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by chroma 7y ago
Why would private prisons be allowed to refuse specific inmates? State prisons can't do that.
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by chroma 7y ago
Could you elaborate? I don't understand what you're getting at.
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by chroma 7y ago
Please notice how far afield you had to go to postulate bad outcomes. For your scenario to play out, the people running private prisons must commit some pretty egregious crimes. Can you imagine the chutzpah of someone who tries to bribe a
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by chroma 7y ago
Crimes committed while in prison count as recidivism.
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by chroma 7y ago
Isn't my proposal giving prisoners more choice? Right now they have no choice which prison they are sent to. Are you worried that some private prisons might engage in sleazy marketing, convince convicts to choose them, and then treat t
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by chroma 7y ago
I'm not sure why but your comment was hidden as dead. I vouched for it because… WTF? It's a totally fine comment. Anyway… I agree that existing private prisons are wasteful and cruel, but I think that could change if they had diff
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by chroma 7y ago
It's private prisons, not private judges. The prisoner would be released when they'd served their sentence.
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by chroma 7y ago
If the incentives you proposed were enacted, there would be no private prisons because any company that tried would go bankrupt. (Unless you mean that the state would cover any costs incurred by the private prison, in which case you'd
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by chroma 7y ago
Only 1 in 5 prisoners are there for nonviolent drug crimes. You can't reduce the prison population by more than that unless you want to repeal laws against fraud, burglary, rape, assault, or murder. One alternative would be to reduce s
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by chroma 7y ago
I think private prisons could work if: - Convicts could choose whether to be sent to a public or private prison. - Private prisons had financial incentives for post-incarceration behavior. Eg: If their prisoner recidivism rate after 3 years
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by chroma 7y ago
> Eventually, Adam said that he went from vaping over-the-counter e-liquids to vaping THC or tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the main psychoactive component of marijuana. Adam would get the THC from "a friend" or dealer. Over ti
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by chroma 7y ago
I doubt such a certification would have any correlation with ability. Maybe the platonic ideal of training and testing that you're thinking of, but not a certification written by the US government. Even competent parts of the governmen
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by chroma 7y ago
Are you willing to bet money on that? I'm willing to bet any amount up to 1 BTC (≈10,000 USD) that in the next decade, there will not be a year in which the CDC attributes more deaths to vaping than smoking. I'm also willing to be
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by chroma 7y ago
If vaping is that deadly then fog machines should be killing people all over the place. It's the same technology. The only time vaping causes more harm than smoking is when people use dangerous solvents (eg: not propylene glycol) or wh
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by chroma 7y ago
Something like 400,000 people a year die in the US due to smoking. Vaping is mostly a substitute for smoking. But even if millions of non-smokers start vaping, it's a net positive.
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by chroma 7y ago
Adam Smith was trying to answer the question, "Why is everyone suddenly becoming richer?" and the result of that was the beginning of the field of economics. He made many observations, models, and predictions, but I don't rec
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by chroma 7y ago
> They very well could pull you over, revoke your license, and forbid you from driving.... If you were driving on their land or driving their car. That is not true. They can say, "You are trespassing. Leave now." (Just as anyon
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by chroma 7y ago
I'm not sure why anyone takes her argument seriously. Companies don't pull me over while I'm driving. Companies don't put me in prison. Companies don't extort me under threat of violence. Companies don't enslav
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by chroma 7y ago
> We wouldn't tolerate the existence of an Islamist site that glorified and helped perpetrate mass incidents of terror against our society. I completely disagree. I've read Dabiq[1] and similar publications because I want to kn
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by chroma 7y ago
> I think at some point it goes up against the "yelling 'fire' in a crowded movie theater" exemption of free speech. You know where that phrase came from? It was coined in Schenck v. United States[1], where Justice Ol
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by chroma 7y ago
Cloudflare serves many odious sites, such as https://godhatesfags.com/ . They only terminate service when some site gets a lot of heat in the news. I like to think I'm a pretty talented engineer. I've avoided using
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by chroma 7y ago
> …the UK has reduced CO2 consumption by 38% since 1990. The UK is a country, not a civilization. They don’t have to solve the same coordination problem that the entire world has.
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by chroma 7y ago
I said, "…build what is effectively a world government and coerce everyone to reduce their consumption." That article says we need to build a global organization that can coerce everyone reduce their carbon emissions. I don't
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by chroma 7y ago
No civilization has ever voluntarily reduced resource consumption. The incentives and coordination issues make it impossible. There is only one way to get what you want: build what is effectively a world government and coerce everyone to re
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by chroma 7y ago
Around 2,500 nuclear weapons have been detonated in tests[1] and we're still here. The two cities that have been nuked were rebuilt. An all-out nuclear exchange would kill a lot of people and send humanity back to the early industrial
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by chroma 7y ago
My guess is that it's related to the saying, "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you are the asshole."
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by chroma 7y ago
I know about the categorical imperative, but people aren’t saints. They follow incentives. The fix is to create incentives that make it easier to behave better, not chastise people for doing what benefits them. That said, I fail to see how
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by chroma 7y ago
Hate the game, not the player. If it becomes a big enough problem, then EU countries could change their laws to make government-funded medical care conditional on paying certain amounts of taxes in-country.
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by chroma 7y ago
If the only way to eat was to buy food insurance (offered as a benefit by your employer, of course) and get a prescription for one specific brand of that food, and the only foods available were those screened by the FDA for a decade and cos
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by chroma 7y ago
> ... free markets don't work when one of the parties to the transaction has their very life on the table in a transaction. So why is food so cheap? Why is water so cheap? We need both to survive but nobody is jacking up rates for t

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