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by Perceval 13y ago
"And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt." —Tacitus, Annals , Book III, 27.
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The best work being done on the explosion in incarceration is by Marie Gottschalk, a professor at UPenn. She's done two great books on what has driven the increase in incarceration, and how the drivers of incarceration have changed ov
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Certainly better than Bradley Manning's approach of indiscriminate mass disclosure.
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Almost none of that growth comes from changes to federal law. It's almost entirely state and local laws. During the 1980s it was the War on Drugs, but during the 90s it was three-strikes and zero tolerance laws. The best work on &quo
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There's nothing ironic about that. The military in Turkey have styled themselves the defenders of Ataturk's constitution, which enshrined certain "Kemalist" values like secularism, republicanism, and populism. They've engaged in military
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> if I cut myself off of Facebook I'm losing out on a huge, huge percentage of social interaction Is it possible to have a Facebook account but just use it as a back-end? For instance, don't use the website or the app. But use Cue to
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Man, if everyone who had posted "Fuck politics. Fuck Bush. Fuck the government!" were prosecuted as terrorists, there would be no one left on the internet.
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Apple could do this. They already have 400 million credit cards linked to iTunes accounts. Instead of subscribing to an individual newspaper/magazine in their shitty Newsstand app, you could instead subscribe to the news and have access t
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by Perceval 14y ago
The bitcoin should be renamed the Dunning-Krugerrand.
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Are you sure you're going below parallel on your squats?
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The Mission Impossible theme was done by Argentinian jazz/bossa nova composer Lalo Schifrin.
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel by Rebecca Goldstein
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Could end up as a profitable honey pot.
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I am running Mountain Lion on a 24 GB ExpressCard (about 3 GB free) with 4 GB of RAM. After upgrading to Mountain Lion I am getting a "Hard disk is nearly full" message much more frequently. Almost never seen that on Lion. Could this mem
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This isn't Ars reporting. This is a guest piece written by a think tank wonk. Ars put a disclaimer at the beginning of the article stating that it doesn't not necessarily represent their views.
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At WWDC they showed off more Facebook and Twitter integration with the new Share button that's being implemented throughout the OS. My guess is that iTunes will also get some form of the Share button, allowing you to post about songs you l
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I disagree about the value of conferences, especially large ones, for actual discussion. If you go to a large conference (e.g. the International Studies Association annual conference), you are almost guaranteed to be fielding questions from
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More parties can certainly make for more extreme politics. If you look at parliamentary countries with low thresholds, you see politics like Israel's. You have three major parties (Labor, Kadima, and Likud), and a host of minor parties wi
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by Perceval 14y ago
I'm very interested in the relationship between decolonization, liberalism, and the civil wars that raged through Latin America since then. Can you point me toward any good resources that tie those subjects together? I've been considering
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Yes, but Apple is always willing to prioritize users over developers, which is why Apple is constantly pissing off developers by making them jump through extra hoops. Apple is not going to yank EA's apps, but it's likely that EA is going t
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by Perceval 15y ago
You're right that alcohol doesn't transform a normal person into an aggressive person, but it does lower inhibitions to otherwise anti-social or ill-advised behavior. Here's a meta-study of studies investigating alcohol and aggression which
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by Perceval 15y ago
The link you provided does not say what you say it does. Further, I find it hard to believe that the placebo effect is stronger than the well-documented effects of alcohol in impairing judgment, impairing the frontal lobe and motor skills,
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The actual damages of alcohol to society are massive and well-documented: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210 Alcohol far and away leads the pack in causing harm to others.
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Being ordered to produce documentary evidence is not the same as being compelled to testify against yourself. Defendants are ordered to produce evidence all the time in the form of subpoenas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena_duces_te
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But IBM doesn't build products anymore. They're primarily a consultancy.
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I wonder why they didn't make this announcement on a Friday afternoon when the markets had already closed.
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Why is Schleswig-Holstein always causing Europe problems? Shouldn't they have learned their lesson? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question
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Unless the margins have grown dramatically, they are unlikely to accounts for Apple's growth this past year. If the margins, high as they are, remain the same, the growth comes from expanding the number of customers they have.
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Here's a 5-year chart of market caps for Apple, Exxon-Mobil, and Microsoft: http://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/market_cap#zoom=5&comp...
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I think Apple is getting angry about its partners taking what they've learned from Apple and using it to compete directly against them. From the article: The injunction comes as the latest blow in a tit-for-tat legal war between the two c

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