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by jes 11y ago
I have worked in the medical device industry building ultrasound systems for twenty years. In general, there are thousands of regulations that must be satisfied. Some specifications that must be met include ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601 3
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by jes 11y ago
With respect, I think you're speculating here. For example, the FDA and other agencies are concerned with the effects of transmitting energy into the human body. Medical devices like ultrasound systems are not toys. I don't mean t
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by jes 11y ago
You would also need approval in the EU and in other countries around the world. There are many standards that medical devices must meet. It takes a pretty good sized company to do all things that must be done in order to actually design, ma
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by jes 11y ago
I totally get that. I also used FrameMaker back then. It was really a nice tool for technical documentation.
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by jes 11y ago
With respect, you seem to be saying that probabilities work better than absolutes, and yet your final sentence seems to be an absolute.
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by jes 11y ago
With respect, I'm struggling a bit with your last paragraph. I live in Kirkland and I'm dating a woman who lives in West Seattle. We're older, but it's not like we're people who couldn't easily date other peopl
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by jes 11y ago
I would welcome some additional clarity on your use of the term capitalism, as there are many different things called capitalism today. My definition is a system of free, un-coerced trade among individuals, to mutual advantage. It's ve
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by jes 11y ago
> It is amazing how much more people care about their hair and skin in comparison to, say, their blood vessels when it comes to aging. I'm thinking that the state of your blood vessels isn't something that has been highly visib
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by jes 11y ago
You are dropping important context. See also [1]. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6260
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by jes 11y ago
I don't take offense to your comment regarding paranoia. The question, I think, is this: If you have worked all your life, and played by the rules that existed at the time, how do you protect what you have earned from theft by others?
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by jes 11y ago
You are absolutely correct when you say the money is not given to the government, but to third-party entities. The government can dictate terms to those entities, however, and they will comply. For example, when the government made the owne
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by jes 11y ago
I do not contribute to my retirement accounts anymore. It may be an error on my part, but giving an entity that is more than $100T in debt (unfunded liabilities included) seems foolish. I expect retirement accounts to be nationalized, in on
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by jes 11y ago
There are times when I either don't have access to the Internet, or my service is very slow. During those times, the apps on my phone are still useful, albeit, degraded in some respects. I'd still rather have that than nothing.
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by jes 11y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful comment. With respect to the law enforcement example, the access there is to non-public data. That seems like an essential difference to me, but perhaps you're citing this situation in preparation for your
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by jes 11y ago
Are you saying that accessing public data should be possible, but require a willingness to jump through hoops? What's your thinking behind that?
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by jes 11y ago
I would use this service, if I had scanned PDFs where I didn't care about confidentiality. As it stands, though, uploading them to an unknown web resource seems risky. Thoughts?
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by jes 11y ago
I think I know what you're saying. Still I wonder if perhaps the students that worked diligently and honestly gained more in the long run.
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by jes 11y ago
If you could have perfectly safe software, without requiring individual engineers to be licensed, would that be acceptable to you? I'm not asking if you think such a thing would be possible or not - I'm asking if you would accept
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Shukla’s Gold(climateaudit.org)
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by jes 11y ago
With respect, the facts are against you: "It is easy to misjudge the Gulag’s contribution because its more lasting monuments—the Moscow metro, the Moscow University, and the Norilsk Nickel Combinat—are what remain. Forgotten are the “r
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by jes 11y ago
"With the new emphasis on Gulag as the means of concentrating cheap labor, new camps were then constructed throughout the Soviet sphere of influence, wherever the economic task at hand dictated their existence (or was designed specific
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by jes 11y ago
I agree that the subway stations are gorgeous. I think it's also worth reflecting on the means by which public works were built in the former Soviet Union. [1] [1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3110866&#x
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by jes 11y ago
Not saying you are wrong, but here's a different perspective: http://www.hermitary.com/solitude/nietzsche.html
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by jes 11y ago
I re-read your comment and agree with you that I made an error in assuming that you were condemning an entire class of people. Thank you for pointing this out.
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by jes 11y ago
I suspect whatever fraction of it is to be paid will be stolen from the young / yet-to-be-born and given to others. That strikes me as extremely corrupt. Politicians steal from the young / unborn and use the money to advance their
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FTC has power to police cyber security(reuters.com)
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by jes 11y ago
Unfunded liabilities (money that is owed, but not currently on-hand) in the United States are said to be greater than $127T: http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/01/17/you-think-th... This does
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by jes 11y ago
Yes, there are laws surrounding employment. Minimum wage laws are one example. IRS regulations/tests as to whether you are an employee or a contractor are another.
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by jes 11y ago
Completely agree. I am using SLIME+SBCL a lot right now and these articles are coming at a great time. They really help to demonstrate the power of the tooling.
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by jes 11y ago
Yes, because everyone should have to get permission from a bureaucrat in order to earn a living.

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