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"Work for us or we'll keep you locked up for 3 years longer than if you did" isn't really volunteering - more like extortion.
Flip it around and it's not. The base case is the full time. Taking the option away doesn't help anyone.
Except firefighters, prisoners, and society.
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Where is the requirement to work and how does it punish them additionally ? Sentencing is provided completely independent of labor and 99% of prisoners are ineligible or unable to firefight. >firefighters have been explicitly cited as the reason it is important to maintain that system and maintain prison populations to feed it. Cited by a proponent of maintaining prison populations, or cited as allegations against su…
> What a strange take. Why would the passage of a proposition redefine the reality of the situation? If the proposition was passed, and the State acted in accord with it (as I stated before, not just the passage, but the action), then the labor would not be coerced , because the mechanisms by which it is currently coerced would be prohibited. That was the whole point of the amendment, banning California continuing to…
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> The human mind is hard-wired to want to explore and get out. We also have a self preservation instinct.
True, but it doesn't trigger when you hear about the fire in the abstract. It triggers only once you are face-to-face with the smoke and wall of fire.
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Yeah to me this sounds like letting slaves pick their bunks. It’s technically autonomy but not in any meaningful way. It’s certainly not a free person choosing their living arrangements. I guess if you don’t consider prison labor to be slavery then it might be palatable but I just can’t draw that distinction. Especially given the history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_St... https://en.m.wi…
I don't think anyone says prisoners having a choice means they're not prisoners or they are free from jail. Nobody is claiming picking bunks means they're not a prisoner. It's still a free choice among bunks
Such a tragedy. I am very sorry for anyone affected by this :( As a non-local it’s hard to judge how big this is. Can anyone point to map or explain to what extend LA is affected? Is it 5% of the area/population or rather 50%?
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The problem with fireproofing one building in a fire-prone area is that neighboring buildings that aren't fireproof will build, and they will release toxic substances that make your fireproof building toxic.
Seems like properly-priced insurance should fix that, if you add a little bit of tort for the owners of the hazardous housing?
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/as-global-fire-risk-rises-...
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I don't expect a lot of crossover between web dev and space exploration.
(As an ex-JPLer,) you would be very surprised how many internal tools this decade have been web-stack. Flight systems are one thing, but you need plenty of ground systems to support the effective use of assets in flight, and there's no reason to avoid one of the biggest UI platforms out there.
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This has been well-studied by disaster recovery and business continuity boffins. There are sites that are known to be (1) effectively disaster-free, whether earthquakes, severe weather, volcanoes, tsunamis, wildfires, flooding, etc, and (2) sufficiently connected to commerce and the economy that you can reasonably build and fully operate a business from there. Climate change has relatively little impact on the suitab…
Phoenix and Las Vegas may be a great place for a secondary data center. But for humans, they are very vulnerable to water shortages, and power outages during the summer can be deadly. I have seen them referred to as places people weren't meant to live, more than once.
These are both mitigated with on-site reserves.
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Flip it around and it's not. The base case is the full time. Taking the option away doesn't help anyone.
> Taking the option away doesn't help anyone. Except firefighters, prisoners, and society.
Everyone is better off.
Firefighters get additional support combating a huge problem, prisoners get shorter sentences, in society gets better fire prevention leading to fewer lives and Land Lost