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by whybroke 11y ago
>...an idiot while in college... But "Young people are just smarter" -Mark Zuckerberg [1] [1] http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/26/start-up-advice-for-entrep...
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1. DA's do not drop cases after the defendant refuses a plea bargain, it is so rare as to be effectively nonexistent. Not only that, defense attorneys almost always advise their clients to take the plea bargain because they too know th
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Very true. It alone tells us nothing except that, not knowing the cause of this conviction rate, you must accept any plea bargain whatever it is. To get a better understanding we would have to ask whether persons convicted under even the mo
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Be aware also that federal courts only hear a very tiny percentage of criminal cases.
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In the US, if either the prosecution or defendant want a jury then there is a jury trial. In practice this means almost all criminal trials are jury trials. As an added note, juries are perceived to be dull witted and easily deceived compar
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Note that blind belief in the latter causes the former to happen: almost everyone in the courtroom including the jury (most criminal trials are jury trials) assumes the defendant is guilty otherwise he wouldn't be in court. The notion
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That's interesting. Yes my information is, in the end, anecdotal. It's good to get a concrete numbers (but note that transfer is not acquittal). Thanks for the adjustment.
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I agree. By the way, the single case that did not end in conviction was of a black preacher accused of child molestation who had an all black jury. And I'll bet most people reading this, trained by tv media's spectacular "eve
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Just FYI, in the 25 years and hundreds of cases my father saw in criminal court, only one was _not_ convicted: If you end up in front of a criminal judge (at least in California) you are essentially guaranteed of being convinced. There was
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I haven't had a TV since I was a freshman in college and rarely went to movies. It obviously never interfered with my work. Now, after decades of experience, not knowing the latest TV and pop-culture becomes a critical culture fit issu
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Subjectively the problem seemed less bad in the past so I'm thinking that limiting to the donwvote permissions to longer term users will reduce the problem. Very obviously requiring comments for downvotes is better.
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While the idea of "downvote requires a posted reason" is no doubt the best idea, if it proves too radical a change from a technical or behavioral reason, at least radically raise the karma need to downvote. Say so that only the to
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Then change the word "article" above to "complaint" if you want. Correct the spelling and the grammar too if you wish. It makes absolutely no difference to the point at hand. And by the way, the choice of what to and not
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I am using Holistic in exactly the way the article did and my argument has nothing to do with the normal definition of it anyway. My argument is: Either the current process in its entirety used by Ivy Leagues produce the most successful can
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The article only mentions "very subjective Holistic admissions" and only mentions SAT scores, citing them alone as proof of discrimination. By looking at that nothing else, the article is implying SAT scores should be the sole cri
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So if the Ivy league schools are not actually choosing the best students, wouldn't that mean that Ivy League graduates do worse after graduation than alumni form other schools that don't use the Holistic admission process? More si
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While there is no defending NK, blind nationalism and extremism exists in segments of the population in every country. Empirically unworkable self destructive implementation won't change an extremist's view in any society. And whi
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Markets often result in the Tragedy of the commons[1]. Here again is the extinction of an in demand spices rather than husbandry to perpetuate the supply. Likewise fishing stocks that frequently collapse and climate change resulting from oi
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From the World health organization, the age group with the highest suicide is 45 - 54 That group used to be the 4th most at risk, now it is the most. But as important as this issue is, some of the most upvoted posts include: "TV...only
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"In every country in the world..." Obviously including extreme male centered societies like Iran and Saudi Arabia "middle-aged men are most at risk" So obviously not a recent attack on male children. Indeed the problem i
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While one can develop strange beliefs in fields one knows little about, it does sound like he in particular may have been suffering from Schizophrenia. The inability to function, the depression you describe and (at the risk of courting trou
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Are you referring to misinterpreted cherry picked notions promulgated briefly by fox news and a congressman from Oklahoma? Because decades of research by countless independent teams has not been invalidated by data and methods so poor they
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There is a difference between opinion eg "taxation is theft" and well established facts eg natural selection. But maybe you are saying that papers on climate change in peer reviewed journals are only there due to cronyism and corr
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The problem others have is that a successful business man is so fetishized that he is treated as an expert in every field (eg Elon Musk views on A.I.) particularly by those who already fetishize property. Add to that a dose of standard popu
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So Thiel is is uncertain about Darwinian evolution and believes Global warming is too clouded by political correctness to be properly assessed. Discuss. And I would extrapolate a third "disruptive" belief: that a quick discussion
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>In South Florida it is edgy to be against war. In San Francisco it is socially enforced to the point of banal conformity. You can be against a war because that war is wrong or against a war because it's a fun novelty to be so. I wo
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But when we use the word "fox" it does not include the ground under the animal. And if I look at the moon and say "that is part of a fox" I am using the language incorrectly. Of course the word "alive" is ambig
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If "alive" is some set of complex chemical reactions a system is experiencing then when they stop, that system is not alive by any standard definition of the word. "dead" would be a term applied to a pile of stuff that u
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Your advice would surely help him and every one who reads it find a job. And if everyone did it, there would not be anyone on the web who posted about even minor treatable mental issues such as depression. Many, maybe millions, who might be
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It is not remotely moot. Noah (owennoah) posted some magnificent suggestions to a very serious endemic problem affecting millions of job seekers and hurting employer's ability to find good talent. But the reply to him is a vaguely vict

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