Comment What about FMRI? (Score 2) 38
Surprised the study wasn't based on FMRIs to actually look at brain activity.
Surprised the study wasn't based on FMRIs to actually look at brain activity.
That isn't a Left or Right issue; there are people in both camps that focus inordinate amounts of energy into a single issue with blinders to reality.
Personally, I am glad that Oregon tried it rather than my home state, so everybody else could learn from the failure. There was a lot of debate going back decades as to if something like that would work or not.
Here is another source. https://worldpopulationreview....
It shows a 55% reimprisonment rate and 45% reconviction rate in the US after 5 years, which seems to generally be consistent with other countries. The two-year rates are actually better than Sweden which seems to really focus on getting people back into society. The measures are flawed though due to inconsistencies and duration of prison sentences.
I guess it comes down to more than what happens within prison and broader issues with social and social safety nets, along with how crime is viewed.
I would too. The fact remains that it is nonproductive for all but {psyco|socio}paths. Ultimately the goal needs to be to rehabilitate and prevent recidivism and to not expect punishment.
I am in 100% agreement; everything should be posted publicly in a neutral forum and responsibly archived as a historical record. The same should be true of utilities and similar organizations.
Unfortunately that is almost impossible to do for most cities, counties, states, and the federal government. Even if it was possible, it still creates dozens of sites that someone must visit. So organizations get lazy and just use what people already use for their personal stuff.
The 737 still has mechanical linkages from control surfaces to the cockpit (likely the cause of one of the problems listed), a grandfathered exit slide setup with a history of issues, landing gear that is too short for the engines... the list goes on. What it does have though is a smaller cross section than the 320 leading to a lighter aircraft that could still be marginally competitive on fuel burn and cost. There is a long list of systems that don't work great, but are part of the approved design so they cannot be easily improved.
The initial plan was to wait another 5-6 years and do a clean-sheet New Small Aircraft. When Airbus announced the NEO and American Airlines bought a bunch, Boeing changed plans and just went with the Max.
As much as market conditions left them with no good solution, the Max was a mistake from the beginning. There is just way too much in the way of grandfathered systems. That said... I am not confident at this point Boeing would have done much better with a clean sheet design.
Yeah, the common thread here really seems like United Airlines here... and Boeing hasn't owned United for 90 years.
I agree on almost all points, but there are two important caveats: generation capacity has come offline since 2005, and the daily consumption profile has changed significantly even if the annualized consumption has not.
Taken together, this makes the grid more fragile and reliant on sources that only operate 200 hours a year. It is hard to make economical generation systems with a capacity factor of 5%. Oh, it also makes the grid more expensive.
Baseload isn't high enough to support much more nuclear. The only way to increase baseload consumption is to make that energy cheapest. Unfortunately nuclear is anything but cheap, so you need to figure out hybrid solutions that can load follow economically. Bottom line is that everything has to be factored in as a complete system and not isolated sources of power.
At grid scale, there are plenty of energy storage solutions, even if you don't want batteries. Providing down-river resivors on hydroelectric dams is a pretty simple one. You also have the transmission solution where you diversify loads in lattitude and longitude.
At the consumption side, you have approaches like mandated EV charging parameters or other policies that encourage grid-balancing rather than customer-balancing. A counter-example there would be my utility adding a demand charge; my goal then becomes to have as flat of a consumption profile as practical, despite the fact that they would actually like to encourage consumption at certain points in the day.
The funny thing is that is also true of humans. We might call it misinterpreting data for a human, but for someone of sub-average to average intelligence (or someone that simply doesn't care) it can also a problem. For humans (and procedural computer programming) we solve this by creating a process; for AI, it requires specialized training.
I tried that before, but WebDAV really isn't a great solution for backing up a large number of files. It would always choke when there were more than ~200 things to sync.
I am "old school" now-- WireGuard to my NAS over SMB. Some stupid limitations by Apple mean it won't use it as a default location, but it works well enough for my needs.
First you need to reduce the cost of medical school. I know at least one HMO decided to open their own. Doctors are trained with the specific end-goal of working in their hospitals.
What killed Macy's Union Square was the destruction of tourism from within and without. This allowed the Tenderloin to push towards Union Square, and eliminated a large number of shoppers. That created a death spiral for the area. I would guess that recovering Union Square is going to take more than fixing the situation in the financial district. Macy's was always the anchor for the area, so its loss will have much more profound impact on any future recovery. All the Union Square-adjacent areas have already fallen back to what they were 30 years ago.
It will be an uphill battle to restore tourism, bring back retail, and eventually get the office space absorption that is needed to keep FiDi and SoMa viable. Overstated stories of doom, crime, and homelessness just make the prospects harder.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.