Why do you think Amazon Sidewalk exists? lol.

You didn't think that they would let you skip out on sending them all that valuable data, did you?

If you don't share your WiFi, the day is quickly coming where your smart devices will piggy back on your neighbors WiFi, or the Amazon delivery vehicle, or another smart device, or any connected car that comes near your house.

Itâ(TM)s usefully wrong producing code. Itâ(TM)s buggy, but not overly so, and itâ(TM)s much faster to write test cases and fix it than it is to do it from scratch.

I was chasing down a bug in a generalized crc16 yesterday and asked it for help. It gave me the wrong error, but a correct enough way to quickly find the error myself.

Sometimes it writes code that I look at and think âoethat canâ(TM)t workâ, and it does work, especially on things like micropython. Sometimes it makes up non existent libraries, though, so I have to go back and walk it through it.

Interestingly, itâ(TM)s often much better at writing code to do a thing than doing a thing.

You can also place an order on Digi-Key and wait. Retail price, no scalpers, but you wait a while.

Nobody got paid 20 percent less, because they werenâ(TM)t paid hourly.

If US employers can get the same amount of work in 32 hours as 40, they will cut hours for hourly workers which will cut pay.

For salary workers, itâ(TM)s different.

So you work harder at work, accomplish just as much, and your employer gets to pay you 20% less for it.

Sounds like a win for the employer, but I donâ(TM)t know why an employee would want it.

If a worker truly does as much in 32 hours as 40, those extra 8 hours are essentially being paid to accomplish nothing. That doesnâ(TM)t benefit the employer, but it does benefit the employee.

> Linux distros don't do this.

Unless you happen to like the way your init scripts work.

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That argument would hold water if the US electoral system was based on 'one person, one vote'

It's a representative democracy.

Individuals have representatives. Everyone has one, and they are popularly elected by the people they serve.

States have Senators. Each State has 2, and they are popularly elected by the people in that State.

The President serves all States, and is elected by the State electors, because the President serves all States. Those electors are appointed in such manner as the State legislature (the representatives of the People in that State) choose.

"that removes governors and state courts from the decision-making process on election laws"

You mean they might follow the constitution?

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress

The Constitution explicitly gives that power to the State Legislature, which is accountable to the People. It does not give that power to the feds or the State governor to dictate additional terms. It's extremely explicit: "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct". Not "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, plus the feds require the Governor to certify it."

while giving state lawmakers free rein to change rules to favour their own party which for the most part favours the Trumpublican party

The votes belong to the State. They have been able to do what they want this whole time. If CA wanted to pass the "electors are always chosen by the Democratic party" law, they can. It's literally in the constitution that State legislatures can do whatever they want with State votes.

Which is why the People control both houses of congress.

Cool. That does sound like something which could be put into overdrive. Time to fire up the plankton farms. Solar powered carbon sequestration!

Here is a conundrum. If you make web7 that is betterer but if I make web 2000 it's obviously dated.

I don't think self-teaching is innately rare. It is the default mind and skillset among the poor/rural communities even if they are for a number of reasons focused on more immediate needs for those skills.

Still there are definitely things which require experience and those tend to be more efficiently transferred with the guide. Usually the roadblocks are small pieces here and there. Perhaps that is the best blend, a self-learner combined with a mentor they can reach out to.

It comes at a price though. Video is really only a good medium for a superficial level of focus and complexity. The rise of youtube instruction has been great but the decline of textual resources that has coincided with it is depressing sometimes.

"And if there is a societal change, there is no need for Web 5."

I disagree with this. No matter how society changes human nature isn't going to change with it. There will never come a time when all people are trustworthy, it will forever remain that most people are usually honest in most ways. Social change can shift the ways around but that is it.

The most sound strategies are and always will be strategies that assume no trust.

I'm not specifically supporting THIS proposal and web 5 (or opposing) but something like this will be needed. I do disagree with the notion that blockchain is the key to every decentralized lock.

By that logic we should never do anything.

Can we put the process in overdrive.

Not necessarily. It sounds like they have been all over but things like the engine design freezes they are talking about could have shut it down and required a redesign.