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> The reason I want maximum punishment is that it works, it does deter

People disagree with you not of opinion but because you are factually wrong.

"Evidence shows lengthy prison terms do not have a significant deterrent effect on crime" https://ccla.org/criminal-justice/no-longer-prison-sentences...

"Research Shows That Long Prison Sentences Don’t Actually Improve Safety" https://www.vera.org/news/research-shows-that-long-prison-se...


most of this research is fake you know.

For example this was going around for a long time:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debu...

Then this happened in 2025 when there was a crack-down on crime:

https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-...

Also, 1% of the population is responsible for most of the crime

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/

So if you end up jailing people, the crime just goes down.

Also, then if that's true, then cancel all murder prison sentences!


I don't understand the argument here. Both can be true, as those two statements don't really conflict:

1. Longer sentences could have no effect on crime rates.

2. Persecuting people for crimes lowers crime rates.

Honestly, to me it reads as "law enforcement is a good idea, prolonged incarceration is questionable".


I'm too lazy/busy right now to get you effective links (debugging a database migration right now) but Google AI said this:

Reported effects of CECOT on crime

Reduction in crime rates

Since Bukele declared a state of emergency in March 2022 and began mass arrests, El Salvador's crime rates have plummeted.

    Homicide rate decline: The country's homicide rate fell from 103 per 100,000 people in 2015 to just 1.9 per 100,000 in 2024, one of the most drastic reductions in recent history.
    Increased public safety: Many Salvadorans, long subjected to extortion and violence by powerful gangs, report feeling much safer on the streets. 

A large part of Cecot is the idea of "permanent prison". I would say your entire argument is completely debunked.


> I would say your entire argument is completely debunked.

With all due respect, I did not have any argument.

I was reading your conversation, I had difficulty seeing a contradiction, so I asked a question.

You've introduced one more statement instead, "mass arrests with long-term sentences have drastically reduced crime rate in El Salvador". I see your point but this doesn't really help me with my original question. How do we know that it's the sentence terms is a significant factor (out of the combination), and not the mass arrests or something else? We don't have a control group, do we?


Your argument only covers a three year period. How does that prove that long prison sentences reduce crime?


The entire project is AI coded. Thought of this level was not put into developing it.


Paying an entire class of people to not have children is eugenics. There is a massive line between that and increasing (free) access to reproductive services.


One wrong point in this. Google Authenticator does not cloud sync by default. You specifically have to accept the cloud sync option that you are prompted with.


Citation needed


RAND did a decent review.[1]

They do show supportive evidence of some gun laws having a meaningful effect on violent crime, so I'm not sure what they're referring to. For instance, it appears that child access prevention laws, specifically, are associated with a significant reduction in firearm homicides.[2]

RAND does complain that there is insufficient or limited evidence in a lot of areas though, like effect on mass shootings.

[1] https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/key-findings/what-s...

[2] https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/child-acce...


Billy Mitchell wins more in court than video games. Maybe he should have picked a different career growing up.


Or it shows that court is just a different type of game, and that he's good at games.

Although the judge saying he should have asked for more than $50k shows that maybe the grinding/stubbornness matters more for winning than the points.


1Password is also now subscription only and online only. Gone are the days of a forever license and fully offline encrypted database allowing for 3rd party syncing via iCloud or others. The death of their old app went hand in hand with their race to the bottom subscription payment VC backed ecosystem. It's only time until they suffer a breach like everyone else.


> Gone are the days of a forever license and fully offline encrypted database allowing for 3rd party syncing via iCloud or others.

While it's true for 1Password, there are other password managers. KeePass is great for local password database files if that's what you're after.


The key is b3a07c4d42880e69398e05392405050efeea0664c0b638b7c986556fa9b58d77b31a40eb6a4fdba1e4537229d9f779daad1cc41ee968153cb71f27dc9696d40f


No, it isn't. That's the key for LCP Profile 1.0 - which was deprecated some time ago - https://readium.org/lcp-specs/notes/lcp-profile-upgrade.html


> who have little to no government experience

Decoding ancient scrolls has no relevance to government procedures.


What he did to win the scroll competition had to do with data analysis, not ancient history, so of course it could be relevant. But none of us, including the author of the article, knows what they're specifically doing, so it's not possible to say how relevant it is. It's a pity the reporter didn't do some reporting about that, instead of writing a hit piece calling them lackeys.


That's a completely different type of "analysis" and on a completely different scale. The skillsets are not even remotely comparable.


You're more confident about that than I am. I find it easy to imagine how a person who produces the first kind of analysis could be technically useful in analyzing government data. He presumably didn't know anything about ancient scrolls before working on the first thing, so he has a track record of conquering a steep learning curve.

But we don't actually know what they're doing.


I'm glad you've done both and are here to weigh in! Perhaps you should join the cause as you are presumably a subject matter expert in both things?


That seems entirely relevant - getting to the bottom of a cryptic and poorly documented puzzle without any help from the contemporaries (in the case of the scrolls, because the are dead, in the case of government employees, because it’s not in their interests).

I write that only half in jest. Maybe less than half.


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