[HN Gopher] First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school condu...
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First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts
groundbreaking research
Author : bifrost
Score : 22 points
Date : 2020-01-28 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| seibelj wrote:
| Inmates have nothing but time on their hands. We should give the
| mathematically inclined unsolved problems to turn over, and
| simple Raspberry Pis (even disconnected from the internet) for
| the means to code new software. If you have nothing but a wall to
| stare at for 12 hours a day, you may create something useful.
|
| If I had the power I would free every non-violent prisoner. Any
| person in jail for putting a substance into their own body, or
| for selling such a substance, does not deserve to be there. Such
| a waste of society's resources and talent.
| burtonator wrote:
| I argued this with my dad saying that people deserve our
| compassion and someone could discover a cure for cancer.
|
| He said he'd rather die from cancer than help someone who
| committed a felony.
| Polylactic_acid wrote:
| What about people who have ignored safety laws and put people
| in risk or who have committed fraud?
|
| For drug usage it would probably make sense to use some kind of
| alternative prison which is focused on getting people off drugs
| and not punishment.
| MiroF wrote:
| Make them pay restitution, bar them from the career they
| committed fraud in.
|
| I don't know - it seems like we jump to prison way too early
| for so many offenses, why not try more reparative approaches
| first.
| rhizome wrote:
| Just want to note that "risk" is a _highly_ malleable term,
| and "risk of risk" is not unheard of either.
| droithomme wrote:
| We have a lot of drug users in my town. They routinely steal
| things from my property and that of others on my street. Drug
| users here have done things like murder old people and set
| houses on fire and beat people to death with baseball bats in
| order to get money for drugs. They also really really like to
| prostitute their own children to get money for drugs.
|
| I support marijuana legalization. I also support mandatory
| death penalty for use of methamphetamine and opioids, when
| combined with any other felony crime.
|
| Those who disagree are free to do so but I won't work with
| them because I won't work with people who support the murder
| of old people and the prostitution of children. Those who
| support and enable these things are despicable horrible
| people. Exactly as bad as those who support open borders
| despite the problems with dangerous drug trafficking and
| child sex trafficking that results from these policies. Only
| terrible awful deranged madmen support commercial sexual
| abuse of children.
| etaioinshrdlu wrote:
| I find your lack of empathy disturbing. Literally. I would
| recommend trying to change that.
| droithomme wrote:
| Sure, blame the victims of crime. Sociopaths do that.
| p49k wrote:
| You should read "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" - might
| change your perspective. It would be far more beneficial
| for society to learn and understand how addiction and the
| brain work and develop policies around that - more
| penalties are not going to curb drug addiction.
| giggles_giggles wrote:
| Someone with such a cruel outlook on addiction should
| just go buy a Juul and see how it feels after a year or
| so, trying to stop.
|
| More seriously, regarding this:
|
| _Those who disagree are free to do so but I won 't work
| with them because I won't work with people who support
| the murder of old people and the prostitution of
| children._
|
| he should read
| https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/
| and maybe discover the flaw in his reasoning.
| droithomme wrote:
| I support the Portugal policy: decriminalize opioid use
| and provide free injections at all police stations. Come
| in to the police station, and a nurse will administer
| your heroin. This policy completely eliminated violent
| and property crimes from people looking for money to buy
| opioids, killed the opioid illicit market, and reduced
| addiction overall. It's a good policy.
|
| Those who get addicted then prostitute children and
| murder others to get money for drugs should be put out of
| their misery, humanely, via the death penalty.
|
| In the OP's case, Mr. Brandon Sobosle Brown was kicked
| out of a nightclub by bouncer and ex-Marine James
| Sanders. Brown then shot Sanders as punishment with a
| .357-caliber handgun on June 24, 2008, permanently
| paralyzing Sanders.
|
| Hopefully Brown's research will get him money to help
| support Sanders. Brown's crocodile tears regarding his
| cold blooded attempted murder are not impressive. The
| sentence of 17 years as far too short for what he did.
| AWildC182 wrote:
| I wouldn't make my worst enemy try to program without the
| internet...
| Jtsummers wrote:
| Programming without the internet isn't hard. It's like
| driving without a GPS. You have to commit more to memory, or,
| you know, use offline resources.
| bifrost wrote:
| I got started with python via a book on a plane, no
| computer, no internet (a looong time ago)...
| odyssey7 wrote:
| Ah, working through K&R was such a pleasant time, back in
| undergrad.
| scarejunba wrote:
| Yeah, but you can't provide the Internet because there are
| those who will use it to coordinate crimes. So that leaves
| choices:
|
| * No programming
|
| * Programming with no Internet
|
| Preload it with books.
| alexpotato wrote:
| Dave Beazley did it AND talked about it here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8
|
| Summary: he was involved in patent litigation and had to
| analyse a codebase on a computer locked in a vault. He
| couldn't bring in any electronics but he did discover that
| Python was installed on the machine he was using. The video
| describes the rest.
| adjkant wrote:
| Getting a database error currently:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20200128215945/https://portlandp...
| 40acres wrote:
| It's time to move to what criminal reform activists call
| 'restorative justice'. We lock you up, possibly contract your
| labor to some shady organization, and don't provide enough tools
| for those who've served their time to get back on their feet and
| contribute.
|
| We can see these effects in the economy if you look closely, the
| labor participation rate among men is declining, most new jobs
| (which are service jobs) go to women, millions of men are missing
| in our society due to this system which throws away human
| capital. For what?
| nikanj wrote:
| There's a Shawshank Redemption joke hidden in the headline, but
| I'm just going to go with heartfelt congratulations instead. Good
| job on turning that spiral upwards!
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