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> I'm always curious about what is featured in entertainment vs reality.

I always feel that way with the jobs that TV and movie characters are assigned. Entertainment jobs are vastly over-represented (as so much of art is somewhat autobiographical). Straightforward, well understood jobs like doctors, cops and teachers are pretty well represented. Then those jobs that often require further explanation whenever a stranger hears that job title are much less represented - how many actuaries or data analysts or logistics managers do you see in film? Approximately none, but I think more of them exist in the real world than all of the screenwriters you see on TV.
I stopped using "say" because it made me jump in my chair too many times.
YouTube is a net loss ? Where is that coming from ? It brought in $6BN revenue just in Q1 [1].

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q1_alphabet_earnings...
You can also do some cool things with configuration management and reproducible builds with Nix + ZFS or btrfs:

https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings

https://mt-caret.github.io/blog/posts/2020-06-29-optin-state...
The first one won’t be crewed, and there’s no way that’s going to be ready by 2022. So 2024 will be unmanned. Maybe 2026 will be the first crewed test mission, but 2028 is more likely. But we’re still talking aspirational Elon-time. If I were betting money, I’d say the 2030’s is more realistic.

Note that they have done zero work on building a anything other than the rocket body to get there. Making the interior volume habitable for 2 years of interplanetary travel is going to be non-trivial.
My own anecdata from working at a retreat for the last six months in the Peruvian Amazon is that it definitely can. It doesn't always "work" for most people immediately (one could drink a hundred times and not actually make any progress)- it highly depends on the willingness of the person to go in to their past and work with their unprocessed traumas. It is not easy; proper intentions and concentration make a big difference. The visions can be interesting but truthfully are more of a side effect and can be a distraction if you are trying to get real work done. A good shaman will be able to "move the medicine" (really your focus) with their icaros to different areas of the body that they might see trauma stored in; this in turn can bring up memories or thoughts to push you into processing those ignored emotions.
What does VA mean here? Did the pills have Ayahuasca in them? Otherwise I'm not sure about the relevance of your comment on this story.
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I think maybe my question was taken differently than I meant it. I was legitimately asking if the gp had/could help with such a task.
I feel like it is almost like cockwork.

I see one person within a category try something, odds are the other 5 people I follow will do it. And these aren't new folks, they're the established leaders in views and etc.

I guess there's an advantage of iteration ... sort of there, but man it feels like homogenization none the less.
I thought that DDG was getting its data from Bing... but either way, Yahoo was getting its data from Microsoft.
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> Java applets were "unsafe by design" in that they allowed to escape the sandbox (even as a feature via calling out into native DLLs).

The design of the Java applet security model did not include being able to escape the sandbox. That was something Microsoft did that deliberately broke the security model. The closest thing Java applets had to "escape the sandbox" was popping up a new window, and even that involved presenting the user with a warning that the window belonged to the applet.
I would love for an update that covers recent developments in SOC integrations, for example the onboarding of RAM and neural processing in the M1 chip.
That could be said about any tool, framework, language, library, etc. Invest enough time and you can do everything with malbolge but that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
This is a good idea, if the passwords are the ones people change *from* (i.e. once you change your password, it gets into that list). This way nobody can use the password anymore (with the idea that it is a weak now, for any reason).

This is selfish, though. If that database of passwords leaks, they are prime candidates to test on *other* sites.
I agree. The landing page isn't the nicest one. I'm not a designer, though, and I'd rather spend that time improving the product. Is there anything you'd like to see in the extension that'd convince you to pay for it? Happy to improve!
It's the ego crush that is the most fascinating. Most of us bury trauma deep inside and do a pretty good job automatically keeping those thoughts from resurfacing. With psychedelics it's as if you're powerless to keep those hidden which is why they work well in a therapy setting.
Some of us clean them. It's trivial and involves a little vinegar.
It's written in your whatsapp backup settings.
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> Coming from a Python background I don't understand why the tooling here is so much more complete than for other languages.

Is python immune to this problem? I think not, in fact, I think it is much worse because we have to "hack" how packages are installed by creating a "virtual environment." How many different tools are there to manage python dependencies?
I think its a matter of scale. Say Costco makes a Kirkland brand cereal, there are other stores that you can buy cereal at and there is competition. For a lot people, all online shopping comes from Amazon. Amazon uses this position to their advantage in many ways (high quality customer data, branding, etc.).
This actually disincentives people from making compelling products because of the risk that Amazon will just steal the product.
I think the only difference is that Amazon is a digital marketplace, so they can and do let their users pioneer what gets sold.

Space is at a premium with a physical location, so the likelihood of an actual store exploiting that is extremely unlikely
Along with the training wheels analogy, Ram Dass also said, (badly paraphrased), "To remove a thorn from your foot, you use another thorn – then you throw them both away, or you'll likely get pricked again."
No login link, just a series of grey lines, even after I enable javascript. Ah, I see you require that I accept cookies just to to view your front-page ...
> now I think higher-dimensional beings exist."

I think he said something more like I am now open to the possibility that they might be real.

But ... we know there are people who are schizophrenic, who switch from one personality to another. Which of them is "real"? They probably all are. But that does not mean they exist anywhere outside of one's head. If you can experience another you, then it seems not implausible that you would also experience "God" inside your head.

It is fun to think that there might be higher-dimensional conscious beings around us or even within us. But that's all it is, fun. There doesn't seem to be any practical implications of whether there are or not.

Another part of the article considers (quite materialistically) the possibility that "God" is something society creates in our heads. I think Sigmund Freud called that the "Super Ego". It is what makes us better survive as a species. It causes us to co-operate rather than just selfishly abuse others as much as we can. It is clear how such a function could evolve by evolution. We see it in all species, they don't spend their energy trying to kill other individuals of the same species. It's the Selfish Gene.
I think the parent comment is in agreement. They are saying there are many ways to resolve those traumatic memories that the person is living with, buried and inhibiting a better life.
That correlation is not invariant to cultural factors. Your own link mentions some of these - namely, "epistemic belief of learning, performance-avoidance goals, and parental education", for which we can easily measure variation across ethnicity (which of course is a lot more visible and more easily operationalized that a more nuanced understanding of culture, including urban vs. rural).
Yeah, given the shift to strangers, I don't know why anyone would think it's strange that we aren't certain to make friends with these people.
Too big to fail is when we have explicit admission of fraud inside a company and a bunch of people, who are likely shareholders, are lining up to excuse them and compare them to supermarkets.
But a breaking change probably doesn't impact all programs that depend on it, so that approach still ends up with many installed versions that could probably have been shared.
>Either way, I feel like I've read and heard similar stories before.

Yes, stories like this one are reasonably common.

>There is no evidence that any of these spirits exist so I don't know why people seem to think that taking a hallucinogenic drug somehow connects them to another plane of existence or w/e.

This topic is fraught with pseudoscience and charlatans exploiting people, so I do understand your intense skepticism and desire for hard evidence.

What evidence would you require for proof of these spirits? Is there a minimum number of independent testimonies you need, which all claim the same event happened?

I've found most people have never given those questions serious thought. The most common initial answer is "I'd need to see these spirits for myself," but this answer is unscientific, as published research articles must automatically be dismissed (Have you ever seen CRISPR work in person? How do you know it's real?). I'm genuinely curious as to what evidence you would need.
Legislation (see Turkey's crackdown), the 50% consensus, branching into oblivion, increasing transaction ack times, mining resources(I mean, at some point they'll be told "no, you cannot have power if it's for mining"), progress in decryption. Now imagine for a moment China decides to block its firewall, even for a few days, how does that leave the transaction ack network?
But it doesn't. Have you ever used facebook?
Essentially it shows you whatever the highest engagement content is, which is normally a birth, engagement or some other life event.

Speaking as someone who develops ML models, there's no way that they are iterating multiple times per day, and it is 100% not tuned to specific users as they have so many.

And how are they supposed to measure the impact of the lever?

These are not trivial questions, but they are often treated as such in online discourse, which is pretty disappointing.
Maybe Costco is different, but at a lot of stores the line is blurrier. You might be able to get your product on store shelves, but if you want good placement, you basically have to rent that shelf space.
Let's not trivialize the value that was added to Hadoop from many other companies since its early Yahoo days.
> Almost all issues I’ve seen with a video I can reproduce. But I agree that they should be succinct.

As long as we retain those opening, over-amplified metal riffs. Jump scares are why I watch tech vids.
The segue from "...this is commonly referred to as “faith” where you have to make a leap of faith to experience some level of spirituality. Ayahuasca, maybe, accelerates that leap" to "I’m just trying to take distil some fundamental features of the positives of religion and some ideas of where to start in terms of my own self-actualization" to "we have created a peer-to-peer smart contract that allows people to hold collateral against each other in an easy way" was truly something to behold.
> Walmart and Costco do not have a little flea market of third party sellers inside their stores

walmart.com does
Well, obviously, if you have a corrupt government and corrupt experts, you won't be able to achieve much... why was this downvoted ?
> Musk is making claims that are not technically possible

Which ones specifically?
sorry but that study reeks of bs. It relies heavily on estimates extrapolated from Western countries to determine the spread of the virus, concluding that 2B have contracted the disease, but also relies on the official death toll of ~3M worldwide, to get that IFR figure.

Given that the official death toll in China is still <5k, these calculations are obviously cooked.

The paper is not reviewed and has no co authors, and the sole author has a history of playing down the pandemic, while failing to disclose conflicts of interest.
LSD and ayahuasca have a somewhat low potential for abuse, each trip is so emotionally exhausting, at least for me, and though the experience is enriching I would not want to repeat it anytime soon. There is enough to be processed for a while. Granted, I don't think I have any trauma or at least I am not aware of any. Last time I did LSD feels like yesterday but it was around 10 years ago.
But like with everything, people who in general abuse things can abuse these two as much as they abuse food, sweets and so on.
Yes, but you're thinking of private equity.
Twitter already isn't neutral, considering the "trending" feed is editorialized and certain trends are suppressed and others boosted.

Twitter is a publisher. They have their fingers on the scale in both directions in multiple places.
Not to be confused with writing (La)TeX in Emacs, which is also fun.
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I think Hong Kong is a pretty good example.
If he had listened to the "experts", there would be no Tesla and no SpaceX.
“ human brains are wired in such a way that we tend to hallucinate similar things?”

Yes, somewhere between jung and Oliver sacks — a biological basis for the collective unconscious. Religion IMO offers the most parsimonious explanation, to date.
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I have no idea what to make of IQ in general, and I try to figure it out. Majority of the books/videos I found which at least try to rely on some scientific methods (e.g. research) are predominantly in favor of IQ and its reliability/importance.

Could you recommend any books/articles/videos which try criticize IQ tests from the scientific standpoint? Like tests being biased/unrepresentative, most experiments are not properly constructed and anything along those lines. Most of the arguments against IQ I found though relied mostly on personal experience/intuition (e.g. it’s too simplistic, intelligence is much more complex than that, etc), but I’d like to hear more ‘measurable’ criticism.

P.S. I’m not trying to prove or disprove anything; I just want to look at this from different points of view
The same reason a scrapyard buys broken cars?
I guess the assumed expiration date makes it harder for me to accept that I should make the effort to become friends.
Headphones + booked focus time work for me.
There is somewhat of a dissonance that I detect from trip reports like this. On one hand, authors acknowledge that the whole trip might be just the result of their brain acting weird. But on the other hand, they start emphasizing how real the experience felt, therefore there might be something real to the entities/sprits encountered during the trip.

But if we already acknowledge that any feeling of "realness" can be purely the result of the brain acting weird, doesn't that invalidate any appeal to how "real" the experience felt? It literally means nothing, if our underlying theory is that the brain's "realness" detectors were malfunctioning.
For the same reason Sprint went all in on WiMAX "4G" about ten years back: they think it gives them a value-add.
Well, every database already optimizes disk access (at least until the recent years with the ‘just add SSDs’ attitude). However, they tend to assume that indexes should be loaded into memory. For this use-case, you'd want a database that can use indexes themselves from disk and treat them like partitioned storage: e.g. when reading data for years 2019 to 2021, only request parts corresponding to that, and not previous years. Dunno whether SQLite can have indexes partially in memory—with its niche of low-end devices and apps, it's quite possible that it can.

Actually, this sort of partial access (i.e. partitioning) is rather easy to implement by addressing separate data files by name, instead of using numeric ranges into a database. Basically just put the data into files named by the years (in my example); or bucket the data into chunks of arbitrary size and use the chunks as files. Elementary to extend this to multiple fields in the index. In short, partitioning based on actual field values can be much easier in the static-http approach than using opaque ranges. Probably also more effective if something like http2 allows requesting several files in one request—since you can avoid requesting too little or too much.
He made the same error the ancients did: trying to find meaning in hallucinations.

Be aware that sometimes drugs damage the blood brain barrier and cause all sort of fucked up health issues.
Sounds like my brother after his 4th or 5th psychotic episode and medication not working anymore. I guess you could call it spiritual.
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Yes, but the point is that these are wildly different types of energy delivery. The sun delivers energy by gamma radiation ("plain old light") but here we're talking about alpha particles ("relativistic protons") which has a very different effect on biological systems. The fact that we are able to compare these two things by their total energy content at all is shocking to me.

To make this comparison more concrete, maybe we could consider how much alpha particle energy is present inside of a nuclear reactor running at peak energy output. I'd be surprised if it was as much as 1 W/m^2.