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Being poor is 2 nights in jail because of a clerical error

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Sure we are.

"Socialism works so well there! We should do it here."

"They have such low recidivism there! We should use their sentencing as a standard!"

I think violent offenses are more than something that requires reform for the perpetrator. It requires justice for the victim. Rape and murder? Fuck you, you're going away FOREVER.

I find their population bares little resemblence to Chicago's.

I suggest reading about http://www.projectprevention.org for a less coercive version of the same concept.

In the case of drug crimes, I agree with you. Appeal of the logic starts to break down when you scale it out for violent offenders. In fact, I find the lax sentencing in Scandanavian countries appalling.

Things have changed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policies_of_Americ...

Looking through the comments, I see a combination of anecdotal evidence about Unions being bad/good and a few (very logical) statements about how collective bargaining leads to higher wages & benefits.

Here are my two pennies:

Private sector unions are great for collective bargaining, though I prefer they abstain from broad political platforms (immigration, for example), as these are so far removed the intent of the union. I tend to view these Unions as being political vehicles first, collective bargaining agents second. That isn't a compliment.

Public sector unions are awkward in that tax payer is not represented at the bargaining table. They should be restructured to make bargaining comparable to the private sector case (or reverse Aboud).

My personal experiences with Unions are very negative.

In the first experience, in SoCal in the early 90s, I saw first hand when the Teamsters moved to unionize drywall framers. My dad was a small scale developer in the San Gabriel Valley and during a protest, a Teamsters boss on a megaphone encouraged a mob of picketers to run through the project with hammers and destroy recently hung drywall. My dad also received death threats and we had a rock thrown through a window.

My second experience was doing campaign targeting for AFSCME. The people I met from that org were in the extreme far left part of the political spectrum (as in "Stalin had some good ideas"). Take from that what you will.

Is the kid executing this purported forgery from his parents' basement?

I thought Cornell was? It was part of the M.Eng in ORIE.

Especially true in Paris these days...

Good ol' Illinois in the top 10. Represent!

Cook County kinda sorta expected, but why Lake County? Waukegan really that bad?

EDIT: http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Waukegan-Illinois.html not that bad

The author's suggestion - temporary work visas to refocus on labor mobility - does not consider strain on public services and entitlement programs.

In the absence of federal support programs, are people who would drive for Uber or any of these gig-type apps better or worse off with the opportunity to earn $4.40/hr?

If you raise that wage, most likely​ the business model ceases to be worthwhile for Uber, so the job goes away. I don't think that means it is replaced with something better.

Isn't this kind of what happened in the 2008 collapse?

Not at all.

The housing crisis resulted from credit expansion. Specifically credit was extended to people that should not have been able to take on risk. A secondary cause was the structure of the debt (long term risk with short term volatility).

I'm suggesting reduction in one's tax base based on interest paid for existing debt, not the creation of new debt.

One has nothing to do with the other.

The financial crisis was the result of expansion of credit. What I suggest is a reduction in the tax burden of owning a home.

There are many valid reasons to be against my suggestion; the subprime crisis is not one of them.

EDIT: There was definitely some sarcasm in my suggestion. This is a hot button topic for a lot of progressives because the impact of being able to right off one's interest payments is viewed as regressive. I see arguments both ways.

Sounds like we should increase it to make home ownership more attractive, resulting in greater civic engagement from the population ("skin in the game").

Lol. Comparing incisors to ability to rape. What a fucking douchebag.

Quick question for anyone who actually studied Baumol's theories:

Did he bring into consideration how some services, such as education and health care, exist in an awkward limbo between services we pay for (right/libertarian view) and services we're entitled to (left view), resulting in a smash up of public subsidies and political quicksand?

At face value, his theory is totally reasonable. BUT it seems totally reductionist to claim his drivers of cost are the only drivers (even calling them primary drivers seems foolish to me).

I don't support free trade when the comparative advantage is the cost of labor.

I don't support Europe's socialist ideals.

Edit: awww, downvote. One less fake internet point :(

Yep, and if you look at the carders in Russia, they have some very close ties with government. Perfect infrastructure for this shit.

I think that is likely the case, but I don't know if that is an exclusive thing anymore. A lot of what I read about reminds me of 1970s sponsorship of various terror entities and revolutionaries.

Or me, since I want isolation and fewer ties to Europe.

They do.

Obama campaign had a contract firm that implemented and enforced infosec. They even tossed USB keys in the parking lot to catch campaign workers that we're dumb enough to try them.

The problem is beyond rote security at this point. We're in the realm of talented, well financed threat actors with databases of 0days.

As someone who doesn't want to share my creds with Mint or rummage through GNU Cash to write my own solution, this looks like a great idea. I'd love to build a consolidated dashboard for my networth with APIs like this.

ROI went down. End of story, unless you're a social justice warrior, in which case, shriek as loud as possible.

If by "right" you mean a wealthy, unified bloc of Democrats and Republicans, then yes.

Ugh, I hate hearing about crap like this. Unfortunately, the incentives at large, public, consumer-facing companies always drives this behavior.

I would have done the following:

1. Shut down my account. 2. Send the exploit to the company anonymously with a deadline to fix. 3. Upon deadline, post exploit and cc the company.

The inability to publish is a rub, but I think we need a cultural shift to drive back corporate idiocy and protect consumers.

Meh.

Edit: downvote welcome. I have lots of fake internet points to spare. I'm not going to dignify a subjective, semantic argument with anything more. Fuck, "meh" is more than 99% of HN comments deserve.

Moar Edit: Heil Trump!

Nope. But where do you draw the line? Mosquitos feel pain. Who cares? Why don't we care?

These moral/ethical lines are completely arbitrary.

I guess if I was one to anthropomorphize my food, I'd agree.