profsummergig

Can you see your other body? Or is it just that you feel yourself in 2 bodies?

Thank you. I was curious about what the experience is like.

Now, can you share what an OBE feels like?

I want to start working with arduino/raspberry pi/esp32/sensors.

What would be a good source to buy these in bulk (along with accessory components. e.g. wires etc.)?

Sunlight apps will always have the problem of anonymity.

1) Preventing malicious fake reports by anons.

2) Preserving the source anonymity of real reports.

Finding a working way out will be very consequential.

I'm generally a fan of laissez-faire.

But it's refreshing to see common-sense policies being implemented.

Like another comment posted: platform failures need higher-level (govt. in this case) intervention.

Taleb says that some languages are only meant for ritual.

IMHO, Sanskrit quotes sound cool to those who know Prakrit languages just like Latin and Greek quotations sound cool to those who know Romance languages (and even to those who know English, like myself).

Yes, there is a revival, and an interest. But Sanskrit has always been known to the "priestly" class even though they never conversed in it. This new revival is not going to lead to actual communication, just a lot of visual art based on the script and quotations. IMHO.

There are no consequences for bad behavior in India if you are powerful enough (e.g. a police constable is a very very powerful person who can be filmed taking a bribe or filmed thrashing some innocent person and nothing happens to them.)

When they are able/willing to enforce consequences for bad behavior, most of India's civic problems will evaporate.

The body makes its own creatine.

How do we know that's not enough and needs to be supplemented?

If you don't mind sharing... what's your preferred vendor for Deepseek

He told people to sell their kidneys for BTC.

Wonder why he didn't do that instead of selling BTC to raise dovidend payments?

I recently tried to get customer service. I think it was from the DMV for my state. The website asked me to use the AI bot first. Completely useless. It took a phone call with a human to somewhat resolve the issue.

Godspeed.

IMHO, the biggest problem with the future of open weights models is that currently, open weights models are the result of philanthropy by some private org. (e.g. DeepSeek).

The spigot can be turned off at any time.

Until there's some sort of "community owned hardware", open weights models are always at risk of being discontinued.

"the selflessly-helping side of the Valley"

Never having lived in the valley, I've struggled to understand what it means.

Can anyone share some examples?

"every single person with a retirement account, or student savings account, or mutual fund, will be forced - not asked, not suggested - required by law, to buy SpaceX stock."

Anyone know what she means here? Does she mean this happens to those who will buy index funds? If so, nobody's being forced to buy an index fund. It's a choice made by the retirement account company.

These sites that are serving exotic malware and are taken over by feds. Is it the feds serving this malware, or is it happening despite the feds having taken over them?

Question: if I want to become a dark web researcher, how would I go about getting permission to do so without being suspected of being a malfeasant in the DW? Are there any authorities I can preemptively inform? I'm in the US.

My comment was based on Saudi Arabia's expat policy. Not on the dataset. Saudi Arabia doesn't welcome foreigners moving there to become citizens.

These are expats, not immigrants. They aren't welcome to become citizens in Saudi Arabia.

Also, I'd guess that more strawberries are grown today than ever before. After their artificial essence was created in the labs.

I enjoyed the article. It was very evocative.

The bias to action. Buffett and Taleb write about it. People feel like they have to "earn" their time. If something is good, or good enough, they still have to do some sort of "improvement" because they want to feel like they earned their salary.

NSA employees must be the final boss of this kind of stuff.

Imagine if government approvals were that easy for things the country actually needed, like safe nuclear energy and bullet trains.

Everyone seems to mention Claude.

I use Gemini.

My question for those who have lots of experience with both: is there a significant difference between the two in coding?

(Reason I prefer Gemini: my first vibe code, I used Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini to "one-shot" the same software goal. Only Gemini's code worked right off-the-bat.)

Serious questions:

1) I use "socials" anonymously. Have anon accounts on X, IG, FB. If asked to disclose them at the border (am US citizen, but it's happening to them too), do I disclose the anon accounts?

2) Nothing too controversial in my "socials" (I'm careful), but there's still stuff there that could embarrass me (e.g. mocking or abusing people on X). What would happen if I scrubbed my socials before a trip? Would they be able to find out that I scrubbed, and then construe something about me?

3) Relatedly, is there a recommended way to scrub one's socials?

4) Is something like HN considered part of "socials"? I assume Reddit is. So HN must be too? I've had multiple accounts on HN over the years (been serially banned until I stopped leaving controversial comments). What am I expected to do in such an instance? Do I disclose all the HN accounts?

5) Relatedly, I have multiple X accounts (squatting on usernames). Do I disclose all the accounts?

"most Americans of their intelligence would be aware"

that would still leave up to 49% Americans not being aware. so how did you conclude that they were not Americans? Also, how did you measure their intelligence?

"slightly more common among immigrant families than locals"

even if true, how did you conclude that these were not Americans?

"Americans, on average, are more individualist and hesitate more when asked by family to do something criminal"

even if on average Americans are more so, how did you conclude that these were not Americans?

"A lot of immigrants eventually adopt anglicised names"

from your sentence it seems a lot of them don't. so how did you conclude that these were not Americans?

It would be a disaster for immigrants in your area if you were ever hired into some kind of investigative/law enforcement role.

Maybe, give them estrogen injections too.

I don't have cable, and will not be able to watch this show. But I was wondering if there's truth to the billionaire class being hypocritical and thin-skinned.

Then I remembered when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.

I was aghast that anti-government crypto-state-libertarian, Dr. Balaji Srinivasan (former Coinbase COO), called for a bailout of the bank by the government.

I thought it seemed hypocritical.

I wonder how many future "Al-Khwarizmis" will be obliterated today in the bridge attacks.

You'd have to go in the same jurisdiction as they're incorporated. I think (IANAL).