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And Japan?
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The selling of illicit drugs.
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Agreed, but if you don't address the demand problem you can't beat the supply problem. And that's where we are now.
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There hasn't been a serious "war on drugs" for over 30 years in the UK. Most drugs are de-facto legal since the laws are simply not enforced. To say "prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure" is a straw-m
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YC has also made ethically-questionable investments in the cannabis industry.
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How much does it cost to be smuggled from Afghanistan to Belgium? Exactly.
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You can't solve political problems with judges and riot police.
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You assume Rajoy doesn't want people to see this violent crackdown. But I think he does.
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Rajoy has made a simple calculation: jackboots in the faces of peaceful Catalans trying to vote equals more votes for the Partido Popular in the rest of Spain.
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I think it would be really interesting to build something like dispora as a suite of dockerised micro-services which would allow you to add and extend functionality based on a new social-networkong protocol in a language-agnostic way. It wo
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And elsewhere
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Islamist terrorism is much more prevalent than far-right terrorism http://henryjacksonsociety.org/2017/03/05/islamist-terrorism...
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This guy has been hugely discourteous to me, why not ban him ? Things like this are partly the reason I just want to delete my HN history and leave.
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I'm not American, thankfully
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Heh, you changed it to "Digital Manager of Operations ". Much classier ;-)
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Having an opinion which which you disagree is not "trolling".
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I think it's quite ethical, because it removes the burden from law-abiding people. There's also evidence to show that punishment works as a deterrent when applied as uniformly as possible, hence saving people from falling into the
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I simply have a point of view that you happen to disagree with.
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Thank you for the explanation. Since I have your attention momentarily, would it be possible to delete my entire HN history from the beginning of time? Posts and comments.
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How is this off-topic? Do you mean "off message"?
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It's always so exciting to have my knowledge of Psychology called into question by a "DevOps engineer" in Minneapolis.
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There's plenty of evidence that tough sentencing reduces crime - do your own research. Of course, some people are so selfish and impulsive not much will deter them, but at least they're off the streets where they can make life mis
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"Leads to license suspencion. Leads to driving while license suspended." Or, like, don't drive without a license.
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The best way to stop people doing bad things they want to do is the fear of certain and severe punishment. "Getting involved" is not something that you do by "mistake", you have to want to do it first. The only "mis
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Well if nothing can be done to dissuade people from criminality we might as well not bother having a criminal justice system and put up with it.
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I wish we heard more stories like these. It might dissuade people from getting involved in drugs in the first place.
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Routine and a wall calendar.

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