That's a well known scientific truth, but focusing on long term rehabilitation requires cultural progress.
Good luck with that. I feel half the country is sliding further into the 1800's (and earlier) as political polarization intensifies. "The good ol' days are better" seems to be a constant theme of rural America. Trump used it successfully to imply he can bring factories and coal mining back, and reduce the number of outsiders who are allegedly polluting white evangelical culture.
The truth is the evangelicals are becoming ever more like the Taliban, who keep their jails small by executing those prosecuted for major crimes. I got modded to oblivion for making this claim before, but you are welcome to argue I'm wrong instead.
Studies have consistently found that prisoners who maintain close contact with their family members while incarcerated have better post-release outcomes and lower recidivism rates.
Ideally in-person is better, but it's not practical on a frequent basis. What if the permitted video visits are more frequent in exchange for less in-person visits? Does the frequency offset the downsides of non-directness?
For example, is 25 hours of yearly video conferencing with family worse than 5 hours of in-person communication? Further, the in-person visits don't have to be cut to zero.
They didn't forget, but merely noticed evil is often more profitable, at least in the shorter term.
Capitalists learned long ago that building manipulative mousetrap packaging is often an easier route to profits than building a better mousetrap. Marketing R&D and consumer manipulation is cheaper and easier than engineering R&D on average.
Perscription drugs is a perfect example: they often spend more on marketing and "doctor fluffing" than on direct R&D. This contributed to the opioid epidemic. The CEO of Cardinal Health told Congress he was "deeply sorry" for the company's "poor oversight" of their opioid distribution. It could merely be Hanlon's razor, but looks suspiciously like aggressive marketing. Same with Uber and Well's Fargo bank.
"Gee, how did overly-aggressive marketing leak into our system? It just magically appeared out of nowhere. Who knew?"
Unfortunately, most consumers won't give a fudge until data is leaked to somebody who does something sinister or embarrassing with it in a way that makes national news, similar to the Facebook & Boston Analytics fiasco. (And it's too early to know if this will make Facebook fully shape-up.)
Some consumers may indeed accept such snooping to get free services (assuming the implications are made clear up front). However, it may exacerbate the inequality problem where the wealthy can afford low-snoop options while the poor pretty much have to live with heavy snoopware.
Some chided the Clintons for routinely smashing retired cell-phones, but if you can afford this, it's the proper course of action, per protecting your privacy. (Why the Clintons were smart about this but dumb on other IT aspects is peculiar. Speculations range from Hanlon's razor to mass conspiracy. I won't go there today.)
If the PHB's do give it any thought, they may conclude a 15% chance of getting hacked into bankruptcy is worth the risk of growing now by shaving off security measures. If the company croaks, they blame it on the techies (they don't put corner-cutting orders in writing), and move on to a different gig. Rinse, repeat.
Not necessarily. The neural-net based stuff merely echos patterns well. Feed it all the Trump speeches and tweets, and you gotta nice Orangebot.
"I'm the greatest at X, believe me! Everyone tells me I do X the best. Loser [Hillary/Obama] screwed up X bigly. So sad. I cancelled it so fast your heads spun; it's windy out now. But I got THE very best people to work on X, and you'll absolutely love it! Even lyin' CNN admitted I do X beautifully. Make X Great Again!"
Time for a different fad bubble, AI getting tiresome. Think!
IOT buttplugs Moon orbit vacations Self-flying cars Segway roller-skates Dog control brain implants Trump wigs with hidden sensors & telemetry Wooden underwear Self diagnosis webcam pills Poop analysis Tricorder Hello Kitty porn Methane-flavored gum Battle-bots with AR-15's 3D goat-se stickers Plaid trash-cans Plain kilts Transparent kilts Transparent wooden underwear Blue orange juice MS Bob rebirth MS Bob + Clippy porn MS Bob + Hello Kitty porn Linux toothbrushes (with Emacs, of course) A Beowulf cluster of Linux toothbrushes Linux kilts
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Good luck with that. I feel half the country is sliding further into the 1800's (and earlier) as political polarization intensifies. "The good ol' days are better" seems to be a constant theme of rural America. Trump used it successfully to imply he can bring factories and coal mining back, and reduce the number of outsiders who are allegedly polluting white evangelical culture.
The truth is the evangelicals are becoming ever more like the Taliban, who keep their jails small by executing those prosecuted for major crimes. I got modded to oblivion for making this claim before, but you are welcome to argue I'm wrong instead.
Ideally in-person is better, but it's not practical on a frequent basis. What if the permitted video visits are more frequent in exchange for less in-person visits? Does the frequency offset the downsides of non-directness?
For example, is 25 hours of yearly video conferencing with family worse than 5 hours of in-person communication? Further, the in-person visits don't have to be cut to zero.
They didn't forget, but merely noticed evil is often more profitable, at least in the shorter term.
Capitalists learned long ago that building manipulative mousetrap packaging is often an easier route to profits than building a better mousetrap. Marketing R&D and consumer manipulation is cheaper and easier than engineering R&D on average.
Perscription drugs is a perfect example: they often spend more on marketing and "doctor fluffing" than on direct R&D. This contributed to the opioid epidemic. The CEO of Cardinal Health told Congress he was "deeply sorry" for the company's "poor oversight" of their opioid distribution. It could merely be Hanlon's razor, but looks suspiciously like aggressive marketing. Same with Uber and Well's Fargo bank.
"Gee, how did overly-aggressive marketing leak into our system? It just magically appeared out of nowhere. Who knew?"
Unfortunately, most consumers won't give a fudge until data is leaked to somebody who does something sinister or embarrassing with it in a way that makes national news, similar to the Facebook & Boston Analytics fiasco. (And it's too early to know if this will make Facebook fully shape-up.)
Some consumers may indeed accept such snooping to get free services (assuming the implications are made clear up front). However, it may exacerbate the inequality problem where the wealthy can afford low-snoop options while the poor pretty much have to live with heavy snoopware.
Some chided the Clintons for routinely smashing retired cell-phones, but if you can afford this, it's the proper course of action, per protecting your privacy. (Why the Clintons were smart about this but dumb on other IT aspects is peculiar. Speculations range from Hanlon's razor to mass conspiracy. I won't go there today.)
I've been looking all over for my Zune receipt. Is it in that bag?
But it's a catharsis. It probably prevents war.
Pirate Saudi's stuff in retaliation.
"I'm the best bot, believe me! I'm better than humans, than Spock, than HAL something-thousand. Billions flock to praise my bigly brain!"
Excellent compromise. Kudos!
I prefer Mary Ann. Now there's a flame-war.
The real news is Trump did something quietly.
Just like space aliens. There!
I too have a fuzzy boundary. I hope exercise and a good shave will take care of it.
Did I wander into a Politics forum?
If the PHB's do give it any thought, they may conclude a 15% chance of getting hacked into bankruptcy is worth the risk of growing now by shaving off security measures. If the company croaks, they blame it on the techies (they don't put corner-cutting orders in writing), and move on to a different gig. Rinse, repeat.
Not necessarily. The neural-net based stuff merely echos patterns well. Feed it all the Trump speeches and tweets, and you gotta nice Orangebot.
"I'm the greatest at X, believe me! Everyone tells me I do X the best. Loser [Hillary/Obama] screwed up X bigly. So sad. I cancelled it so fast your heads spun; it's windy out now. But I got THE very best people to work on X, and you'll absolutely love it! Even lyin' CNN admitted I do X beautifully. Make X Great Again!"
That's how you get blue orange-juice.
Time for a different fad bubble, AI getting tiresome. Think!
IOT buttplugs
Moon orbit vacations
Self-flying cars
Segway roller-skates
Dog control brain implants
Trump wigs with hidden sensors & telemetry
Wooden underwear
Self diagnosis webcam pills
Poop analysis Tricorder
Hello Kitty porn
Methane-flavored gum
Battle-bots with AR-15's
3D goat-se stickers
Plaid trash-cans
Plain kilts
Transparent kilts
Transparent wooden underwear
Blue orange juice
MS Bob rebirth
MS Bob + Clippy porn
MS Bob + Hello Kitty porn
Linux toothbrushes (with Emacs, of course)
A Beowulf cluster of Linux toothbrushes
Linux kilts
"It looks like you are trying to install Linux; would you like some help putting your balls into a vice grip?"
And I suspect AI is writing all these AI doom articles; they are suspiciously similar.
Let's face it, USA evangelicals are growing ever more Taliban-like: xenophobic, anti-diplomacy, anti-education, anti-subject-expert, and zealotic.
Bart [calling]: Is Oliver there?
Moe: Who?
Bart: Oliver Klozoff.
Moe: Hold on, I'll check. Paging Oliver Klozoff! Oliver Klozoff!...
Fine, he should have kept his day job and finished mastering the gaudy gold-plated look.
If they make it auto-build walls, coal powered, and filter out CNN, he's sold.
I thought that's how he makes his toupee.