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What do you mean by chemicals? all food production uses chemicals. If you want to reduce monoculture, then monoculture is a bad idea :)

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I only ever search for lyrics if I want to understand a nuance I think I'm missing. RapGenius has always been my go-to for that.

It's worth noting that in the UK, convictions become 'spent' (so that you don't have to disclose them when asked) after a certain period of time that varies with the severity of th…

Ever since the mental health institutions were mostly shut down in the 1970s and 80s, and the focus for treatment of criminals with mental health problems became "care in the commu…

I'm a hacker who served 4.5 months of a 9 month sentence 5 years ago. I was in two jails in that time, spending the majority of the time in the second, lower security place. The ex…

Prison works for a very small minority of people who are reasonably intelligent and curious, but lacking direction or drive. Being incarcerated for a short time is a hell of a wake…

Sorry didn't see this comment for a while. I ran a black-hat collective between the ages of 13 and about 17. That led to getting lots of offers to hack for money, and through discu…

I wish I'd read this before going inside. It's very detailed, insightful and in some places poignant.

At night the guards occasionally walk around with some sort of signal detector, so something like this already happens. Don't think they can intercept, but they can tell who's usin…

You get stripped of all metal when you enter visiting rooms in UK prisons.

You can stab people with almost anything. Toothbrush, piece of paper carefully folded, shoelaces melted into a soap mould... stopping one more thing getting in won't matter. I thin…

Cells in UK jails are not barren concrete-and-metal things like in the movies. They have a sink, a desk, a kettle, a TV, a (usually padded) chair and a bed. You charge your phone b…

I've been to jail in the UK. I served 4.5 months in B and C category prisons. Phones are so easy to get hold of, I don't think most people would believe it. During my time I emaile…

Yeah I've thought about it a few times. Maybe when I finish my current commitment, I'll think about it more seriously. Some of the people involved went on to be very famous for the…

It's not the toupee fallacy - in this case I started with a large sample of fraudsters in my circle and know the outcome for all of them.

Yeah, there are a few hard parts that I left out. Making it 'good enough' is hard, but for a reason I found surprising when developing the methods. Making the design look exactly r…

Well, I just disagree. My experience is that recovering your bank account after fraud is trivial. Fixing fraudulently obtained credit takes longer, but basically just involves goin…

I have a large sample size of the people I worked with over 8 years. Seriously, everyone went down eventually.

Actually my biggest lesson about identity theft is that most people just don't need to worry. The negative effect of identity theft in 9999/1000 cases is just the inconvenience of …

Source: at 17 I was running a black-hat hacker collective and had, through a series of bad choices, got pretty deep into the 'real-world' side of that business: fraud. The day afte…