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by forensic 16y ago
obviously the metric for "rehabilitated" needs to be judged by someone other than the prisons
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by forensic 16y ago
most of it only applies to a few classical hard sciences - math, physics, chemistry, engineering a lot of it doesnt even apply to CS in my opinion
783.
by forensic 16y ago
You don't realize how lax drug sentences are in other countries. In canada, people caught with kilos of coke get house arrest. There was a guy caught with 500kg of MDMA in his backyard kitchen and he got house arrest. People don't go to jai
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by forensic 16y ago
they should get paid for every prisoner they rehabilitate instead of incarcerate
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by forensic 16y ago
what is college age though? there are plenty of 30 year olds who go to college
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by forensic 16y ago
This all comes down to psychology. Society will be shaped in whatever way the powerful wish it to be shaped. Right now power comes from the ability to control the minds of the masses - to lull them into sleep and avoid their wrath. No syste
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by forensic 16y ago
What the fuck? A corporation is made up of SHAREHOLDERS, not employees.
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by forensic 16y ago
Formally allowing weapons in school would arguably make schools less like prisons.
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by forensic 16y ago
This perspective is ignorant of modern findings on mind control. People born into certain religions with certain kinds of parents and communities often don't have a psychological choice because of the nature of their environment. Just becau
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by forensic 16y ago
the courts should defend atheist headgear too
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by forensic 16y ago
So the shadow scholar submits his version history. And then?
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by forensic 16y ago
Nobody gets respect. Adam Carolla said it best. When a white guy gets treated poorly, he assumes that the perp is an asshole. When a woman gets treated badly, she assumes that the perp is a sexist. But the perp is not. The perp is just as a
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by forensic 16y ago
If all healthy infants from white trash were raised by ivy leaguers I wouldn't complain. It's not only about genetics, it's also about upbringing. Having said that though, it's pretty clear that IQ is related to parentage.
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by forensic 16y ago
>Religion and civilization are ultimately incompatible. That's a strange thing to say considering that, in the past, religion was the defining aspect of civilization. It was religion that civilized the barbarians.
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by forensic 16y ago
To be honest, I mean everything relating to the conscious control of reproduction. Both on an individual level and a social level. Individual: Abortion, genetic modification of fetuses, aborting sick fetuses, etc Social: Overpopulation. The
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by forensic 16y ago
This is pretty much the great unmentionable of our time. Everyone knows the current breeding situation is a problem. Everyone knows they aren't allowed to talk about solutions.
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by forensic 16y ago
3G not 3Gs
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by forensic 16y ago
The current system already has a licensing scheme. Instead of it being based on education though it is based on wealth. The wealthy, behind closed doors, agree to a large extent on plausible policies for the country. Then they present a lim
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by forensic 16y ago
A learning disability is NOT just "a disability which affects learning" It's a specific thing. You're stretching the definition. It's like someone says, "I don't have cancer, I have aids," and you reply, "Well, aids is a kind of cancer, sin
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by forensic 16y ago
And then you get to be one of those clever pieces of software that says, "Most of software x was created by software x!"
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by forensic 16y ago
Hawking doesn't have a learning disability
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by forensic 16y ago
I'm really starting to cultivate a hatred of anyone who makes their living by saying attention-grabby things. Yak yak yak yak yak look at me look at me
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by forensic 16y ago
I've smelled lots of stinky people and never told them they stink. If everyone acts like me, it makes sense that these people don't get told they are stinky.
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by forensic 16y ago
But "in physics" sounds like a university class where people are paying money to learn. Is Hacker News about teaching people things? Or does it have some other goal?
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by forensic 16y ago
And the disgusting beauty of this is that the more bad companies use shotgun marketing, the more consumers are trained to only trust Apple. Why do people buy Apple? For many, they don't trust ANY other technology brand to provide a coherent
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by forensic 16y ago
Groupthink is a well known pitfall of any group. But not all groups engage in groupthink. Organizational psychologists talk about ways to reduce and/or avoid groupthink in an organization or community. If you believe that Hacker News is suf
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by forensic 16y ago
good point. I didn't think of that.
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by forensic 16y ago
This is why the GPL is better than Apache. The military would have to release their code.
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by forensic 16y ago
>it seems like the true hacker ethos is not to swim with the stream I don't think so. The hacker ethos is about being clever and hacking stuff. Hackers don't do things differently just to be different. They do things differently because
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by forensic 16y ago
I totally get that it was successful stunt that got them attention. Any attention is good attention and all that. That wasn't my point though.

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