No he isn't. Not all US states went on prison construction sprees. Those that did and those that didn't saw similar changes in crime rates. The prisons did little to help.
Prisons help some by keeping criminals off the street, but they also hurt because they create hardened criminals with few other options, and they disrupt families and communities. If you want to prevent crime, there are smarter things to spend your budget on than mass incarceration, such as better education.
Completely off topic trivia: From the summit of Mt Diablo (Devil's Peak) in Concord CA, you can see more of the earth's surface than anyplace else on earth with the sole exception of the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro. Like Kilimanjaro, Mt Diablo is an isolated peak, surrounded by vast flat surfaces (California's Central Valley to the East, and San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean to the West). You can see roughly 80,000 sq miles on a clear day.
In America, we often get free t-shirts. I am a member of the "10 Gallon Club", with 80 donations*, and I have about a dozen Red Cross t-shirts. We also get coupons for a pint of free ice cream, "a pint for a pint".
* I have "baby blood", that is type O and free of cytomegalovirus antibodies, and can be used with newborns, so they always schedule me to donate again as soon as I am eligible.
Just because you can think of a stupid alternative method of implementing transactions, that doesn't mean it is the only alternative.
You should get a passport and go see the world. Most of the world has already fixed this problem.
In America, a CC merchant receives the following information during a transaction: 1. Your name 2. Your credit card number 3. The expiration date 4. The CVV 5. Your PIN, if using a debit card and the keypad is compromised.
Of course, this is more than enough for a crook.
In some other countries, the merchant receives this information: 1. A one-time transaction ID that encodes the amount of the transaction and cannot be modified or reused, except for a full or partial refund. 2. NOTHING ELSE - no name, no account number, no PIN, no phone number, nothing.
The PIN is keyed into your own cellphone, not equipment controlled by the merchant.
If he's donated nearly every week since the late 50's, that duration would well account for 10% of the population
You misunderstand. I am not disputing that 10% of the population received the antibody as a precaution, based on their parent's blood types. That may be true. But few of those babies would have actually got the disease, and far fewer of them would have DIED. So it is silly to say that he "saved the lives" of 2.4 million people, as the headline says.
The number of lives saved is likely "only" a few thousand.
According to Wikipedia the current wave of violence started with anti-Muslim riots in 2012 triggered by the gang rape of a Buddhist woman, despite a medical examiner saying she wasn't raped, and at least one of the alleged rapists being Buddhist.
This doesn't seem to be consistent with your claims that "they started it".
Hardly. Maybe reduced the risk for those babies, but most of them would've survived.
Indeed. 2.4M is about 10% of the population of Australia. Rh disease is only a concern in about 2% of births, and even with no treatment, most of them would have survived.
I use mine about 60/40 desktop/laptop. I have this 39 inch 4K display at both home and work, which connects to my MacBook Pro with USB-C. This gives me about 5 square feet of screen real estate, enough to fully display an editor, debugger, browser, and test window, all with no overlap, and 20 inches of vertical text. I use this ergonomic keyboard for long hours of RSI-free typing. But I also use my laptop as a laptop while commuting, in meetings, and in bed.
People are whining because their keyboards stop working when they spill coffee on them,.
It is not just coffee. If you eat a cookie, or any crumbly food, over the keyboard, you will get stuck keys. Beach sand is also a problem. You can fix most laptops by turning them over and giving them a good shake. But I have had to remove keys from my MacBook many times to clean out debris.
People may say "Hey, just don't eat cookies while browsing, and don't take your MacBook to the beach", but why should I have to sacrifice my quality of life to accommodate Apple's crappy keyboards?
how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty and criminality. It may not be correlated with "corruption", but if we have fewer low IQ murderers and muggers, the police can focus more on high IQ embezzlers and bribers.
Decades from now, I hope that some Chinese official lets us know in his memoirs just how close Kim Fat Ass came to getting a PRC bullet to the head.
Rumor is that Kim had his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, executed in order to head off a Chinese sponsored palace coup. Jang was widely seen as "China's guy" within the NK government. China was upset about Jang's execution, but Kim sent them a very clear message that he was not going to be pushed around.
Look at a list of the world's biggest companies. Seven of the top ten are tech companies, and five of those did not exist before the web. Those five have a combined value of $3 Trillion. So saying that AI is going to "fail just like the web" is a bit silly.
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You can consume less plastic. You can start now.
I started back in 2012, when my city, San Jose CA, banned single-use plastic bags.
Hawaii bans bags statewide.
Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda ban bags.
China doesn't ban bags, but they cannot be free. Shops have to charge extra for them, which greatly decreases their use.
As if corporations are somehow less evil, less prone to abuses of power than governments?
Unlike governments, corporations cannot send men with guns to kick your door down in the middle of the night.
Governments can compel, detain, arrest, imprison, and execute.
Around 2000, Larry Ellison declared "Privacy is dead, get over it."
That wasn't Larry Ellison. It was Scott McNealy.
I think you're confusing cause and effect.
No he isn't. Not all US states went on prison construction sprees. Those that did and those that didn't saw similar changes in crime rates. The prisons did little to help.
Prisons help some by keeping criminals off the street, but they also hurt because they create hardened criminals with few other options, and they disrupt families and communities. If you want to prevent crime, there are smarter things to spend your budget on than mass incarceration, such as better education.
If he just raised random people's grades (so as not to point only to himself), it might have slipped by un-noticed.
According to TFA, he did do that. He both raised and lowered the grades of other students.
They caught him by the IP address in the logs, which they tracked to his home address. He should have logged in from the library.
"Mount Diablo Unified School District"
He was clearly going through hell.
Completely off topic trivia: From the summit of Mt Diablo (Devil's Peak) in Concord CA, you can see more of the earth's surface than anyplace else on earth with the sole exception of the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro. Like Kilimanjaro, Mt Diablo is an isolated peak, surrounded by vast flat surfaces (California's Central Valley to the East, and San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean to the West). You can see roughly 80,000 sq miles on a clear day.
Blood donors in Australia get $0.
In America, we often get free t-shirts. I am a member of the "10 Gallon Club", with 80 donations*, and I have about a dozen Red Cross t-shirts. We also get coupons for a pint of free ice cream, "a pint for a pint".
* I have "baby blood", that is type O and free of cytomegalovirus antibodies, and can be used with newborns, so they always schedule me to donate again as soon as I am eligible.
Just because you can think of a stupid alternative method of implementing transactions, that doesn't mean it is the only alternative.
You should get a passport and go see the world. Most of the world has already fixed this problem.
In America, a CC merchant receives the following information during a transaction:
1. Your name
2. Your credit card number
3. The expiration date
4. The CVV
5. Your PIN, if using a debit card and the keypad is compromised.
Of course, this is more than enough for a crook.
In some other countries, the merchant receives this information:
1. A one-time transaction ID that encodes the amount of the transaction and cannot be modified or reused, except for a full or partial refund.
2. NOTHING ELSE - no name, no account number, no PIN, no phone number, nothing.
The PIN is keyed into your own cellphone, not equipment controlled by the merchant.
If he's donated nearly every week since the late 50's, that duration would well account for 10% of the population
You misunderstand. I am not disputing that 10% of the population received the antibody as a precaution, based on their parent's blood types. That may be true. But few of those babies would have actually got the disease, and far fewer of them would have DIED. So it is silly to say that he "saved the lives" of 2.4 million people, as the headline says.
The number of lives saved is likely "only" a few thousand.
According to Wikipedia the current wave of violence started with anti-Muslim riots in 2012 triggered by the gang rape of a Buddhist woman, despite a medical examiner saying she wasn't raped, and at least one of the alleged rapists being Buddhist.
This doesn't seem to be consistent with your claims that "they started it".
Hardly. Maybe reduced the risk for those babies, but most of them would've survived.
Indeed. 2.4M is about 10% of the population of Australia. Rh disease is only a concern in about 2% of births, and even with no treatment, most of them would have survived.
We should use CRISPR to splice his gene for the anit-body into another donor.
A bone marrow transplant might also work.
Solution ... don't eat at Chili's.
Better solution: Fix the idiotic CC system the requires the same information to be both widely known and secret.
The worst religion inspired violence in the world today is the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya. The perpetrators are Buddhist, not Muslim.
I thought it was Washington University which, of course, is in Missouri.
I use mine about 60/40 desktop/laptop. I have this 39 inch 4K display at both home and work, which connects to my MacBook Pro with USB-C. This gives me about 5 square feet of screen real estate, enough to fully display an editor, debugger, browser, and test window, all with no overlap, and 20 inches of vertical text. I use this ergonomic keyboard for long hours of RSI-free typing. But I also use my laptop as a laptop while commuting, in meetings, and in bed.
Except the "desktop" Apple makes is a trashcan with all the parts welded to the motherboard.
It also hasn't been upgraded in nearly 5 years. A MacBook Pro laptop is faster, cheaper, and works with modern 4K monitors.
People are whining because their keyboards stop working when they spill coffee on them,.
It is not just coffee. If you eat a cookie, or any crumbly food, over the keyboard, you will get stuck keys. Beach sand is also a problem. You can fix most laptops by turning them over and giving them a good shake. But I have had to remove keys from my MacBook many times to clean out debris.
People may say "Hey, just don't eat cookies while browsing, and don't take your MacBook to the beach", but why should I have to sacrifice my quality of life to accommodate Apple's crappy keyboards?
More intelligent voters may be a solution.
how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty and criminality. It may not be correlated with "corruption", but if we have fewer low IQ murderers and muggers, the police can focus more on high IQ embezzlers and bribers.
Decades from now, I hope that some Chinese official lets us know in his memoirs just how close Kim Fat Ass came to getting a PRC bullet to the head.
Rumor is that Kim had his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, executed in order to head off a Chinese sponsored palace coup. Jang was widely seen as "China's guy" within the NK government. China was upset about Jang's execution, but Kim sent them a very clear message that he was not going to be pushed around.
Am I the only one wondering why Boston dynamics aren't doubling down on attack robots?
Indeed. Attack robots to keep the masses under control would be way more cost effective than funding UBI. This could be the "killer app".
How about spending money solving issues like corruption, disease and poverty?
The root cause of many social problems is too many stupid people.
The average inmate IQ is America's prisons is 89. It is even lower for violent offenders.
Smoking, obesity, and many other health issues are correlated with low intelligence.
Income differs by about $6000/yr for every 10 points above or below the mean IQ.
Better understanding of brain development is one of the most important things we can do to address these problems.
Look at a list of the world's biggest companies. Seven of the top ten are tech companies, and five of those did not exist before the web. Those five have a combined value of $3 Trillion. So saying that AI is going to "fail just like the web" is a bit silly.
You hang around with nerds too much if you expect the average human to know the answer to life, the universe and everything.
I just asked Alexa, and she/it gave the answer "42".