Or whatever your local equivalent is.

If we had antitrust law enforcement other companies would enter the RAM and storage markets because there is years of demand.

Every company eyeing those markets knows that if they even try they will get run out of business and go bankrupt.

If you're American there is one political quality that enforces antitrust law and one that doesn't.

Everything is political whether you like it or not. And that includes your video games.

Anyway have fun with the mod points. Nobody likes it when I point out reality around here

US: 66% (Wall Street's numbers aren't those found in official statistics)
UK: 28.9%
Holland: 23%
Norway: 16%
China: 6%

US' conclusion: The rate is a complete mystery, we've no idea how to decrease it, let's do more of what we're currently doing differently to everyone else.

There is a slight possibility this may be flawed.

Those filters were suspended for muskrat. They did it for him at they'll do it for the other soon to be trillionaires.

Every one of em will become trillionaires the same way muskrat did, by stealing your retirement

Why don't you just come out and say the n-word already.? Drop a few f-bombs and I don't mean fuck.

When the fascists are done letting you beat the hell out of queers and brown people they're going to do terrible things to you. If you happen to be getting paid they'll take all your money and property. Of course this is probably I'm just responding to a bot. After all Trump fucks kids. And by repeating Trump fucks kids a few times these shitty little llms pick that up.

But there are a lot of mean old racists on this forum and I know they are out there. The kind of people who are casual racists. The kind of people who will tell you with a straight face that anyone can be an n-word. The kind of people who are really really angry they can't say that word anymore..

It's about what you're willing to give up is a 60-year-old versus what somebody in their twenties is willing to give up.

I don't pay much attention to the media. It's billionaire owned and they are fully exercising their power now. It's mostly just propaganda now. AP and rueters are still a little functional but they are in the process of being dismantled.

Give me a list of two or three issues you would be willing to compromise on in order to ban those cameras. Give me a list of the last three people you voted for in a primary election. I don't even need names just tell me why you voted for them.

When I find people who react to me pointing out that old people are terrible they are almost always the kind of people who are pretty fucking conservative and maybe you're willing to let the trans girls have their hormones as long as you don't have to look at them in public. Hell maybe you are begrudgingly willing to let them be out in public. Or maybe it's not trans people that pushes your buttons maybe it's something else. Maybe it's violent video games or maybe you're obsessed with getting lower taxes or maybe you want to make kids work harder for less or something. But there's some little bit of nastiness in your soul that you won't let go.

Because any generation that gave us Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton Bush Jr and Barack Obama is pretty fucking lousy. I can just barely forgive people for Obama because he was good at tricking us but Ronald Reagan getting a second term after all the shit he did there's no excuse.

No that is too strong a claim. The best you can say is, "There are people we don't know how to rehabilitate."

Our understanding of the brain and psychology is so weak that over the next century or so, our knowledge is going to increase dramatically. Not long ago, people were seriously doing lobotomies (there's an argument to be made that we are still doing it today, but with chemicals. Certainly our understanding and treatment of ADHD will improve dramatically in the future, and what we do now will seem archaic if not barbaric).

Actually they tend to be more conservative but the right wing hides itself behind conservative propaganda.

There is also a healthy amount of pulling the ladder up behind you. People for example who had their education paid for by the government but didn't know that it was happening because the subsidies were indirect. So those people desperately fight to prevent student loan debt forgiveness because it's not fair it's not fair it's not fair. When they had the government paying for their education the entire time they just didn't know it.

This is obviously just graft and grift given to well-connected companies to do bullshit that has no effect on anything.

One of the things that really pisses me off about these obviously corrupt government contracts is that people see this shit and just decide that government is completely irredeemable and worthless. Meanwhile government funded scientists are the ones making all your medicine and you drive on government roads and you're not dealing with feral teenagers because of public schools. Education not prisons is why you haven't been shot and killed by gangs...

So these miserable motherfuckers set up corrupt government programs for them to profit from and then they go to the public and campaign on eliminating government because of the corrupt programs they set up and then when they get in power the only thing they eliminate are things like the program to prevents screw worms from making shitty ground beef $15 a pound or the stuff that prevented 8 million dead kids overseas every year.

And when it's all said and done you have a bunch of angry voters who are convinced they should vote for even less government voting for these assholes and you have the first trillionaire.

I hate how it's also obvious and transparent and how it fucking works.

https://worldpopulationreview....

Ideally the recidivism rate should be zero. It's not easy, though.

Your idea is they implemented something to satisfy a law that hasn't passed yet?

It's extremely unlikely that they implemented it so they wouldn't need to think about it again. Please think before posting.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/cpt...
https://www.unibocconi.it/en/n...
https://www.instituteforgovern...

Norway is good, though.

A noble and excellent goal. 90% of Americans can support this (the others are profiting from it).

Ok, sounds like a great thing for computers to do. If they can get AI to help, then great. (Note: the AI isn't going to open manila folders).

Sounds like they are not releasing people with a high risk of recidivism. In other words, they haven't fixed the problem of recidivism, they've just kept people in jail longer.

I feel like the Elon Musk trade is fairly straightforward.

People buy the stock because they trust Elon Musk, and his companies are good enough to continually increase profits or revenue (that is, he's good at avoiding things that scare away investors). Because of that, the stock will continue to go up until Elon dies or retires.

When Elon dies, that's the sign to sell.

If you are writing in C, it's basically essential to use your own C string library. It's easy to do, just encapsulate those things into something more sane.

This kind of thing should be encapsulated in a macro or function so you don't make mistakes.

Using the raw stdlib string library will cause security problems. These can be avoided 100% by using custom string functions.