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by tsotha 11y ago
>People with similar qualifications should have similar salaries. People with similar capabilities should have similar salaries. The qualifications are meaningless once you actually land the job.
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's really not that hard to write multi-threaded code. I just laugh when I read articles like this - I've been doing it for more than fifteen years now. By taking a tool like that away from your team you're stunting their
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by tsotha 11y ago
I read the entire exchange. The other quote is far more definitive. >You might think you don't see life through a racial prism, but the Republican party of the eighties most definitely did, and they exploited it. No they didn'
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I'm noticing in these posts that those who view Chelsea Manning's actions favourably use the right name and pronouns. I don't see a moral obligation to use the pronouns people assign to themselves.
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by tsotha 11y ago
You don't know many lawyers, then. Only the creme of the creme get rich. The average lawyer makes about $40k/year and works around the clock.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. It was new because it was new. It was popular for the same reason any drug is popular. You're not gonna go Crazy Maxine on me, are you?
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by tsotha 11y ago
Nope. You're staking out a position that's counter-intuitive, so you're the one who has to get the data ball rolling.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not sure it is either, but as far as I'm concerned when a sentence is over it's over, and as a society we ought to give ex-cons a chance to prove they can become upstanding citizens.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Crack was new and popular and very lucrative. Dealers were staking out territory. If there's more to it than that I'm not aware.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>That's contra basically all available evidence, even as supplied in the quote -- you move on to economics. Not the way I read it at all. He's just preening. >viz your (implied) claim the Willie Horton ad wasn't racist
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by tsotha 11y ago
But Atwater wasn't talking about himself or Bush, was he? This is just your typical moral preening, where he gets to say how much better he is than some other (unnamed) guy, which is something you see from Democrats on a regular basis
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by tsotha 11y ago
I would have a hard time believing that isn't the case, but I'm open to any evidence you have.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Except that most people will be happy to pay the extra taxes if it makes the streets safer. I think the best way to get serious reform is to point out the relationship between crime and punishment has gotten a bit too loose, and that it&#x2
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by tsotha 11y ago
What do you do with them? Isn't that the entire purpose of the justice system? I don't think it's unreasonable for society to expect people not to commit crimes and punish them when they do.
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by tsotha 11y ago
This. Originally, at least, parole was viewed as a reduction in your sentence for keeping your nose clean while you were in prison. They let you out of jail, but technically your sentence isn't up yet. So legally they can pretty muc
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by tsotha 11y ago
The problem with that attitude is in this day and age you can't make your way through life without committing felonies. The federal legal code is so long and convoluted not even the lawyers understand it outside their own narrow speci
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, I think violence is a pretty clear dividing line. I'm not particularly interested in trying to eradicate petty crime by putting hookers, pot dealers, and scam artists away for long periods of time. Even if it worked (and it doe
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by tsotha 11y ago
Nobody needed to convince Californians. The early 90s were the era of the crack wars, where it seemed like every other day you'd read about some kid taking a stray bullet because a drug dealer was trying to take out a rival by sprayin
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by tsotha 11y ago
I don't really care if it reduces recidivism or not. If you commit a violent crime you deserve to be in jail.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Light sentences for murderers? I couldn't support that.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Personally I'm all for harsh sentences for violent offenders, but once your sentence is up (for any crime) that should be the end of it. You should have all the rights non-incarcerated people have - free association, voting, gun owner
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by tsotha 11y ago
GG is about ethics in journalism.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Makes me wonder how bad one of these people would have to screw up in order NOT to get the happy handwave as they're booted. Meh. It's traditional. There's nothing to be gained from running down your outgoing CEO. Besi
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by tsotha 11y ago
I doubt it. In a lot of ways she created her own problems. What they need is someone who focuses on the business side. People on reddit shouldn't care who the CEO is, and they wouldn't if they didn't feel the CEO was maki
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I honestly dont know who is to be blamed for reddit going the shithole but at the end of the day CEO needs to take responsibility. That's what it boils down to. The buck stops at the CEO's desk, even if the CEO wasn't di
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by tsotha 11y ago
That was one thing Digg had that I missed when I moved to reddit. I suspect it's a pretty resource-intensive function compared to what exists today, though.
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by tsotha 11y ago
For me a device like a smartphone or even a TV if it's connected to streaming services is unusable once security is permanently compromised.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Electronic devices don't get "obsolete" as much as they get better so fast that the old device seems lame in comparison. Which would be fine if the device still did what you want it to do. But in fact connected electroni
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by tsotha 11y ago
Flying isn't any faster than 2.5 hours once you figure in the extra time at the airport. In any event I would be happy to take a conventional train if took less than about eight hours. I don't like flying and the drive is gruelin
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by tsotha 11y ago
Archuleta is a party hack who got what was supposed to be a patronage position. There are thousands of them the parties use to reward, you know, county canvassers after a successful campaign. She should definitely be fired, not so much for

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