You should read about the non-delegation principle and why it exists. As Wikipedia says, “It is explicit or implicit in all written constitutions that impose a strict structural separation of powers. It is usually applied in questions of constitutionally improper delegations of powers of any of the three branches of government to either of the other, to the administrative state, or to private entities.”
What you are proposing is that Congress be allowed to abolish its own power, completely destroying the constitution.
The first thing that would happen is they would cut off all your service.
If you are relying on them for something other than the thing you don’t want to pay for, this becomes a problem.
For example, I disputed a charge with my CC from the Apple App Store when I was charged for an app that I shouldn’t have been years ago. They immediately cut off my access to the Store. Other apps couldn’t update, OS couldn’t update, couldn’t get new apps, etc.
And this is one of the reasons why I can't buy into the Apple ecosystem. With Android, I would be cut off from all Google stuff but there are more/less work-arounds for those.
But the fact that I have a billing dispute with a company and they are able to hold everything else that bit of technology touches hostage is just wrong. Imagine if you had a billing dispute with the city water company and they cut your city power because of it.
But don't you see? The walled garden makes them feel safe from all the bad people out there. It's like locking yourself in with Rorschach. Yeah, the others aren't gonna get you, but he will.
The Supreme Court hasn’t and can’t say anything against laws being updated and changed. What they have prevented is those we have elected to make laws delegating that very authority to others.
I’m interested in this, but I think I just realized that what I want it to do is impossible.
We have a fireplace, which is not efficient at all, in part because it sucks cold air in from the outside. I was thinking it would be great it we could use an ERV to condition the air that gets brought in.
However, as far as I can tell, the moment you exhaust air from your house in any way except through the ERV itself, the ERV cannot help you with the replacement air that comes in.
That is half correct. The TW4 units operate in synchronized pairs. When one is exhausting (egressing), the other is ingressing (bringing air in). This always happens. They even have quite nice pressure sensors that precisely regulate the pressure the fans exert, controlling flow precisely and preventing the house from becoming pressurized at any time, which as you say would imply heat loss.
It would be cool if someone could build a chimney ERV: extract heat from the dirty air produced by fire, and inject it into fresh air pulled into the living space. So I guess basically it would function like a regular ERV, but with a fire in the exhaust path. (Probably not feasible with a wood fire, but maybe with gas?)
This is pretty laughable. HN has had it's quirks and completely hidden behavior pretty much since the beginning.
For example: YC alums can see other YC alums, but none of us plebs are allowed to see their special group. You can never know if you are arguing against a few individuals or a bunch of people with very aligned interests.
My grandmother had "Do Not Resuscitate” on her file, but it was not known (or ignored) by the medics who saved her. She was very happy to have been resuscitated, removed the order, and lived for years after that.
I submit that not everybody that commits suicide (whether medically assisted or otherwise) would make the same decision if they it to do over again.
> One hundred forty attempters (35.6%) were classified as wishing they had not made the attempt and being glad to be alive, 168 (42.7%) were classified as ambivalent, and 85 (21.6%) were classified as wishing the attempt had succeeded.
Yes, it's a well known fact that opinions can change. And yes, there's certainly a tiny subset of euthanized individuals who would regret their decision if they were still around to regret it.
When it comes to bodily autonomy, we generally strongly err on the side of respecting one's "opinion at the present time" vs. "the possibility of a different opinion in the future".
What is the intent behind your statement? Are you suggesting that we deny people bodily autonomy "just in case"?
Should the doctor have control over his life? Or just his patients?
And how exactly is the doctor supposed to distinguish between those who have a “0%” chance of changing their mind and those who have a 1% or 5% or 10% chance of changing their mind?
Ethiopia spans over 1 million KM2 and has over 144,000 Km of roads. How much of the country did you cover to determine this is a general trend? I can walk into large swathes of America or Europe and pick out badly damaged roads. So...
We drove from Addis to Arba Minch and back, which is about 900km total. We also drove from Gondar to Bahir Dar and… lots of other driving.
But the main point is what you ignored. Have you ever seen miles of brand new highways falling apart before a single vehicle has driven on them? Spread over hundreds of kilometers, not a one-off mistake.
Furthermore, the only reason I know it was a Chinese-built road is because our guide was explaining the differences (pro and con) between the Chinese (cheap, fall apart, but built quickly) vs Ethiopian (decent quality, but incredibly slow progress and never completed) road projects.
What you are proposing is that Congress be allowed to abolish its own power, completely destroying the constitution.
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