If that's what an independent agency is, then independent agencies are blatantly unconstitutional. "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America" is literally the first sentence in Article II. If it is serving an executive function, then the executive branch "calls the shots."

FWIW, they did say the push notification promoting a Nazi was an error that got debugged. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Ftech-p...

"Weather alerts, flood, tornado, etc. should be able to wake people up."

They're already *able* to wake people up. What do you do about people not wanting to be woken up who silence their phones? Do you pass legislation making it illegal for phones to be able to silence certain alerts? Okay, some people will put their phones somewhere other than their bedside so they can't be woken up. Do you make that illegal, or at some point do you just say "Okay, you know what, this is on you"?

Okay, all those alerts saved one life.

And all those alerts convinced a bunch of people to silence their alerts, and resulted in lives lost.

Have you bothered to compare the two numbers to see whether the alerts are, in fact, justified? Or do you always only look at a benefit and ignore any associated costs?

There is a school of thought which holds that past a certain scale, effective moderation becomes impossible. I've done moderation work and it took tons of judgement.

I know what that would do to my morale.

The story "Q. U. R." had an inventor simplify robots which were going insane from having humanoid features they had no use for. 1943.

What does that translate to in watts/square meter?

But they still quote "the pen is mightier than the sword", which in context is a superb description of good government:: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword". He should get credit. Besides, the opening of Paul Clifford was standard Victorian style.

By the toochain, do you mean Cargo? I thought it had delightful features, and it was reliable in my small educational programs.

It's way cool to have your API example documentation included in automatic tests.

I was talking to a CS prof specializing in software ethics and made fun of myself for saying the alignment problem was harder than the halting problem. What could be harder than being impossible?
She quickly replied that of course it's way harder because there are special cases where the halting problem has solutions.

They do have an economic issue. The advertisers who keep them in business prefer to have their ads next to non-toxic content.

Nobody has a 1A right to trespass on your servers, or Zuckerberg's, or Musk's.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F1357%2F as everyone has seen.

I'd like to see an honest administration do antitrust action which might alleviate problems like the suppression (NOT censorship) of abortion information: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emarketer.com%2Fcont...

I plug my Prius Prime into a GFCI outlet because it's in the garage and they've been required there for a long long time. There has never been a problem, and I don't see offhand why there would be a difference between Level 1 and Level 2.

Did I misunderstand the fine article? Was it saying that EVSEs might have ground faults more than 5 mA? Uh, how? With, as you pointed out, their own protective equipment on board.

This is the organization that eradicated smallpox.