Google knows why there is no human oversight: because that is expensive (both in terms of the labor doing review and the ongoing fraud likely happening while the human review happens).

Per the article:

> However, most of the intermediaries are foreign entities. Whether they voluntarily comply with a U.S. court order remains to be seen. While some foreign companies have taken action following U.S. injunctions, others have historically ignored them, citing a lack of local jurisdiction.

Gas tax also is not well calibrated to road wear.

Not necessarily, although one can argue that it's an attempt to deter gas guzzler vehicles.

This is a 404 for me :(

You can look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whEIvsU4ft0

No, the SC said the federal government can't outright ban sports betting. The logic was that a ban interferes with states right to legalize sports betting.

(To be clear, it is still an nonsensical decision though. Congress does still have the power to regular gambling under the interstate commerce clause, just not outright ban it)

Why is this nonsensical? Gambling is not necessarily inter-state?

I think it is a inconsistent position that the federal government can regulate gambling but not ban it.

The Controlled Substances Act also rests on the interstate commerce clause. Can you imagine if the federal government was allowed to regulate heroin sales but not ban it?

My question wasn't so much about the contradiction between regulating & banning authority, but questioning the authority to do either in the first place. I.e. I don't understand why gambling must necessarily be considered to be inter-state. But I now think this is unrelated to the point you were trying to make.

I agree that the broad reading of the interstate commerce clause seems dubious, but the same precedent [1] underlies the controlled substance act, clean water act, violence against women act, endangered species act and a whole lot of other laws. Unless you are willing to hack away a large chunk of US law, you can't really undo that one.

[1] Wickard v. Filburn ruled that growing wheat FOR USE ON YOUR OWN FARM can be regulated as interstate commerce because otherwise that demand would tend to raise prices on a interstate grain market.

Ok, thank you, I had it wrong!

> Tesla have the right to dump water or not? I would assume that this is exactly what a permit is for?

My guess is this is a question of overlapping jurisdictions. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is presumably responsible for water quality, and so gets a say on what kinds of discharge in the state are safe. The drainage district has to manage the actual ditches and water on the ground, so they get a say (or at least notice) of new users of their infrastructure.

Just like how the DOT gets to create rules about locomotives but Railways still get to decide who can run trains on their tracks.

> Just like how the DOT gets to create rules about locomotives but Railways still get to decide who can run trains on their tracks.

Fun fact, in 2005, as of Texas Railroad Commission no longer has anything to do with railroads and moved that oversight to the DoT. The TRC now is only involved with oil&gas. It is one of my favorite dumb things about Texas. Why not just rename the group and eliminate the TRC altogether, oh right, politics.

At the moment the duration of each shot is a major limitation. When that limitation gets solved is when we'll see actual disruption.

Average shot length is down to something like 3 seconds in modern cinema. That's a pretty low bar.

keepass files + syncthing works very nicely for me.

For non technical people, I just recommend to use the browser built in password managers. traviso has a good writeup why: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/passmgrs.html

I was doing this too until recently. The problem with this setup is more at Syncthing. More specifically, Syncthing Android app has seen some troubling changes in maintainers. The latest maintainer has a very sparse Github profile and an AI generated avatar, so I noped out of installing it right then.

Previously I used keepass + drive. That also works well (I just wanted to avoid storing my password db in the cloud for multiple reasons).

People who really have a clue add enough context in their request to understand why they are trying to do the thing in question.

People who really don't have a clue ignores the added context and answers the question that wasn't asked anyway, because they've answered that particular question before.

Just to name some of the main things I think of computers doing, especially with a historical lens: analyzing data, processing transactions, simulating dynamics of physical systems, controlling electronic parts of devices, providing entertainment, encoding/decoding audio/video/text. I think these are the kinds of things that Dr Bender is saying are not well suited to textual tools.