Whenever I read about NY mayors or governors, it's like they are trying to be Gotham.
NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
They should make an addendum that any safety-related cancellations require a full inspection/re-certification of the aircraft that takes either a lot of time or a lot of money to go through. And any crew involved will be required to pass some sort of check flight or related process (at company cost of course.) Make spurious 'safety' cancellations expensive, very expensive.
That would defeat the purpose. The point of the carveout is so that we don't accidentally incentivize the airlines to fly a flight that should be canceled for safety reasons, and this would do exactly that.
Indeed. I feel like so many of these arguments that “airlines are making up fake safety or weather cancellation reasons; when’s the last time an airline crashed from a safety or weather reason; they’re over-stating the risks just to get out of paying penalties!” seemingly without reflecting on why the second clause is the case.
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#163I don't understand. The bill was passed with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority. Then it sat on the Governor's desk until she made changes (after intense lobbying)? But the NY legislature is not in session, but the bill is signed? So how were the changes approved by the legislature? What is the precise legal mechanism here? Is this legal? My initial impression is that this is an illegal act of tyranny and should be…
Really wish Zeldin wasn't an election denier. That's what made me vote for governor sellout.
We often have to vote for the lesser of two evils.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I understand what the alternative is - should you pretend that corporations are not ruthless profit maximizers, and allow them to have undue sway over our legislative system all the same? It seems like the root of the problem is that we've let the institutions which are supposed to hold our politicians to account when they exhibit blatant corruption fall into disrepair.
Do not allow corporations to lobby and influence the law. Do no allow politicians to profit from changes to the law (ie playing the stock markets) Companies are not people and do not have rights.
The US Surpreme court ruled they are people.
https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-...
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Be a good person" is not a law I want anyone writing, because such a policy relies on the moral fortitude of random executive bureaucrats. "Wrong" reason is subjective. Tickets are nonrefundable because otherwise the network doesn't work, financially. Every hole in that increases costs far beyond the refunds themselves further down the line. Air travel is not a high margin, luxury product, it's a lot margin mass mar…
I fly a lot. But only on Delta and American. So I can’t speak to the other airlines. But they both have three tiers of tickets for the same main cabin seating. For Delta those are basic, main and main refundable. Looking at a random domestic flight. The difference between the three tiers are about $30-$45 each. Never buy Basic. But if you at least by the middle tier, while the tickets aren’t refundable, you can chang…
The difference is a lot more, I usually see >100. But even for a cheap flight that was 138 jet blue basic, it's 60 for the middle tier and 110 extra for the refundable.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So when a democracy is representative, the minority's will can override the majority's will? Yes, and this is a feature, not a bug. Majority voting on issues one at a time cannot generate a deal that a majority would prefer when the compromise is presented as a block. Eg, if there are six different compatible single-issues that 10% of the people care solely about each, each individual one would get voted down 90-10…
What does compatible mean if they would get voted down 90-10?
Something like a policy proposal costing a low but non-zero amount of money for exactly zero benefit outside of the eyes of the 10% who really care about their pet cause. The non-packaged proposals get voted down not because the majority hates them, but because they don't care, at least not like the special interest does.
If a vector space is more your jam, imagine a six-dimensional vector space of policies, and each of these six hypothetical interest groups as voting for any combination of policies with a positive value along the axis in question, and against any combination of policies with a negative value. [100, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1], [-1, 100, -1, -1, -1, -1], etc, will each get voted down when presented individually as policies, but their sum as a package gets supported by each interest group.
Re: NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Be a good person" is not a law I want anyone writing, because such a policy relies on the moral fortitude of random executive bureaucrats. "Wrong" reason is subjective. Tickets are nonrefundable because otherwise the network doesn't work, financially. Every hole in that increases costs far beyond the refunds themselves further down the line. Air travel is not a high margin, luxury product, it's a lot margin mass mar…
> Tickets are nonrefundable because otherwise the network doesn't work, financially. This is 100% false. Southwest Airlines is one of the most profitable airlines in the US and their refund policy for refundable flights is a full refund up to 10 mins before the flight. For nonrefundable flights you get full credit if you cancel up to 10 mins before your flight, with no additional fees. During the pandemic, ALL airlin…
The airlines were buoyed by PPP loans.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does compatible mean if they would get voted down 90-10?
Something like a policy proposal costing a low but non-zero amount of money for exactly zero benefit outside of the eyes of the 10% who really care about their pet cause. The non-packaged proposals get voted down not because the majority hates them, but because they don't care , at least not like the special interest does. If a vector space is more your jam, imagine a six-dimensional vector space of policies, and eac…
I see, thanks for example.
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#169Whenever I read about NY mayors or governors, it's like they are trying to be Gotham.
You didn't mention the ny legislator which must vote and pass a bill before it goes to the governor, why?
Also mayors weren't involved in this discussion.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do not allow corporations to lobby and influence the law. Do no allow politicians to profit from changes to the law (ie playing the stock markets) Companies are not people and do not have rights.
The US Surpreme court ruled they are people. https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-...
The funny thing is that corporations have a bunch of advantages like limited liability on top of the US Supreme court ruling them to have the same rights as people, which means that corporations actually have more rights than regular people.