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by jes 12y ago
Would you be willing to share why you think this is heavy-handed?
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by jes 12y ago
This will probably sound harsh, and I regret that, but I think it's the way things actually are, as against how we might otherwise want them to be. When you say "We should value all lives equally," what pops into my head is t
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by jes 12y ago
Does your device carry the CE Marking?
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by jes 12y ago
Do you work to comply with IEC 62304? Do you do FMEAs for risk analysis, or some other technique? Grateful for any insights you wish to share.
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Uber CFO Steps Down(businessinsider.com)
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by jes 12y ago
Embedded software medical device developer here. I once worked with a hardware engineer that would verbalize his thought process very explicitly, as we worked in the lab. He would say things like: "Ok, I'm about to let the target
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by jes 12y ago
Governments have the legal right to use force against individuals. Individuals, and individuals that band together into organizations, have no such right.
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by jes 12y ago
+1 for epistemology.
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by jes 12y ago
There are many good comments on this thread, so I hope that you consider them carefully. One point I'd like to add is this. Try to find small things that you can start and finish in a reasonable amount of time. Maybe something you can
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UK Chancellor Proposes 25% Google Tax(techraptor.net)
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by jes 12y ago
Maybe this should just be a sub-category on Airbnb?
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Primary residence address as a service?
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Internal Family Systems Therapy: Can you really hack the voices in your head?(io9.com)
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by jes 12y ago
More to your question, have you looked into Internal Family Systems Therapy? I'm currently reading a book on this by Schwartz, and I'm finding it helpful. http://www.amazon.com/Internal-Family-Systems-Therapy-Guilf
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by jes 12y ago
With respect, I often hear people say "I'm incredibly lucky." When I think about the actions they have taken over time, it seems to me that they have had a history of generally good decision making. So I just want to gently q
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by jes 12y ago
I searched this thread and didn't find any reference to "Internal Family Systems" therapy. If anyone has any thoughts on IFS, I'd be interested in hearing them. I'm currently reading a book ("Internal Family Sy
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by jes 12y ago
I'm wondering whether Secretary Clinton's private email system was more or less secure than that provided by the State Department. I'd expect the State Department would invest at a higher level based on scale (supporting many
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Hillary Clinton's office was warned over private email use(america.aljazeera.com)
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by jes 12y ago
> And the proper response to a government that refuses to act in a reasonable manner is non-violent non-participation. I couldn't agree more.
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First images of world's largest airplane(sploid.gizmodo.com)
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Proposed fusion reactor design from Lockheed-Martin(sploid.gizmodo.com)
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by jes 12y ago
Your comment would have been better, in my view, without the ad-hominem attack on older people. Especially if you wish to advocate for a pro-science, reason and evidence approach to argumentation.
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by jes 12y ago
Thank you for your interesting comment. May I ask for your definition of altruism? Helping someone else, in part because you recognize that you may someday need his/her help, seems like rational egoism to me. And even if I thought I wo
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by jes 12y ago
I agree that you are legally compelled to pay taxes, but why do you say that you are morally compelled to do so? Democracy is a kind of majority rule, isn't it? If the majority votes to take 50% of my income in taxes, and uses the mone
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by jes 12y ago
That adds clarity, thank you.
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by jes 12y ago
I stumble a bit over the concept of American jobs. The jobs belong to the people who are offering them, don't they?
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by jes 12y ago
Your comment regarding technical folks self-organizing reminded me of a book I enjoyed: "Great Boss, Dead Boss" by Ray Immelman. The book suggests that people in organizations self-assemble into tribes, ignoring the org chart, exa
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by jes 12y ago
Would you be willing to have a truly level playing field, where no energy technology was awarded subsidies?
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by jes 12y ago
Thanks for an interesting comment. I wonder if it's true that the unemployment rate is coming down to reasonable levels. As I understand it, the unemployment rate that is typically reported excludes people that have given up looking fo
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by jes 12y ago
Thank you – I genuinely appreciate the clarification. Yes, I'm assuming an individual who has finite (but possibly significant) resources. Let's assume s/he wants to do as much good as s/he can. Who determines whether so

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