So are the people who have been convicted of violent, property or public order crimes unjustly imprisoned? Should they be released?
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Are drugs laws the cause of "mass incarceration" of blacks in the United States?
The review article does not offer any statistics. Here are some from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (a federal agency belonging to the DOJ) about state prisoners with sentences over one year (state sentences of less than a year are general served in county jails).
Only 4% of black state prisoners are sentenced for cases where the most serious offense is drug possession.
Only a further 11.9% of black state prisoners are sentenced for cases where the most serious offense is other drug crimes including trafficking.
58.3% of black state prisoners are sentenced for cases where the most serious offense is violent crime (including 12% for murder)... 16% for property crimes... 9.5% for public order crimes.
States account for over 92% of prisoners. Though over 50% of federal prisoners are sentence for cases where the most serious offense is drug crimes.
If no one was sentenced for cases where drugs crimes were the most serious offense, then 85% of black state prisoners would still be imprisoned. So, that wouldn't solve the problem of black "mass incarceration" in US state prisons.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statics http://imgur.com/sE1D137 http://felonvoting.procon.org/sourcefiles/USBJS%20-Prisoners...
My point was't that the author is attractive or unattractive (that I agree would be out of line either way), but that the author has a corporeal manifestation that is relevant to the narrative.
The linked photo is from the author's professional bio, which is freely presented to the public and associated with the author's public writing (like this essay).
EVA Air Flight 88 (Paris to Taipei)
Singapore Airlines Flight 351 (Copenhagen to Singapore)
Air India Flight 113 (New Delhi to Birmingham)In fairness, they gave out actual vaccines not fake vaccines so it wasn't a "fake vaccination program." I was a real vaccination program that also did a bit of assassination of international terrorists on the side.
So, on balance it was a very positive program for the community.
EB2 visas for permanent residence are currently available [1] for employees with Ph.D., master's degree, or at least five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience.
[1] Excluding people born in India, Mainland China, Mexico and the Philippines because applicants from those countries have exceeded the per country maximum
This is a common misconception. The H1B visa laws are generally used to hire very low wage workers. (I doubt the authors of the legislation are surprised by this result.)
Companies are required to pay a prevailing wage, but this wage can be one of four levels. And of course most H1B applications are for the lowest levels.
Here are levels for software developers in Chicago [1]:
Software Developers, Applications
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL Metropolitan Division
Level 1 Wage:$24.45 hour - $50,856 year
Level 2 Wage:$33.14 hour - $68,931 year
Level 3 Wage:$41.84 hour - $87,027 year
Level 4 Wage:$50.53 hour - $105,102 year
Of course, more ambitious companies may file applications under job titles with even lower wage levels like "system analysts".
You should also know that if a H1B worker is fired, he and his family are out of status that day and must leave the country unless a visitor visa is granted (which is not guaranteed).
How would you like working here if you could be fired and your whole family could be sent packing at will?
If you were an employer, do you think you could you hack this system to your advantage? I'm pretty sure I could.
In our current system innocent people accused of capital crimes are often faced with the choice of pleading guilty or going to trial and facing the death penalty.
This isn't a highly just arrangement.
People see more motivated by orders of magnitude to get death penalty cases right relative to life incarceration cases.
Counterintuitively, justice may be better served by abolishing life imprisonment and mandating the death penalty for cases where periods of imprisonment would exceed 20 years or so.
If the innocence rate for executions is 4%, then surely the innocence rate for long term incarceration must be much higher.
This petrodollar conspiracy is baffling.
Countries don't hold dollars solely to buy oil.
The oil and gas industry is only about 4.6% to 6.5% of the global economy.
Countries hold reserve currencies to manage the exchange rate of their currency. Petrodollar conspiracists would be well served by learning about foreign exchange reserves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-exchange_reserves
And in any case, only 65% of foreign currency reserves are in the USD.
You may have seen CHC in baseball
CHC is the Chicago Cubs
CHW is the Chicago White Sox
CHC is also Christchurch, New Zealand which looks lovely
This could mean anything or nothing. But he knew that already
There are over 200 million white people and over 4.5 million Asian people living in Latin America.
Do you mean Latinos of descent other than European and Asian?
Does it include the over 100 million Spanish speakers in the Americas of European descent? What about the 26 million white Americans of Latin American descent?
What about 100 million "Latino" Portuguese speaking Brazilians of other than predominantly European and Asian descent?
French is also a "Latin"/Romance language. Do the predominantly white Québécois count as Latino? What about the Métis, who are both indigenous Americans and speakers of a Romance language.
What about Native Americans who speak English rather than a Romance language? What if the Native Americans learned Spanish in high school?
What about the hundreds of millions of people from China and India and elsewhere in Asia who grew up in materially worse conditions than any ghetto in the United States?
These tasks are generally left to physician assistants and nurse practitioners who are paid on average about half as much as primary care physicians (about 100k vs 200k).
In many states, they can be found practicing in pharmacies and supermarkets and seem to see around a half dozen patients per hour.
I think it will be tough for mobile medical practitioners to beat price/convenience levels of retail nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
I don't really understand what they are proposing...
"Settlement of securities is a business process whereby securities or interests in securities are delivered, usually against (in simultaneous exchange for) payment of money" [1]
How are the securities being managed here? Is some entity holding them in trust for whatever party controls an entry in the bitcoin ledger? What is the form of that entry?
Are bitcoins being used as the medium for payment?
[1] I copied the description from wikipedia for expediency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_(finance)
The F-35 is meant to do everything else and can certainly drop bombs on enemies of the United States. What else do you want from it?
Think of the US arsenal from the point of view of opponents. If you were running any other country, would you feel comfortable going to war with the United States? Iran? China? Russia? Israel? France? United Kingdom?
Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO
10%ile 25%ile median 75%ile 90%ile
64470 80110 100140 122350 146930
New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division
10%ile 25%ile median 75%ile 90%ile
66100 83010 106710 135600 164390
I think it's at least a little suspicious that the single data point that demonstrates the success of Galvanize is paid directly by Galvanize. How about any other student?
The math guy did an undergraduate degree in mathematics!, so he is hardly a characteristic example of waiters in New York who generally shouldn't expect to achieve a median salary for the industry on their first day.
It's all a matter of selection bias.
"Can a single person apply for funding?
Yes, but the odds of being accepted are lower. A startup is too much work for one person."
I'm pretty sure you don't mean it is "too much work" for success to be a possible outcome, but that's what your copy says at the moment.
It's silly to describe solar as atomic energy from sun’s fusion as a distinct category from carbon-based energy, because of course carbon-based energy was formed by capturing solar energy from the sun's fusion.