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.
There are some people who just can't be rehabilitated.
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).
If you think software never breaks, I have a bunch of 5.25" disks somewhere that want to have an argument with you.
It's a complete strawman to argue that physical things break. If I buy music, digitally, that won't break and yet nobody sane would expect that the band can at some random time in the future say "we revoke all our music". I can also think of a number of physical things that unless I mistreat them will easily survive me and three generations down the line.
This is not about replacements, it's about taking the product sold away but keeping the money.
America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison,"
A noble and excellent goal. 90% of Americans can support this (the others are profiting from it).
bring together prisoner data from its disparate sources into digital dashboards. From there, corrections staff can see information — such as court records and notes from parole-board hearings — about a prisoner or parolee all in one place.
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).
The company says its efforts are working: Recidivism has fallen 16% in the prison population its systems track. It is the result of "just streamlining these workflows and knitting someone's journey together end to end,
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'll say the obvious: because we all know that ChatGPT is used constantly for cheating. I'm no fan of this paid cheater, but 3 years of prison for that is stupid. Tax evasion? Sure. Scam? Fuck no. Sounds like the university be bad at Englishing.
I'm guessing the three years wasn't for the cheating but the money laundering and unauthorized computr access, the cheating was just a by product of those crimes.
And what stops you from making a seperate license to play on the servers provided by the company that is based on good behaviour and/or monthly subscription fees?
This is what the Stop Killing Games movement is also about: Sure, we understand that eventually you wind down the online servers, no problem. But if I paid for a game, why should you have the right to disable it? With no other things I buy can you at any time later come to my house and take them back or disable them. Not with my microwave, not with my shower, not with my lights.
I expect SystemD was originally created because someone looked at Apple's LaunchD and decided they wanted a GPL-compatible alternative
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.
I expect SystemD was originally created because someone looked at Apple's LaunchD and decided they wanted a GPL-compatible alternative
Looked at LaunchD and decided, 'This would be better if it were done in a Microsoft way."
Further to that systemd is highly modular. Most of it does not run in PID 1. On my fedora system there are half a dozen individual systemd module packages that can be used or not as the system needs and is designed. systemd is not at all monolithic.
The only people who say that haven't actually looked at the source code, or are liars. I don't know which one you are.
At least you didn't say "Systemd is small", which it isn't.
Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.
