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by wfo 10y ago
That is literally the opposite of what has happened historically and is exactly why we have e.g. civil rights laws. In a fantasy land where every tiny decision any business makes which is non profit maximizing results in the destruction of
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None of those points really have anything to do with plea bargains -- they are just bad things about the CJ system. -If the CJ system gives out indefinite punishments for trivial things, that's a problem unrelated to plea bargains. The
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by wfo 10y ago
Yes, anyone who is charged with something serious should go to trial. It's expensive, but you're locking a person in a cage with criminals for years of their life (incidentally to be repeatedly beaten and raped, but we can leave a
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by wfo 10y ago
There are a number of legal constructions -- non-competes, mandatory binding arbitration, civil asset forfeiture, and even plea bargains -- that simply should never have been allowed to exist because they are obviously fraud/theft&#x2F
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by wfo 10y ago
Berkeley lets you skip learning asymptotic runtime analysis of algorithms if you're doing EECS? Weird. FYI: infinite sums are calculus.
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by wfo 10y ago
I don't know, I think most of the money is on the left side of the aisle this cycle. Clinton has firmly grasped the title of "establishment" ie status quo, and status quo is good for the wealthy. Many, many wealthy republican
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by wfo 10y ago
If a new CEO of Coca-Cola made a speech announcing a proud partnership with the KKK or Al Qaeda and ran an ad campaign informing the public then sure I imagine that'd be a lawsuit. Coca Cola would never disassociate its brand, every re
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by wfo 10y ago
I think you're missing the point of my post -- I don't think writing code is easy.
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by wfo 10y ago
Let's be honest. Writing code is not really hard. You can spend 30 minutes watching youtube videos and learn how to write basic code. It won't be glorious but it will work. The arrogance is bleeding out of the text itself, I'
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by wfo 10y ago
A president can do an enormous amount without the support of congress. A president can veto, and many, MANY regulations are executive branch administration rules rather than laws passed by the legislative branch. I'm not particularly i
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The specific group of people is the voting populace of the United States which has clearly defined the minimum wage that is allowed to be paid to an employee and also legally required benefit structure. They get to decide because they are u
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by wfo 10y ago
And yet you are dodging the argument again -- the argument is that allowing Uber to dodge all regulations is bad for Uber employees (while it is of course better for customers). And Uber is not the only company capable of writing a simple m
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by wfo 10y ago
I think this discussion of Kierkegaard falls a little flat as an introduction to him for those who haven't already read him. One thing about his writing that is curiously missing in this piece is how /funny/ he is. He is witt
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by wfo 10y ago
Yes -- because people go to tech websites and spam entire comment sections with hundreds of comments saying exactly the same thing and telling everyone that they are sexist while intentionally missing the point.
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Yes of course we do. Do you read the same Internet that I do? You can't open a single web page without reading something about gender discrimination in tech and how it's biased and unfair against women. You can't walk into a
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by wfo 10y ago
This sounds great in mythical theoretical free-market land. But businesses have been making bad business decisions to justify nepotism, racism, sexism, any other kind of ism you can imagine since the history of business and I haven't e
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by wfo 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation. >This isn't pedantry or navel gazing or postmodern bullshit, this is hard-nosed critical thinking. I don't think it is any of that -- to me it smells more like a new word for classical philosophical
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by wfo 10y ago
Generalizations are necessary for communication, cognition, general human understanding. If you try to reject them you will be rendered incapable of discussion, communication, thought about nearly any relevant or interesting issue. Position
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by wfo 10y ago
And yet, would the feminist science claim that intersubjectivity is the correct view to take? Can it? Or must it be that intersubjectivity is only the view of certain feminists and itself depends on the observer -- to some observer, indepen
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by wfo 10y ago
In Mathematics, if you get an unsolicited error report and the report is accurate, your first reaction is "oh my god" as you assess the damage and how much revision needs to be done to correct the paper. Then the answer is "t
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by wfo 10y ago
One ex-president of the psychologists professional association, a person who was literally deliberately selected by the community of psychologists to represent them. It would similarly be completely inappropriate to generalize the policy po
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by wfo 10y ago
Sure "but not ALL psychologists!" is valid here (as it is in literally any discussion about anything online or elsewhere) but she is not just one person. She is the former head of a professional organization for psychologists; if
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by wfo 10y ago
And yet the non-military CJ system can be brutal and harsh. I'd imagine it's certainly possible the first person to disobey a NSL might be made an example of, especially depending on who is in charge of the executive branch at the
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by wfo 10y ago
It's true -- we also, however, ban firing based on race or sex. Purportedly, in the view of the managers who would wish to do so, their company would be more efficient if they were allowed to hire and fire whomever they wish (i.e. only
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by wfo 10y ago
All humans have perceptions of the way things are -- based on facts, anecdotes, culture, emotions, personal experience, intellectual discussion, reading. When a human being hears something, of course it's colored by their pre-prepared
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Assange has explicitly stated a goal for the organization is to harm Hillary Clinton, out of revenge for her coming after him during her time as Secretary of State. And obviously here, they are trying to plan their info dump to maximize the
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by wfo 10y ago
On alcohol vs. Marijuana: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/14/beer-pot-ballot/ names a couple of instances. Nearly 50% of federal prisoners are in on drug charges. For state it's 16%. There were 700
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Ironically in simultaneous parallel to the 200 years of economic literature we have explaining why it isn't like that, we have 200 years of recorded history explaining why it is like that. When scientific theory and facts come into a d
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Private prisons are often used as a bogeyman because they are so obviously inarguably morally repulsive that they are an easy target. But they aren't as significant as most people would make them out to be. That being said, there is st
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If you allegedly rob a bunch of banks, and allegedly launder the money somehow in some vague unclear way according to a claim made by police, then yes absolutely good to go. That's the cornerstone of a free society. If they can prove y

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