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by alex_sf 4y ago
> I don't really understand what the purpose of prisons is, and I don't think anyone else really does either. It's to remove known criminals and violent offenders from society. > Is it removing criminals from society al
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76.6% of US prisoners are 'that guy'. [1] [1] https://harvardpolitics.com/recidivism-american-progress/
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These are intentionally bad choices. A) That's disproportionate. B) This requires an extensive police state. Much more simply: evaluate each crime based on the severity, likelihood of re-offense, and apply a sentence commensurate with
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This is provably false. The private prison population has increased by 14% since 2000. [1] [1] https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...
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That's a common retort, and it's complete nonsense. > the experience of other societies which incarcerate a much, much smaller part of the population indicates that most people in USA prisons are not there because of this reaso
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In practice, the Qubes C/P thing isn't unpleasant. There's also no reason browser integration can't be done right now; I use it with Qubes. I have a primary 'vault' qube that holds all the credentials for all
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I have not run a Windows VM in Qubes, and I've been using it full time for only about a week now, but: performance has not been an issue with up to at least 8. This is with an NVMe drive, Ryzen 5600G, and 32GB of RAM. Usability, howev
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> cruelty is built into the justice system top-down in the name of efficiency And you would instead promote.. what? 'Rehabilition'? These arguments always show an absurd amount of empathy for the criminal, and little-to-none f
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It's like quite a few "horrible injustices"; they get piggybacked onto a few smaller and real issues, and then taken as gospel.
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> If true - that’s still 8% of inmates living sub humanely. There's no objective measures showing that private prisons are somehow more 'inhumane' than government-run facilities. > That report is on the first page resul
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It can be complex, but given what it's capable of doing and how well it does it, I'd put it in purgatory at worst.
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The private prison argument is mostly nonsense; between state and federal, only 8% of prisoners are incarcerated in private facilities. [1] [1] https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...
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Sure, it's not ideal. Is the solution to have different standards for different groups based solely on skin color or self-identification?
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Unironically, I'd be fine with that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800_conspiracy_theo...
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It is not inaccurate in the slightest. I'd love to hear exactly what you think is incorrect about it, but I'm well aware you avoid specificity as much as possible.
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This is nonsense. You knew exactly what would happen.
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Languishing, since all resources were being pushed into Glitch. Which then failed.
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The short version is: Joel didn't care. Fog Creek employees were opposed. Trash new CEO pushed it forward.
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Glitch failed into an acquihire by Fastly.
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The business was fine. The new CEO was trash.
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Hash them, duh.
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This is nonsense. The NoI advocates genocide, committed the Hanfai massacare, and numerous other atrocities.
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> And then some questionable stuff like breaking into a Nation of Islam church ... I'm not sure why that should be more controversial than ruining the KKK. Change a couple words and the doctrines aren't much different.
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Utah has the strongest legal protections for MLMs/Pyramid Schemes/etc. in the country [1]. The demand for that safe harbor and the political will to pass it is largely a result of Mormonism. The hierarchy of the church discourage
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Oh yes, of course.
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I know it's the tacky thing to say, but: I feel like StackOverflow has gotten worse over the past couple years. The questions and answers are both lower quality. It's possible that Google is leading me astray since that's ty
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> And people expect more exciting and high quality things now, because they have seen a lot (comparably).
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I addressed this in lighter terms below, but I don't think this is a logical fallacy (in context). To carry on your example, a serial killer that believes murdering innocents is immoral should also consider themselves immoral. They h
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Those are certainly interesting books, but Graeber's work in particular has been widely criticized by his peers[1]. Dawn of Everything was a naked attempt at (further) politicizing the field, and was riddled with logical and historica

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