jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
"what about something like a heart attack?" Well, with an average of 15 minutes until you arrive at the other end, where presumably EMTs are already waiting, I don' think you really need a close comparison. 15 minute respo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"I think it is quite viable." "beyond question" One of these people is speaking in foolishly strong terms.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The hypocrisy appears when they don't pass the same judgement on themselves. Do they disapprove of what they did when they were younger, or do they think "oh, well that was all fun and games, but these kids should not be drinki
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well they've got "cyber-bullying" now just for one I suppose. Probably plenty of other new dynamics that adults aren't particularly aware of.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"The kids who went into fighting games, though, I do judge as such." Where "fighting games" includes snowball fights? Seriously, that is all kids above the mason-dixon line (and I assume kids in the south have some
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Not that it diminishes the point, but many of those parents were likely in university during the 70s to early 80s, when the drinking age was as low as 18 in many (but not all) states. Hypothetically many of these parents drank legally as f
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't think volunteer work and part-time jobs really factor into the equation with the age group that I am picturing, though with teenagers they are important of course (Particularly I think finding a shitty part-time job that lets
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I admit, there is an element of that. However I think that so long as there is an easy "ejection seat", the "Lord of the Flies"-esque aspects can be kept reasonable. I've mentioned this on HN before, but when I was
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I wouldn't think that breaking an arm or two while in elementary school would have much of an effect at all on college admissions. I mean, if anything, it should give the kid some more life experiences to draw upon while writing their
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Me, or him? I sympathize with the plight of children who can't interact with other children in that way. What I don't do is think that the play of other children should be curtailed to accommodate the others. I don't think
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Specifically the book argued that the capable in society should be artificially restricted to bring them down to the same level as the less capable. Disparaging unsupervised and unstructured play because some people find themselves unable t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city’s parks commissioner in the 1990s, he issued an edict concerning the 10-foot-high jungle gym n
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Oh, I grew up in the same times, in the same general area, with just a little whee bit of difference: I'm aspergers, I'm socially anxious, and I quite clearly remember that most of the fun groups like you mention had were ac
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to, for a price, purposely induce this this in alcoholics who are anticipating a prolonged prison sentence. Probably the most unethical idea I've had all week...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I guess we disagree on terminology but don't actually disagree in practice. I think that punishment is okay only so far as fines are punishment, while you think that fines are not punishment, but that fines are okay and punishment is
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Frankly, that is impossible to do humanly. How old is he now, and how many years did he live in luxury? You'd need to be waterboarding him or something to strive for some sort of "eye for an eye" equilibrium.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm sure there would still be people who would give him their money (likely less-than-honest people themselves, knowing he was a con-man and hoping to get in on the game). What I mean though is that obviously all of his finances would
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Getting into a Ponzi scheme late is okay, so long as you still get out early (before it becomes apparent that it is a Ponzi scheme).
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Don't get hung up on the example of the ship, obviously a ship owned by somebody else is not a good place to establish a "hippie commune" (is anywhere?). It could however, hypothetically, be the case that the sailors felt tha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> I don't think speeding fines are really punishment. It is a cost that you are not willing to pay without good reason. I think that it would be fair to say that this sort of imposed cost is a punishment. It seems to meet definit
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"This is the only truly just reason for impeding anyone's freedoms. Rehabilitation is certainly a noble end" Yes, that makes sense. Rehabilitation is something that you might as well attempt while detaining somebody danger
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Is the purpose of banishment to protect the rest of the tribe from the offender, or is the purpose of banishment to punish the offender? The difference may seem academic, but I don't think the difference in attitude could manifest itse
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I was something of a pain in the ass as a kid. Attempts to punish me would typically embolden me and either make me act even worse in the future or merely work harder to not get caught. My parents found that talking to me (aka, 'refo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
No worries. I think Bernie Madoff is an interesting example. He doesn't represent a threat to anybody (he is not a violent man. Furthermore we should be able to make sure he doesn't start running another scam again, even if he
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think the only reason of the three that anybody here opposes is the "punishment" reason. I oppose it so far as we cannot demonstrate that it will decrease the number of offenders. I suspect that in some cases it does. Fear of
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't think the first is a rationale in and of itself, only when combined with the second. I don't think anyone disagrees with the first except perhaps criminals themselves, but I certainly don't think disagreement with th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What you are looking for is basically what happened with 3-point safety belts: "The three point belt was developed by Nils Bohlin who had earlier also worked on ejection seats at Saab.[15] Volvo then made the new seat belt design pate
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Of all the non-math degrees that there are, I would expect that Physics would be the very next best thing for teaching mathematics, if for no other reason than because of physics' privileged position when it comes to mathematics ( ht
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> In order to become a teacher you need a Master's degree This is not true in at least some (I suspect 'many') US states. Pennsylvania for instance requires a minimum of a Bachelor's degree: http://www.p
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by jlgreco 13y ago
My edit that didn't go through for some reason: We're not talking about total compensation, we're talking about salary. Have you ever talked with a young teacher? Ask them how they're doing on paying back those studen

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