Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
by icebraining on Sunday July 05, 2020 @07:00PM
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> A prison by definition cannot be part-time
Sure it can. Check out "weekenders" and "work release" programs, for example.
Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
by adamsea on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:37AM
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Good point. To me the whole schools / prisons thing just seems dramatic and not well thought out.
“X is like prison”.
Work is like prison. Childhood is like prison. Society is like prison.
Is everything like prison?
If we live in The Matrix yes but we don’t?
Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
by a1369209993 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @07:17PM
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> Prisons are intended for a specific subset of people
> Schools are for children. [a specific subset of people]
Bills of attainder[0] may be illegal and unconstitutional, but they're still a thing that happens as long as noone who matters cares.
> Schools are functionally no different from part-time prisons.
A prison by definition cannot be part-time ; ). Plus, it's a totally unfair comparison. Schools are intended for everyone. Prisons are intended for a specific subset of people deemed to have broken a law.
Schools are for children. Prisons are for adults.
And so on.