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It's not quite ready for production yet. There are still some bugs with dev dependencies and private repos that need to be addressed before we can use it.

I have. I think only sent emails to one or two companies in that month, and this one had me an offer in a couple weeks if not shorter. Much preferred their interview process to oth…

> And I maintain that your reply was indeed a strawman, because it was not at all answering to the point I raised, no matter how you look at it No matter how you look at it. When I…

I agree - I certainly did leave that out. I still think we need to have consequences for crimes with victims, especially violent ones. But that's still only part of the equation: w…

> Eating is not a problem that needs to be solved. Obesity in America would like to have a word with you.

> Strawman reply. I was commenting about the key goal of prison in the first place Before crying straw man (by the way, that's a great way to stifle the discussion), remember that …

Exceptions are just that: exceptions. Buro9 is not saying that being born a black women guarantees failure, but instead that, in general, it makes one's life more difficult compare…

Mass incarceration, in this case, is the trend in massive upward growth in prison population since 1980 (up 790% federally) and also the way in which we rely on incarceration to de…

> who are dangerous or detrimental to society remain excluded from roaming the streets and causing more trouble This is not the point of prison. Whites and blacks, for example, use…

When recidivism rates are so high (67%), I highly doubt that locking more people up is, in the long run, going to reduce crime better than methods which actually attack the root ca…

> once we get away from "non-violent drug offenders" i think the argument loses force. I disagree. 97% of federal convictions and 94% of state convictions are the result of plea ba…

I never really gave DDG a shot until now. I tweaked the link color as suggested above to the DDG orange #C9481C (surprised blue was the only option.. had to use custom color and di…

I'm trying to think of a situation where you could accidentally throw a camera out of a speeding car..

> GSIs don't really compare here. The best teaching I found in my upper division experience was from GSIs. So yes, they do, especially since they're the ones that will become profe…

> The upper level courses, even at the undergraduate level ... are usually being taught by people who have made it their entire life's work to study that field, and at that level o…

I'm about to graduate from Berkeley, a so-called 'top' school. Besides the name of the degree, I can't think of anything that was particular top-notch about my education here. Clas…