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by sykh 8y ago
It is dismissive because if it was just that then knowing the mathematics would be sufficient to do research in theoretical quantumn mechanics but it isn't. One needs to know the physics and have physical intuition. To say that theor
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You can’t converse with an expert on felines without knowing the names. There are simply too many parts of the body. You have to name them in order to communicate. There’s a reason for the names. It’s nit like someone sadistically decid
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by sykh 8y ago
What if you were a cop? Would you criticize a cop who has learned the streets? Shouldn’t a biologist who is at a talk about felines understand the biology of felines without looking it up in a book? Feynman's criticism shows an ignor
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And by the time you are ready to get a degree in physics it will no longer be necessary to give you those formulas in a test. You have used them so often and understand them so well that a formula sheet isn’t necessary. You have missed the
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by sykh 8y ago
I think you underestimate the role of problem solving skill in medicine. It’s not all rote memorization. A good doctor is good at problem solving and has to have lots of information ready for instant recall.
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Feynman was wrong on his view. The same thing could have been said of him and physicists. Oh, you spent your time memorizing formulas when it could be looked up in 15 minutes. This is a nonsensical point of view for two reasons. People i
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Thus greensoap, the person I responded too, was wrong.
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I’ve worked at a maximum security state prison. It is not a vacation there for any but a small number of people.
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Without punishment we get societal collapse. This is very different than saying increasing punishments, from their current form, would decrease crime. In other words, at the current level of punishment, what is the marginal effect of an i
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The ruling was that the Fed government can’t withhold all Medicaid funding if it wasn’t expanded.
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Except when it comes to Obamacare and Medicaid.
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Then you’ve decreased the recidivism rate but have you decreased the crime rate? Does living in a society that cruel lead to unintended consequences? Perhaps such a society leads to an increase in callousness and desperation thereby incre
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Definitely there gray areas as you pointed out. My goal is to dissuade one from thinking that excessive punishment for crimes necessarily leads to less crime. It certainly dissuades some people but not everyone.
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By definition no form of punishment deters crimes of impulse. When a person is enraged or otherwise blinded to rational thought the consequences of said action don’t come into play.
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I assume almost all contraband comes from employees. Visits are too infrequent and the monitoring of visits makes it too difficult to smuggle at scale via visitation without employee involvement.
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Your buddy has a rather simplistic view of crime. Much crime is done without thinking through the consequences. They are acts of impulse. Fear of punishment does not help in deterring such crimes. No matter what the punishment is crimes
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The TV series “The Wire” does this in an extraordinary way.
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You both have a point. All societies that are sufficiently large have quirks and contradictions. You can find inequities and injustices in every country that is large enough. But people should still be free to criticize policies of other
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by sykh 8y ago
There is a callousness in the attitudes the general populace has toward prisoners. The American desire for retribution and revenge toward prisoners is insatiable. This overall attitude affects our views and reactions in other areas. For
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I wonder if lack of spontaneity is part of the blame. It seems to me that there is too much structured time for kids. Particularly in suburbia. When I lived in a suburb I rarely saw kids out playing in a park without an adult hovering ov
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by sykh 8y ago
Kreuzberg is different. It’s a traditionally leftist district. Every May Day there are clashes with police. At least when I lived there. It may eventually change but the people there are not as money focused. They are more culture focu
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We are in agreement so long as those who get elected are not too selfish or too easily duped and there is balance in the system. But as far as I know all empires eventually fail. Some last much longer than others. Since the U.S. style re
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The public, the great mass of humanity, does not always know what’s good for them. They often times do dumb things, allow irrational fear to take over, or engage in senseless mob activity. In the U.S. there are great numbers of people who
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Americans have an unhealthy relationship with work. It’s as if we live to work instead of the reverse. Our attitudes toward work seem to contribute to the irrational fear a lot of Americans have of some poor person getting something they
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This was when I was an adult. I was best man in his wedding. My experience with Midwesterners indicates this is not uncommon but maybe it’s not normative either.
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That’s a good point. I’m in the white middle class socio economic class in the Midwest and my experience definitely is clouded by this fact.
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That was for a brief period of time. Statisticallly stranger danger is way overblown.
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It started in the 80s with the Jacob Wetterling [1] kidnapping and things like the McMartin preschool trial [2]. Stranger danger, fear of crime (it was much higher in the 80s than now) and whatnot has lead parents being overly afraid to le
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It's a bit odd that you criticize the author for not considering biological/evolutionary factors when you can't come up with any too. Isn't it possible then that these factors (if indeed they exist) don't provide c
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Growing up I used to go to friends' houses all the time unannounced. Thought nothing of it. When I came to the U.S. (grew up in Panama) and stopped by a friend's house unannounced he was upset and didn't let me in. It seem

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