Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs
The random musings of a Nashville engineer on anything at all
Friday, June 26, 2015
Reducing Wrongful Convictions
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The details of implementation are the difference between the death penalty working financially and not. So what if we imagined different d...
Monday, June 22, 2015
2016 Presidential Candidates: Republicans, Part 1
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The way our system is set up, electoral votes in most states are winner-take-all. That essentially disenfranchises most voters in the gener...
Friday, June 19, 2015
Death Penalty Analysis: Summary
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We've looked at four main arguments for the death penalty. Given the wrongful conviction rate is, and will remain, non-zero, argument fr...
Friday, June 12, 2015
Death Penalty Analysis: Adding Reality Back In
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So from previous posts, argument from cost is the only possibly convincing argument to retain the death penalty. But there were simplifyin...
Friday, June 5, 2015
Death Penalty Analysis: Argument From Deterrence
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It is argued that the death penalty acts as a deterrent in ways that other penalties don't, and thereby lowers the crime rate and imp...
Friday, May 29, 2015
Death Penalty Analysis: Argument From Cost of Alternatives
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Presently, executing a person costs the state more than life imprisonment, largely due to the different laws and regulations around both....
Friday, May 22, 2015
Death Penalty Analysis: Argument From Public Safety
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It can be argued that public safety is served by killing such criminals. A dead person has literally zero chance of harming anyone. A...
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Calibration elections
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I've talked in the past about how trust in elections is critical. Right now the system simply can't be audited, by design. We have h...
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Death Penalty Analysis: Argument From Justice, Retribution, or Punishment
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It is argued that some people simply deserve to die ; that, given what they've done, their continuing to live is inherently unjust, re...
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Fraternal Order of Police Candidate Survey
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Earlier this year I considered running for Nashville Metro Council. I took out the signature forms, but concluded I couldn't commit the ...
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