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I perceived and saw everything around me, except for the banana! : )

I feel like I'm missing something with the purpose of the recall accuracy study.

> Third, the study enabled an unprecedented objective test of survivors’ recall accuracy. Many have wondered: Have those who recall death experiences—even of happenings during the resuscitation—experienced hallucinations, such as commonly reported with oxygen deprivation or psychedelic drugs? Or are their out-of-body reports of cardiac arrest events factual and verifiable?

How does the ability to recall and report an apple, pear or banana confirm/deny whether the persons have experienced a hallucinogenic event or not?

Opening in Gmail is the easiest for me, as I don't have desktop email clients configured.

Just send the .eml files as attachments to yourself in a gmail or gapps account. When you click the attachment preview on the received message, it pops out a window displaying the email rendered as if it was sent/received in gmail. Includes inline MIME images too. You can print rendered pages from there.

I found this feature pretty neat! And a bit unexpected.

This is the standard way to refer to the eastern US time zone, exactly to reduce the confusion you mention

There is an interesting 2019 academic paper out of CU Boulder, on the topic of spoofing 4G WEA alerts. I wouldn't recommend doing this, but it's very interesting to understand the technical aspects of WEA, CMAS, and other non-standard mobile comms channels that are involved.

"This is Your President Speaking: Spoofing Alerts in 4G LTE Networks"

[PDF] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3307334.3326082

Nobody has claimed that HPPD is a common thing. It is a rare but debilitating condition.

"All information on Erowid.org is provided non-commercially for purposes of teaching, scholarship, research, and criticism."

The point of the website is to collect information about drugs for education and research purposes. It's a 501c3 nonprofit, which operates explicitly for public education. It's funded by donors, not by consumers of the info collected.

Erowid is a member-supported organization providing access to reliable, non-judgmental information about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related issues. (from mission statement)

Anyone who has benefited from Erowid's psychoactive drug info should consider donating!

https://erowid.org/donations/

Check out Adam Harvey's "CV Dazzle" and other related design efforts. CV Dazzle is from 2010 but still very cool, the concept is generally to design cyberpunk clothing and headware that is adversarial to face detection algorithms. Algorithms are always changing, but I'm sure there will always be attacks of this nature. We could see them pop up in military applications in addition to personal privacy.

https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle

https://yr.media/tech/guide-to-anti-surveillance-fashion/

I was just thinking of this concept except for Go instead of chess. Has anyone done this or have thoughts on how it could work?

Does anyone here use Efani? They are a security-focused provider, and the only one that claims to have had zero SIM-swap attacks successfully executed against them. They are an MVNO.

The status updates on this incident were very frustrating: https://www.issquareup.com/incidents/06zffytdqjdz

There is a global outage, stopping hundreds of millions of dollars of credit card transactions from processing, and all the detail they share is:

- "We are continuing to work on a fix for a disruption"

- "At this time, we do not have a solution for the disruption, though we have all the right people working to get it resolved"

- "Very sorry for the inconvenience today."

- "Thank you for your patience!"

The worst part for small businesses is that Square's offline payments mode (where you can accept credit cards without live authorization, at risk of later declines when they post) has been unreliable historically. With some Square outages, customers have been logged out, and then unable to enter offline mode to accept credit cards. Not enough attention has been paid to this critical feature unfortunately, it does not seem to activate properly in many situations. I hope it worked OK for businesses yesterday and cards were able to process today.

Probably some slight details of what is actually wrong, and where engineers are at in the process of fixing the issue. I don't think customers are looking for AWS-level incident details or anything, but people would like to know what is happening at a very high level, rather than completely generic updates for 16 hours.

I love the latest - "We're working hard to find the issue's root cause" - After 8 hours?

The PR team is having to dig really far to avoid writing any duplicate status updates at this point.

That makes sense, thanks for the perspective!

How can a software company with $17 billion in revenue be down for more than 8 hours? It seems hard to understand how failover systems could not have been successfully spun up within a couple hours of a total system meltdown, maybe someone else has insight into this. Square seems like it'd be an order of magnitude less complex to keep running and swap to a failover, say compared with Youtube, Amazon.com, or other billion-dollar grossing software products (I could be wrong).

It's not quite anything that returns a '++', but I think any search term that creates a '++' (or perhaps any invalid regex syntax) inside the main info box result.

It's because a single plus '+' is valid in a regex. A double plus '++' is invalid.

Corporate regulatory capture.

Fair use doctrine has a lot of nuanced case law. I believe fair use has to be "transformative" upon the original, and it also cannot act as a market substitute for the original. E.g. if a new movie is substantially the same as an old movie, not transformative (e.g. like commentary or parody) and could reasonably be viewed as a market substitute for the old movie, then it'd probably be considered unfair use.

With regular Tor > Web traffic, yes the exit relay (last hop) is able to tell the destination and can gather other metadata or intercept/modify unencrypted traffic.

With Onion Services however, there is no exit relay. Services are encrypted end to end between the client and the hidden service.

Both of the above are little quips from the author in his own short introduction to the book - his main point is that nobody should confuse the book with any work on Zen Buddhism. I just remembered these lines from the book's intro reading it many years ago, The line about motorcycles is him just being modest - he knows how to fix his bike, this does feature in the book.

It is a philosophy and adventure book, not about Zen, but filled with many of the author's own unique ideas. He studied Eastern religions and they do inform some of his ideas, which he combines with Western thought in an interesting way. It's off-beat, but I personally found it to be pretty inspiring and would definitely recommend reading it for anyone interested in philosophy.

I had a light psychedelic experience on my first retreat, with very noticeable visual object patterns and cartoons appearing in the heathered shirt of the yogi sitting in front of me, during a couple different periods of holding a stable meditation state. I've never had anything like that happen except on cannabis edibles or classic psychedelics.

I would recommend people sit their first retreat at a more supportive and forgiving retreat center. The 10-day Goenka retreats seem to vary in quality and sometimes unnecessarily harsh from what I've read, I've not sat one personally. I don't like the idea of getting all instructions from video also, instead of all the great living teachers out there today.

I'd recommend IMS on the East Coast, and Spirit Rock on the West Coast. They have really great teachers and very supportive schedule and environment for beginners. Downside is it's more costly than a free retreat, but I found it to be very much worth it.

"Not very factual on motorcycles, either" : )

Why are folks trying to prove that this material is a superconductor in roundabout ways, like levitation, dimagnetism, etc? What is the reason they don't just test to see if electrical current flows without resistance? Surely there is something I am missing here.

Yes, thank you! That's the related one I could not think of : )

I found 2011 to be the most enlightening quote:

> Man, what a weird week. Unless it's on their own terms, it seems nobody wants to work anymore.

It's the only one with any acknowledgement that agreeable terms may actually be needed in order to attract people to work. It doesn't take a PhD to figure this out!

Utah Phillips, one of my favorite storytellers and all-around anarchist and hobo has a line I was reminded of:

That’s when [Fry Pan Jack] told me – you know, he’d been tramping since 1927 -he said, “I told myself in ’27, if I cannot dictate the conditions of my labor, I will henceforth cease to work.” Hah! You don’t have to go to college to figure these things out, no sir! He said, “I learned when I was young that the only true life I had was the life of my brain. But if it’s true the only real life I have is the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that at the end of the day they will give it back in an unmutilated condition?” Fat chance!

From the track Bum on the Rod off the album The Past Didn't Go Anywhere with Ani DiFranco https://youtu.be/-rw4sd4AuJE

> I don’t think an encyclopaedia should cater to racist views of its readers over factual information

Uh, nobody thinks this. I'm sensing an straw man argument fast incoming..

> So it seems unreasonable to stretch the truth to diversify or narrow down the number of people you mention

It's entirely unclear where you see the truth being stretched? Factually recognizing important contributions by people from under-represented backgrounds is doing the exact opposite of narrowing the "number of people you mention". It's literally mentioning more people who contributed to a certain effort or field of study.