 7mo ago
In a sense this is the correct level of punishment for all. The courts are slow and deliberative. The Congress could solve this in a week. Impeachment and removal from office.
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by cmurf 7mo ago
Feudalism says: buy new hardware, peasant. I don't know what "equally annoying" would be for a company and its customers, i.e. a fair compromise. But we need a law requiring companies open source their hardware within X days
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by cmurf 7mo ago
Surcharges are permitted in some states. Colorado law recently changed permitting merchants to pass on the actual cost of processing, except for cash, check and debit payments. https://colorado.public.law/statutes/crs_5
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by cmurf 7mo ago
They are likely getting more frequent brake pad replacements. Not a significant cost. But they sure as shit aren't getting what they think they're getting. Meaningfully farther ahead. I now see it all as a risk assessment rather t
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by cmurf 7mo ago
Winning local elections means having the political power and thus economic power to Deflock your town. Telling illiberal authoritarians to go fuck themselves is reasonable. But power is still more important than insults.
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by cmurf 8mo ago
The medical and financial predators targeting elderly makes me wonder how to constrain it. The law doesn’t really help, short of having a court determine there’s some level of incapacity. In theory the law doesn’t require victim cooperation
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by cmurf 8mo ago
Federal court orders (judicial branch) are enforced by federal law enforcement such as marshals, FBI, ATF, and so on (executive branch). If the executive branch is lawless, then there’s selective enforcement. We are seeing the emergence of
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by cmurf 8mo ago
Die Eier Von Satan (also 1996)
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by cmurf 8mo ago
Hold on. That ballroom is ostensibly funded by private investors including Apple, AMD, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Nvidia, Palantir, Booz Allen Lockheed Martin, Zoom, Coinbase, Ripple ... https://www.opensecrets.org/new
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by cmurf 8mo ago
>Historically, the FAA had zero interest/jurisdiction in most hobbyist aircraft below 500 feet, they would not even bother entertaining such as it was not relevant to their opperations. This is not correct. See 14 CFR 101, 103, and
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by cmurf 8mo ago
Yeah, the higher departure stress due to greater fuel weight at takeoff was mentioned in this video. I'm now curious about the engineering of the displaced threshold. This is a portion of the runway that aircraft can taxi onto and use
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by cmurf 8mo ago
When are you suggesting this overreach began? FAA has asserted jurisdiction below 500' for a long time: balloons and kites since 1963, ultralights since 1982. FAA certainly asserts regulatory authority over aircraft below 500', ev

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