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>Is this an accurate view? Do these plea bargain happen regularly?

Yes. Either that or people just confess to everything they can out of ignorance or because showing reticence can supposedly get you leniency from a judge.

>I also understand that the prison system was privatised in the US.

Not the whole system(s), but there are private prison operators. The majority of prisons are still state owned and run.

>perfect storm

As you predicted, this guy Mark Ciavarella is probably the most shameful example of systematic injustice in recent history; he was caught and eventually sent to prison himself (though it is rare for a judge to go to prison for something they did on the bench). There is no reason that this sort of thing couldn't be happening on a wide scale. http://boingboing.net/2013/08/06/judge-who-accepted-private-...

In my state, IIRC the private prisons have contracts with the state which stipulate that they will be paid as if they were nearly full without regard to if their population falls below some threshold. I think that's probably the reason why we don't have prison operators bribing judges. We have other problems though, mostly related to underfunding health care, food, anything else that can be underfunded. About ten years ago there was a huge sex-abuse scandal in the youth-prisons. http://www.texastribune.org/2010/01/07/15-of-tx-youth-offend...
It's not neglect. It is the fact that it is a piece of concrete. You are never going to make a massive piece of raw concrete look good even if you wash it every day.
That's not an element specific to China. Wealth inequality is fairly well accepted to be a threat to social stability and the economy. People tend to see such inequality is unfair and at some point they are going to discover their revolutionary side.

It's therefore not merely in the interest of rich people to be philanthropists, it's also in the interest of governments to achieve a certain balance. I think the latter is a far bigger reason for philanthropy. It's hard to argue for taking money away from people who are already engaged in philanthropy.

That is also mirrored in the article. The government isn't entirely happy with this rich second generation, philanthropy helps with that.
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I didn't say that it was positive. I'm just being honest about Google's institutional capabilities for making money from their innovation.
Why re-invent the wheel ! All you need to do is properly understand your tool of choice. I have used Neo4j extensively for years and have had great results. Our biggest hurdle was understanding how to model the data for a graph properly. Get this right and everything falls into place. The one thing you are going to need is a good visualisation tool, so be prepared to roll one of these too :)
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Prison boom is easy to explain.

Politicians like to be seen doing something. Punishing bad people is easy. Building prisons is the cost but politicians don't pay this cost and people don't understand the financial cost of the prisons nor the cost it inflicts on those imprisoned and their families.

Politicians also like to control people. You do this through laws and regulations. Combined with punitive measures you coerce people into thinking and behaving as you need them. Those who don't or are less desirable; poor who don't fund campaigns and such; are easy targets.

Politicians also want to put groups against each other, distracting both sides from all the other activities that the politician may be engaged in.

TL;DR Politicians crave power and money, it is simple to "protect" the people by making it easier to put people in jail claiming a problem solved.
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The original question asked about minor crimes, which felonies are not.
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Yes but some companies have strict policies, and access control.

Maybe you have a new hire in the office building, or a visitor, or the janitor.

It is good practice to always lock your machine. But yes i do agree that he is very lucky that upper management was awesome in this scenario.

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At my last office job we would just flip the mouse buttons, and rotate the display screen. This proved to be very effective, and didn't cause issues with the team.
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I visited China in 1982, when the capitalist revolution was just getting started. Such wealth did not exist, but there was a deep, simmering anger among the people over Communist corruption and general unfairness and inequity. I witnessed it personally.

Now that there's a bit more prosperity and availability of material goods, but still no freedom and still a simmering resentment of government corruption, this fuerdai generation of spoiled children have put themselves out there with brash behavior and big targets painted on their foreheads.

An economic slowdown and a loss of jobs to cheaper locales in South Asia and to manufacturing technologies like 3D printing could be the catalyst to large scale social unrest. It's a worrisome situation.
It's not so simple. People are different. Some people won't need your plan because they stay at low weight no matter what they eat. Others won't be able to follow your plan because it would require superhuman willpower.

I'm an example of the first category. I'm 6'2'' and 160 lbs, and have been like this for years. At age 27 I spent a whole year working from home, eating at McDonalds 1-2 times every day, going to sleep at 5am, and not exercising at all. Resulting weight gain? About five pounds, which I promptly lost after joining a gym. More recently, at age 32, I took a two-week vacation and literally spent it all in bed, playing video games and eating large amounts of chocolate and pastries. Resulting weight gain? Zero (actually a slight loss). This happened last month.

Since I'm at one extreme end of the scale, it's very easy for me to believe that there are people at the other end, who won't be able to follow your plan at all. Restrict them to 2K calories/day, and they just won't fall asleep unless they get a snack. They need a different way.

The laws of thermodynamics are true as far as they go, but they don't have anything to say about genetics, metabolism, hunger, or willpower. These are the real important factors in weight loss. The sooner we move away from a virtue-based worldview, the sooner we can start actually solving it.
One more weak spot: if they have full access to the server, they can just dump the ram. This is incredibly simple to do on Linux for example.

In a big company though, having that one developer with full keys to the kingdom and is the only way to start up new servers is obviously out of the picture. Especially if the system works by having the keys on an easily stolen or damaged laptop...
Do you really believe that eating only 50 extra calories a day will result in someone gaining 5 lbs in one year? 50 calories is about 14 grapes. How many guys are in the gym everyday and eating way above their daily needs to try and gain weight, but can't? If it really was this simple do you really think this would even be a discussion?
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That's true of many unhappy marriage, but not all (unless one stretches 'neglect' and 'abuse' beyond all meaning: if a husband puts on 200 pounds, he couldn't blame his wife for not being attracted to him).

There's a huge difference between abusive and unhappy.
But the politicians aren't the ones doing the sentencing. They just write the laws. The Slate article suggests that it's the judges who are handing out increasingly Draconian sentencing. Why are judges doing that?
Somehow i am wondering if the 1900 spike is just a flaw in the data model. Does he explain why so many items are labeled as 1900?

Could it be that for items with an unknown date in the large collection the data field only contains "'00" or can be itnerpreted as 1900 or someone decided that the default value for an items creation date is 1900 and not all items have a date set?

Edit: I think the mystery is solved: Looking at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuseumofModernArt/collecti... you will find a lot of data fields like "c. 1900". For example the data field for this item says "c. 1900": http://www.moma.org/collection/works/60868?locale=en

I first assumed "c. 1900" means "created 1900" but it's more likely "circa 1900". Also, this particular piece was created 1910: http://www.davidrumsey.com/amica/amico866157-125545.html

So, i think the collection contains a lot of items with unknown creation date which are labeled "circa 1900".
Thanks for this. Looked at your SO answer, and feel what you call the 'narrow search approach' is what I'm looking for.

Above you said: > The idea is to create templates for most common questions.

I assume here that a template would be an abstract phrase where things like Named Entities (Seattle, Capitol Hill), Adjectives (2 bedroom), etc. are removed and substituted by variables. Correct?

Could supervised learning then be used to map natural language questions to templates? After all, there's only so many ways in which you can ask a particular abstract question (i.e.: template) in a limited domain.

What I'm thinking then are the following steps:

- 1. Source questions that cover the domain. (e.g.: Mechanical Turk)

- 2. Manually come up with abstract templates that cover these questions. (Although somehow I feel it must be possible to semi-automate this using Wrapper Induction or something)

- 3. Manually label a test set <question -> template>

- 4. Have the system learn/classify the remaining questions and test for accuracy (what classifiers would you use here?)

Flow of new question:

1. if coverage in 2 was big enough, the system should be able to infer the template.

2. A template should be translatable to a bunch of queries (e.g.: GraphQL format). Not the hard part I believe.

Out pops your answer in machine form. Bonus points to transform that answer into a Natural Language answer using some generative grammar.

Of course the devil is in the details but from 10,000 feet does this look solid? Suggestions/glaring omissions? Thanks again.
Most wealthy people who acquire their wealth (i.e. not inherit) have contributed by paying a ton of tax during the acquisition of that wealth.

If it takes me five or ten years to build out a successful company, I will have paid:
- Some corporate tax
- Income tax (your director salary, your employees salaries)
- Dividend taxes
- Capital gains tax (when I sell the company)
- Various other smaller levies

And you will have created some jobs. When you sell the company, those jobs also usually won't seize to exist. In a way, you will have paid off your debt to society.

If at that point, should you decide to move to some low tax country and live off of investment gains, what's wrong with that? Given (for example) a massive amount of US taxpayers dollars is spent on military and defence spending, I find it hypocritical to call people who actually want to keep their earned wealth "heartless sociopaths".
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Watermelon is good food? As far as I know, it's not particularly rich nutritionally, it's mostly expensive sugary water.
Its the psychological problem. Quitting smoking, for example, would be pretty easy without the addiction aspect. Likewise, considering low carb for example, losing weight is really easy when your appetite almost entirely disappears and a world full of candy bags and giant size corn syrup sodas has no similar instant gratification for low carb'ers. People who are used to neopuritan joys of dieting such as agonizing craving don't understand that the main point of low carb is not feeling hungry leads to imploded 'energy in' as you state etc.

Also when I fall off the wagon for a day and eat a ton of bread or b-day cake or whatever I can't tell the difference between indigestion due to systemic shock of my digestive system vs the stereotypical "binge and fall asleep on the couch" I remember from my self and observation of others. A pizza makes me lay on the couch in a tired state like many other people I've observed, but I can eat a steak then go to the park with kids full of energy no problem.
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Is it just me or has the Netflix engineering team really been cranking out good stuff as of recent times? I mean holy crap. This thing feels so futuristic just watching it. I can't begin to express how blown away I am.

Given how crazy creative the netflix team is, it's not a stretch to imagine their next hackathon. Put this on a big screen and sit in front of it. Throw in a few hazard lights and a siren and music that plays automatically the moment there's a failure and it's a done deal.

Side note: If you want to get a better understanding of what you are reading, the inline linked article[1] is a must read

Also, I actually thought the pain suit was a real thing for a moment. Well played Netflix. Well played.

[1]http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgrad...
Of the old buildings that survive, a higher proportion have gargoyles. See my above comment about only the nicer buildings surviving. Wandering around London in 1600 you'd probably see a similar proportion of buildings with gargoyles as you do now.

Newer buildings are still built with beautiful guttering and drainage systems, but since we have drains now, there is no need to build gargoyles to spew water onto the street.
it just /hurts/. Recently ranked as increasingly commercially competitive. Meanwhile, we have a mean lifetime of not even 50? Those facts should be taken together.
> lastly, exercise is not they key to weight loss, proper eating is.

This is very true in my personal experience, too. I can quite easily binge-eat an extra 500 calories for dinner because I'm feeling a bit too hungry, but to work that back off with exercise might take 30 - 45 minutes of cardio. With hectic work schedules, it's also very easy to skip exercise sessions, but good eating habits are "working" even at these times. Of course, sometimes we don't have time to eat well, but I find that it takes a lot less time (per calorie) to eat well, than it is to work it off.

Another point I'd make is that small differences add up scarily quickly over time, as someone else pointed out. When I was just out of university, I started putting on 1 - 1.5 kgs of weight per year, nice and slow that it was hardly noticeable. Then, just a handful of years later, I was 10 kgs overweight - it creeps up on you. The opposite is also true, a nice steady decline is easy to arrange, and gives your body all the more time to adjust to your new eating habits, without it breaking your willpower.
I mind paying taxes. I don't fear the boogeyman, the most likely entity to attack me is the state I'm paying taxes to, and I always paid for my medical care (state-run hospitals are a joke).

What else you got? :)
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Otherwise a broker would just route mom n' pop's orders to the exchange that pays the biggest bribe to the broker (and screw mom n' pop).
If you want to see just how bad private prisons can be, read about the Cash for Kids scandal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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A person might still enjoy certain (taxable) benefits. I can buy a castle through a company. This is possible and not a problem.

However, if I want to go live in said castle, I usually have to pay some tax on the benefit received. Or pay market rate rent to the company. If I just want to hold the castle as an investment, then obviously I wouldn't have to pay personal tax on that.
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I find it funny we like and encourage the ageing of certain building materials, but not others. How long will it be before we're finding ways to age concrete faster?

This thread contains stories of people deliberately painting their houses with yoghurt, soot, and cow shit to make them age faster: http://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/how-to-age-stone-faster-th...

All that this affects is the texture and patina of the surface. What is it that makes particular patinas desirable and others not? I'd say it's entirely cultural, and cultural perceptions change.
This. Also, in the age of webapps, I'm starting to find pieces of it becoming more unreliable. I tried to search what tech a company I'm thinking of applying for is using, and because the app itself is behind a login page it had no idea what JS framework was being used.
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Jeez, I had no idea that emulators were this complicated. I thought all you had to do was emulate the target system, but I guess that approach requires a lot of processing power. This is a tremendous amount of work that these devs are doing.
There is a certain amount of irony in this article containing a super annoying full page background ad I feel.
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Absurd cherry picking of random companies. Vast majority of big enterprises employee thousands of people. The fact that, thanks to technology, one person can single-handedly create enormous value is a huge boon for society. And anyway these kinds of ventures support the jobs and business models of their customers.

The fact that the cost of starting a business and reaching a huge audience is now a tiny fraction of what it used to be benefits us all - now we all have opportunities that were impossible before.

Far from creating inequality technology is actually proving a huge leveller: look at how much wealth has been created in the developing world over the last couple of decades.

It is ironic that capitalism is in fact driving what you claim to desire: a fairer redistribution of wealth. That it's happening at a global level however, rather than confined to nation states, means that you, as a (presumably) US citizen, are losing out to the competition overseas. But what's wrong with that? Isn't that the socialist ideal - everybody equal?

Or is wealth redistribution only fair when it's people richer than you that have to share?
Unsure if you are serious, but no, it's from an actual core set. Some battle of wits players did "okay" in a couple of tournaments too.
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I said 'in-house.' That means lawyers on staff on salaries, not fees to outside counsel.

Work costs money, sure, but I'm skeptical of 'millions of dollars.'
> But something tells me that our society and economy derives zero benefit from nanosecond resolution trading vs. trading with say 1 minute resolution.

Not only does nanosecond resolution provide zero benefit, models indicate that it actually harms liquidity. To be specific, serial order processing in continuous-time is more efficient in "time-space", but less efficient in "volume-space". The better mechanism is batch order processing in discrete-time (i.e. process all arriving orders simultaneously in batch every 100 milliseconds, rather than one-by-one every nanosecond): http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/HFT-Fre...
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While you're certainly right that from a thermodynamic sense it is definitely a case of energy in vs energy out, you're presenting it in very simplistic terms and I think you're missing the point of the article.

There's all sorts of poorly understood processes happening in our body that affect the amount of energy stored as fat. That "1 lb / 3500 calories" figure you quoted isn't an absolute law, but more like a rule of thumb. What we don't fully understand is to what extent things like gut bacteria, environmental toxins, sleep cycle etc alter that figure. The body's a hugely complex system.

The recent study explicitly says that people on the same diets today are fatter than they were 40 years ago. Assuming their finding is true, that means that either metabolisms are slower or the rate at which bodies gain fat from excess calories is higher than it used to be.

We as a society have been filling the world with all sorts of never-seen-before chemicals which our bodies and the huge interdependent ecosystem we live in are unable to deal with. We've spent the last 60 years pumping our livestock full of drugs to make them bigger and live longer. It's not outwith the sphere of possibility that one or a combination of these contribute to changes in the way humans store fat.
I'd be surprised if they didn't make postmortem changes to prevent such incidents in the future. Your posts in this thread imply that no mistake should ever happen, but let's be real - mistakes will always happen, the key is to do proper postmortem analysis and learn from them (and obviously prevent recurrences).
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I liked the sentence:

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She says that the biggest problem for many older people is “ageism, rather than the process of aging itself.”
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When I nowadays apply for jobs (I am 50), I start to experience this already. Kids interview me and I ask myself: where are the companies, where others like me work, so I don't have to answer silly questions about failing memory and hurting backs anymore. Mine doesn't hurt and my memory is crystal clear - like the one of my 86 year old mother.

Don't want to know what happens in 30 years from now. What I do experience: When I need an appointment with my doctor, I am asked, when I want to come. My mother who needs to see the doctor much more urgently, has to wait for 4-5 weeks.
Having bluetooth enabled on your cellphone might ultimately be the method used to crack in to your network though .. so there's a tradeoff of security in such a scenario.
Would like to see this with Evernote integration.

Also that website is a good example of bad transitions. I shouldn't have to wait so long for the text to appear when I scroll.
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