I always try to ask what problem is being solved.
Is it having a universal parser? Actually xml kind of did solve that problem. You could easily exchange data without having to write a parser and as long as the data was mostly text, it was fine.
But that's all it solved. It made it so you didn't have to write a new parser. You still had to figure out on a schema to serialize and deserialize though. And you needed to parse non-scalars.
What's the cleaning cloth cost?
It’s more efficient, certainly. But telling someone pretrial in 2023 they can’t use a computer isn’t realistic.
Oh totally. And they’re not even alleged to have done anything wrong.
The prosecutor will say “well they could have lived in a Four Seasons instead of with their father.” Prosecutors are seldom reasonable people.
Computers are remarkably efficient but at the dawn of the Gutenberg press, you could have made similar observations. For the first time with paper, it was possible to commit crimes in the privacy of your own home merely by writing things down and sending them to a publisher.
Absolutely.
In 1950, if you were told as a pretrial release condition, you weren't allowed to use paper because your alleged crime involved a book, no one would have thought that reasonable. Today, devices are the equivalent of paper.
So confidently predicting an outcome is the problem?
That's a problem that could emerge with any system used to predict the outcome of any election.
If you make a prediction, you're arguably telling people not to vote.
What is he, a religious leader now?
He was a good modeler and handicapper. His model happened to work well for the 2016 election. That's it. He's not a fucking oracle.
he chose to agree to be monitored and they chose to continue living with him” was uttered
That got me too.
"The alternative is that they could have rented a separate house while the breadwinner of the family was in jail. They agreed to it!"
Utterly absurd. I also think, especially for the 14 year old, that level of surveillance is itself a form of abuse.
Not to mention the fact that any reasonable person would say that its use constitutes a punishment in and of itself.
We need a standard for pretrial release where if any measure could, if taken in isolation, be considered punitive, prosecutors are not allowed to ask for it.
Yeah, but no native desktop app. 😭 I miss 1Password's early years.