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by dpifke 5y ago
For private pilots, your insurance rates are based on how often you fly, in the inverse of how car insurance is priced: more hours per year, lower rates. Frequent flyers are (usually) proficient flyers.
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by dpifke 6y ago
I wish a newspaper reporter, writing about the union to which he or she belongs, had to disclose that relationship. Many years ago when the SF Chronicle had an ombudsman, I asked about this, and was told "it's just not done."
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by dpifke 6y ago
It's really easy to run a private instance of your own: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter Mine isn't publicly accessible so never gets throttled.
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by dpifke 6y ago
All 50 states have some form of data breach notification law, not just California: https://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informa...
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by dpifke 6y ago
My understanding of strict textualists' arguments (especially Gorsuch), is that they view it as a separation of powers issue. By only looking at the text of the statute, the Court—which consists of unelected officials with lifetime ter
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by dpifke 6y ago
The purpose was clearly commercial, not educational or a parody. This is addressed in the decision on page 27. The Court wrote: The text of §107 includes various noncommercial uses, such as teaching and scholarship, as paradigmatic exam
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by dpifke 6y ago
I found this section (pp. 33-34) particularly interesting: ...enforcement of the Sun Java API copyright might give Oracle a significant share of these funds. It is important, however, to consider why and how Oracle might have become enti
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by dpifke 6y ago
To get trademark protection in a particular class (e.g. candy belongs to class 30, "staple foods"), you have to demonstrate you are using the trademark in commerce. Stuff like this seems whimsical, but it serves the very serious p
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by dpifke 6y ago
After I quit Twitter a few months ago, I set up a private instance of Nitter[0], and use Huginn[1] to forward posts from it to an instance of Pleroma[2]. Which reminds me, I need to clean up and publish my Huginn agent for posting to Mastod
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by dpifke 6y ago
Thanks for the link to this. The full report (PDF) makes for interesting reading: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/... Some additional damning quotes: Another check airman at Mesa
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by dpifke 6y ago
Assuming your local agent silently signs all requests. This attack doesn't work if e.g. your Yubikey is configured to require a physical tap for every authentication.
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by dpifke 6y ago
It isn't, which is why the 13th amendment (which bans other forms of slavery) explicitly permits it. Some members from both houses of Congress have recently proposed a constitutional amendment to change this: https://www.mer
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by dpifke 6y ago
For those who want to know more about this: https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=1... Essentially, we still don't have a viable replacement. The FAA was tasked with coming up with one b
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by dpifke 6y ago
According to Musk, yes: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336818987389181952 The orientation change just prior to shutoff is also a clue: https://twitter.com/joebarnard/status/13368203
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by dpifke 6y ago
The big issue with the unlock password being used for FDE is that the average user unlocks their phone many times/day, often in view of cameras. If I worked for a LEO and was asked to "crack" a locked phone, I would start by
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by dpifke 6y ago
Musk is claiming that Starship launches will be closer to $10M than $100M: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1328770804222468097 (I've heard some ad hominem attacks that this will never happen, but haven&#x
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by dpifke 6y ago
One thing I've wondered is at what point this becomes a campaign finance issue. Publications (and social networks) are free to only host speech they agree with. However, advertising in the same forum supposedly has value. If a compan
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by dpifke 6y ago
I can also highly recommend Diz's (W8DIZ) shop: https://www.kitsandparts.com/toroids.php He ships internationally, for non-US folks.
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by dpifke 6y ago
I would love to see the same for some of their investments which didn't pan out.
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by dpifke 6y ago
For the non-pilots: if ATC gives you a phone number to call after you land, it means you really screwed up. (It's the number for the supervisor, who is thinking about filing a "pilot deviation report" with the FAA.)
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by dpifke 6y ago
So can operational satellites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_maneuver Moving to avoid potential collisions is relatively common.
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by dpifke 6y ago
Speaking from experience: the USB-C Yubikey will snap right off, without damaging the port (at least, on a ThinkPad X1).
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by dpifke 6y ago
The California Highway Patrol mostly uses—or used, as of 10-ish years ago—206s. I know this because a member of my flying club was a patrolman who was trying to get enough hours in a C206 to switch to aerial patrols. We went on a couple o
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by dpifke 6y ago
Is anyone aware of any third-party project which attempts to audit sum.golang.org (and/or sum.golang.google.cn)? Its design is similar to that of certificate transparency, in that changes or deletions (e.g. DMCA takedowns or FISA warra
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by dpifke 6y ago
LLC to C-Corp is easy and inexpensive. There can be huge tax consequences of going the other way around, though. I've been involved in several startups which enjoyed favorable tax treatment as an LLC, and then converted to a C-Corp upo
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by dpifke 6y ago
Has anyone here ever been paid a bounty for a vulnerability reported to Apple?
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by dpifke 6y ago
I downvote comments which I think don't add anything to the conversation. Lately I find myself downvoting comments which try to interject U.S. politics—of any ideological stripe—into discussions of non-political topics. I don't t
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by dpifke 6y ago
Authoritative reference for anyone else curious about this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md
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by dpifke 7y ago
radiusbank.com does.
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How much do rockets pollute?(everydayastronaut.com)
82 points by dpifke 7y ago|39 comments

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