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by cmurf 5y ago
All the payment systems we have suck. Especially for aging parents, it's seriously like paper checks are way safer and easier, for them. How appalling is that? I like the idea of Zelle, owned by the banks, no fees, no spam, instant - b
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by cmurf 5y ago
We are acting pretty helpless because the bully has nuclear weapons.
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Former astronaut to back off Twitter war with head of Russian space agency(cnn.com)
2 points by cmurf 5y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
Members of the Security Council are obligated to intrude. That is the agreement they are a party to. If China cannot perform that duty, they need to withdraw as a permanent member of the Security Council. Russia has announced they have the
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by cmurf 5y ago
Well this is interesting. If a Russian attack on Kyiv were to kill a head of state of a NATO country, would NATO article 5 be invoked?
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The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It(washingtonian.com)
71 points by cmurf 5y ago|73 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
I don't think so... Original text for the zones: http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:15%20section:2... Bill amending that law: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill
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by cmurf 5y ago
>as Americans we love to talk about democracy and freedom a lot more than slavery / Jim Crow, or whether all of our military endeavors hold up as well as WWII. There are certainly dark corners that remain in the American psyche expr
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by cmurf 5y ago
Continuing the metaphor of the title: Russia is the abusive spouse that can't take no for an answer and is becoming a murderer, perhaps murder-suicide. Central to Putanism specifically and even Russia now generally, there is a strong
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by cmurf 5y ago
The gas+oil spigot is not completely turned off yet, even by sanctions adherent countries. The real difficulty comes if there's an end run around the sanctions by China and/or India. Imagine an exodus from that market. Imagine App
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by cmurf 5y ago
Everytime I email PDFs to my Kindle, I get a verification email with a link I have to click on. This same email says I can avoid this verification step by adding the sending email address as an approved sender (or whatever) which I've
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by cmurf 5y ago
Actually, I have seen a write time tree checker error on one of my file systems. I even reported the bug :) So it also has the benefit of ratting out btrfs itself when it's the cause. The file system did go read only, corruption didn&#
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by cmurf 5y ago
>The United Nations Security Council has proven once again to be useless. Useless in a practical sense, in this particular case, yes. It's not at all surprising. Specifically the problem is due to simultaneous issues (a) only the Se
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by cmurf 5y ago
There is one solution to the death problem, Russia ends their war of aggression, a war of choice, and a war of conquest to illegally expand their borders. Illegal because they are parties to agreements saying it is, which they've reneg
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by cmurf 5y ago
Ok, but what about the responsibility of the manufacturer? And the buyer? POTUS is not the boss of the world. People still buy smart phones despite a decade of these same issues.
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by cmurf 5y ago
Btrfs does report most of this, tracked per device, and stored in the device tree. `btrfs decice stats`. The counter can be reset. It is a cumulative counter so if you have one defect and the affected file is read three times, the respectiv
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Putin’s Endgame: A Conversation with Fiona Hill(nytimes.com)
4 points by cmurf 5y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
The Atlantic must be reusing URLs or something, because the URL goes to a differently named article, which I just tried to submit but is a dupe of this one. We Need to Relearn What We’d Hoped to Forget https://archive.ph/sgM
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Russia plans to seize assets of western companies exiting country(theguardian.com)
11 points by cmurf 5y ago|3 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
The invasion was not at all defensive as defined in U.N. charter article 51. This war is a direct violation of article 2. Russia is a party to the charter, this war is expressly prohibited under it. Russia is also a party to the Budapest Me
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by cmurf 5y ago
Russia isn't going to win this war, short of using weapons of mass destruction. They don't have the manpower. They walk troops into Kyiv and they will be slaughtered by the Ukrainian military. The only way Russia wins this war is
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by cmurf 5y ago
Absurd. Sovereign nations have the right to associate, or not, with other nations. And the Russian Federation is party to a treaty, the Budapest Memorandum, recognizing Ukraine's sovereignty and its 1994 borders, without restrictions w
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by cmurf 5y ago
There's a model for applying sanctions to Russia, the 2012 sanctions on Iran. As long as buyers were reducing their oil imports over the prior 6 months, they could buy. The money is put into an escrow account owned by the sanctioned co
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by cmurf 5y ago
In Texas it’s illegal to vote while on parole. Nebraska, you can't vote until two years after parole is completed.
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Russia’s Ex-Foreign Minister on His ‘Totalitarian’ Country(newlinesmag.com)
3 points by cmurf 5y ago|1 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
This makes a stronger summary of just what Russia has done and how it's blowing up the post-WW2 era and U.N. system. But anyway, I completely support the U.N. General Assembly coming to this conclusion - i.e. there should be a NFZ, and
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by cmurf 5y ago
The U.S. didn't bomb indiscriminately, or to expand borders, or use false pretenses to try to justify it, or in contravention to international law. Putin has done all of those things. And not just right now but in 2014 when Obama was p
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by cmurf 5y ago
Putin cannot be trusted. He's already torn up the UN charter, Geneva Convention, Budapest Memorandum - this is an aggressive war. Any agreement with him is strictly kick the can down the road and hope for a better hand (of cards). It w
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by cmurf 5y ago
Putin is doing this for popularity boost, as he has successfully employed several times before. The reasons he gives publicly are contradictory. And in any case the treaty doesn't allow for invasion upon the government being perceived
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by cmurf 5y ago
China has never recognized Taiwan as a sovereign nation. Russia and China are among the parties to the Budapest Memorandum, a 1994 treaty recognizing Ukraine as a sovereign nation.

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