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Isn't this really a problem of over-criminalization? If our court systems weren't clogged with suspects, wouldn't judges have more time to properly set bail by evaluating each suspected offender on their merits?

We don't want dangerous criminals set loose without proper guarantees, and we don't want the less wealthy pleading guilty because they can't make bail.

So the real solution seems to be to roll back as many non-violent criminal offenses as possible and perhaps simply live with people serving plastic straws that 99.9% won't wind up in the oceans instead of throwing them in jail for 6 months, or at least make them into civil offenses.
Ask the Russians, they've been illustrating it's pretty easy in the US for years now.
"waiting" isn't an actual action. You either read something, or think, or look around while thinking, and so on, but nobody just "waits". Being aware is an action. Thinking is an action. If people around you gossip, tell them that gossip is lame and shift the conversation.

And what does it even mean to say something is subjective? Contrary to what? And what does judgemental mean? That you can be whatever you want, and think of yourself however you want, but others may not see you how they see you? What's wrong with judgement?
At least we know author is vegetarian, it was critically important for us to know.
> low risk individuals were made to share the cost of other insureds

Yes, that's a huge part of the problem right there. If I'm healthy and work hard to be healthy, I have zero interest in paying for someone else's health problems. I have my own family to feed and we're talking about massive amounts of money that I get no direct benefit from.
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Fascinating article here about Robert -
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mgxa53/how-an-air...

TIL: JASC stood for Jets and Software Company..

Adding my name to the list of people who loved Paint Shop Pro and had several amazing interactions with the company.
So they sell the version on the store but not on their website? The real problem is here. Maybe selling it on their primary download source instead of a free download could generating more profit. People that really want it for free could compile the soft themselves.
> Consequently, those who conquer world dominance in a sector can hardly be undermined. Try telling your children to leave Whatsapp and start using Indoona. They will never do it. On Whatsapp they can interact with all their friends; sending them to Indoona would be like condemning them to a nearly desert island.

I suspect it's the children that are reading the article in more cases than not.
Why we never sold Basecamp by the seat (2017)
The wealth gap isn't even as bad as it has been before. During the industrial revolution Rockefeller amassed so much wealth he puts modern billionaires to shame. Unlike 100 years ago, however, we've severely raised the economic floor for our population.
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This is why Elon is so into tunnel boring machines. mars habitats will be underground, or cut into the side of bluff’s canyons. Think dwarf fortress on Mars. this is the simple in-situ solution to both radiation shielding and pressurization. Might not be that much fun though to live underground all the time.
I don't know but at least there's hope that it will be different or perhaps, get ready this is a bit radical, there won't be any empire.
That 20,000 bytes might not be a real difference, as I understand OP. It sounds like it's the XOR or Hamming distance, byte or bitwise - in which case you could get very large differences in the number by very small errors like dropping 1 bit (thereby putting all following bits out of alignment) yet the perceptual difference would be unhearable (and maybe not exist at all depending on how the encoding works). eg 0101010 vs 101010. You'd want to calculate some sort of edit distance which takes into account the possible bit flips and burst errors to see how big the real delta is. And of course, as pointed out in the other comments, for all of OP's hard work, there's no way to know which source is right or how many errors remain in his final version.
You bring up an important point with that question, what exactly is an immutable quality of the individual. Is the upbringing, cultural influences etc also immutable qualities or are you only talking about actual physical properties such as age, gender, skincolour etc.
They're probably the most fundamental kind of reinforcement learning algorithms. Understanding bandit algorithms is crucial to developing a good understanding of RL.
I do remember reading articles saying that prosecutors frequently say to detainees who have already spent 3-6 months in jail "look, you can plead guilty to this minor crime, and with the time served you can go home to your family tomorrow. Or you can wait for trial, which can happen maybe in next 12 months, if the judge isn't sick on that day and doesn't reschedule for another 3 months later. So what will it be? Do you want to go home tomorrow, or stay locked up for a year before even going to trial?"

Like, I don't think I'd care how innocent I was - I'd want to get out asap. If your options are presented as "get out now" or "stay locked up for an indefinite amount of time, with no hope for compensation for the time lost even if you win" then it's an easy choice.
Question: do they "retire" flight numbers after a crash?

I keep seeing mentions of famous crashes by their flight number alone like MH370 or AF447.
Sure as I mentioned elsewhere I'm not arguing that meetings are an unalloyed good, what I am arguing is that where they are held, it is better that people are punctual, rather that non-punctual, and that there is improved efficiency relatively where participants are punctual.
I have a similar story about Brad Templeton's C64 Assembler. It was the first development tool I ever bought and, at the time, very expensive for me as a high school student. I later came to claim that I would always pay for any software that I used for more time than it would have taken me to earn the money to buy it. Quickly that became everything I used as my earnings were a lot better.

I had the opportunity a couple of years ago to thank Brad for C64 Assembler and the role it had in forming some of my ethics around fair-use and paying for intellectual property.
Is it adapting rapidly enough to changes in technical/human/natural environment or not?

Just ask this question of any society, past or present, and tell reliably whether it's in rapid decline or not: democracy, empire or otherwise.

Accumulating enemies, losing friends, having trouble with rainfall amounts, not adjusting to internal human needs and wishes, insisting on obsolete techniques? Then you have a problem whether Mayan, Roman, Soviet or other.
> Self-driving cars

Self-driving cars are new. You've missed my point. The OP is from an older age. There wasn't a lot back then, so for choosing what to focus in, weren't a lot of choices.

Funny, you mention graphics, what do graphics usually involve? C, C++. Back to POSIX. Operating systems? Same. Robotics? C. Basically, if you picked C, you're good.

On the other hand, how often do you hear about a Java expert? Someone who knows the intricacies of the GC? All about the JVM? Not that often. They exist. But it's not hip. They chose "poorly".

These days, there is a lot more choice, so what are you going to pick? On what is that choice based? What do you do if you picked the wrong thing? This is problem is very modern and didn't exist to such a degree before.
Thanks, this article was pretty lackluster to be honest..
I think most people with more than a passing acquittance with the bail systems in most states could agree with the title, but what I have not seen are any proposed solutions that address the underlying problems certain characteristics of our bail systems are meant to address.

For example, without the threat of forfeiture how do you ensure people actually show up to court?

Without bail bondsmen how do you fund the extra police/marshals/sheriffs to find and arrest those who do not show up for court?

Without the ability to set bond amounts based upon offense characteristics and individual financial circumstances and criminal history, how do you prevent especially violent offenders with a likelihood of committing more violent acts while on pretrial release from committing new violent offenses? Keep in mind there are some jurisdictions where you are constitutionally entitled to bail of some amount.

There is much (justified) lamenting on the evils of the use of the bail bond industry, but after bail reform in the Federal system which effective ended the use of the industry for the Federal criminal system -- do people really think the Federal system is better? If so why?

If you want to go the other direction and eliminate money bail, do you really want to police/prosecution to able to indefinitely incarcerate people until trial?

Do you want to seriously jack up the criminal penalties for failure to appear in lieu of money forfeiture? That is going to screw over a lot of people.

Again, there are serious problems, but I haven't heard significantly better solutions.
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There is a huge difference between being able to do the basic math required to keep a budget, and having the skill of keeping a budget, as well as both true understanding of what it means, and of why it is important. None of that is taught in most schools nowadays, and since it wasn't really taught when I was going through school, either, nearly a generation ago, that means that we are relying entirely on people who were never taught it systematically to teach it to their children in whatever unsystematic manner they choose.

Financial literacy, like civics, needs to be a required course for every child growing up. Not fourth-graders; they're mostly too young to really understand the importance. Best to teach it in high school, when you're getting close to the time when they can vote, and when they might already have a part-time job (or, in lower-income areas and for less fortunate families, a full-time night shift job supporting the family).
Can you tell us where in the linked article the author shows "how much they hate their country"?

Please provide actual examples.
As you've written it, your desire to point out bad journalism is undermined by a lack of rigor on your part. You'd possibly be more effective if you didn't cite your personal experience.
Well, yes, but we sent probes to Jupiter and Saturn that spent years exploring them and their moons.

And I would really like to know why Uranus' axis of rotation and its magnetic field are so weird. Wouldn't you?
Also Mark Russinovich was the author of many life saving SysInternals tools and utilities[0]. He was also the author of the original Windows Internals books.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/
I think you can mask a lot of issues through sheer population numbers. India and China have really structural issues with their economies, democracies, etc. But if India can get itself to 50% middle class as the US that's 200M more people than we have in this country right now.
Driving has a universal, formal, self-contained, non-contradictory, simple set of rules that all the road users unconditionally follow? Can I see it?

Nope, despite a myriad of road codes, the actual traffic doesn't follow a set of formalized rules: a chess rook can't just decide that it will start disintegrating all of a sudden, as opposed to a vehicle. You could probably approximate the ruleset if you made it self-modifying...which will then demolish your second point about near-exhaustively searching the state space - good luck doing that before the heat death of the universe, as you're essentially simulating the whole environment. Oh look, there's also weather. How's that exhaustively searchable? Asking for the Nobel Prize committee.

For the sake of discussion, let's say that a miracle happens and you managed to do all that - but sorry, it's useless again, the few seconds have already elapsed and you need to do it again. And again. And again, ad infinitum.

Now, I could envision "by our current technology, we can't yet, but we're hoping for a miracle in this specific spot" - but "assuming a massive miracle happens every few seconds, for each vehicle" is completely removed from reality: why not have teleports, if we're in magical wish-granting land already?
So sorry for what happened to you. Can relate a bit. A few months ago, when we learned that my wife would have to get a C-section, we tried getting an estimate for how much it would cost - asked doctors, nurses, hospital staff, insurance company, etc. No one could or would tell us, not even give us a range. Our best guess was to read online articles, which don't really help very much (unless you are into stressing yourself out). It's been 5 months after the C-section now and we still haven't gotten the bill. Our insurance agent told us it looks like it's going to be $85k total before coverage, and we have no idea how much we'll have to pay out of that. Btw, this was in SF which apparently is the most expensive city in the US where to give birth :(
I think that is part of it. I also think a lot of it has to do with size & diversity.

- The US is ~4x more populous than Germany (most populous in Western Europe)

- The US is ~15x larger than France (largest in Western Europe)

- The US is significantly more racially diverse than any country in Europe which is a huge advantage in many ways but also comes with more challenging governance particularly when you factor in the US's legacy of slavery & racism towards blacks (~12% of the population).

- The US also has greater financial inequality (much, but not all of which is due to government policy of course)

I could list a few more bullet points, but you get the gist. The US is just bigger and more complicated that other places. It makes us harder to govern efficiently.
> The details along with details sourced from public data are fed into an AI-based risk scoring tool to generate a risk score. The tool will use data from millions of cases to help determine if the accused is likely to skip trial or commit another crime if released.

Yes, I'm sure your AI will be magically free from bias when fed data from a biased system. >_>
You're welcome! I've seeded it for years because it's an amazing project. One day I hope to listen through the whole thing.
Paint Shop Pro (I think 6) was my first ever non-Paint graphics editing program. I spotted it at a dollar store in Alabama, soon after moving to the US and getting our first computer. At the time I wanted to become a web designer.

I fricking loved Paint Shop Pro. As a teenager I made some websites for local bands and record companies. I was at the stage where you'd create one fancy image and then slice it into website parts to position them as backgrounds on the page and layer the textual elements over them. Paint Shop Pro was a joy to me as the maker of these cheesy band website layouts that I'd then slice up.
In my experience, this particular generalization is almost always correct.

The many excuses as lack of reliable transportation does not really apply because I see the same behavior when Brazilians are in countries that have said infrastructure.

To be on time is a developed skill and as I Brazilian myself I surely had to develop that skill late in life. However being on time among Brazilians costed me dearly. I had many problems, fights, and arguments because I expect some degree of punctuality of others Brazilians. I have countless personal accounts of that. For someone not used to it, let me quantify it: I'm talking lateness from 30 minutes to 4 hours.

The root cause is that lateness is highly tolerated in Brazil, and is inherently contagious. If someone is always 10 minutes late to an appointment, someone else, who values their own time, will be not less than 10 minutes late. Next one will be not less than that, incrementally, each more late than the other. The more people, the worst, and we are more than 200 millions.

For people who think that being late is not a big deal, imagine being 10 minutes late for a meeting with 6 other people. That's 6 times 10 minutes, 60 minutes of people's time waiting you. Wasted time. Then there is the time lost due context switching, pinging you to see where you are, and being late to other appointments. It's disrespectful and selfish to be late. You are showing that you care only about yourself and not about other people's time.

Yes, I know that anyone can be late, but please without false symmetries. It's an endemic problem among Brazilians and we need to fix it. Please, if you know you have this problem, stop making excuses and do something about it. Buy a watch, use Google Calendar, it's not even that hard.
That it's not different is kind of a good point?

Some people use several Emacs windows (or frames or whatever) but all of them peeking into the same file, but in to different locations of it.
There's imagination, and there's imagination. I doubt novels will help you develop imagination the way e.g. solving spatial puzzles in your head will.

In my experience, prose doesn't force, or even encourage you to improve your imagination; it merely exercises your current levels. Kind of like opting for stairs instead of elevator when going up one floor - it doesn't really improve anything in your health, unless you're barely fit to walk, and is not a substitute for exercise that makes you reach the limits of your muscles.
Have you looked at who's occupying the oval office lately? Nothing to do with it being cool though.
Also, the deep earth is filled with lots of water, well mixed that is. Evidently this lowers the melting point and promotes plasticity, from what I've read.

Water may be one of the bigger requirements.
That may not be the case for whatever replaces the PC though.
I'm sueing Solar City for lying to me about the terms of the lease. It isn't made up. Something fishy is going on.
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The problem I have with the "blame the consumer" trope is that there's the implicit "and if consumers had full pricing knowledge, The Market(tm) would correct all of the other issues, and healthcare in the US would be fixed." I assert this mostly through anecdotal evidence based on where these conversations tend to go.

I also find it to be some of the most disingenuous handwaving I've seen in recent memory. No one is going to comparison-shop when they have a ruptured appendix. Worse, if they think they can just "tough out" the abdominal pain because they can't afford the doctor visit _or the treatment that might result from it_, they'll just die.

Just to head something off... if your answer to "What if people still can't afford healthcare?" is "If you can't afford healthcare, then you're not contributing enough to society to receive healthcare.", then I thank you for your candor and your ideological consistency, and have you considered that you might be a sociopath?
This is always true, by using the real universe as the simulation environment, the exploits are applicable.
In the UK, almost everyone released on bail is released on "their own recognisance" which is a fancy way of saying no money involved. Conditions can be attached, like living at a particular address and reporting to a police station weekly. Bail can be denied for serious/repeat offenders or if you're likely to run.

There are also no bail bondsmen/bounty hunters; that role is taken on by the police. Failing to surrender can be punished with an increased sentence and being denied bail in the future - if you're caught.
So this one time, friends and I were driving through mountains, on a decent ~2 lane road. With even some guard rails. And then we came around a switchback, and the road was basically just gone. No signs, or other warnings. There had been a huge landslide. And there were many workers, from nearby towns, but all with just hand implements. So we had to backtrack ~200 km.
Montreal is exactly the same way only you invite them for 10pm and the party only really starts at midnight.
You say this like it's some special provision in the tax code, but it's not. Companies pay taxes on profits, not revenue. And insurance contributions (like many many other things) are an expense that reduces profits.
Armodafinil is bad for your liver.
> Every time a hurricane knocks out a town's electric grid and federal funds are used to repair it, that's a subsidy. When government authority to exercise eminent domain acquires easements or land to erect power distribution, that's a subsidy.

This is anti-government fervor carried to absurdity. No man is an island. What is the point of government if not to provide care in disastrous situations? And yes this is the peoples self-interest in carrying on a stable society. I support this kind of "subsidy" 100%.
I thought the glass sphere was pretty sweet
IIRC it was designed by a relative amateur at design, a CS professor at Stanford.
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> Of "the rest of the developed world", only one country (the UK) has a "national healthcare system", and even that's a bit of a stretch, because England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all have different systems.

England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland makes 4 countries, just FYI.

This handy graphic explains in case of confusion:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Br...
It’s patently obvious. No sane individual will systematically go against his economic self interest.
> Healthcare costs are by far the #1 reason why I want to move out of the U.S. as soon as possible.

Hope you and your family are in perfect health if you plan to immigrate to a country with socialized healthcare. Most such countries will reject families with an autistic child, for example, based on the notion that said child will be heavily dependent on govt/health services.
1. Team Zopherus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZEUYKePV_0

2. AI SpaceFactory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnrVV0w2jrE

3. Kahn Yates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_BN_xJZMOk

4. SEArch+/Apis Cor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxoqs18BOoE

5. Northwestern University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzoO9ADqOE
You don't have to go to other countries to see a different system -- the new DA in Philly (a reformist aligned with Black Lives Matter and other progressive causes) ended cash bail for low level offenses! https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/The-End-of-Cash-B...

The article also notes that "In 1991, Washington, D.C., ended its bail bond system and now releases nearly 90 percent of pretrial defendants."
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If anything, voting patterns in the US prove this wrong.
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>Its a pretty common problem in sales. Lots of sales people are constantly moving jobs and pushing their numbers up.

HackerNews:

Wells Fargo presses sales people to fake sales: Send those executives to the guillotine! (this was literally said by a top comment on one of the threads).

Tesla presses sales people to fake numbers: Nothing to see here, standard operating procedure.

If/when these companies fold, I hope the rabid supporters are held to account.
I think "galaxis" is the ancient latin term. Either way, the word "galaxy" is derived from ancient greek and "milky way" is an almost literal translation.
It's fashionable among elites in America to be cynical, especially about America. They revel in putting America down and seem to enjoy schadenfreude at the thought of America declining. They are very misguided people.
The binary categories of "public" and "nonpublic" are just approximations for exposure.
It was watered down to make it a "budget bill" under the Senate rules so it could withstand filibuster. (In doing this, the ACA had to be stripped of almost all its cost-containment features.)