when all possible variables are factored (same positions compared, hours worked, education, experience, etc.), there is still a wage gap that generally can only be explained by gender bias. in the US, i believe it's about 8%.

the great scientist david wilcock believes he's reincarnated, in the illuminati, ancient aliens, etc, etc. he's a crazy person.

i guess you don't know that wilcock is on par with nassim haramein and david icke.

this is the dumbest thing i've seen all year. thanks for the solid laugh/cry.

this was oddly uninformative and misinformative. the names for white and pink noise are related to light but brown noise is named after robert brown.

white noise is equal power (amplitude/"volume") across frequencies (1/1), pink noise equal power per octave (1/frequency), and brown/red noise is -6dB/octave (1/frequency^2). there is also grey noise, blue noise, black noise, violet noise, and others. and no mention of the fletcher-munson curve (how sensitive our ears are across the frequency spectrum).

and this is yet another reason why pop music/top 40 sucks balls.

imo, you are the contents of the hypothetical box though not the box itself. the contents will change over time, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, but it's the contents and the arrangement and the content's history that is "you". there is no single, persistent "you". "you" are a collective. a generalization.

absolutely fascinating.

i love that picture of "canada"

the amount of data and processing this would require would be STAGGERING and would still only output the equivalent of a low poly animation (this would build a point cloud rather than a polymesh). i would guess it would be in the ballpark of 1 TB/sec. possibly more.

most of the tech is actually pretty old but it's consolidation and implementation is impressive.

imo, this goes to the idea that "consciousness" is emergent. consciousness is made up of a multitude of less conscious/non-conscious parts and the totality creates what we call consciousness or "you". there is no singular "you". you are a collective of parts. splitting the hemispheres means 2 large subsections of you don't communicate with each other as well as they used to (they still communicate but the speed of that communication is too slow for them to operate as a cohesively single collective).

ketamine has shown a lot of promise as an effective alternative.

i'm embarrassed for larry for even knowing that those 2 people exist.

those philistines need to be ejected from the gene pool violently and publicly.

yeah, fuck this asshole too.