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How New Indoor Navigation Systems Will Protect Emergency Responders(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by jes 13y ago|0 comments
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by jes 13y ago
Do solar sites ever use mirrors and PV panels, in combination?
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World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant Delivers Power for the First Time(technologyreview.com)
74 points by jes 13y ago|77 comments
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I was a firefighter for seven years, many years ago. One winter evening, we were dispatched to a chimney fire. After we extinguished it (with the homeowner's hose and a chimney nozzle) I did a walk through of the house and attic to che
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by jes 13y ago
Thank you, calibraxis, for your thoughts. I don't wish to repeat what I just wrote in reply to jholman, so let me just offer some diffs. As regards what you call wage slavery, what you're describing is a contractual relationship.
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I think your questions are very good. Thank you. And as you suggest, I do think that a society and a government that really understood and cherished individual rights would go a long way towards solving the problems you raise. Sadly, I don&
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by jes 13y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. I should have said more about the context in which I'm an advocate for pure capitalism. Specifically, I'm assuming a context where a strong government is genuinely effective in protecting the
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by jes 13y ago
May I ask you why people should be against capitalism? I'm against cronyism, but an advocate of pure capitalism.
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by jes 13y ago
If you were the bank, would you set your fees based on cost plus a reasonable profit, or would you set your fees based on what your customers were willing to pay?
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Story here: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-iphone-funeral-2010...
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TED talk along the same lines: http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes...
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Before resting your case regarding the licensing of individuals to practice medicine, would you please comment on whether individuals who write software used in medical devices should also be licensed?
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by jes 13y ago
In this definition from Wikipedia, in the section on Microeconomics, it is claimed that perfect information is a physical impossibility. Can you help me understand why free markets "by definition" require that which cannot exist?
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by jes 13y ago
Why do you think that a free market requires perfect information? Do you think the situation is the same for a democracy? Does it also require perfect information? http://wichitaliberty.org/free-markets/myth-markets-dep
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by jes 13y ago
Yep. Fond memories of writing an execution trace disassembler for the i960CA back in the early 90s. The chip had an 8-bit incremental trace bus, which made it possible to produce an execution-time instruction trace, as long as the code didn
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Just my thoughts.... "For example, if I walk into the local corner shop for a bottle of water, and can only find one brand, not the one I want, is that a voluntary exchange?" Yes, it's voluntary, you can either buy it or not.
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by jes 13y ago
"Long scale planning certainly is a strength of a government, because in theory in means funding can be coerced from citizens and invested into projects that they wouldn't normally choose of their free will via the marketplace --
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"Things that only take 7 or so years to develop just cannot be that hard to do." Interesting perspective. I know a company that just completed the development of a new ultrasound system. The system, when deployed, will benefit hun
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by jes 13y ago
If you take someone's money by force, you're a thug, not an entrepreneur.
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by jes 13y ago
This article made me think about David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) system / methodology. One of the ideas in GTD is that by getting organized and using a trusted reminder system, you free up some subconscious processing capa
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by jes 13y ago
I think you're suggesting that unless a choice has no consequences, it's not a free choice. So because in this day and age it's convenient to have a cell phone, the choice to do without one is not a free choice. And because o
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by jes 13y ago
You come down quite hard on healthcare professionals, with the comments about biology and chemistry being non-technical. Your comments about doctors also seem unrepresentative of what a modern doctor must actually know and accomplish in ord
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by jes 13y ago
If a person chooses it freely, how can you say it's not the right thing for them to choose? Epistemologically, how could you know this?
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, what is a functional market, and why does such a market require that consumers be vigilant and make good choices? If consumers make bad choices, don't they eventually learn to make better choices?
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by jes 13y ago
Do you have a cell phone? If the results of this particular market are so terrible, why does virtually everyone elect, of their own free will, to buy a cell phone?
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Of the healthcare that is delivered, most is non-emergent.
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by jes 13y ago
How do you explain other free markets that obviously deliver quality products at low prices? I don't feel gouged when I buy a television, a cell phone or lumber at Home Depot.
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With respect, what does capitalism mean to you? Lassiez-Faire or something different?
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Thank you for understanding this and stating it.
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With respect, if you think the deal is unfair to you, why do you accept it? Why don't you just deal with the customer directly?

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