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Is there anything redeeming about “for profit” prison? At its most fundamental, it has no incentive to actually rehabilitate
The motivation for prison for a significant portion of US population is punishment not rehabilitation
Sounds very cruel, another sign that we can't control our technological growth at all. I have a friend, a former FAANG veteran that has dedicated his life to destroying what he calls "techno-Satan", maybe he's on to something. I have also noticed that programmers have a tendency to sometimes distrust the stuff they make. I for one will never install "smart" home devices, I'm happy with my classic light switch that wo…
The new version has "always on connectivity" and an App that allowed you to know where the car was, and a bunch of other stuff.
I was so happy that my used car didn't have any of that.
Sounds very cruel, another sign that we can't control our technological growth at all. I have a friend, a former FAANG veteran that has dedicated his life to destroying what he calls "techno-Satan", maybe he's on to something. I have also noticed that programmers have a tendency to sometimes distrust the stuff they make. I for one will never install "smart" home devices, I'm happy with my classic light switch that wo…
It’s similar to how when Doctors receive a terminal diagnosis, they choose to just accept it and die, rather than pursue aggressive treatment.
Yeah we can maybe give your granny (with 6 months to live) another 2 years of life by taking $250,000 out of her estate and putting her through hell for 4 months, including no visitors for part of that.
The patent is little more than VR call in "controlled environment". Which presumably would also apply to schools. Or bowling alleys (been to several with VR setups). Or anywhere other than in homes. 1. A method for personalizing a virtual reality session, the method comprising: receiving, from a device located within a controlled environment, a request to initiate the virtual reality session, wherein the request incl…
Pretty sure they just described VRChat's feature of inviting a friend to join your room.
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The motivation for prison for a significant portion of US population is punishment not rehabilitation
Yeah, and then they look like Surprised Pikachu when someone gets out of prison not only with no education, but into a world where potential jobs will reject them because they've been convicted of a crime, and they have to resort to going back into crime to survive.
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I think it's worse than the patent office rubber stamping everything. They actually don't rubber stamp things that your average, small inventor might try to patent. They seem to always initially reject applications, requiring multiple submissions with small modifications over and over until they relent and grant. This serves to filter out everyone except those with deep pockets and highly paid patent attorneys. When…
Patent examiners are given a relatively limited time/resource budget to examine applications. For that reason they will often reject early as a strategy [ETA: often, in my experience, with very weak "prior art" that basically matches some keywords], then allow more dedicated inventors to revise. This is mainly a filtering strategy, as best I can see. When your attorney quoted you $10K and suggested the patent would e…
And yeah, this system seems to be the worst of all worlds: needlessly punishing for small players and needlessly lucrative for large ones.
The patent system, as it is implemented, clearly behaves as an instrument of power, not an instrument for fixing incentives.
Is there anything redeeming about “for profit” prison? At its most fundamental, it has no incentive to actually rehabilitate
>Is there anything redeeming about “for profit” prison? No. But there's nothing redeeming about state prisons either. The whole system is broken regardless of who's letterhead the warden's pay stubs are on. The typical argument for "for profit" prisons is that it provides a motive to keep costs under control, a motive that is very obviously in too short supply in most other government endeavors. Furthermore, the gove…
I no longer recall the statistics she cited but if you want to date a black man in LA, you first have to find one that is not in jail, which diminishes the dating pool substantially.
I'm glad that decriminalization is also including early release and voiding of criminal records but once you start down that path it's hard to walk that back. Recidivism is high not just because the same conditions exist post-incarceration, but also because finding a good job with a record is difficult. We are only really fixing things for people who were recently convicted/released and haven't had to make those kinds of choices yet.
What a crappy patent. We really need patent reform. This is basically a patent troll (or they plan to be a gatekeeper and make money from the companies that make VR). This company has about a 0% chance in the next 20 years of producing high quality VR. There is already prior art here. So many ways to make patents better, including: - making it more expensive, with annual fees - increase the cost over time - just gene…
>We can also incentivize in other ways, like grants and contests You would need to quadruple healthcare r&d spending to make up for private spending (in 2018 it was 130 billion private to 43 billion public r&d spending). Not impossible, but a tough sell.
How much of the public spending went to $60k/yr scientists rather than $600k/yr lawyers?